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Vint Cerf's dream of porn in space comes true
NASA deemed successful a month-long test of image transfers to and from the Epoxi space probe, currently 20 million miles away somewhere near Mars. Alleged Internet inventor Vint Cerf helped NASA design the enabling technology, known as Delay Tolerant Networking, a decade ago. (I know: What does that guy do now?) More » -
rumormonger
Has Obama already picked his CTO?
Eric Schmidt said he won't be heading to Washington as President Obama's chief technologist. A tipster who claims inside info tells us that America's CTO of Change has already been chosen. Not surprising, but who? Who who who? More » -
America's CTO
Doerr pushes Bill Joy on Obama
At yesterday's Web 2.0 Summit, Kleiner Perkins whiz John Doerr — a man so successful he can get away with wearing the same three ties for ten years — told attendees that Barack Obama should skip over Googlers Eric Schmidt and Vint Cerf, and instead hire Kleiner Perkins partner and Sun co-founder Bill Joy as his national chief technology officer. Obama's job description was focused more on counter-terrorism intelligence and IT supremacy. Doerr thinks that's misguided: “The most important thing he's got to do is kick-start a huge amount of research and innovation in energy." Energy tech is Doerr's current focus at Kleiner, of course. But it's unclear to me whether Joy is now a leader or a dilettante on the topic. Doerr also suggested the U.S. "staple a green card to the diploma" to keep foreign-born engineering students from going back home after graduation. Throw in a fixed-rate mortgage for gossip bloggers, and I'll endorse the whole package. -
toogle many googlers
Twitter guy proves Vint Cerf really needs a job
Alex Payne, who manages Twitter's API, posted a thumbsucking essay on Tuesday titled The Internet's on Shaky Ground. Payne seems to have reverse-engineered blowhard New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's formula for a big-picture think piece: Take a self-contradictory slogan like "Worse Is Better." Lay out your case: The glorious past, the beautiful future, the crummy now. Don't advocate a specific solution, though. Say that a question remains. Ask that question. (Payne: "The question remains: What will it take to push us forward?") Then kick back and wait for Vint Cerf to show up and supply the actual details from memory. Did someone say the Internet was built on shaky ground? Cerf rolls his eyes in exasperation, but only two or three times max: More » -
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McCain bad for Internet, says Googler who invented Internet
There are two acceptable political affiliations if you work at Google: Hyperlibertarian Paultard, or reflexively Democratic Obamamaniac. Vint Cerf, one of the guys who actually created the Internet back when it was a Pentagon-sponsored research project, and now works at Google as vice president in charge of being the guy who created the Internet, has put himself in the latter camp by officially endorsing Obama. Since Cerf is such a powerful voice, he might as well be speaking on behalf of Google itself. But the reason he's throwing Google in the Obama camp is painfully shallow and self-serving. More » -
your privacy is an illusion
Privacy advocates nearly publish guide to carjacking Google executive
In a response to Google's recent assertion that "complete privacy does not exist," the National Legal and Policy Center released a step-by-step guide [PDF] to finding an unnamed "senior executive" from the company. While it doesn't reveal the home address, it does show a number of intersections where one might lie in wait to assault or kidnap said executive. Using Google Search, Maps and Street View, naturally. More » -
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Vint Cerf: Google to "assist Yahoo with its experiement"
Microsoft is already telling advocacy groups say the Google-Yahoo agreement will "limit choices for advertisers and publishers" and "destroy a competitive alternative." For its Google deployed its Chief Guy Who Invented the Internet, Vint Cerf, to tell reporters there's nothing to be afraid of. "In the case of Yahoo, the company believes that it will be beneficial to assist Yahoo with its experiment," Reuters reports Cerf cooing at a press event. "That's all this is: a nonexclusive arrangement to allow Yahoo to use at their discretion some of our advertising capability." Ask how Google will respond to Microsoft's claims that the search giant now controls 90 percent of all search, Cerf said, "We simply say we're trying to encourage competition in the environment and we'll take steps to assist where that seems to be possible." Sold? Remember, this guy invented the Internet. (Photo by Charles Haynes) -
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Vint Cerf lied to us
In December Internet evangelist Vint Cerf promised that Eric Schmidt would furnish any inquiring journalist with an official statement within an hour, regardless of where the Google CEO happened to be. Well, that was a lie. And Cerf now admits it. Google Blogoscoped, which originally unearthed the pledge, diligently awaited Schmidt's reply for over a month. Fed up, it asked Cerf why Schmidt had dissed the blog. "Rapid responses might only reasonably be expected for on-the-record corporate policy questions," said Cerf. Corporate policy, such as the speed with which the CEO will respond to questions? -
wi-fi
The coming inflight Wi-Fi nonapocalypse
With airlines preparing to unleash Internet access upon the skies, we're entering what Web evangelist Vint Cerf calls "a ticklish area." Confined airplane cabins has generated concern that flights are going to transform into nonstop phone discussions of the latest online porn releases — so much so that airlines are considering employing content filters and banning VOIP calls. More » -
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Vint Cerf reveals how to land a job at Google
Anyone can program, but can they dance? Vint Cerf, Google VP and Internet evangelist, says that when applying for a job, it helps if you have a special ability like "being member of an ice skating group, or having gone through vocals training, or having an interest in animals." In other words, trying to get a job at Google is just like applying to college.
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