Deep Blue, Privacy and Patents

Interesting. Battle the patent trolls with AI forerunners.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108281-ibm-watson-to-battle-patent-trolls

I liked this story for this one quote, if nothing else :-).
"But we’ve still ended up with a mishmash of patterns from Django, Rails, and enterprise Java, all held together by melted licorice jellybeans."
http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/13908062333/php-is-not-an-acceptable-cobol

I know, we're not a police state. But this is my disconcerting ear is hearing when discussing privacy and the amount of data out there about me.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222540/Huawei_restricts_business_in_Iran_no_longer_seeks_new_customers

Yea, not sure now. Trevor Eckhart's video showed recording of keystroke data. Granted it was key xx log and wasn't "a", "b", "c". But this is a security guy so I'm inclined to listen. So......?
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/carrier-iq-not-so-invasive-after-all-180959

Just some cool random techie stuff......

Very nice. A computer finds cancer.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/104407-computer-more-accurate-than-human-doctor-at-breast-cancer-diagnosis

Create an app and then translate it to js and css. Pretty cool sounding….
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/set-up-an-environment-for-android-eclipse-and-phonegap/207

But then....

Cross compatibility compared to native-running app. Interesting data point.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/app-builder/phonegap-plugin-vs-a-native-solution-in-android/653

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And a few DIY kind of stuff.....

Now this sounds slick. Credit card-sized mother board. A hobbyist’s toy but some nice potential otherwise, too!
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221330/New_89_open_source_motherboard_runs_full_Linux_OS

If you are into open-source projects (I’m not skilled quite enough), here are some cool sources for you…..
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/60-new-open-source-apps-youve-probably-never-heard-of-2.html

Are you brave, build your own java virtual machine language (jvm).
http://blog.efftinge.de/2011/11/build-your-own-jvm-language.html