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Eric Schmidt Gets A Job At The Pentagon (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Alphabet Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is heading up a new effort to make the Pentagon more tech savvy. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carton on Wednesday appointed Schmidt the head of a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, which will help the Pentagon keep up with the latest Silicon Valley ideas and apply them at the Department of Defense. The board will address problems in the way the Pentagon uses technology, and it will be tasked with offering "quick solutions." Schmidt's group will have no access to information about military operations strategy. Schmidt will oversee a group of up to 11 other board members, who also have led large private companies and public organizations.
What a surprise.
Given his arrogance and his distaste for privacy he'll fit right in
...to defense contractor making autonomous killing machines.
Live and learn.
Attack tweet technology is the only humane way to exterminate a foe.
I knew he was a government baby, but this is fucking ridiculous. Not good for us or our country, not at all. Shit is getting *real*.
Ashter Carter, not Carton
keep us up to date? cease fire stand down stop spraying crap in our skys.... in the moms we trust
I skimmed and read Defense Ashton Carton [sic]
as Defense Action Carton and thought "dumb name for a movie/game/wargame-scenario title - error parsing summary - restart reading summary only this time do it slower."
Anyone else misread these 3 words?
It didn't help that, thanks to my device settings, those 3 words were the first 3 words on their line.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
The article on CNN calls him Ashton Carton.
Was CNN bought by the same shit company that recently bought Slashdot?
He is a former president of Sun Microsystems. So imagine if he went around to see DoD desk employees and saw them working on those ancient Sun workstations: wonder how he'd react?
From Alphabet to TLA. Someone is failing upwards it sounds like.
If the DoD really wants to protect teh internetz, they should grab Mark Zuckerburg and Jack Dorsey cuz terrists use twitter and facebook too.
All I know for sure is www.startpage.com is my new home page and Chromium is my browser with adblock & noscript. So far no terrorists or kiddy fiddlers have attacked me so I know I must be doin somethin right!
Jeff Bezos with the CIA
Let's put John McAffe into the FBI or DEA
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Google and Pentagon - a match made in heaven.
Thought he already had one...
Schmidt just removed the "Don't"
"Alphabet Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is heading up a new effort to make the Pentagon more tech savvy"
Eric Schmidt could make a good start by totally banning Microsoft Windows from the Pentagon.
... hiring people to "imaginate" solutions before.
And prior to that too.
Usually they produce a lot of nothing.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Speaking as someone in a vague and unspecified location on the "inside,"
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
One pointy-haired boss leading a panel of eleven other pointy haired bosses with no situation awareness or operational insights is going to fix the problem of a culture of technical incompetence, blind box-checking and bureaucracy for every bit of minutia how exactly?
DOD invented what became Google so except for the billions to private people, they were always joined at the hip. I just hope he's not a dual-citizen.
Wasn't that job on Carly Fiorina's resume as well ?
In case you've never looked at what 'Google Play Services" does, its compulsory on all Android phones, it cannot be disabled or uninistalled. If you try to stop it it will delete all your apps.
It is Donald Trumps personal Telescreen, because once a piece of walking malware gets into power, its only a matter of time before that is turned into a mechanism of control, and Donald Trump is that piece of walking malware. So its very very troubling that a Google exec joins the military when their product is a massive surveillance device for Google.
Google Play Services can:
Make phone calls
Read phone and identity
reroute outgoing calls
read instant messages
send/receive/ SMS/MMS
take pictures and video
record audio
get location, both course and fine
read your call log
read your contacts
add voicemail
disable screen lock
add accounts
get/set/change passwords
get mail
use (i.e. impersonate) accounts
modify secure settings
read senstive log data
change network setttings
connect to wifi/NFC
download files in background
full network access (i.e. all your local lan files can be accessed by Google/Trump)
retrieve data from Internet
View network connections
view wifi
access bluethooth
make apps runs all the time
run at startup
control flashlight/vibration/stop phone sleeping
Google (tm) has been appointed Elders of the Internet for honor and (fiduciary) duty.
...To Federal anti-privacy asshole.
So the guy who thought TOR would be spelled Thor and did that mistake in a round table with Julian Assange is going to keep the Pentagon up to date on the newest stuff? Yeah right ... or is Mr. Schmidt rather a walking Google backdoor?
https://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html (search for Thor - too good)
> do any editing around here?
No, whatever gave you that idea?
> this site is so shit
Yet here you are, rolling in what you believe to be shit. That tells us more about you than it does about the site.
> you get no visitors anymore.
Yet here you are and here I am.
That's three strikes. What else can I find in such a short post?
> you dumb fucking idiots
I'm pretty sure you completely whiffed on that one. The irony is thick. Thick enough to cut with a knife, perhaps.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I've had experience inside some of these entities. The fact that the folks in charge believe that the hiring of this guy is going to help them in any way at all tells me that the REAL problems (programs are inefficiently run, too much respect for each service branch's pursuit of independent, overlapping systems, poor management incentives, etc.) are going to continue to remain intentionally ignored.
One of the other big problems is the pervasive belief that everything that can be automated will be, by definition, more efficient and inexpensive than anything done manually. Bringing someone in to help them be more tech savvy is pretty much the LAST thing the Pentagon needs.
More taxpayer money wasted - unless the point is for the bigshots in the Pentagon to post selfies with Schmidt.
How are we going to fix our tech program?
Maybe we can google that.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
Like the Dow Jones, the face of the military-industrial complex needs to change with the times. Eisenhower would be proud.
...whether I should be glad that the DoD has realized that they need to hire some smart people to explain to them how "this networking thing" works, or deeply disappointed (for the same reason), or sadly unsurprised that the DoD has created a shiny new type of pork to waste taxpayer dollars on.