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It was full of a lot of wonderful stories, including about his first bout with cancer. And the speech ended with some words Jobs saw on the back of “The Whole Earth Catalog” when he was young, which impacted him greatly. |
I think right about now, that foolish part has gone way too far for Jobs and the rest of us. |
So let’s slow things down, shall we, and get some much-needed perspective this speech surely has (in other words, the inevitable finger-pointing and shareholder lawsuits can wait). |
Here’s a video of the Jobs speech, as well as the full text after the jump. |
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? |
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college wa... |
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the... |
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my l... |
I was lucky–I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation–the Macintosh–a year earlier,... |
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down–that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about r... |
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable tu... |
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Rememb... |
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. ... |
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a mi... |
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already... |
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called “The Whole Earth Catalog,” which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and d... |
Stewart and his team put out several issues of “The Whole Earth Catalog,” and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on i... |
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has emerged from hiding after the bruising election loss last November. |
This time, she sat for a conversation before 650 executives from global media, tech, and startup companies for the invitation-only Recode conference. |
We might have expected that a conference, which looks at trends and predictions for the future, wouldn't focus so much on the past 2016 election, but the conversation with Clinton focused only on the reasons why she lost despite the love and support of the tech industry. |
So who did Clinton blame for keeping her out of the White House again? Everyone else but her and the campaign she ran. |
"And there was no law against it, there was no rule, nothing of that sort. So I didn’t break any rule, nobody said, “Don’t do this,” and I was very responsible and not at all wwcareless. So you end up with a situation that is then exploited, and very effectively, for adverse political reasons. |
“... I know you had Dean Baquet here from the New York Times yesterday, and they covered it like it was Pearl Harbor. And then in their endorsement of me, they said, “This email thing, it’s like a help desk issue.” So it was always a hard issue to put to bed, but we put it to bed in July and then it rose up again." |
"The networks made more money than they’ve made in years, and we’ve got lots of network executives saying things like, “You know, he may not be good for the country but he’s good for business.” And there was that. And putting him on all the time. Calling in wherever he was from... In 2008, which was the last time you h... |
"... The other side was using content that was just flat-out false, and delivering it in a very personalized way, both sort of above the radar screen and below... If you look at Facebook, the vast majority of the news items posted were fake. They were connected to, as we now know, the 1,000 Russian agents who were invo... |
“They were connected to the bots that are just out of control. We see now this new information about Trump’s Twitter account being populated by millions of bots." |
5. The DNC – Clinton bemoaned the weak data of the Democratic Party, but she conveniently left out the fact that Obama’s organization didn't share the data it collected on millions of voters from both elections to the DNC. |
"I get the nomination. So I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. |
“So Trump becomes the nominee and he is basically handed this tried and true, effective foundation. |
6. The Russians - there were too many references to pull out. |
7. Facebook – Social media was the platform to spread information against Clinton far and wide. |
“And there have been some studies done since the election that if you look — let’s pick Facebook. If you look at Facebook, the vast majority of the news items posted were fake. |
“So if I put myself in the position of running a platform like Facebook, first of all, they’ve got to get back to trying to curate it more effectively. Put me out of the equation, they’ve got to help prevent fake news from creating a new reality. That does influence how people think of themselves, see the world, the de... |
“... Because as I explain in my book, you know, the Comey letter, which was, now we know, partly based on a false memo from the Russians. It was a classic piece of Russian disinformation — comprimat, they call it. So, for whatever reason, and I speculate, but I can’t look inside the guy’s mind, you know, he dumps that ... |
“Remember, Comey was more than happy to talk about my emails, but he wouldn’t talk about the investigation of the Russians. So people went to vote on November 8th having no idea that there was an active counter-intelligence investigation going on of the Trump campaign. |
"So I never said I was a perfect candidate, and I certainly have never said I ran perfect campaigns, but I don’t know who is or did. And at some point it sort of bleeds into misogyny. And let’s just be honest, you know, people who have ... [applause] a set of expectations about who should be president and what a presid... |
If only Clinton admitted that her philosophy, view of the role of government, message, and her as a messenger was not what half of Americans wanted, then perhaps her comments wouldn’t sound so much like violins. She was just not the candidate that voters ultimately wanted. |
“So, I guess the final thing I would say is, it really is important both for men and women, for mothers and fathers, for employers of both genders, to be really ready to support young women, and to give them that confidence, that external confidence, but to do everything you can to help them weather all of the push-bac... |
Finally, positive reflections and advice. |
Three quarters of the way through his "biography" of cancer, the New York-based oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee pauses to set the scene in his laboratory, a beehive of esoteric activity and impenetrable jargon. In lesser hands, such a passage would leave non-specialist readers bewildered and bored. But then he describe... |
In this small but typical moment, Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver, too, of what he feels. "The cells look bloated and grotesque, with a dilated nucleus and a thin rim of cytoplasm, the sign of a cell whose very soul has been co-opted to divide and to kee... |
The yoking of scientific expertise to narrative talent is rare enough, but the literary echoes of The Emperor of All Maladies suggest a desire to go further even than fine, accessible explanation. "Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways." |
It takes some nerve to echo the first line of Anna Karenina and infer that the story of a disease is capable of bearing a Tolstoyan treatment. But that is, breathtakingly, what Mukherjee pulls off. He calls this great and beautiful book a biography, rather than a history, because he wants his reader to understand his s... |
Though it has many historical antecedents, the epic medical quest to understand and treat cancer only really took shape as it emerged as a defining disease of modernity. This is the case not just in the metaphorical sense that it speaks potently to our industrialised terrors, but in the direct sense that cancer only be... |
People in the past tended to die of other diseases – as they still do in poorer countries today. Cancer now ranks just below heart disease as a cause of death in the US, but in low-income countries with shorter life expectancies, it doesn't even make the top 10. At the beginning of the 20th century, life expectancy at ... |
Thus the scene is set for a monumental scientific, political and human struggle. Mukherjee assembles a teeming cast of characters: from ancients such as Atossa, the Persian queen who in 500BC self-prescribed the first recorded mastectomy, to Mukherjee's own patients. There are tales of grizzly surgical techniques and a... |
The full-blown campaign against cancer began with the meeting in the 1940s of an American socialite, Mary Lasker, in search of a great medical cause, and the driven cancer researcher, Sidney Farber, one of the creators of chemotherapy. Mukherjee describes it as the coming together of two travellers, "each carrying one ... |
But as Mukherjee's narrative unearths his central character, and our understanding of cancer accumulates depth and complexity, the notion of a war becomes ever more threadbare. Its combatants had been configuring the enemy they needed to fight the war they wanted. Yet the story of science, Mukherjee observes, is not ju... |
Crusaders for a magic bullet, including Farber, were scornful of calls to wait on the development of genetic research, or to emphasise prevention, or to appreciate the need for care as much as "cure". To many who had worked on the front lines, relentlessly pushing patients to the brink of death to save them, such calls... |
In 1986, in The New England Journal of Medicine, John Bailar and Elaine Smith published a cold assessment of comparative trends in cancer mortality over the years. This revealed what they called a "qualified failure". Between 1962 and 1985, though duration of survival had improved in certain areas, the war on cancer ha... |
It is from here, as he reaches for the final act in his historical drama, that it becomes clear that Mukherjee is doing more than providing an account of medical developments, scientific discovery and human suffering. The underlying structural dynamic of his book turns out to be the riddle of progress itself, the appli... |
As he turns inwards, to questions of the basic biology of the cancer cell, Mukherjee modifies his assessment of the war on cancer, from qualified failure to qualified success. There may have been no movement of the front lines of death, but if the aims could change, from utopian notions of eradicating death to more mod... |
He returns to the cell itself, as genetic knowledge began to offer results that could be applied clinically – the search for causes finally coming together with the search for cures. By the end of the 1990s, the development of Gleevec as a genetics-based drug treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia had, as one research... |
The cellular composition of cancer is Mukherjee's own field, but he is under no illusions that the new era will leave history behind, or that gene-based therapies will lead us out of the cancer age. Harold Varmus, accepting his Nobel prize for the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes in 1989, turned to Beowulf: "We ... |
The idea that cancer cells are copies of who we are is, Mukherjee emphasises, not a metaphor. "We can rid ourselves of cancer," he concludes, "only as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in our physiology that depend on growth – ageing, regeneration, healing, reproduction." |
And so his intensely vivid and precise descriptions of biological processes accumulate into a character, fully developed and eerily familiar. The notion of "popular science" doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature. |
PETER Rabbit and Mrs Tiggywinkle might never have graced many a childhood if their creator Beatrix Potter had had her way. Jan Sapp’s book Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis, leads the reader to the inescapable conclusion that her real skills were not as a children’s author, but as a biologist. |
In his new book, science historian Jan Sapp charts the development of ideas about symbiosis, the living together of dissimilar organisms, to provide a richly woven mixture of science, historical context and social intrigue. The young Potter had a passion for lichens, which she was convinced were made up of two very dif... |
By the time of Potter, “Schwendenerist” had become a fashionable term of abuse for someone who was always in two minds. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew made Potter and her ridiculous ideas so unwelcome that she gave up her career as a biologist. Without the misogyny and dogmatism of her fellow scientists, Potter, the ... |
Potter’s intellectual martyrdom was only the first of many trials the concept of symbiosis would endure. Sapp shows how before the outbreak of the First World War, biologists, who were becoming increasingly ecologically minded, had overcome their reservations and considered symbiosis to be one of the most exciting area... |
Sapp describes how early proponents of the symbiotic origin of modern cells left themselves open to ridicule by over-enthusiastic claims to have cultivated organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts outside the cell, both in Europe and the US. These claims provided further ammunition to those who saw aggression a... |
As a graduate student Lynn Margulis synthesised previous work on the origin of cell, encouraged by insights from that giant of postwar genetics, Joshua Lederberg. By the mid-1960s she was convinced that mitochondria and chloroplasts had originally been bacteria, living symbiotically within the cells of the ancestors of... |
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the acceptance of symbiosis was its confusion with mutualism, a term which became popular among biologists influenced by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s mutuellisme. Proudhon, one of the founders of both socialist and anarchist theory, said that the breakdown of capitalism would be heralded by ... |
One hundred years after Potter’s suppression, not only is the symbiotic origin of the cell undisputed, but an increasing proportion of evolution seems to be pervaded by symbiogenic processes. Abyssal fish that see in the dark, cattle and insects that can digest tough plant tissue, plant roots that draw nitrogen from th... |
Sapp uses symbiosis as an illustration of the dangers of the trend towards narrow specialism in science. Unless evolutionary biologists take a more ecological approach that encompasses such intimate relationships between diverse communities of animals, plants, and especially microbes, our progress towards a fuller unde... |
Many popular studies in the history of science describe events that have either been completed or are past their peak. Sapp’s book is not only a scholarly account of one of the most important, yet neglected, areas of 20th-century biology, but it may also be pointing the way to a major element of biology in the next mil... |
PERSONAL DATA: Born April 30, 1957 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Married to the former Cheryl Ann Tobritzhofer of St. Paul, Minnesota. They have two children. He enjoys motorcycle travel, racing motocross, camping, home-schooling his children, and reading science fiction. His parents reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her mot... |
EDUCATION: Graduated from Highland Park High School, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1975; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis in 1981 and 1982, respectively. |
ORGANIZATIONS: National Space Society, American Motorcyclist Association, Air Force Association. |
SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals. |
EXPERIENCE: Carey received his commission from the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1981 and graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training in 1983. He flew the A-10A during tours at England Air Force Base, Louisiana, and Suwon Air Base, Republic of Korea. He completed F-16 training in 1988 and was assigned to Torrejon A... |
NASA EXPERIENCE: Carey was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in April 1996. He reported to the NASA Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he is qualified for flight assignment as a pilot. Initially, Carey was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Offic... |
A large chunk of the hijacked traffic passed through the network of a controversial Chinese state-owned telecom provider that was previously accused of intentionally misdirecting internet traffic. |
A tiny Nigerian ISP has hijacked internet traffic meant for Google's data centers. The incident, called a BGP hijack, occurred yesterday, on November 12, between 13:12 and 14:35, Pacific time, according to Google. |
The incident was first detected and reported by BGPmon, an online service that monitors the routes that internet traffic takes through the smaller internet service provider (ISP) networks that make up the larger internet. |
According to BGPmon, the incident was caused by a small Nigerian ISP named MainOne Cable Company (AS37282), which announced to nearby ISPs that it was hosting IP addresses that were normally assigned to Google's data center network. |
BGPmon says the Nigerian ISP incorrectly announced it was hosting 212 Google network prefixes in five different waves, for a total of 74 minutes. |
This bad routing announcement leaked downstream to other ISPs, causing more and more nearby providers to send Google-intended traffic to MainOne's network, instead of the normal BGP routes. |
According to experts from ThousandEyes, a cloud security company, the path that this traffic took most often was one via TransTelecom (AS 20485) in Russia and China Telecom (AS 4809) in China. |
"We noticed that this leak was primarily propagated by business-grade transit providers and did not impact consumer ISP networks as much," said Ameet Naik, a manager for ThousandEyes. |
"All the traffic slammed into the great firewall, terminating at China Telecom edge router," Naik added. |
Whatever traffic ended up reaching the small Nigerian ISP, was later dropped, resulting in zero Google connectivity for impacted users. |
The incident caused quite a stir online, and especially among networking and cyber-security experts. The reason is that of an academic paper published last month which accused China Telecom, a state-owned telecom firm, of repeated BGP hijacks that misdirected the traffic of western countries through its network for no ... |
The findings of that research paper, which were very controversial and politically charged, were confirmed last week by Oracle's Internet Intelligence division (formerly known as Dyn). |
BGP hijacks are considered highly dangerous, as it allows the unauthorized network through which the traffic goes to intercept, analyze, and log sensitive traffic that could be decrypted at a later date. |
Yesterday's temporary Google traffic redirection marks just another incident in a long list of BGP hijacks incidents that have been a major problem since the 1990s. |
Even if the traffic "misdirection" by the Nigerian ISP was intentional or accidental, the problem still lies with the BGP itself, a protocol developed in the 1980s, which has no security features and is still used today to interconnect ISP networks and relay internet traffic. |
Efforts are ongoing to improve BGP with additional security features. |
Update, November 13, 11:30am ET: MainOne, the Nigerian ISP that caused this mess, said on Twitter today that the whole incident was an accident. |
Brian Westover Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 takes top honors among tablet PCs, combining choice aspects of a capable ultraportable business laptop with a multitouch Windows tablet. |
Intel Core i5 processor outpaces the competition. Largest hard drive in its class. Rugged, ergonomic design. Superb physical keyboard and pointing controls. Melds Windows 7 with a versatile combination of touch and physical controls. |
On the heavy side. Screen glare. |
The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 takes top honors among tablet PCs, combining choice aspects of a capable ultraportable business laptop with a multitouch Windows tablet. |
The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet ($1,579 direct) strikes a nice concession between ultraportable business laptop and multitouch Windows 7 tablet. Some businesses may be hard pressed to give up its QWERTY ways for a full tablet or compromise losing time learning a new operating system. The ThinkPad X220's convertible-tab... |
There's little to distinguish the X220 tablet from any other black, plastic-clad member of Lenovo's ThinkPad family—aside from its twist and fold hinge that allows the lid to rotate 180 degrees and close with the screen facing outward, so you can take full advantage of the touch feature. Like the Lenovo X220 laptop, it... |
Weighing 4.15 pounds, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet is lighter than the 5 pound Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 (Multitouch) ($1,859 direct, 3.5 stars), but heavier than the 3.9 pound HP Elitebook 2740p ($1,880 direct, 3.5 stars). The X220 Tablet won't be as comfortable to hold as the 1.33 pound iPad 2, especially if you're a... |
The only visible differences between the X220 tablet and its laptop variant, aside from the twist and fold hinge, is the protruding battery and an odd tab extending from the top right edge of the screen. The tab extending from the top of the screen becomes a comfortable handhold, and a convenient handle when returning ... |
The touch screen is multitouch capable, able to register up to five fingers at a time. The Lenovo comes preloaded with the Windows 7 Touch Pack, providing you with an on-screen keyboard and Windows' handwriting recognition. The on-screen keyboard is fine while in landscape orientation, but in portrait mode—the orientat... |
The physical keyboard on the ThinkPad X220 tablet is an industry best, providing one of the most comfortable typing experiences of any laptop. It's also spill-resistant, designed to survive up to 4 ounces of liquid spilled directly onto the keyboard. In addition to the touchscreen, you also have two other pointing devi... |
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