The ODP writes In an agreement that all parties seem ready to make a truce, the San Jose Mercury News reports that Amazon.com offers to drive down its referendum to repeal a sales tax line in exchange for a moratorium a year on tax collection. Under the deal, Amazon would agree to begin collecting the tax from residents of California in September 2012, unless Congress takes action on sales taxes on Internet by then.

The development comes a day after an editorial in the New York Times ripped on Amazon’s sales tax Dodge.

You’ve heard of pianists, flutists and organists, but have you heard of Thereminists? The title originally applied to players of another instrument hands-free in the 1920s was redirected to those who can manipulate sound hidden in a 3D space called a browser environment audio-haptic (Ahne). By twisting a Kinect sensor and using the framework and Open OSCeleton, researchers at the Research Group at the Media Lab SOPI Helsinki were able to create a Ahne concept show called tension. Equipping volunteer charged with sensor gloves with a vibration motor for small haptic feedback, they were able to create the music – add a pinch of Pitbull, and looking ahead to the world wide anthem sweet. Check out the video music full after the break.

Trevelyan writes In his speech Blackhat on the past and the future of SSL (YouTube video) Moxie Marlinspike says today’s problems SSL, and the story of how he came to be. He went then not only offer a solution, but it has implemented and Convergence :…. It allows you to disable all trusted CA in your browser and always safe to use HTTPS, it works even with self-signed certificates You still need to trust someone, but not always as the case of the system Notary, which you can ask anonymously for their views on the authenticity of a certificate. You can Notaries pool for a consensus , and add / remove them at any time.

Submitter CamServo first accepted in writing I took C + + classes in college and I played around with some scripting languages. We learned the basics of how to make C + + to work with small programs but when I see large open source projects, I never know where to even begin to try to understand how their code works. I was wondering if any of you have suggestions for some good open source projects looking to get an idea of ​​how the program works in the real world, so I can start giving back to the open source community. Where would you start?

from: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/droid-bionic-review/:

It has been said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, so it was with very willing and eager hands this week we received the Bionic Droid, the latest Motorola high-octane, the robot on the theme of assault in the subscribers of Verizon Wireless. The phone was first announced at CES in early 2011 and we got to see him in the flesh barely an hour later … but then the story took a turn for the tragic. Bionics was attacked , killed and reborn with all new internal.

Phoenix-like, the thing is now available for purchase on Verizon Wireless, $ 300 for a device intended plateau that packs both the LTE connectivity and a dual-core processor. Therefore, it is a first for Verizon and it also happens to be the thinnest handset LTE yet to cross the waves of the carrier. Oh, and it has the larger battery too. Was it worth it then? Maybe.

cylonlover wrote When he was released in 1972, the SX-70 Polaroid, with its foldable design reflex, reflex was the first instant. It was also the first camera to use Polaroid instant full time new film that contained all chemical layers necessary to expose, develop and fix the photo. Photojojo now offers limited edition Polaroid SX-70 cameras were all restored to the state of work, and part of the instant film is also available.

Wired ideonexus shears thus: The art gallery is currently exhibiting a 404 room Manuel Palou called ’5 million, a terabyte is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB external hard drive containing 5,000 worth. $ 000 illegally downloaded files. The hard disk is displayed on a pedestal in the gallery. ideonexus adds: There is a PDF file stored on the unit with links to torrents. I want this to be an exhibition every trial in which damages are claimed for giant copyright infringement.

from: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/microsoft-adds-acer-viewsonic-to-patent-licensing-list/:

You can go ahead and add Acer and ViewSonic to the long list of Microsoft’s patent licenses . This morning, Redmond announced a pair of new licensing agreements with both companies, a few months after striking similar agreements with Itronix and Velocity Micro . Details, however, are few and far between, with Microsoft, saying only that it will receive royalties from ViewSonic and the patents in question relate to both companies Android tablets and smartphones. Of course they do . The two press releases await you after the break.