This bad boy can shoot a target moving 30 miles per hour at 1,800 yards distance. That's just a little over one mile (or 1.6 kilometers). TrackingPoint firearms can already streaming videos directly over local Wi-Fi or record and uploading the action after the fact to YouTube or Facebook and will soon will gain the ability to live-stream the scope’s picture to remote users using TrackingPoint’s smartphone app. It's going to cost $40,000 and they expect to sell out.
FreeBSD will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and…
Following NSA leaks from Snowden, engineers lose faith in hardware randomness.: “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
Following NSA leaks from Snowden, engineers lose faith in hardware randomness.
How to Make a Trackable QR Code for Your Business Card (and other marketing collateral)
One of my clients asked me how to make a QR code for their offline collateral – including business cards, brochures, flyers and posters – that customers can use to go to my client’s website via their smart phones.
Here’s how you can set this up in less than 30 minutes (and for free). This assume you have Google Analytics installed for tracking purposes. Ready?
Run Android apps on any platform
Two companies are hoping to unleash the power of Android apps, allowing you to run them on any platform. The companies intend to provide a host environment for the Android apps to run pretty much anywhere you want. Both companies products work a lot like Wine on Linux, which allows Windows programs to run inside Linux without installing Windows or using a virtual machine. [Read more…]
How to get Spaces and Expose on Windows
I’ve been a heavy Windows user my entire life. Sure, I’ve played with Linux but since as a profession I develop with Microsoft technologies I’ve always been tethered to the Windows world. I’ve been fortunate that something that was a hobby turned into something I could get paid to do. However, having your hobby as a job takes the hobby out of it!