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!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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.
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.
Monday, May 13, 2013
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.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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!
"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!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Freedom Dept
Rand Paul is really ticking people off - he thinks America should be the land of the free!
From Reason.com
In fact, isn't Rand Paul a valuable litmus test? I'm not saying that disagreeing with any given politician proves one thing or another about a person, but if you look at the bipartisan list of people who have been screaming themselves purple about the junior senator from Kentucky–Bruni, John McCain, Lawrence O'Donnell, William Kristol, Garrett Epps, Michael Gerson, John Yoo–you quickly detect one important trait in common: They are all reliable apologists for the government exercise of power. While the particular power being championed may vary, and the tenor of the argument will change depending on which political party is exercising it this season, the truism remains that Rand Paul poses a direct challenge to people who get irritated when there's any obstruction between their goals and government's ability to pursue them.
For that and other reasons, Paul is not only the most interesting man in the Senate, but I think the most interesting player in American politics today.
From Reason.com
In fact, isn't Rand Paul a valuable litmus test? I'm not saying that disagreeing with any given politician proves one thing or another about a person, but if you look at the bipartisan list of people who have been screaming themselves purple about the junior senator from Kentucky–Bruni, John McCain, Lawrence O'Donnell, William Kristol, Garrett Epps, Michael Gerson, John Yoo–you quickly detect one important trait in common: They are all reliable apologists for the government exercise of power. While the particular power being championed may vary, and the tenor of the argument will change depending on which political party is exercising it this season, the truism remains that Rand Paul poses a direct challenge to people who get irritated when there's any obstruction between their goals and government's ability to pursue them.
For that and other reasons, Paul is not only the most interesting man in the Senate, but I think the most interesting player in American politics today.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Like I've Been Sayin' - you don't need a full OS in the cloud
From Slashdot 24-Mar-2013:
"Virtual servers in the future may stop using OSes entirely. As recently demonstrated OS-less platforms may change our understanding of how long does it take to bring a server up. A demo server gets created, booted up, configured, runs an application and shuts down in under 1 second. ... The demo uses a new Erlang runtime system capable of running directly on Xen hypervisor."
In a nutshell, what is Erlang?
Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. Erlang is available as open source from http://www.erlang.org.
Here is the demo screen for "Zerg", an example of an application the starts an instance of a server in the cloud, using Erlang on Xen, which sends a page and deletes itself, in .6 seconds. Compare that to 5 minutes for the same thing on Amazon EC2
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"Virtual servers in the future may stop using OSes entirely. As recently demonstrated OS-less platforms may change our understanding of how long does it take to bring a server up. A demo server gets created, booted up, configured, runs an application and shuts down in under 1 second. ... The demo uses a new Erlang runtime system capable of running directly on Xen hypervisor."
In a nutshell, what is Erlang?
Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. Erlang is available as open source from http://www.erlang.org.
Here is the demo screen for "Zerg", an example of an application the starts an instance of a server in the cloud, using Erlang on Xen, which sends a page and deletes itself, in .6 seconds. Compare that to 5 minutes for the same thing on Amazon EC2
P
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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