Month: May 2017

  Conrad Black saw the Internet coming and got out while the getting was good. Speaking of his encounters with Richard Breeden, his nemesis, he wrote: “there were complaints by some institutional investors about compensation at Hollinger, one of the world’s largest newspaper companies until my associates and I got a good look at the […]

Ajit Pai, Chairman of the FCC, is sowing as much confusion as he can in regard to his plan to eliminate Title II regulation of Internet carriers. His appeal to the conservative base is that the freedom of the Internet is threatened when the carriers through which we pass to reach the Internet are effectively […]

May 15, 2017 Good afternoon and welcome the Annual General Meeting of the Internet Society, Canada Chapter. I am pleased you could take the time to be here. As Chairman it is my privilege to lead, guide and follow a bunch of dedicated volunteers. Together this year we have held a number of interesting focus […]

https://ripe74.ripe.net/archive/video/Geoff_Huston-An_Introduction_to_Internet_of_Stupid_Things-20170509-112929.mp4 There is no incentive to reduce the production of ever cheaper chips. 10 billion of them every year. They will interpenetrate everything and be linked through ever better radio. Security will never be achieved. In fact it is getting worse every day.  Download the presentation here: https://ripe74.ripe.net/presentations/38-2017-05-08-iot.pdf  

Imagine a powerful life-extending drug, that also enables trained adepts to transport themselves and any arbitrarily large object, to any point in space. Move ten million tons of passengers and cargo to Epsilon Eridani? Tomorrow? No problem. No messing about with the speed of light. Just “fold space”. And the drug is available only on […]