David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

A few weeks ago I was complaining about the audio quality of MP3s that I was listening to, when approached by Erik J. Heels (@ErikJHeels on Twitter) with a challenge that I couldn’t actually tell the difference between a well encoded MP3 and a CD. Since everyone in the audio world “knows” that the lossy [...]

Adam Savage
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The esteemed co-host of the popular TV show Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel and “a maker of things” will give a captivating talk on the nature of his particular obsessions.
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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and [...]

Steven Rambam
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Hopefully there will be no surprises this year. In 2006, privacy expert Steven Rambam’s two hour panel was disrupted by federal authorities who arrested him at the conference just prior to its commencement. In the end, he was completely vindicated and went on to finally give his talk several [...]

Kevin Mitnick
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The “world’s most dangerous hacker” and subject of our documentary Freedom Downtime (along with many other more sensationalist pieces over the decades) gives us an update on what’s been going on in his life since the last time he was here in 2004. (A severe case of food poisoning in Colombia forced him to [...]

Jello Biafra
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A regular speaker at HOPE since 2000, Jello provides a unique and charismatic look at what’s been going on in the world since the last time we all got together. Whether you’re a technologist or a technophobe, his words will almost certainly have an effect on your emotions one way or another.
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This is part [...]