The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures….
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.
“The introduction of the iPod accelerated a process which was already begun with the invention of home stereos: the transformation of music from something normally experienced communally, to something enjoyed individually; now as an actual means of isolation.”
Much of what we now regard as inconsequential personal ephemera — emails, text messages, social media posts — has a chance of outliving us. Thanks to the dubious miracle of online communications technology, most contemporary American lives will be better documented than those of all but a handful of historically significant men and women. From the vantage point of the surviving private memorandums of our own existences, with their random exigencies and throwaway meretriciousness, many of us will resemble Mr. Epstein to a degree that we should all find dismaying.
“Many have gone and applied for food stamps within their states,” she said. “I have a couple of officers in one of my states that they’re actually sleeping in their car and one has been evicted already.”
Stryker is a major supplier of medical devices, and the ongoing attack is already affecting healthcare providers. One healthcare professional at a major university medical system in the United States told KrebsOnSecurity they are currently unable to order surgical supplies that they normally source through Stryker.
“This is a real-world supply chain attack,” the expert said, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press. “Pretty much every hospital in the U.S. that performs surgeries uses their supplies.”
The KE is a custom mechanical keyboard built around the CE motherboard and screen, replacing the keypad with an array of Cherry-style keyboard switches, and custom keycaps to boot!