Perceptual computing…

Is this  the future of personal computing?   According to Intel,  it will be.

Views on Obama speech…

9/11 Commission member John Lehman sounds off on Obama,  per Robert Costa’s  post.   It’s interesting,   but Lehman thinks too highly of Brennan for my tastes.   And I detect a certain whiff of fanny-covering from the former Secretary of the Navy with his remarks that the system his commission recommended had become what they warned it would without proper resources.   What I,  and many,  many others warned about was that no government bureaucracy could resist becoming a beastly slug,  which the Commission vehemently denied.

And after all, how did George W. Bush manage to make it work when he was a missing village’s idiot,  and Obama is so brilliant?

Costa also posts  comments from John Bolton,  who also faults Obama’s law-enforcement approach.

Obama’s vetting process…

You have to wonder about Obama’s vetting process.    Philip Mudd is his nonimee to be under-secretary of intelligence and analysis at Homeland Security.   But Mudd was deputy director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis at the CIA during the Bush administration,  and had direct knowledge of the agency’s harsh interrogation program.   Why would His Oneness nominate him?

And I barely got that written before I see that Mudd  has now withdrawn his name from consideration because he  doesn’t “want to cause a distraction.”     Which sounds like the Obama machine told him to go away.    Why would he nominate a man he wouldn’t defend?