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Geek of the Week: Erik Huizer

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Carl Malamud: Internet Talk Radio, town crier to the glob­al vil­lage.  How do you pro­nounce your name? Erik Huizer: [Pronounces as rough­ly ​“howz­er”] Malamud: Huizer. Is that right? Huizer: No, that’s not right.  Malamud: Try it again. Huizer: Huizer. Malamud: Huizer. Huizer: Huizer. Malamud: Huizer. Am I right? Huizer: No. Still wrong.  Malamud: Not even close. Huizer: Not even close, no. It’s …read the full transcript.

Geek of the Week: Marshall T. Rose

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It’s kind of like we could have the Congress of the United State pass a law with regards to time trav­el, but let’s face it you know, no one has a time trav­el machine so what’s the point of it? You can’t change phys­i­cal laws by mak­ing admin­is­tra­tive pol­i­cy. Why should you think you can stan­dard­ize com­pli­cat­ed tech­nol­o­gy with­out under­stand­ing it?

Geek of the Week: Steve Crocker

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The inter­est­ing phe­nom­e­non relat­ed to the RSA algo­rithm and is not shared with some of the oth­er algo­rithms is it is use­ful for both encryp­tion and for dig­i­tal sig­na­ture. That is they are two dis­tinct uses and this sin­gle algo­rithm is use­ful for both of those. And there’s an amaz­ing and some­what inter­est­ing sto­ry that then devel­ops from that.

Geek of the Week: Radia Perlman

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The peo­ple that invent­ed Ethernet did a real good thing. Ethernet is good tech­nol­o­gy. But they did a real­ly bad thing because they called it a net. And they should­n’t have called it Ethernet, they should’ve called it Etherlink.”

Geek of the Week: Brewster Kahle

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We’re at a thou­sand dol­lars per giga­byte, which is what cur­rent disk dri­ves cost. The twen­ty ter­abytes that peo­ple esti­mate in ASCII that’s in the Library of Congress is just twen­ty mil­lion dol­lars. So that’s not very much mon­ey in terms of being able to store and retrieve the Library of Congress.

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