Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/whatever-happened-to-the-computer-of-tomorrow-anyway-the-xerox-alto-story/
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Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257 Used for Qilin Ransomware
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Bitches Brew is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was recorded from August 19 to 21, 1969, at Columbia's Studio B in New York City and released on March 30, 1970, by Columbia Records. It marked Davis's continuing experimentation with electric instruments that he had featured on his previous record, the critically acclaimed In a Silent Way (1969). With these instruments, such as the electric piano and guitar, Davis departed from traditional jazz rhythms in favor of loose, rock-influenced arrangements based on improvisation. The final tracks were edited and pieced together by producer Teo Macero.
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@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social
The strongest objection to the #Alto project is its cost. Does this article address it? $60B to $90B could build many desirable things, like hospitals and schools. Even if we dedicated it to trains, maybe more LRTs and subways in Canadian cities would do more good than inter-urban rail.
I'm looking for arguments that address those objections head-on.
#HSR
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@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social #HSR provides greener, cleaner transport and rqilways do cost lots of money. Depenant upon pricing and convenience, rail tends to bring other social and economic benefits along the corridor.
#Alto does make sense as does something in Western Canada. Cross country will be a far harder sell. Most lines go through large population centres but Central Canada will unlikely be economic viable even with social benefits included.
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@EF@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Let's look at it differently: if it cost $10T, it would be crazy to spend so much money on Alto, right? And if it cost $1B, it would be crazy *not* to build it, right?
Then the question is, at what level is the cost so high that it's no longer a good use of our money?
I like HSR; I have a strong inclination to support #Alto. But I won't support it regardless of the price, and the arguments I've seen addressing the price have opposed the project. I want to see counter-arguments.
@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social
#Canada #Ontario #Quebec #ALTO #HighSpeedRail
Wow, that proposed ALTO High Speed Rail thing is going to use up so much of our farmland!
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