Monthly Archives: July 2013

Why Google Play Services Are Now More Important Than Android

Posted on July 31, 2013 by ordo tacitus

What is clear is that, increasingly, Google is bringing new features to existing devices without users having to worry about what OS version they’re on. No more waiting six months or a year for a new dessert to roll through … Continue reading →

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Secret Key Generation through OFDM Multipath Channel

Posted on July 31, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Abstract—We analyze the fundamental limits of key generationand describe an implementation based on error correcting codes.We show that key extraction based on channel coefficientssignificantly outperforms key extraction based on received signalstrength indicators (RSSI). The development in this paper isbased on … Continue reading →

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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=pdf&doi=10.1.1.131.9449

Posted on July 31, 2013 by ordo tacitus

This is some interesting research and relevant to some of my research:  Secure wireless communications is a challenging problem due to the shared nature of the wireless medium. Most existing security protocols apply cryptographic techniques for bit scrambling at the application … Continue reading →

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iOS v. Android: The green robot wins on app downloads | VentureBeat

Posted on July 31, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Here’s a fun fact for mobile developers: As of the past three months, Android is the best place to angle for more app downloads. According to the App Annie Market Index, Q2 2013 metrics show that Android beats iOS by … Continue reading →

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Bird Boy – by Annie Szabla

Posted on July 30, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Bird Boy – by Annie Szabla

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The Nexus 7 Is Hiding Google’s Stroke Of Genius ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community

Posted on July 30, 2013 by ordo tacitus

The biggest downside to Apple devices? They’re anti-social: locked to one user and non-fungible. Google’s new Nexus tablet supports real user profiles, allowing them to act like user-agnostic terminals. There are plenty of very exciting things going on in Android … Continue reading →

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What Shane Said… | The world is broken, how about we fix it?!

Posted on July 30, 2013 by ordo tacitus

http://www.whatshanesaid.com/

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Freeman Dyson – Noah’s Ark Eggs and Warm-Blooded Plants – YouTube

Posted on July 29, 2013 by ordo tacitus

As always Dyson is just amazing. Freeman Dyson – Noah’s Ark Eggs and Warm-Blooded Plants – YouTube.  

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Overcoming Bias : Beware Star Academia

Posted on July 29, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Also, I have seen people take arguments that others have made and express them with a bit more elegance and status, sometimes using more difficult methods, and get famous for originating such arguments, even when they mostly repeated what others … Continue reading →

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The Government Episode 1 – YouTube

Posted on July 29, 2013 by ordo tacitus

For parody this seems a little to realistic 🙂 The Government Episode 1 – YouTube.  

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