Posted on 06/15/2015 8:31:52 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.
BY JON GERTNER For Eric Maland, the whole thing goes back to that San Francisco wedding. Mikey wasn’t there—well, wait, actually, Mikey was there. But Eric didn’t meet him at that point. Eric met some other folks at the wedding who told him they were doing some fix-it stuff in Washington, and it sounded kind of interesting.
ADVERTISEMENT And now we’re chatting about it in front of the White House security gate, where we’re waiting to talk with the leaders inside about why guys like Eric are now wandering around this neighborhood with MacBooks in their shoulder bags and code in their heads. These are the "new techies," as longtime Washingtonians tend to say, but that’s somewhat imprecise. These are people whose pedigree in Silicon Valley gives them the whispered reputations of gods and goddesses. I look at Eric. He’s wearing a faded T-shirt; his sparse hair is seriously matted down. Did he sleep lately? Exercise? Shave? All debatable. "Ever wonder what you’re doing here?" I ask him. He was the 13th engineer hired at Amazon, the first operations director at Twitter. Like everyone else on the stealth team that President Barack Obama is amassing and deploying inside the government, he never imagined he would live and work in D.C. "I guess I just like to fix things that are broken," he says, shrugging.
Then there’s Lisa Gelobter. "Oh, you’ve gotta hear my story," she says. It’s later that day, and we’re walking near the Washington Monument under a searing midday sun. There was
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ah, “reinventing government”, nyessss.
Uh...RE-reinventing gummint, maybe.
Will they stop the hacks?
Should make it easy to find....
The Obamunist goal is that “the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
I’ll always believe the internet is controlled by the government and that includes all the social sites, including yahoo where I get my email.
We KNOW nothing is secret. The government knows everything about everybody. They don’t want that out yet but one day soon NO ONE will be able to commit a crime that isn’t on video tape.
More transparency.
More “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it.”
... except for central bankers, Jon Corzine, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Jamie Dimon, and the other select few whom the laws are meant to protect from the pobbles like us who would be arrested for stealing a pack of cigarettes. But not $1.6 billion, Mr. Corzine.
And who actually stole the data? Hillary got a lot of mileage out of her quaint FBI files. Maybe these are the hackers.
“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.
“That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
Ve have vays of making you talk.
President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
There should be an hypocratic oath for government, Hong Kong style: first do the least possible to interfere with the industrious people.
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Adjusting the tin foil, but I’ve always believed Window updates were Big Brother.
Distributed Samaritan.
And supposedly Big Guy sent his first tweet recently.
The servers are in a closet in the basement guarded by a Shih Tzu.
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