Continuum

Nowadays all the big software giants are trying to create a sense of continuously available service picking up from where you left off, on whichever device you are on. This is a really nice feature which only those companies can implement, where they have that wide range of devices that are everywhere.

I see only two companies who can truly pull it off. One is Apple, which has gained so much penetration into the household that it's not surprising you find houses sticking to only Apple for all the devices required, like phone, pad, TV, iPod, desktop, laptop, homekit.

Although I think Windows can really make a dent in that field, like sort of like an underdog. Windows is widely used, and recently with the release of Windows 10 moulded the OS into something which without changing much works in all types of devices.

Windows has the surface table, which is awesome. I always dreamed of making a media server for the living room. Phones are really good, except for a lack of apps. Great tablets, like the surface pro. If they can pull off a continuum feature between all the devices, along with a homekit style device to control other parts of the house, it would be awesome. They also need to provide auxiliary services like media server, epg, storage, over the wifi sharing privately without uploading or downloading from Microsoft servers, internet storage for sharing documents or media if need be and other things.

They need to make it effortless to make this move to such a connected life. Apple has really nailed this part of the equation, that's one of the main reason people mindlessly but Apple's overpriced products, because people want to benefit from it without much friction within the first few moments. Windows has a lot to learn from that.

I bet that once Windows overcomes all those barriers, makes upgrades cheap or even free, release a few products like TVs and other household items like the Surface Pro hybrid laptop and gives the option to minutely manage privacy to the liking of the privacy minded user, they can easily out smart the Fruit.

Ultimate VPN

Few days back I had this thought, which was kind of based on technology I read about like Bit Torrent Live. Bit Torrent Live was a new protocol or client which allows the streaming of video feed, by allowing all the participants to re-broadcast what they received to other viewers who want to view that video.

The beauty of that is that the load of serving all those users individually by that same user decreases drastically as the first few users that load the stream send the data to the other new participants. So at one point the load on the first/primary broadcaster gets steady and the other receivers bear the remainder load by broadcasting.

Now what if, the browser, kept track of what users were online and then re-route the data sent or received to/from websites through the others using that browser? Thus accessing data blocked in one region through another user in an open region?

Its like the standard VPN, only the users are the servers!  :D

Jackpot!

Privacy, a Fallacy

Not many people pay attention to the privacy that we are giving up for the services that we are using which are actually really useful tools and helps us greatly in performing our work efficiently in our daily lives.

Now authorities say that they need access to the data to stop threats before they take place, but are there really much threats than scary things the government does behind our backs like the September 11 attacks, attack on Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction actually present? Just go to YouTube and search for conspiracies or details of those events, and you'll find damning evidence on the contrary of what the media in general shows us.

I don't watch news from these big media news houses nowadays because they show views of politicians and businesses who pay or coerce them into broadcasting favourable news.

Now back to the point , if you are in a country where all the services are available but they are all monitored and you need to organize a peaceful protest in multiple places and need to organize something through online means to protest against them then don't you wish you had the option to be able to communicate securely without being watched?

Funny thing is the US gov isn't just spying on terrorist elements they are even spying on foreign commercial enterprises!?!  What's the need for that? 

We need to slowly but surely move over our data and services used, to services that can assure that they can't in any way access our stuff, even if its at rest in their servers. All biggies say that all transmission is secure, even between their servers, but what about when the data is in their server?  They would say it's possible but really hard. No, why do you want to access it!

Only problem is that all those services cost money and they need to monetize it by serving up ads that are relevant. The only way that they'll know what's relevant is by going through our e-mails and documents to find out what words are frequent and accordingly use it to decide what ads to show.

I came across a service where one needs to install a client in their system and if possible allocate some space to it which would be used by the client to store some data of its own, and then in return it'll provide you with some space in its distributed cloud, half of what you provided to the client plus its standard offering.

In this service, the space provided by the users of the service is used to store the data of those users by splitting the data you want to store in the cloud into many small pieces, add error correcting code, encrypt it and then send it to 96 different locations. This is a really redundant way of storing data in a secure way.

It does require you to have an unlimited usage plan with a good enough connection bandwidth.