The existing phone system was designed to connect phone calls.
There is simply no infrastructure to verify the origin of a call.
There are several efforts underway to create such an infrastructure.
They all revolve around cryptographically secure signatures.
It's a hard problem, there's a lot of programming, and it has to be deployed to carriers all around the world.
There can't be any exceptions. If your go-live date is 2022-Jan-01, and Taiwan Telco isn't ready, then no one in Taiwan can call anyone in the U.S. If you make an exception, then all the spammers simply route their calls through Taiwan and you're back where you started.
On top of all that, spammers pay telcos to carry their calls. So the whole thing is a big expense and headache for the telcos, and the end result is a revenue *loss* for the telcos. So they don't want to do it in the first place.

IPv6?
Is that a thing?
I had Comcast in Mass. up until two years ago.
My machine had both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces.
Comcast gave me a regular old cable modem/NAT router that connected on IPv4.
Is it different in FL?

And cats. Don't forget the cats.

I've used both Slack and Salesforce.
Slack is serviceable.
My primary goal when using Salesforce is to not use Salesforce.
Salesforce buying Slack seems unlikely to make the world a better place.

Seems like a good application for multi-party authorization.
Require N people to modify an account.
N could be 1 + log base 10 of the number of followers.
+1 for verified accounts.

So, yeah, Barack Obama (verified, 120M followers) calls in to make a change to his account, you're going to need to get 10 customer service reps on the call and all 10 are going to have to click OK on their own screen. Sounds extreme, but
- how many accounts have 10^8 followers?
- how often do those accounts call for service?
- how embarrassing is it going to be if one of those accounts gets hacked?

Props to Rudy Rucker.

Transpose the signal up about...uhhh...22 octaves, and we can listen to it.

The hardware people are always talking about "male" and "female" connectors. Ick!
Where do I submit a pull request?

It's not going faster or slower.
It's just vanishing.

I have repeatedly had the experience of getting to Sunday evening, and thinking about starting the new week on Monday morning, and then I look up and it's Friday afternoon. It's not amnesia. I remember all the things I did during the week. But somehow no time has passed.

People use the term AI like it's a real thing, but it's not.
At least, it's not what they think it is.

I was watching a Jeopardy where humans were playing against Watson.
Every question, the machine was there with the right answer while the humans were still trying to grok the question.
Until...there was a question that asked not for a fact, but for a definition.
Then the humans had reasonable answers, while the machine was stalled and fumbling.

That's when you realize that there is no I in AI.
It's just a search engine running against a data store.
It may be a fast engine and a big store, but that's all it is, and as soon as you go just a little bit off of that path, it's dead in the water.

That's also why level 5 self-driving cars are not going to happen.

Like DJT?

One of the best programmers I ever worked with was a philosophy major.

n/t

It doesn't have to be copyrightable, it just has to exist.
Once it exists, no one else can copyright it, because they won't be able to claim authorship.

I avoid ads for Apple services on my iPhone by not using Apple services on my iPhone.

The only unavoidable service is the App store, which is such a confusing mess that adds are the least of its problems.