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If all goes according to plan, columbia, this nations first space shuttle will fly like a skylark next march. >> will be a technological marvel like that of the moon. >> a space shuttle. new systems, new technology. fly by wire system which is you dont have pulleys and cables, all done by electronics, all by commands coming through a computer. >> built as the worlds first reusable spaceship, carrying satellites and scientists. >> the most important thing was the digital revolution of faster, mor...

Well write you an operate ing system for your pc, and well get a cut of every machine you sell, and in addition, he made sure it wasnt an exclusive license, that he was going to be able to sell the software to ibm, but he was also going to be able to sell the same software to other people, because gates intuited that there would be people who would build knockoffs of ibm in the pc clones. >> it was a genius move who was still in his 20s. and youve got these guys at ibm in blue shirts and dark ti...

The voice recognition to the fbi because they have voice recognition soft ware. technically if it theres somebody wantd and their voice is picked up, that information would be sent to that company. >> everythings recorded anyway. you saw mark zuckerberg has the new device you talk into it. the computers are on, phones are on. why not start them early? >> why is everybody surprised when youre plugged into the world wide web that somebodys seeing everything thats happening? >> next thing you know ...

Ware that could be built into every drone sold in america that would prevent unmanned aircraft from flying within two miles of any airport or higher than 500 feet or within striking distance of landmark buildings or monuments. >> there is an elegant solution, which is called geofencing. you can build into the software of a drone at nominal cost, a program that doesnt let them fly in certain places. within two miles of an airport. above 500 feet. over the people irstate building or the messenger....

For the error because i wrote the code and missed the necessary validation by the oversight. this mistake slipped through the review process and made its way into the release version. the expert i spoke with said this is actually a pretty easy mistake to make. >> unfortunately the soft ware developers have the hard job. they can write mentales of lines of code and it only takes one hacker to fight a hole. >> heartbleed has been out for two years and its unclear if any information has actually be...

Thats when you launch it to everyone else. that part wasnt done properly. >> and the beta launch, is that you have launched tight a small sample of people to steep how that works? >> the yes, and you, and even itch you make it available for everyone, you said that expe expectati expectations, for early adopters, people who are willing to experience, if there are glitches, problems, they report the glitches so developers can fix it. >> it is very common when new soft ware comes out. new editions ...

A lot of databases involved. and you know when everything came together it just didnt work. there were a lot of functional problems in there. and, the government ran out of time to, to do proper integration testing before site was launched. we see a lot of errors when people try to sign up, a lot of errors, when looking at eligible for subsidies. number one. number two what went wrong, the stress testing wasnt done properly. there was ape lot o lot of stat design flaws, software, glitches, in th...

Big deal. >> everybody agrees that privacy rights are important and that this is a good debate to be had. >> but if a soft ware mistake scoops up the phone records of 3,000 people in washington, d.c. >> and if nothing happens from that. >> thats something to be concerned about. >> what evidence is there of any abuse? >> john, 1 purex% as far as we know, 100% of the mistakes were inadvertent. these are the mistakes, correct as many as possible. its not the government intentionally out there recor...

>> congressman king said no big deal. >> everybody agrees that privacy rights are important and that this is a good debate to be had. >> but if a soft ware mistake scoops up the phone records of 3,000 people in washington, d.c. >> and if nothing happens from that. >> thats something to be concerned about. >> what evidence is there of any abuse? john, 1 purex% as far as we know, 100% of the mistakes were inadvertent. these are the mistakes, correct as many as possible. its not the government inte...

also, james wolfensohn has many claims to fame. yes, he ran the world bank but he hired paul volcker when he started his own investment firm. ill talk to him about the global economy and more. later, an inside look at the silicon valley facebook, paypal, facebook, zynga. reid hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of americas friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies, iran? playground politics are at large. ill explain. but first, heres my...