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I like this image, don't you? The scary glow and all... ;-)
So, people are working on contact lenses display and vision enhancer!

Will we be able to shrink Mr Mann's vision of the eyetap so it can fit directly in the eyes?

We sure will...

Will it be available to the public at a reasonable price in the near futur?

Never! I'm willing to bet that we won't see this kind of technology for at _least_ 15 years in the public stores.

Why empower people when you can keep this to yourself ?

Yeah i know, a bit cynical this morning, but as long as we don't see value and make it a priority to empower people with technologie in good ways we're doomed to be trapped in an ever increasing cycle of product release that enslave us bit by bit...

Enough rambling, i had to post something, the year is a bit slow, oh and happy new year!

And, uhm... Mars / April being a travel month to asia, we'll keep the slow release cycle for a while. After all, why not keep the good news to ourself like the "companies" for our own little short term profit?

Just kidding... ;)

Take a look at this very well made video of how stuff is made, abused, consumed, trashed and polluting. Should be watched and seen by everyone before you go running for the store buying cheap crap from china this Christmas.

Instead of giving crap to people, why not give them your time?
This will also give time to someone else on earth in the long run.
Taking your time creates time... incredible eh? :-)

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After looking around at some solar solution, i found this interesting video that includes parts i was already considering (Tekkeon MP3450 / Sunlinq 25) with some explaination of how they can be used together.

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But later on his blog, he seems to point out that the solar panel could actually manage to charge the Li-Ion battery directly for 4-5h a day in the summer.

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I guess that using a 25-30W solar panel would make this practical... Anyone has a good source of them for cheap?

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After some "lobbying" ;) efforts on the OLSR mailing list, it seems that an almost complete version of the PAA server/plugin for OLSR will be released shortly: Server is coming soon and the plug-in will follow!

I'm gonna try and package the whole thing for the Maemo Platform for which i got a dev rebate for the N810 (disclaimer ;). If i can make this work seemlessly for users i hope to be able to port this to the OLPC, OpenMoko, DS, Eee, etc... and general linux on laptops of course.

Roar's Announcement on the OLSR's mailing-list follows after the break! :-)

I wonder if anything is being done about opportunistic encryption being activated as a special tunnel mode between 2 hosts using sshd on both sides. It wouldn't give any special account access or command execution, just a tunnel working outside-to-outside of the machines involved.

With the number of people running sshd these days, this could be fun! And you can even tunnel at Layer 2 which could be useful for some protocol and it could be ignored for some ports so to have good latency for applications that don't need this. Of course this might be too costly for large scale servers but in another way, it could create fun p2p networks like anonet has been doing for a while, with routing, etc...

Getting Opportunistic Encryption was the best idea the *S/Wan project had and i truly believe it was a great way to slowly but surely encrypting everything without breaking old protocols. Just like OTR did bring encryption to the IMs masses, SSH might do it for the rest of the protocols before we can get this lower in the stack...

So let's start with a white list of ports first, let's say, telnet and ftp (yeah i know, sounds stupid to tunnel telnet over ssh, but you get the point ;-)

What do you think?

Here is a little guide for your relatives that can help them beat censorship on the internet.

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Robotic insects have been spotted in the wild... who is using them?

for what?

unsolved mysteries?

Some comments after the jump! (image)

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Here is an interesting article on the subject of the municipal Wi-Fi, why it failed, what the big corps are proposing and why we loose...

Hey it's free... so if you enjoy a good community lo-fi sci-fi show, take a peak tonight at 20h00 at the park with no name in Mile-End (Clark/Arcade).

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Media Defender had their internal email completely exposed for over a year..

This is way too funny and deserves to be spreaded very joyfully...

Enjoy! :D

EDIT: Ok, this is priceless! They now try to cease and desist sites. Let me get this straight: A company, specializing in stoping the spread of it's client files, can't stop it's own files from spreading... Bwahaha :D

EDIT 2: The web site of the good guys ;-)

EDIT 3: And the show must go on!. Have fun spreading the joy!

EDIT 4: The Pirate Bay is now suing the big media as they used illegal tactics (paying crackers, etc) to break their servers! hahaha

"Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from “the cyberspace”."

See the video here ! :)

A very interesting account about the Urban Exploration of the Undergrounds.

Happening mostly in Toronto and then a bit about Montreal and Vancouver... you'll learn many things about cities that you didn't know yet, i hope :-)

Worth a read!

Some news from ArsTechnica catched my attention this morning:
This first one about Net Neutrality debate in the UK over the BBC's new streaming service. It's incredebly stupid to try and charge both ways when you can just sell the bandwidth at the rate you want. I hope ISPs will fail in this and not start to try and control what you see at the link level and thus balkanising the internet even more.

The second news about a hostility detector in crowds for the US surveillance state where they hope to catch criminal before they are identified. I'm sure everyone has plenty of hostile intents every minutes but that doesn't make you a criminal to think about killing your neighbors for a sec because you couldn't sleep.

In any case, someone has flunked their statistic class. if you have a 10% failure rate on this thing (which i would doubt even possible) and you have 100k person a day going through security and 10 of them being evil doers, you'll catch 9 of them but you'll have 10k false positive to check... what's the point again?