Very exciting to me.
This is from when I had an epiphany Wednesday June 8 on my balcony. You know when it all just clicks and a million hours of ruminating snap together? Fist pumped a couple times.
This is more for me than you; I’m documenting.
Blurred for OPSEC.
It’s no good if the internet has the same epiphany.
Tuesday I attended the Canadian Telecom Summitt 2011 #CTS11… Canada’s leading and largest telecommunications industry event.
Media sits at the back.
There were big-name keynote speeches all day, heads of Telus, HP, Rogers, Microsoft, Bell and CRTC people.
This is how I learned we got a new Minister of Industry two weeks ago, Christian Paradis.
Congratulations on your new job! Please protect Canada.
Made some new friends both IRL and online during it, hi guys! Keep in touch.
You can’t just go around blasting signals haphazardly, where and whenever you wish. Depending on what you’re doing, depends on which frequency you transmit/broadcast/communicate on.
Below shows (some) of the MHz spectrum and its allocations. See the band where I added the text, flanked by ‘mobile’ and ‘broadcasting’?
That’s the 700 MHz band, and it’s soon up for sale.
(See the full diagram here)
It was once owned by the broadcasters, and was used to broadcast analog TV.
Now the government owns it, and is about to sell it.
The auction will take place late 2012. The gentleman above is in charge of said auction.
It’s a powerful spectrum which can penetrate walls. This makes it ideal for broadband communication. It also has a great range and can travel long distances; one tower broadcasting 700 MHz can cover 20 miles.
Tweets and fun facts from today.
Many of the talks re-inforced my theory about how the future internet will be designed, I talk about it in my video, About UBB – Usage Based Billing, fast-forward to 0:31.
Then I invited myself to the stage.
And gave an impassioned speech.
While everyone was at lunch.
Are you on a Mac computer? This is for you.
We Apple users have enjoyed relatively safe surfing for so long, so why now?
It’s been written that once Apple reached a 16% marketshare, only then would the financial payoff be worth the time to target Macs.
There are many different kinds of attacks (a post for another time)… this one is “scareware“… it shocks you into thinking there’s a virus on your computer, so you download the program to get rid of it, except the program is actually the virus.
The scam is running under 5 different names: MacDefender / MacGuard / MacKeeper / MacProtector / MacSecurity.
The popup windows look like this:
Don’t download it.
Pretty obvious huh. Pretty crazy that people actually fall for this.
Remember – if you didn’t go searching for it, do not accept any downloads.
Apple has put out an official statement on how to deal with MacDefender… click here.
They’ll be soon releasing a OS X update to search and destroy any MacDefender that may be on your hard drive.
You can be sure there’s way more where this came from, and much more sophisticated, too.
If you would like a Mac anti-virus program, go with Kapersky, they’re world-class.
In your browser preferences turn off “automatically open downloaded files”.
Watch my Change your Passwords video below and follow my instructions.
xo Keri
I don’t like missing out on things, so sometimes adventures like this happen.
Boarded a train. Saw this machine in the middle of Union Station (did you know there used to be a shooting range there?).
Started this book. So far so great.
Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn
Went to a party and then another with a lot of old friends, and now some new ones, many of whom pick me up when they hug me, which I love.
Tried this for the first time. Meh.
At 4am I got out of one car and into another.
Hi from Hamilton, it’s cycling race day!
This is the Good Friday Road Race hosted by Canada’s oldest cycling club – The Hamilton Club.
You can better see the course in my episode, Exploring Cycling, because I filmed from the back of the pace car. It’s set to some beautiful classical music.
It’s a 55km race, average speed was 37km/hr, takes 90 minutes.
It was so cold out (and ya it’s April, but remember the good weeks in March? Also, watch my weather video for why it’s good it’s cold in Canada)
Waiting for the results. Sleep dep FTW.
BOOM FIRST!
WTG Nick and great team work fellas.
Came home to a home cooked meal even, then I slept for a while the end.
In Terminator movies, the military created Skynet, an artificial intelligence which becomes self-aware today, April 19 2011 at 8:11pm / 20:11.
Then it turns against the humans… carnage, mayhem etc.
The below made me literally LOL today (this Skynet thing was trending on Twitter earlier , it’s not that weird)
A few weeks back, @SkyNetOperative started following me on Twitter. Today we engaged in a back and forth.
This is its bio (the code basically means its watching the internet, and saving it all for future use)
So I said I dropped into its computer, and took ownership of its accounts and information.
It came back with uh-huh, I just kicked you off the server, undid your changes and copied your hard drive to a USB key.
Note it knows what kind of computer I’m on.
I replied by making it its own account.
