So, I’m a reasonable individual. I make fair money, I live a great life, my family is healthy, and my community is filled with good people. I am a socially sophisticated, highly trained, wired, enabled, savvy, powerful, user of the…
Author: Samuel Liles
Cyber Warfare as Low Intensity Conflict
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How I learned to love the bomb: Why bad science fiction informs Department of Homeland Security policy
Watch enough bad science fiction and you can tell that science fiction as a genre has often used specific plot devices to grapple with current fears of the public. Even the Department of Homeland Security realizes the worth of looking…
Thesaurantenical: On refuting arguments based on grammar and spelling
The obvious grammatical effluvia of academic discourse wrapped in the absent specter of Pericles pen shows the dishonesty of the academician. There is only shame for the academic hiding behind bellicose diatribes in obfuscation of honest discourse. An attack on…
Samuel Liles appointed to U.S. TAG ISO/TC223 “Societal Security”
Sam was invited and appointed to the U.S. effort technical advisory group working on the “Societal Security” standard. As a subject matter expert he will be providing any help that he can and learning a fair bit along the way.…
Higher Education: Recession proof, perhaps, fuel cost sensitive, definitely
There is an old saying, and to be honest I do not know the veracity of it, “Booze, gambling and cigarettes are recession proof. The businesses of sin always make a profit.” I do not have any idea where it…
A study of hydrogen fueled vehicles and Spain
Abstract This paper will discuss the cultural factors of hydrogen fueled vehicles in the Kingdom of Spain. A variety of cultural inventories are used to score and evaluate the ability of Spain to adopt new technologies alongside ethnographic studies of…
Education paradigm: How you get there may not be where you are going
Introduction Higher education is often challenged by the competing interests of society and the individual student who wishes to attend. The reasons for attending a University are as varied as the student population. Of interest to students, parents, faculty, and…
Data Center Fire: We have returned
We are back after two days off line. The Houston data center where our server is located had a transformer fire and Saturday morning went dark. Early this morning we got network functionality back.
More (new) pictures of the 1986 Jeep CJ 7
The dark ages: Modern anti-intellectualism and failure of the thinking man
In the happenstance world of the modern University system and the massive shift to large scale educational institutions are we truly getting smarter? In the megalithic creations of superior seats of education where is the radical advancements promised by a…
America at five (or more) dollars a gallon: Well on our way to a paradigm shift in services and society
Where will America be when gasoline prices continue to rise, and the transportation costs of goods and people become exponentially bigger than expected? North America is roughly twice the size (42 million Km^2) of Europe (10 million Km^2) but has…
Memorial Day 2008
All nations call upon their citizens in time of need. When the diplomacy of words ends, and the diplomacy of the sword begins that is where service becomes exemplary. In the on-going conflicts of the nation state. In the festering…
What does it means when the military moves from defense to offense on the Internet?
The Internet is both the terrain and the tool in the future of cyber warfare. As we look at the use of the Internet to support hostile actions against government and military targets the classic asymmetric conflict is rising in…