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YAY: “Android X server « my20percent” # X-Windows On Android. Phones are becoming Workstations are becoming Servers.
Voici Android X server « my20percent: For the past few months I’ve been implementing an X11 server to run natively under Android. In the near future I may have need for a serializable user interface, so to get a better understanding of how they work I decided to implement the de facto standard, X11. Well,
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Doodles Lead to New Jersey Student’s Arrest # Science, Art, Learning = The New Witchcraft /ht @marshray
When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy doodled in his notebook on Tuesday, December 18, he probably didn’t expect to be arrested by the end of the day. However, when school officials saw the sketches, which they state appeared to be of weapons, and the boy “demonstrated behavior that caused them to be concerned,” the police
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Eventually a tech reporter notices the fracas and chimes in to tell us the whole Infosec community is a bunch of jerks
In a nutshell, this keeps happening: Silent Circle’s an interesting case, since it’s gotten some gentle criticism lately from a variety of folks — well, mostly Nadim Kobeissi — for being partially closed-source and for having received no real security audits. Nadim’s typical, understated critique goes like this: Silent Circle is morally bankrupt for promoting
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Cool way to put out a boat fire – FIRE FIGHTING WIN! – YouTube
via Watch This Guy Put Out a Boat Fire with Sheer Awesomeness
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The effect of nuclear explosions on commercially packaged beverages
PDF When a nuclear apocalypse comes calling, the first thing most of us will yearn for is a drink. And thanks to our government’s foresight and willingness to bomb stuff, you can rest assured that the surviving cans of PBR and Bud Light found in your now flattened local 7-Eleven will be safe to chug.
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Unfriendly skies for many a traveling musician # Hacking the TSA processes for the sake of your Cello
Neat trick: to obtain common sense, check into your flight when there are not enough security staff around to permit them to confer and thereby reduce their collective IQ: “I would choose to travel with the fool-proof cello, the one whose endpin was not removable. Or, if planning to play a different one, I would
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NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft # Curious, I would put the blame for crime upon the criminals
Major crime is on the rise in New York City, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the increase is due entirely to thefts of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, which he says are inordinately attractive to thieves. As reported by The New York Times, Bloomberg raised the issue during Friday’s edition of his weekly morning broadcast
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“If your state is into guilt-by-association you might want to cite a few jerks in your phonebook” /ht @ioerror
Starts at the 09:45s mark; you’ll have to fast forward to that point to get to the start… Worth the watch – tl;dr version: You can have an effect. Maybe you should try?
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IP and Censorship | The Occupied Times /ht @jimkillock @openrightsgroup
The term Intellectual Property was deliberately chosen and promoted by lobbyists to portray trademarks, copyrights and patents as a kind of inalienable property: to make people feel that the control over ideas and expressions created by these laws is both natural and absolute. The term is now written into international law, a tribute to the power