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CliffStollon The ovary doesn't retire after menopause

"the aging ovary is a potential third hit for ovarian cancer, with the first hit being genetic and the second hit being environmental..." This is important work crossing generations. Further, it shows that medical research (once centered on younger patients) is reaching older cohorts.

CliffStollon Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)

too bad the SparkFun O-Clock, AVR Oscilloscope clock kit is no longer available. Any ideas on where to get it?

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

73's de K7TA

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Yep, it was Yorkshire Television that did the filming. It was a half hour, as I recall. I'll search my attic to see if I have it on videotape...

Cheers, -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Yes, Xyz, you got it right. I started out as an apolitical Berkeley techie (not exactly a hippie) and came to realize that the government and, yes, the military were necessary and important to preserve the community that I was living in. It's easy to scribble "Stop the CIA" on Berkeley stop-signs; but who's going to inform our government about what's happening in the world? I did a lot of growing-up during that chase.

As Bob Segar said, I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

I felt like Cassandra. Still do.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

It wasn't quite a time of innocence, more like a time of trust-through-ignorance. The entire network was built on people who relied on each other for connectivity, software, and support. I once got slapped down for suggesting that we put passwords on an astronomy computer: "What have we got to hide?". (Turned out that someone had set up a bulletin board server on that system, without anyone's knowledge.) Cheers, -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Joel, it's a secret glue that we smeared on the binding. It also helps prevent the Oxford commas from falling off the pages. -C

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Usenet? Now you're making me feel old.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

I remember making that video - we went up to Calistoga and spent time in a mud-bath. If you find the video, I'd enjoy seeing it! Thanx, -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

And my warm thanks to you, Giov. As you realize, in that talk I probably covered 5 percent of what actually happened. But that's storytelling.

Like you, as I've grown older, I cherish those times when my old-school skills are still useful - whether in computing, physics, or electronics. And there's so many new goodies that I'm never bored.

Anyways - how often do you get a chance to show a slide rule to a thousand people? Cheers, -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

There's nothing like speaking to the choir. When you have the same common denominator, it makes storytelling easy.

The Defcon ham radio village was packed -- I picked up a lot of info on meshtastic. Last night set up a node in my attic.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

My kids don't take the advice of anyone who has Kleinbottles in their crawlspace, fdsa. And I doubt if removing those glass manifolds would have much effect. -C

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Your kindness reflects back to you, Chris: I thank you for brightening my morning. Now, if only I had a biscotti…. -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Does “short” modify “list” or “people” ?

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Smiles to you and your family, Moru — you’re now passing along the good word to the next generation. Heart be still…

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Those photos are for me as well, Chaser of Snow. Whenever I make a missteake, the pictures show what I did rongg.

And I celebrate every Klein Bottle order by walking around my backyard garden … puts me in the right mood.

Cheers, Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

My smiles back to you, Mich. From a long time ago, when the world was young, and continents hadn’t drifted apart.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Occasionally.

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

One of the goons put a phone showing a timer on stage, hoping it might help keep me on time. Alas its screensaver kicked in, and I figured that the dead screen was my fault.

Note to myself: Next talk, bring analog clock. Old darkroom timer.

Cheers, Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Same politics today, Rat of Pi. Bay Area bubble. Cheers, -C

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

And my thanks to you, Peaceful Lulz. I had fun writing that book, and occasionally do a talks. Couldn’t resist a 40th anniversary spoutathon at defcon! -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Thanx, Evan - from my nonNewtonian frame of reference, life is happening at 1x, but time dilation is difficult to measure. I’ll try living at 0.5x someday. -Cliff

CliffStollon Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Quite welcome, Red Beard. I had fun doing that spoutathon. Meeting old friends at DefCon. Way fun.

CliffStollon Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Aah - thank you. Maybe I'll check it out. When I have free time. Uh right... Cheers, -Cliff

CliffStollon Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Once upon a time, MoneGator, things posted to the internet were assumed to be true unless proven otherwise. Oh, how things have inverted!

CliffStollon Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Thank you Miraclemaker. By luck and coincidence, I've had a lot of fun fooling with the early networks, astronomy, radio, teaching, and topology.

Now, as I hear that distant bell tolling, it's time to pass the torch: it's your turn to take over and make this world a better place. You can't do much worse than my generation...

Warm wishes, -Cliff

CliffStollon Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

  Yikes - Yep, I remember your visit -- what a hoot to see that photo.  

  And yep, I'm working on a new quilt: it'll be a recursive design.

CliffStollon Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Thanks! I've submitted a paper to Black Hat / DefCon; I don't know if it'll be accepted. If so, I'll have fun doing a talk there.

I'm volunteering around the Bay Area (up at the Steam Trains at Tilden Park on Sunday afternoons), show up to the intro-classes at Berkeley Folk Dancing, and speak to schools and professional groups.

And, of course, I'm still operating this Klein bottle business. I have only one employee (who is a lazy, good for nothing sloth). Management is very thin and incompetent: there's only one boss (who is an oppressive taskmaster always trying to get me to do more work than I want to).