I am starting to test out AIDE, the Android Dev environment you can run right on your Android Devices. It took Apples insanely ungreat gatekeeper clenched cheeks to make folks realise how nice it is to have a platform that allows you to do what you want how you want to do it….not how some CEO decides you should. I have been playing around with App Inventor for a bit and while I love using it there are definite ceilings you hit if you want to go down in the API. One of the projects I have been wanting to do up for a while mucks with SSIDs and other networking bits, so I grabbed some code example to see how easy it would be to open examples, test them, alter them, and then start using what I learn for my own needs. The first run at this was spot on…. everything complied, installed and ran zoom zip. I edited things to make an error appear…hey we got errors. Once fixed and altered I ran the moded code and once again it all just worked. No gatekeeper telling me I could not run my own apps on my own devices, just a clear open path from idea to app. Thanks AIDE and Android.
Americas War On…er…For Drugs. "At a cost of nearly $2 billion for two years’ worth of building the Afghan Air Force, the U.S. inadvertently purchased a more convenient mechanism for trafficking opium and weapons than Afghanistan’s drug lords were previously using. But it actually gets worse than that. The aerial trade in guns and drugs through the Afghan Air Force appears to be financing the rearmament of private militias hedging against the country’s implosion after the U.S. leaves."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/afghan-air-force-drugs/
They’re not just illiterates who occasionally kill their American mentors. Afghanistan’s military also ferries drugs across the country in i…
The waiting is the hardest part..everyday they make some more cards…you take on faith…you take it to heart…but the waiting is the hardest part.
element14, the first collaborative community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, powered by Premier Farnell [LSE:PFL], is giving Raspberry Pi fans around the world a chance to win one of three of these hotly desired gadgets.
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Paying a bounty to find the flaws in your product seems to be mostly working for Google. Rather that then Blamer yelling that everything is OK or AppleFanbois spinning the flaw into a feature.
Team Vupen’s five members demonstrated a valuable zero-day exploit against the Chrome browser during the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver. The team included (left to right) Vupen Security co-founder Chaouki Bekrar and four colleagues who wanted to be identified only by their first names, Matthieu, Alexandre, Jordan and Nicolas. (Photo: Kim Zetter/Wired.com)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A $1 million purse that Google has offered to hackers wh…
The new interface for your new iPad. So your head doesn’t blow up. Written/Directed by Andy Cobb htt