So I know him from high school. We had a teacher who taught english by assigning a vast number of essays. George was not the most motivated of students, and decided that there was no way the teacher was reading all the essays. So he took a first page of English, put spanish homework in the middle, and put a last page of English on the back. It got an F.

(Why is he geohot? Because it was first three of first name, first three of lastname for usernames at my school)

Eh... I'll take the good with the bad. I have massive respect for the guy.

Funny I tend to think is way overrated and people are conflating works of many under his name (for instance he didn't crack the ps3).

ps: first time I see him speak longer, he's pretty energetic and inspiring I have to admit.

pps: the second part I see he's still in his battle-mindset again fakely valued tech companies.

True, but it's not like he is a total fraud, for the PS3 he was the one behind the memory glitching bug, which was an important step forward.

Fair enough. To be honest my issue comes from the self made man self driven car - david vs goliath thing he conveys often. I understand the fact that businesses have suboptimal structures and negative incentives in terms of engineering and technical prowess. And we all want real and beautiful innovation to happen as quick as possible. But his mashup of computer vision hooked into the electronic steering control was way less impressive to me than to the iphone/ps3 era crowd. Especially considering the social aspect of a ton of steel moving in public.

He gave a 15 minute speech on reverse engineering, then spoke for 4 minutes about self-driving cars...

In such a short time, what were you expecting him to achieve? (re: "social aspect of a ton of steel moving in public")

Not talking about this talk in particular, but the other interviews and his overall message.

Try this one: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg

Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_...

... then ran away after barking like that.