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 (Page 5 of 5)
Geek of the Week: Erik Huizer
presented by Carl Malamud, Erik Huizer
Geek of the Week: Marshall T. Rose
presented by Carl Malamud, Marshall T. Rose
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
presented by Carl Malamud, Steve Crocker
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
presented by Carl Malamud, Radia Perlman
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
presented by Brewster Kahle, Carl Malamud
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.