World: r3wp

If only we could build software like this

Never mind the noise of construction at four o'clock in the morning.

lego

Not sure if it's new, but I stumbled onto the Chrome Web Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

It was opened yesterday

I've been preparing to publish Try REBOL in it

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/4436338/Google-unwraps-Chrome-PCs-too-late-for-holidays

the Chrome store was opened to service the now late Chrome OS PCs

For techno-freaks to check-out :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/24115/Verve_A_Type_Safe_Operating_System

I'm half-way through the video interview. They use really interesting 
techniques. I want to look at that source, barring license restrictions.

The news was posted here for you, because I knew that you would be 
the one wanting to see it :-)

Yeah, I caught it yesterday :)

The video interview is 74 mins though, and I haven't had 74 uninterrupted 
mins of a working brain since I started the video.

if you're running Windows, you could use something like MySpeed from 
Enounce - it can let you play back videos at faster than real-time. 
I find that for most content 2x is still very understandable.

Actually, the VLC player (free) lets you do that, but you have to 
provide it the link to the stream, whereas with MySpeed, embedded 
videos play at a speed controlled by a little tool tray UI

This cyber war of wikileaks vs the world is interesting ... maybe 
someone will finally fix the internet to prevent these DOS attacks.

And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!

Same reason why a democracy elected Hitler, I guess

I don't think you can ever get rid of DoS attacks.

at best, servers can probably be made to tackle DoS attacks better, 
but I don't think we'll be rid of them either.

Routers run by ISPs could be made smarter

And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!


Has former Soviet become a better democracy than the 'western' world? 
If so, it only took them 20 years.

Smarter probably means using more resources, which opens up more 
vectors for attack, not to mention the extra complexity requiring 
smarter humans to administer.

Scary if true - http://www.osnews.com/story/24136/_FBI_Added_Secret_Backdoors_to_OpenBSD_IPSEC_

I wonder if it would not have been seen during code reviews.

The code will be surely reviewed, but some ppl are speculating about 
so called GCC hacks, so that your code might be clean, but it is 
the compiler, which does some changes ...

It could also just be "Tricky logic" that would not seem out of place 
when reviewed.

the problem is also a simple buffer overflow at the right position 
could be what? unintentionally or not?

and btw the backdoor is found!

it's here:


http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9687/openbsdbackdoorlocated.jpg

That was a very funny pun on Blowfish :)

:)

OnLive seems to be available now in the app store. Seems to work 
quite well if you can believe this video. I had forgotten about this 
tech - it's got significant implications to the platform fragmentation 
issue. See around the 8 min mark where they're running Maya on an 
iPad.


http://video.allthingsd.com/video/dive-tech-onlive-now-more-than-just-a-game/2D385273-C40C-41D7-B01D-39A6E3B50F9F/

I only have barely enough bandwidth to run Onlive on my macbook, 
but for some of my friends, it seems to work well.

I find it hard to believe that the lag can be acceptable for gaming. 
You can't avoid the network delays.

I'm not sure how much lag there is.

When I used citrix, which is basicaly the same, it was very painfull.

onlive does look much better implemented though.

wrt the maya trick... its obviously a bit misleading since its  noted 
that they are using networked processing within autodesk which actually 
has nothing to do with onlive  :-)

I just played a bunch of trial games. Not bad at all.

FPS, racing - totally playable

this was using the Windows client

it's amazing that the graphics quality is determined by the hardware 
on the remote end - and it seems to be top notch

You'd get a similar effect if you were to pipe R3 Draw definitions 
over the network

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/genspace-diy-science-laboratory/


The FBI now uses pictures of our space to show people what a [methamphetamine] 
drug lab doesn't look like,

 Grushkin said. One of the FBI contacts even showed up at the grand 
 opening last week to congratulate Grushkin.

LOL

that community lab is a really cool idea.

Just tried to run OnLive: "We are sorry, this application requires 
gfx card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0...."

LOL I thought they made it 'cloud powered' so it can run on low-end 
HW. So it's just kind of marketing trick.

really? A friend of mine ran it on a low-end notebook.

notebook = netbook.

Pixel Shaders 2.0 doesn't  sound to me as low-end feature. IIRC it 
was introduced roughly when netbooks came on market  which is not 
too long. So maybe they took it as 'low end' to show that if it runs 
on visually 'small PC' it uses low-end HW. I have different meaning 
of 'low end' though.

Sigh, netbooks are like supercomputers when running Syllable on them