Secure calls on Android

I have not tested this, use at your own risk

Tor and CSipSimple on Android.  What could possibly go wrong?

https://guardianproject.info/howto/callsecurely/

http://guardianproject.info/

FPGA development kit

 I LOVE living in the future!

 http://www.adafruit.com/products/451 99.95

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE22F17C6N)

• 22,320 Logic elements (LEs)
• 594 Embedded memory (Kbits)
• 66 Embedded 18 x 18 multipliers
• 4 General-purpose PLLs
• 153 Maximum FPGA I/O pins

 That's PLL's, not DSP's

Interesting Trivia about Emacs

From the splash screen:

DESCRIPTION
       GNU  Emacs is a version of Emacs, written by the author of the original
       (PDP-10) Emacs, Richard Stallman.  The user functionality of GNU  Emacs
       encompasses  everything  other  editors do, and it is easily extensible
       since its editing commands are written in Lisp.

Hint for people at airports: Use that cell phone boarding pass

Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing was at Newark Airport on Monday May 27, and found that the TSA screeners wouldn't give the extra "Dreaded 4S security screening" if you put your boarding pass on your cell phone

How cool is that!

Finally, Augmented Reality from someone who knows what they're doing...

Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez sold about a zillion copies, and he describes what Augmented Reality should be.  The glasses should be stylish, continuously network-connected, and have enough understanding of the environment to allow synthetic artifacts, identity recognition ( including floating labels) and full 2 way voice and video communication.

Pretty sure Meta is the first product (well, kickstarter ) to understand this.

It's different than Oculus Rift in that Meta has clear lenses to add to the real environment (AR) vs Oculus Rift which is Virtual Reality (VR).

Let's see what happens.

Umm, wait what!? Your Apple phone, and Android, not safe.

From Cory at Boing Boing:

Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for Android devices

 If you have something to hide, make sure it's not in your phone, or have a quick wipe app handy.  The good news is that there's quite a backlog, so you have to be important, but that can't last.

  

Awesome! Aereo is allowed to operate and serve free TV, networks are giving up the business!

Since Aereo is allowed by the courts to operate (NYTimes story) - 1 antenna = 1 customer is, by definition, not rebroadcasting, but antenna rental, The Verge reports that the TV networks are apoplectic!

"What!? " they say, "We're not going to be able to double charge, getting fees both from commercials and cable companies?"." It's un-American".  Fox even says that they'll move to a subscription model for their TV.

Buh Bye!