Shortly after Krebs broke the news that vDOS had been hacked, Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both 18 years old, who allegedly ran vDOS, according to krebsonsecurity.com, were arrested. From Krebs, it seems that other booster services were feeding off of vDOS. Both Krebs articles are really interesting read.
5,239, although I employed a lot of white space–it was my first spacecraft simulator–to make it easier for me to read even years later. And no, I never did that again.
A diner or bar drinking soda water. Definitely NOT a coffee shop. I don't know why, although I suspect it's the background noise of motion. In any care, it just works out that way for me.
"Mr. James wants to not just sell so-called connected devices, or those that can hook up to the Internet, but also install, service and monitor them.
"'Our influence on people’s lives is about to get much more profound,' he predicted, speaking at an industry event in London on Wednesday. 'We at Dixons Carphone are trying to deliver something new. Not equipment but instead your home working. Of course, it includes equipment, but it’s installed, it’s monitored, it’s repaired, it’s kept working at all times.'"
Home-automation, or IoT, will be placing technology into one of the most personal spaces of people's lives, their home. But it isn't going to take-off until its customer experience moves beyond that which only the DIY or Makers can enjoy. This sort of accreted services of IoT is what people need, at least at first, in order to build the confidence needed for this to happen.
Any architect over 70 will tell you this is like the 3rd time home-automation has tried to get air under its wings. For many reasons, but mainly a mix of fractionalization and poor UX, it never grew to the point where it could become affordable. I remember back in the early-2000's the SmartWeb Fridges and stoves that never made it because of cost and other issues. Now mix-in security issues along with the perennial fractionalization and poor UX, and this "future" could end-up like GoogleGlass.
It's going to be fascinating to see how all of this works out.
When in college, I saw my friends, who were once in the military, power through learning at time frustratingly difficult subjects. It didn't take long to see that their consistent efforts yielded progress in excess of what the rest of us "self-motivators" were making. I don't know why that came as a surprise. After all, my Dad, who was a staff sergeant, raised three boys by himself-our mother died when we were 3, 2, 6 mos-while running an architecture firm.
Some may say we need a holistic approach in how we get ourselves to do what can be unpleasant but also life and career enhancing tasks; I think that makes things more complicated than they need to be. The times when I've applied the disciplined approach to work have been my most productive. Other people's mileage may vary.
Paul Baran, one of the key figures in the creation of the Internet, passed away on Saturday at his home in Palo Alto. His passing is a great loss; his presence made our world better.