Kinect driver

   

        Bounty offered for open-source Kinect driver The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft  new Kinect motion controller could win a $3,000 bounty offered by a leading open-source hardware developer  from Adafruit Industries. What does kinect is?  Kinect is a gestural interface for Microsoft's X-Box 360. It enables users to play games through gestures, spoken commands or by presenting objects or images. So far, it's only available for X-Box.

Hardware hacker Hector Marcan released his open source Kinect drivers  already, winning the $3,000 bounty from Adafruit Industries. Ada Fruit, a New York based company that sells DIY electronics kits, issued the bounty for open source Kinect.  Marcan's drivers have been tested by other hackers. He says he plans to use the $3,000 to purchase additional tools and devices for Team Twiizers, the hardware hacking group he's a member of.

Access to Kinect from the desktop opens up some intriguing opportunities. Marshall explored some of ideas about using it to control the Internet of Things and, of course, advertising and interactive retail. This become the kinect device more useful in a wide range of applications and not only for exclusive use of Microsoft

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net neutrality

       first off i am going to mention a part of the FCC broadband policy statement that said:

In 2005, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its Broadband Policy Statement (also known as the Internet Policy Statement), which lists four principles of open Internet,^[13] "To encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet, consumers are entitled to:"

• access the lawful Internet content of their choice.
• run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement.
• connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network.
• competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.

          I just read about net neutrality and what the biggest telephones and Cables Corporations want to do with. They want to get rid of what we do, see and how internet users surf in the web , deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and what users can download or what not. Even they are planning to tax some content from provides to guarantee the data speed from them. And they want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services and streaming video -- while slowing down or blocking services offered by their competitors. I read that “The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk. “  This is unacceptable and I believe it is a threat to the freedom and those big corporations are insatiable monsters that their goal is sucks our money no matter what or how. Internet is part of our life in home, school, university, work, social life and so on, and it has to keep on free. It is a concern for all internet consumers around the world and we need to be united in this cause. I found surfing in the web the next document which stands for why consumers demand internet freedom

http://www.freepress.net/files/nn_fact_v_fiction_final.pdf

jobs in linux field

Some of the positions I’d be greatly interested in working in are the Field Support Engineer - Linux, IP Systems, Linux System administrator, Embedded Linux Developer, Linux Tech Support and Linux Programmer.  The Field support Engineer-Linux, IP Systems at CyberCoders Engineering offers a salary up to 90K a year.  The 2^nd job that caught my eye was Linux System Administrator, which makes approximately 86K a year. Embedded Linux Developer makes approximately 92K a year. Companies like Pantek pays $132 an hour for their Linux Tech support personnel. And last but not least a Linux Programmer makes approximately 86k in Dayton, NJ. The salary varies from company to company and the jobs performed. Also, education and experience has a great impact on the chances on getting the job, and the salary you make.