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I wrote about Location Spying in this post that started out with a Safeway marketing system to identify customer location in the store then ...

Yves does an excellent job of parsing the TPP today. House Pushing Back on Trade Deal; More Detail on How Secret Arbitration Panels Underm...

Quantitative Easing is Stupid.  I therefore refuse to understand it.  Logically it is wrong.  Perhaps I might if I studied it and got a PhD...

Funny thing:  I do not like things I cannot understand but love the challenge of things that are understandable.  They are therefore attaina...

I write about my thinking on this blog.  This entry is all about feeling. Today I watched the parade in my small town.  It did not feel ri...

In the conceptual model world this is the nature of a gerund as described here: Associative Entity...

Doin'.  With the apostrophe substituting for the missing letter.  The letter not spoken so it is not written.  Spoken or written it is s...

I get up early with ideas, connected thoughts in my head.  Thoughts that start my day.  I have to take them to the keyboard quickly or the e...

Companies are People. The object oriented paradigm defines classes of objects.  Classes like Companies and People.  It defines them in ter...

My sincerest thanks to Mathbabe, AKA Cathy O'Neil for the inspiration she gave me to write this blog entry.  That inspiration is here.  ...

That would be very interesting indeed! Does the iphone fingerprint scanner have shady ties to the government? Authentec makes a 500 dpi ...

Instant real time fingerprint identification at a location by police.  Obviously, it had to come to this.  But we are protected.  They will ...

Just a review of Use Case as described by Wikipedia to start this entry: In software and systems engineering , a use case is a list of s...

I have been searching for and reading more about TPP recently.  Yes, Yves, I heard your alarm and am at my battle station, manned a ready. ...

Issue a Flash category message:  We are under attack! This deserves utmost attention. Yves Smith sounded the General Quarters alarm for ...

I absolutely agree with Stephanie Kelton's presentation here . However:  "No Object" and its meaning depend on problem domai...

Money in the current monetary system is a verb not a noun.  The beauty of a verb masquerading as a noun is:  People think it is something th...

Extracting or Abstracting?  I had to think about which word to use in the title.  Couldn't decide so I chose the more conceptually concr...