What is interesting is in some ways we are moving towards (back to) a more oral tradition. As our machines get better and better at understanding us we will inevitably do more talking and listening than writing (just look at how people are starting to dictate their text messages). I recently had a conversation with someone who postulated that our ability to write would disappear entirely. I don't think so, certainly not in the next 200 years or so. Our ability (and need) to express ideas through writing and imagery is much too ingrained in our culture to die out quickly.
Ultimately Cerf may be right, but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks. We will certainly lose a historical record of civilization but it may be because we stop writing.
Replying to my own comment. From the actual indegogo site the case contains two parts, one of which is a complete wrap-around bumper that contains the lightning jack. Picture of how they've done this is here.
This is how the Fuze case will look. Really? Where is the lightning port on the bottom of the iPhone in that picture? Did Apple relocate it to somewhere else on the phone, because it looks like you've glued a plastic mold to the back of an iPhone and photoshopped out the lightning port.
To make this work you've got to connect this "case" to the existing lightning port and that is on the bottom of the phone. Which means you're going to have to have this case wrap around the bottom of the phone. And how are you going to do that without blocking the speakers and/or making it ugly as sin?
It makes perfect sense to remove the same systems you target in other countries from your own server farms and run proprietary systems that are less widely known and understood.
The attackers are distributed. The victims are not. We need to superdistribute web content like we do with music. Think TOR meets torrents. It would take httpd authors, browser authors, and even search engines to get in on the act, but it would put an end to the problem. (somebody is probably already working on this)
The web, like e-mail, is going through death throes. The kids will decide what lives and what dies I guess.
Let's face it, companies like HP need a way to differentiate themselves from the myriad of assemble-it-yourself boxes out there. They are (or at least have been) an engineering powerhouse. Let your designers do cool stuff and you'll end up with better designers and more loyal customers.
For the first time in a long time I am beginning to feel like the big companies of yesteryear like Microsoft and HP are moving in the right direction. It has been a while and it is probably a lesson in "necessity breeds invention".
This (for me) is actually the issue. These cars are not actually that "fast" generally, they are only fast in a straight line. You don't see any Teslas at amateur (or professional) racing events because they overheat after just a few minutes of spirited driving. To get the range and acceleration you want requires so much weight for the battery that they don't corner very well.
What is the maximum Gs you can pull on a Tesla around a corner? Not too high, I would wager. But nobody talks about that.
Great post. You failed to mention one interesting thing about driving in Ontario though. If you get caught doing 50km/h over the speed limit (31mph) this is considered "stunt driving" and not only do you instantly have your license suspended and your car impounded, but there is a mandatory fine of between $2000 and $10,000!
The strange thing about driving in Ontario is that everybody is doing 15+ over the limit, but people don't get pulled over until they are 30+, and NOBODY in their right mind does anything like 50+ over. So in practice everybody is driving 20-30 over the limit. In the US people are driving between the speed limit and 5mph over.
Years ago I was driving home at night after a movie. I had just hit the outskirts of town where the streetlights and such had ended when all of a sudden something ran out from the side of the road and stopped right in front of me. I hit the brakes and stopped within a foot of a young woman who had crouched down with her hands over her eyes.
When she looked up she started screaming at me: "Why didn't you hit me!? Why didn't you hit me!?" I looked at her -- she was crying, and her face was black and blue.
I spoke calmly to her and managed to convince her to let me take her to the hospital (probably a risky move in hindsight). "I'm drunk and stoned" she said; she wouldn't let me take her to the cops. Claimed her boyfriends sister beat the hell out of her, but I suspect it was the boyfriend.
In any case, I won't bore you with the rest of the details. Bottom line from that experience is that I don't skimp on tires when I buy them (you use them for stopping too), or brakes. Having a "third" eye in a car looking out for you and for other people can't be bad.
When we have self-driving cars I'm planning on picking up the highest-paying job I can find an hour away so I can game my ass off before and after work every day without any distractions from the wife and kids.:)
You obviously have a much better laptop and a much better data plan than I do.;)
I will continue to drive my own car thank you very much. I spend the entire rest of the day staring at some damn screen or another, and the last thing I need is a self driving car so I can read Slashdot comments on my way home from the office.
I completely agree with you FWIW. Two points though:
1. The closed source on my mobile device could have back doors that I wouldn't know about. And frankly some open source code that is principally written by a large Corp (Google) is not particularly peer-reviewed by the FLOSS community and could be riddled (and often is) with vulnerabilities. Open source is not "the" answer - it also has to be accompanied by an open development community.
2. Some (but not all) of the closed-sourced concern about Wickr is mitigated through the combination of transparency ("we've been requested by a three letter agency to monitor your account") and your control over your data (ability to set default destruction times, removal of your own messages at any time, etc).
This particular time we live in is filled with compromises. I only point out another datapoint.
Other browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) are all cross-platform. Edge is not. The most they can say is that Edge is the most power efficient running on Windows. I suspect (as you do) that this would not be the case running on anything else as it wouldn't be as tightly integrated.
Good luck with the Multi-Dwelling Units. You can run fiber to the building (an Optical Network Terminator (ONT)), but running it to the unit is pretty damn difficult. Most MDUs don't have conduit suitable for fiber, most just have old telephone cable (no CAT5/e/6/etc), and the cable companies just run their cable up the outside of the building and drill a hole through the walls (which is unsightly and may not be allowed by the building owner). Wireless seems to be crap in terms of delivering services to them as well.
MDUs are hard unless they are properly wired when they are built. If someone has figured out the right approach, I'd love to know what it is. The payback on running fiber to an MDU is "Never".
The moon. All the benefits he mentions plus lots of raw materials and it's almost free to dump things into Earth's gravity well and send them to the "customer". Bezos just wants to sell more rocket launches.
He's right that the Earth should be residential and light industrial. The moon should be used for energy-heavy industries, though, not space.
Google: Let's just try all kinds of shit and see what works and what doesn't. Apple: We're not going to tell anybody what we're doing until it's perfect and may kill it before release.
They are two competitors with very very different approaches. I can't wait to see how this plays out in the long term! More entropy? Or less?
It may simply be a matter of expectations. Gartner recently presented a lecture about creativity at the workplace. The people who were the most creative in studies were the ones where there was a high expectation of creativity from them. I believe the same could be said for STEM as all of these areas require a high degree of creativity to be successful.
In short, in a more developed more progressive society, girls are *expected* to do better at math, so they do. It is a case of people rising to a challenge -- not being told they "can't" do something.
It must be interesting for the actual bitcoin creator to watch all of the drama around it unfold and wonder if you should say something or just continue to stay in the darkness. Do you laugh? Shake your head? Do you even care? Fun times.
Thank you. I have been to Hiroshima as well and found it powerful and moving. Judging by other posts here it seems as though people who have not visited or lived in Japan do not understand just how much it has changed. The sense of honor that the Japanese have did make them into ferocious fighters, but it also meant that surrender was surrender.
Slashdot Mirror
... the many-faced god. Come to think of it, both organizations operate in eerily similar ways...
What is interesting is in some ways we are moving towards (back to) a more oral tradition. As our machines get better and better at understanding us we will inevitably do more talking and listening than writing (just look at how people are starting to dictate their text messages). I recently had a conversation with someone who postulated that our ability to write would disappear entirely. I don't think so, certainly not in the next 200 years or so. Our ability (and need) to express ideas through writing and imagery is much too ingrained in our culture to die out quickly.
Ultimately Cerf may be right, but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks. We will certainly lose a historical record of civilization but it may be because we stop writing.
Replying to my own comment. From the actual indegogo site the case contains two parts, one of which is a complete wrap-around bumper that contains the lightning jack. Picture of how they've done this is here.
This is how the Fuze case will look. Really? Where is the lightning port on the bottom of the iPhone in that picture? Did Apple relocate it to somewhere else on the phone, because it looks like you've glued a plastic mold to the back of an iPhone and photoshopped out the lightning port.
To make this work you've got to connect this "case" to the existing lightning port and that is on the bottom of the phone. Which means you're going to have to have this case wrap around the bottom of the phone. And how are you going to do that without blocking the speakers and/or making it ugly as sin?
It makes perfect sense to remove the same systems you target in other countries from your own server farms and run proprietary systems that are less widely known and understood.
The attackers are distributed. The victims are not. We need to superdistribute web content like we do with music. Think TOR meets torrents. It would take httpd authors, browser authors, and even search engines to get in on the act, but it would put an end to the problem. (somebody is probably already working on this)
The web, like e-mail, is going through death throes. The kids will decide what lives and what dies I guess.
Let's face it, companies like HP need a way to differentiate themselves from the myriad of assemble-it-yourself boxes out there. They are (or at least have been) an engineering powerhouse. Let your designers do cool stuff and you'll end up with better designers and more loyal customers.
For the first time in a long time I am beginning to feel like the big companies of yesteryear like Microsoft and HP are moving in the right direction. It has been a while and it is probably a lesson in "necessity breeds invention".
This (for me) is actually the issue. These cars are not actually that "fast" generally, they are only fast in a straight line. You don't see any Teslas at amateur (or professional) racing events because they overheat after just a few minutes of spirited driving. To get the range and acceleration you want requires so much weight for the battery that they don't corner very well.
What is the maximum Gs you can pull on a Tesla around a corner? Not too high, I would wager. But nobody talks about that.
This doesn't seem out of line with other studies that link a more restricted caloric intake with youthfulness and better health.
Great post. You failed to mention one interesting thing about driving in Ontario though. If you get caught doing 50km/h over the speed limit (31mph) this is considered "stunt driving" and not only do you instantly have your license suspended and your car impounded, but there is a mandatory fine of between $2000 and $10,000!
The strange thing about driving in Ontario is that everybody is doing 15+ over the limit, but people don't get pulled over until they are 30+, and NOBODY in their right mind does anything like 50+ over. So in practice everybody is driving 20-30 over the limit. In the US people are driving between the speed limit and 5mph over.
Years ago I was driving home at night after a movie. I had just hit the outskirts of town where the streetlights and such had ended when all of a sudden something ran out from the side of the road and stopped right in front of me. I hit the brakes and stopped within a foot of a young woman who had crouched down with her hands over her eyes.
When she looked up she started screaming at me: "Why didn't you hit me!? Why didn't you hit me!?" I looked at her -- she was crying, and her face was black and blue.
I spoke calmly to her and managed to convince her to let me take her to the hospital (probably a risky move in hindsight). "I'm drunk and stoned" she said; she wouldn't let me take her to the cops. Claimed her boyfriends sister beat the hell out of her, but I suspect it was the boyfriend.
In any case, I won't bore you with the rest of the details. Bottom line from that experience is that I don't skimp on tires when I buy them (you use them for stopping too), or brakes. Having a "third" eye in a car looking out for you and for other people can't be bad.
Perhaps we will finally find out if Arthur C. Clarke was right about the core of Jupiter.
When we have self-driving cars I'm planning on picking up the highest-paying job I can find an hour away so I can game my ass off before and after work every day without any distractions from the wife and kids. :)
You obviously have a much better laptop and a much better data plan than I do. ;)
I will continue to drive my own car thank you very much. I spend the entire rest of the day staring at some damn screen or another, and the last thing I need is a self driving car so I can read Slashdot comments on my way home from the office.
Wait.... Okay maybe...
I completely agree with you FWIW. Two points though:
1. The closed source on my mobile device could have back doors that I wouldn't know about. And frankly some open source code that is principally written by a large Corp (Google) is not particularly peer-reviewed by the FLOSS community and could be riddled (and often is) with vulnerabilities. Open source is not "the" answer - it also has to be accompanied by an open development community.
2. Some (but not all) of the closed-sourced concern about Wickr is mitigated through the combination of transparency ("we've been requested by a three letter agency to monitor your account") and your control over your data (ability to set default destruction times, removal of your own messages at any time, etc).
This particular time we live in is filled with compromises. I only point out another datapoint.
"We commend Wickr for its strong stance regarding user rights, transparency, and privacy"
Wickr
And there was a voluntary recall, and his Jeep was one of the ones affected.
Other browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) are all cross-platform. Edge is not. The most they can say is that Edge is the most power efficient running on Windows. I suspect (as you do) that this would not be the case running on anything else as it wouldn't be as tightly integrated.
Good luck with the Multi-Dwelling Units. You can run fiber to the building (an Optical Network Terminator (ONT)), but running it to the unit is pretty damn difficult. Most MDUs don't have conduit suitable for fiber, most just have old telephone cable (no CAT5/e/6/etc), and the cable companies just run their cable up the outside of the building and drill a hole through the walls (which is unsightly and may not be allowed by the building owner). Wireless seems to be crap in terms of delivering services to them as well.
MDUs are hard unless they are properly wired when they are built. If someone has figured out the right approach, I'd love to know what it is. The payback on running fiber to an MDU is "Never".
You don't sell stuff to people on a service that does not review buyers.
The moon. All the benefits he mentions plus lots of raw materials and it's almost free to dump things into Earth's gravity well and send them to the "customer". Bezos just wants to sell more rocket launches.
He's right that the Earth should be residential and light industrial. The moon should be used for energy-heavy industries, though, not space.
Google: Let's just try all kinds of shit and see what works and what doesn't.
Apple: We're not going to tell anybody what we're doing until it's perfect and may kill it before release.
They are two competitors with very very different approaches. I can't wait to see how this plays out in the long term! More entropy? Or less?
It may simply be a matter of expectations. Gartner recently presented a lecture about creativity at the workplace. The people who were the most creative in studies were the ones where there was a high expectation of creativity from them. I believe the same could be said for STEM as all of these areas require a high degree of creativity to be successful.
In short, in a more developed more progressive society, girls are *expected* to do better at math, so they do. It is a case of people rising to a challenge -- not being told they "can't" do something.
It must be interesting for the actual bitcoin creator to watch all of the drama around it unfold and wonder if you should say something or just continue to stay in the darkness. Do you laugh? Shake your head? Do you even care? Fun times.
Thank you. I have been to Hiroshima as well and found it powerful and moving. Judging by other posts here it seems as though people who have not visited or lived in Japan do not understand just how much it has changed. The sense of honor that the Japanese have did make them into ferocious fighters, but it also meant that surrender was surrender.