Anyone else feel like this is anachronistically bad? I mean, sure, it's full of AI and all. But filling your house with 'smart' gadgets to see what sticks is so 20 years ago. We were supposed to move on to a world where everyone carried their personal devices, or where these things were pop up info on your AppleTV, or even the version of the future with virtual screens on walls because AR. And we are going back to a clutter of single purpose screens wasting space in the kitchen? Sure they have to bring SOMETHING new to this. Or maybe they just recognise missteps and are doing what they should have done 15 years ago... Apple have so almost been able to give us an automated home for at least 15 years, but chose not to. They could have given us a decent UI on AppleTV, or taken games seriously on it, or given it a camera for Facetime but didn't. The could have been less money-grubbing on personal devices and allowed a single account to float between devices and screens (with apps and preferences ready to go) but didn't. However they launch this this - please please, give is SOMETHING that's actually new and innovative.

What's particularly impressive about this article and its summary is how far you have to dig to get any useful precis.... and a lot of it is not there at all. For example, "partial heart transplant" - but which bit? Domino... but which part cascades. Less immunosuppressant but why? And most obviously, valves grow with, but what's new about that... does the value come with the heart, or some a different donor, or is part of an adult heart and trimmed down, or another part of the body? I just gave up when I couldn't find any of this in the first half of the article.

While we all know that the entire internet is now a chamber of clickbait like this, one WOULD hope that Slashdot could manage to select the best article from multiple, and to provide a summary. I tried asking ChatGPT but it pointed to the paywall as an issue - without which all the good detail is missing. This was its best effort:

ChatGPT
The "Interesting Engineering" article discusses a novel partial heart transplant technique. This procedure involves transplanting only certain parts of a donor heart, such as valves and arteries, rather than the entire organ. The technique aims to minimize the need for immunosuppressants, which are typically required in higher doses for full heart transplants. The innovation lies in transplanting components that are less likely to cause an immune response and are more adaptable to the recipient's body. This approach also aims to mitigate the risks and complexities associated with full heart transplants.

For more details, please refer to the article on Interesting Engineering.

Seriously, "Alexa, open Cortana"??

Why do we let the nerds specify this stuff? The correct phrase is "Alexa, let me talk to Cortana". When you're on the phone to your Mom, do you say "Mom, open Dad"???

There is no reason that listening on a socket needs to use ANY battery at all. It WOULD be wise to have a model for checking whether a packet is DoS/dealing with heartbearts before causing it to fire up the real app process, but given that, there is no reason why SIP can't be efficient. If the reasoning for this has anything to do with battery, then it's lazy.

Huwei. MAYBE with Cisco SDN control if Cisco play it perfectly.

http://www.answers.com/Q/Plane...

Perhaps it should be allowed to decay untouched. As a piece of history. A one time achievement. Like our space ambitions.

You underestimate the value of signing. It's not all about secrecy.

This isn't entirely a mystery. For a technology to be widely adopted, it needs to be easy for everyone and provide demonstrable benefits. OR, it needs to provide benefits for a business who already has your custom. And there we begin to see the problem. There are two massive disincentives:

- Crypto doesn't play well with webmail
- Encrypted email can't be scanned for advert keywords

So you will never see the likes of Google or Microsoft championing this. Apple - just maybe, as they would rather promote devices, and I gather they actually DO have decent end to end crypto on iMessage and so on. But even then, it's VERY hard to do in a way that customers would actually appreciate. No-one wants to get email working 95% of the time. It needs to be 100%. If you can't read 5% of your email, you're in trouble. Or you can't read email on the 5% of time that you need to access from a borrowed PC.

It seems to me that the keys to making this work are:

- Concentrate on signing before crypto. Get banks to sign email. Have different security levels; get to a stage where by default, only signed email will download embedded images, make links clickable without a warning, etc..
- Find a way to make it work with webmail. Can we do this with JS? Or do we need browser support? End to end crypto It would require a way for a part of a page to be sandboxed, accept a secret to decrypt your keys, and not allow the plaintext info out. End to end signing is a little easier. This might also include retrieving the private keys from a distinct cloud service.
- Solve the centralized trust issue. Probably derive a format from S/MINE rather than GPG for email, but critically, signing of certs needs a community trust system so you can see who trusts who, and people can get their identities signed by people they know.

Finally, if that's widely deployed for signing then people can begin to encrypt with a hope of the other end being able to decrypt.

I've felt the same way for years. I had high hopes for Google Wave to fill the gap.

It's not the same thing, and scripting for end users would not have been the same, but we don't need a direct replacement. We need:

- Web based, cloud based.
- Multi screen sized, flowable
- The card stack model from HyperCard was GOOD for naive use - and perfectly carried into Google Wave
- Simple scripting, but probably JavaScript not HyperTalk

In fact, my ideal system is somewhere in the middle of Wave, HyperCard, Lotus Notes, XSLT or similar and the web.

- Document templates that can be filled in. Let's get rid of MS Word and have more structured docs, but in a way that hobby developers can cope with.
- Effective visual editing of templates; HTML template editing but much more like a good UI editor,
- Somehow remove all the complexity from the scripting of events... HyperCard WAS good at this!!

I'm not going to mention SharePoint. MicroSoft NEVER understood groupware!

Options would have to be costed. Many things would feed into that. The problem of course is that for all of those costings, probability multiplied by survivability does not produce a linear outcome of quality of life value; you could assign a value of harm to each individual present, but you could not get a meaningful figure by summation.

It didn't matter whether it was last year or next...IP usage was accelerating into the wall anyway. The GOOD part about this is that now the US is out of addresses certain parts of the Internet industry are more likely to take IPv6 seriously.

Sadly, ISPs in other parts of the world have proven adept at further avoiding the problem by downgrading consumer connections to carrier-grade NAT, so we have another 5 years of eking out of old order before people REALLY have to take notice.

WTF?

Data wall by Dolores Umbridge.

Surely for a few tens of thousands of pounds, it would have been better to publish and API for storing and modifying the info on (secured) web servers locally in a way that could be indexed and catalogued separately. Then, incentivize private firms to make and sell software to surgeries and hospitals that provide the API. Why do people always go for monolithic top down solutions for these things?