jobs and gates at the D conference: video
If you’re interested, and have about 90 minutes to kill, you can watch video of the Steve Jobs / Bill Gates interview at the All Things Digital D5 conference.
If you’re interested, and have about 90 minutes to kill, you can watch video of the Steve Jobs / Bill Gates interview at the All Things Digital D5 conference.
Check out the discussion as it happens!
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/05/30/jobsgates/index.php
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are making a joint appearance at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference. Both on stage at the same time, being interviewed about the “history and future of the digital revolution.”
Can someone send me there please? Please?!
Did you know that Estonia’s internet is under attack? I just read about it in this article here. (see the original story in the NY Times here (login required).)
Kind of scary to think that the whole country’s internet could be targeted and overwhelmed by a Denial-of-service attack. While these kinds of attacks are not new, I can’t recall a time when a specific country was targeted.
What chilled me was the following paragraph from the Times article:
Scientists and researchers convened by the National Academy of Sciences this year heard testimony from military strategy experts indicating that both China and Russia have offensive information-warfare programs. The United States is also said to have begun a cyberwarfare effort.
[emphasis mine]
If you think about how much reliance on the internet and networks we have right now, it’s scary. Makes me want to hide some cash under the mattress just in case the banks go down…
And some chocolate. You know. In case I get hungry.
A free Toronto Sun came to our door the other day, and in it there was an article on modern day pirates. Pretty scary stuff, how they come and shoot up your boat, or launch rockets into it. It reminded me of LOST when the Others took Walt off the raft. Note to self: if stranded on an island and have built a raft to escape, wait until you’re further out to fire off the flare…