externalmodem's comments

On: Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal

[externalmodem]

Who can take the idea of "Silicon Valley" as an engine for social change seriously when industry leaders behave like this?

On: A map of the entire internet as of May 1973

[externalmodem]

For a deeper dive into the history of ARPANET cartography, check out this paper (many more maps inside!): Fidler, B., and M. Currie. “The Production and Interpretation of ARPANET Maps.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 37, no. 1 (January 2015): 44–55. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2015.16. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7057559/?arnumber=705755...

On: $17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

[externalmodem]

I believe that I own this watch and it didn't ask me to sideload an APK. Rather, the watch displayed a QR code that pointed me to an app the Google Play store. There may be something shady going on but the evidence here is not clear cut.

[themodelplumber → externalmodem]

So the question is, how's the watch otherwise? :-)

On: 3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994)

[externalmodem]

Unfortunately, no. There is no comprehensive archive. There are bits and pieces on the web plus several Fido boards still running with archives going back a decade or so.

On: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

[externalmodem]

MIT license according to: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/micros...