Innovation – Page 26 – Maverisk / Étoiles du Nord

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:

[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:

[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…

[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:

[Hilversum. Ergo, Dudok.]

Contiki: (not) new kid on the IoT block

Just check out this article on Contiki, and be amazed. Let’s get this some soft support..!

For the time being:

[This what you get from monopolizing a grid. Then being robbed off it.]

Ah. Inventions, innovation squared.

May I present the most useful, destined for success innovation …:
As per review and discussion on this page.

Surely, this will outlive the Internet as such. Of Things, as well, far, far beyond the Singularity. Maybe.

In the mean time, there’s that. And this:

[Caen you grill this]

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, …:

[Beeb]

Aweariness.

Tweeks ago, at this successful! symposium, I noted the developments in the Awareness side of our IRM business. Multiple speakers were onto the subject without hesitating to move beyond the mere annual poster campaign for awareness, and moving into the daily-normal subconscious behavioral change work that was for a long time so much lacking. From ISO 2700x as well.

Which of course is a very, very good thing. Before the 80% of hard work in IRM as such (after discounting the first 80% in hardcore information security), the 80-100% of effort should go into this socio-/psycho-/behavioral fluffy stuff that yields so many benefits and returns. Though we ‘still’ may not be good at it, at least there is development, and leading examples. Thanks, speakers, for that; and for now:
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[Your guess. No, not Paris, Reims; not even Strasbourg and that’s a hint]

On the verge of many breakthroughs

Just to note; my feels are that this piece on scientific analysis on the verge of chaos is an emergent technology for many current applied fields. E.g., analysis of where the Internet of Things will bring us; Singularity or not, or what. And brain analysis obviously in the first place. But also sociologically, I see many applications just beyond the horizons.

And, of course:

[Somewhat hidden, still a Major Place]