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  1. Olde school... on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    Dual ethernet cards/firewall and SAMBA stood up to all but the inside attack

    Maybe someone could update current configuration to today

  2. Wrong again...Millennial's have Life on In a Poll, 43% of Millennials in 36 Countries Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs Within Two Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not one is waiting on a career to make their dent. Every single one of them has a plan to which they've witnessed how not to make it a career

  3. An early network tech genius explained measurable results this way - " The technology revolution has nothing to do whether it happens 1x, 10x or 100x faster " The revolution is when technology enables you to do something today" - David Mathews.

    You are absolutely right about the false premise of 24hr turnaround. Its not about how fast a turnaround but the revolution is being able to fly again, again, again, again, again, again...cheap, cheap, cheap, cheaper etc...

  4. IF it comes back, it will be updated with all new signal processing, technology and tape innovations.

    Think grandma's Oldsmobile turbocharged, boosted and blown for the ultimate analog reel to reel.

    Innovation on top of reel to reel could get interesting in a DRM world. The Supremes could be rereading some Bill of Rights more closely.

  5. Break as good as a Change on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    Write down your dilemma questions and solution set. Take a break; a sabbatical maybe travel year trip live in hostels around the world just off the technology planet you are consumed with every day.

    Ugly ruts comforting familiarity are the bane of existence. Freedom is the emergency parachute out of the uglies onto planet reality.

    Return in a year, return to your list. You'll have no problem answering the questions.

  6. Design .vs. Utility on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing rises to the level of a utility patent with regard to door placement, windscreen curvature, bodyside skirting on a vehicle. At best they will resort to design patentability. Even then body skirts are prior works known in the trade and obvious to the craft in all three embodiments.

    BUT its fabulous exposure and marketing may be able to be patented trading on naming conventions for protection arguing that obvious commonalities are confusing in the marketplace if not the USPTO

  7. Sprint + T-Mobile == LOGO on Sprint, T-Mobile Agree To Combine in a $26.5 Billion Merger (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

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  8. Avatar nor James Cameron need no introduction to SciFi fans. This is politics. I also see it as framing device for " what makes us human". The subtext is interesting in the on-the-nose subterfuge for the genre's most renown storyteller sets up the whole edifice.

    Me thinks there's a takedown a coming

  9. Natural talent... on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In 70's I worked with two people who had a natural talent for computer science algorithms .vs. coding syntax. In the 90's while at COLUMBIA I worked with only a couple of true computer scientists out of 30 students. I've met 1 genius who programmed, spoke 13 languages, ex-CIA, wrote SWIFT and spoke fluent assembly complete with animated characters.

    According to the Bluff Book, everyone else without natural talent fakes it. In the undiluted definition of computer science, genetics roulette and intellectual demographics that covers the rest of the population. It's cynical. It's higher education little secret. It's why software (i.e. Google, Facebook) rules and hardware is competitive.

    So now you know why Apple Inc. competitors are Microsoft and not Dell, H-P et. al.

  10. Re:OPEN is not Philosophy on Apple Open Sources FoundationDB (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Open source is keystone to the technology Apple develops. The choice to open source a software which none of its current product line up depends is interesting. Apple is not in the open source business. So why? Why choose open source for a software that Apple API's neither support, integrate nor interoperate?

  11. Prodigy... on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    US has been in conflict with North Korea beginning 1866 with the current Korean War de jure dating back from present to 1950. A decade would be about right to de-escalate, de-nuclear, disentangle the peninsula from the source of conflicts that remain.

  12. Seriously... on Apple's Working on a Powerful, Wireless Headset for Both AR, VR (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A headset isn't SteveJobs launching the first iPhone category killer, industry disruptor nor bet the company innovation.

  13. ...SteveJobs long ago stopped trying to please everyone instead abstracting his "slim" aesthetic form factor designs over function.

  14. Re:Crypto currency value on Nasdaq 'Would Consider' Creating a Crypto Exchange, Says CEO (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Crypto currency value by definition is that it provide a medium of exchange. NASDAQ are open to providing one. That is interesting.

    In light of the fact that Crypto have historically behaved as a commodities (i.e. store of value) rather than currency NASDAQ enables the latter. Crypto-scheme currency gains one step closer to towards money (i.e. medium of exchange + store of value).

  15. OPEN is not Philosophy on Apple Open Sources FoundationDB (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Mac OSX which roots to DARWIN at its core is open source. FoundationDB open source I read as a strategic action preceding the launch of another or new Apple platform.

  16. SizeForm on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Size==Function
    12"
    Apple's original 12" laptop was the perfect travel form factor. It would fly, fit an aircraft drop down table space and slip into any briefcase.
    13"
    Apple's new ~12" wannabe is meh...compromising
    15"
    Apple's high end laptop 15" 16:9 offering is function over form for POWER users in Film, Photography, Editing, etc... its essential

    4:3 Monitors
    Desktop word-processing applications pretty much suffice on the gold standard business portrait 4:3 format

    16:9
    Desktop human factors tilt the 16:9 form factor in favor of larger is better on the eyes, your workspace and workflow.

    I can function on a screen the size of Apple's iPad mini with a Bluetooth keyboard but its like scratching out code on a postage stamp. My productivity goes way down, workflow drops and works space evaporates beyond browsing

  17. TeamCALL: ThinkerDoer need apply on Silicon Valley Investors Wants to Fund a 'Good For Society' Facebook Replacement (calacanis.com) · · Score: 1

    Experienced technologists in crypto needed to implement beyond the look book UI. You are A+ team player. You work in small teams of three. You are a developer who ships. You have supported crypto in production. Secrets, you know how to keep...small.

    Open to springboard schemes

    Have the next month to give, the next decade open

  18. NOW could care less what FB says, does or
    Testifies

  19. AI Rate of Change on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    HorseDung to CarSmog, 50 years it took to dislodge a 4 legged beast in the automobile revolution. (https://thetyee,ca/News?2013/03/06/Horse-Dung-Big-Shift/ ) The computer revolution took 30 yrs. to get to ' the rest of us'.

    PeoplePace to BlackBoxAI automation will dislodge our 2 legged friends in the transition. It'll take a scale of systems engineering witnessed in the Computer revolution AND dislodge humans at scale as the Horseless Carriage dislodged beasts to their greener pastures. Yay for the horse that got pasture. Boo the slaughterhouses that made glue. Who will get green? Who get slaughtered?

    AI transition has not begun. The revolution will be no surprise but for the numbers. What will it mean for a species like the automobile revolution meant for the planet's climate change smog?

  20. 6mo. revision cycle... on Zuckerberg Testimony: Facebook AI Will Curb Hate Speech In 5 To 10 Years (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    ...puts 5 yr timeline out 10th generation to 20 generations in software lifecycle

  21. NO:smoke and mirrors on The Uber-For-Bikes Startup Is Now Officially Part of Uber (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Dysillusioned beyond reason, UBER-think is a ' too big to fail' dystopia in-wait. Lehman Brother's $639B Chapter 11 would be the USDollar value-at-risk target to beat. It is in a race for bragging rights to the take down the USD when it files for chapter 11. We have a ways to go before this ride is over

  22. Cook forgets Apple live in a free world on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Took a private Dr. consultation. There were two humans present. Three hours later " Flonase" ads start streaming in on my cell phone Safari browser. We talked specifically about Flonase Rx. I'm not a conspiracist.

    Last week watching Sports Channel an advertisement ran. Minutes later a news article flows into my feed. You guessed right if you reckon this coincidence was too close for comfort. It beyond uncomfortable. An injected ' news article' didn't pass as news nor coincidental.

    There's a problem with cellular technology. Its not enough to put it away in a pocket. Its probably not enough to turn your wireless off. Cellular handsets listen when I think they should not even be capable of it. Its Apple's problem, every phone manufacturer and it's every developer whose software that runs on those phones.

    So fake news be it whatever no matter I live in a free world. I have options. I don't have patience when it comes to a Right to privacy.

  23. Insolent and daring iPhone X... on Apple Working on Touchless Control and Curved iPhone Screen (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Facial recognition would actually DO something valuable beyond unlocking your phone for after you're found dead or criminally arrested.

  24. Any questions why?

    Facebook owned?

  25. Apple .v. Google trap... on Apple Hires Google's AI Chief (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Same old BS as Apple .v. MS of yesteryear

    SteveJobs unwound win-lose reductionists, the Google must lose for Apple to win, by simply pointing such belief is a simple error in thinking - a trap.

    Siri sucks, Google sucks, Alexa sucks, Cortana sucks and along the way one of them or a new entrant will counter suck. One is culturally programmed to " just work" and has always maintained its counter-culture roots. Apple abstracts some AI insight from this hire into its DNA it will improve everything going forward - even suck.