Category: Sociological, psychological notes

To invent, and/or be Belgian.

Hm, it struck me that one would better not be Belgian when inventing stuff.
This guy invented the Internet – and was all but forgotten; so many others were bestowed the fame.
These guys predicted the closure of the Standard Model – and the particle was named otherwise.

This guy, at last (actually, first), achieved fame for his invention. … Hey, there seems not to be any link on the ‘net to that great man Vanderslagmulders the inventor of the spare tire …! Oh did these fellows get credit again. There goes my argument. Or not even.

So, for closure:
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[At the heart, somewhat relevant]

Note: M$ is just a vendor

Microsoft declared the era of XP finally over, amongst others by not providing fixes in Updates per May 13 (not a Friday, but close).
Markets (use base out there) declared Microsoft to be just one vendor among many, not to dictate anything but to deliver at want, at need. No more. They did so through continued use of XP in oh so many machines, of the general-purpose computer type, and in embedded systems et al. Microsoft weighs, the user base decides.

And, of course:
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[A sunny pic of Ståckhølm]

WIoTables

Am I too late with this post, or are people still mixing up the Internet of Things and Wearables ..?

First, a picture:
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[Rarely seen Cala, at ON]

Because we’re talking quite distinct things. Yes, there’s a crossover area where e.g., the sensors or ‘reflectors’ we wear, operate in the IoT realm of ambient intelligence.

But for starters, there’s wearables. Mostly, human-to-Matrix sensors / Matrix-to-human feedback interfaces. Hooking you up in a blue pill world. Oh yes so helpful; often providing morsels of value like Likes through displaying to all out there, mostly to trolls, your (under)achievements. Or calling attention to your slacking; business can’t wait! (You’re not essential though, by the way, easily dumped by the wayside if some human or not algorithm plays it that way).

And there’s the IoT, sensors, networks, actuators, and Central Scrutinisers (1979 mind you!!) that form the Matrix itself. Out of control, soon to be out of control of any human or (alternatively) TLA. Soon to be run by its transient Singularity.

Now, don’t make that error again!

Ah. AI, here it is.

I wondered before on what the … Google would be up to in terms of Artificial Intelligence. Here‘s some news on that.
Some. As I believe this is only a side show to throw us off.
Surely, there must be much, much, much more in the pipeline…

Anyhow, here’s:
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[The view that’s offered. Fakely transparent. London UK, indeed.]

Not news, still suppressed?

Why is it that this paper on chip-and-pin fraud hasn’t gained much more attention in the Netherlands ..!?

Maybe because NL has only just sort-of completely switched off the magstripe to EMV.
Which even before its comprehensive roll-out here in NL, was known to be weak. Years before. And still no-one took action.

A picture for your efforts. But (payment) industry, you fail with a big F again…
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[London temp, also years back]

Seth and you

Seth Godin posted this little piece on the outliers among us. Or even – outsiders.

The real question now is: What is it that you are the innovator in ..? If you can’t think of anything, think harder. If still, you may be the deadwood, the replaceable, superfluous non-individual. Consuming resource, hence on balance non-efficient existence to be erased.
But I bet you can find something …!?

And a piece of beauty:
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[Hilversum. Ergo, Dudok.]

Can’t have your cake

I guess you can’t have your space cake and eat it over your keyboard.

If only they’d hire me. I bring [1337 hacker skillz and dope use]negated; not-fully and absolute none, respectively.

But then, …:
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[Beeb]

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