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Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications

Posted by Soulskill on from the cat-gifs-are-the-currency-of-the-future dept.

dkatana writes: Vint Cerf, one of the original creators of today's internet, wrote a letter asking everyone to participate to create the foundation of the next internet. He said, "As communication forms evolve, it will be important to preserve one of the oldest: the letter, which has been critical in building relationships, conducting business and governmental affairs, and preserving history. Rather than sounding the death knell for meaningful, written correspondence, Internet technology has the power to enhance it." Cerf cites Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln as a perfect example of what might not be possible for historians of the next generation. Goodwin pieced together letters written by President Lincoln and his cabinet to write a book about how they interacted. "In the case of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the letters were 140 years old, and I would guess that digital content that was created 10 years ago won't be accessible 10 years from now," said Cerf. "We have the media around, but you may not be able to read it."

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  1. REMOVE WINDOWS AND IT'S FINE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is no need to look for some "new internet". When new things appear that are good you keep them. You can not just say oh, let's take decades of profound protocols and innovations and say hey, let's systemd the whole internet guys. Let's just put it all in one windows registry to simplify it. That is like taking every item in your kitchen and putting them in one drawer. You organize separately.

    This big push all around the world (corp/gov) to "get those fresh ideas in there, take some control, let's track" is absolutely asinine.

    Microsoft is now out of the closet in exactly this regard. They betrayed the global public trying to push Windows 10 and it's new long-as-fuck agreement that includes permissions to spy on your keystrokes (literally) and on your files (literally). If you think any corporation deserves this trust you don't understand human nature worth a shit. Pre-existing surrender-your-life-data to Facebook is not justification for your actual OS to be total spyware/malware on a global level especially.

    I have to admit this is funny: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8000075&cid=50511107

    It absolutely made me laugh out loud. Why is it funny? Because you can tell who is doing it and it's literally the only possible tactic to try to counter the truth. They try to hide comments with mod points here. They try to smoke and mirror it. They try to obfuscate it.

    Whoever's github this is

    https://gitlab.com/windowslies/blockwindows ...says in giant bold print...

    PS There is a highly concerted effort by Microsoft Employees to harass websites that link to this. I'm tired of constantly trying to convince website admins it's not spam.
    Please repost these URLs many places on social media, blogs, etc. I'm in it for the long haul.

    So how are they so insane to try to botnet the population of Earth with Windows 10? I guess they got old and said fuck it? Let's sneak this out there before we die?

    I suggest the hosts file from that github. If you feel like updating your PC and delude yourself that Microsoft won't add your PC to their botnet... you can always rename the hosts file to hosts_disable then do your updates and rename it back. Really just don't use Windows for any remotely sketchy website. I can understand keeping it for games, but even then, hosts file your system to not connect to things you don't intend it to.

    Let's see if this even remains viewable without moving your sliders. this did. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7988275&cid=50500123