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How Does It Work? When the power button is “pressed” on side of unit, and you look through the viewfinder, it activates six special bright-red LED strobe lights designed to bounce off the smallest of camera lenses. The tiny camera lens will appear to blink back at you as a reflection off camera lens itself , instantly giving away its location as you scan the area around you. It doesn’t matter if the camera is turned on or off, recording or not...even if its a non-working camera, the blinking effect will clearly show you the presence of a camera lens which is almost impossible to detect with the naked eye. Knowing where the camera is located will allow you to take immediate action to prevent unauthorized recording of activity. In addition, there are 3 LED intensity levels which helps hone in on camera lenses which could be hidden behind different surfaces. A flat wall 30 feet away could use the highest LED intensity, while a semi reflective shiny surface 5 feet away would use the lowest intensity. This prevents false reflections, maximizing the ability to find a hidden camera lens in any room environment.

This is hardly a new problem or something that people haven't been aware of for decades. The EA Spouse blog is almost 15 years old at this point and its the same story.

With the rise of Steam and in a broader sense digital distribution itself, there's no reason you can't make your own game. Minecraft became one of the biggest and most successful games of all times. More recently, Stardew Valley has sold millions of copies, and it too was made by an independent developer. You can even make big 3D games thanks to things like Kickstarter. Kingdom Come Deliverance raised money through crowdfunding and produced a title that's similar in scope to an Elder Scrolls games, so you're hardly limited to just 2D sprite graphics. I think Star Citizen raised more than any other Kickstarter project ever.

So if you think working for the man sucks, then quit and start your own company, make your own game, and be the one to reap the rewards of your own effort.

If there's a camera in some place that I'm renting, that'd be when duct tape is my friend. There's a Kickstarter project that detects hidden camera lenses, link below... How Does It Work? When the power button is “pressed” on side of unit, and you look through the viewfinder, it activates six special bright-red LED strobe lights designed to bounce off the smallest of camera lenses. The tiny camera lens will appear to blink back at you as a reflection off camera lens itself , instantly giving away its location as you scan the area around you. It doesn’t matter if the camera is turned on or off, recording or not...even if its a non-working camera, the blinking effect will clearly show you the presence of a camera lens which is almost impossible to detect with the naked eye. Knowing where the camera is located will allow you to take immediate action to prevent unauthorized recording of activity. In addition, there are 3 LED intensity levels which helps hone in on camera lenses which could be hidden behind different surfaces. A flat wall 30 feet away could use the highest LED intensity, while a semi reflective shiny surface 5 feet away would use the lowest intensity. This prevents false reflections, maximizing the ability to find a hidden camera lens in any room environment. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Holy crap, what has our world come to when you can buy something like that commercially?

There is hope, though it'll mean more crap to have to buy... From: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

How Does It Work?

When the power button is “pressed” on side of unit, and you look through the viewfinder, it activates six special bright-red LED strobe lights designed to bounce off the smallest of camera lenses. The tiny camera lens will appear to blink back at you as a reflection off camera lens itself , instantly giving away its location as you scan the area around you. It doesn’t matter if the camera is turned on or off, recording or not...even if its a non-working camera, the blinking effect will clearly show you the presence of a camera lens which is almost impossible to detect with the naked eye. Knowing where the camera is located will allow you to take immediate action to prevent unauthorized recording of activity. In addition, there are 3 LED intensity levels which helps hone in on camera lenses which could be hidden behind different surfaces. A flat wall 30 feet away could use the highest LED intensity, while a semi reflective shiny surface 5 feet away would use the lowest intensity. This prevents false reflections, maximizing the ability to find a hidden camera lens in any room environment.

They're a few years too late, someone else already did it.

There's already been a Kickstarter for such a device: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr.... I backed it and its been a few years but they seem like they're close to shipping the majority of devices.

MakerPhone is a popular Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

No they are not a problem, you buffoon.
You see, the beautiful part about science and technology is that truth tends to prevail. If people won't believe in your hypotheses and you manage to prove yourself right via experiments that can be replicated by others, they'll have to accept them whether they like it or not.
So get your lazy ass moving and stop wishing for your fantasy technology to happen. Do something to make it happen instead!

The problem in science are indeed people who know their physics from what they watched on Star Trek and other pulp science fiction. Believing that if you can imagine it, it is also possible.
The only reason we haven't got that technology today is lazy scientists and conspiracies that suppress that kind of technology or something like that.
Given that there's plenty of these special people around, it shouldn't be too hard to get those research projects crowd funded. After all they funded stuff https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... already.

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I'm sick and tired of phone review sites that seem to maintain an outsized influence on what people think is "trendy" and what people think is "boring" yet don't actually have a connection to whether the phone is a better tool or not.

Aesthetics and screen size trump all else. Design elements for the sake of novelty (OMG A CURVED SCREEN!) are valued over basic functionality. (It's easy to find reviews that complain at length about 'dull design' because omg simple and functional is so last year.) Getting rid of the 3.5" jack really was courage, because [cool-aid reason here]. Higher numbers are always better whether they have any impact on the user experience or not. Must have 4K! (even though phone users would be hard-pressed to tell the difference from e.g. 1440p in double-blind testing.) Must have 8GB RAM because it's what the trendy flagships are doing! (even though no benchmark has ever shown any real performance advantage in realistic contemporary use.) and so on and so on. And they seem to manage to dictate to users what to buy and dictate to manufacturers what to make.

For people who actually want to use their phone as a tool rather than as an all-consuming 24/7 Netflix and Instagram stream, it's a travesty that Android has had so little in the way of decent small phones. This is especially true for people who spend considerable time doing physical activity outdoors rather than sitting at a desk writing fawning reviews of $1200 toys.

The Xperia Compact has been the only line with good performance and cameras, but it's gotten steadily more expensive and less compact. Plenty of people were interested in the Unihertz Jelly and Atom because they offered a smaller form factor, even despite the phones' clear limitations. I would be likely to buy the Atom myself if it had a quarter-HD (960x540) screen; that's 450 dpi, which is not unreasonable, while the 432x240 screen is just too low-res for many kinds of uses.

"Palm" has ticked a lot of the right boxes with this- genuinely small, high screen area to total area ratio, HD res (1280x720), IP68 and decent impact protection. But the price point is a real problem, and it's too bad it's tied to Verizon.

I'm sick and tired of phone review sites that seem to maintain an outsized influence on what people think is "trendy" and what people think is "boring" yet don't actually have a connection to whether the phone is a better tool or not.

Aesthetics and screen size trump all else. Design elements for the sake of novelty (OMG A CURVED SCREEN!) are valued over basic functionality. (It's easy to find reviews that complain at length about 'dull design' because omg simple and functional is so last year.) Getting rid of the 3.5" jack really was courage, because [cool-aid reason here]. Higher numbers are always better whether they have any impact on the user experience or not. Must have 4K! (even though phone users would be hard-pressed to tell the difference from e.g. 1440p in double-blind testing.) Must have 8GB RAM because it's what the trendy flagships are doing! (even though no benchmark has ever shown any real performance advantage in realistic contemporary use.) and so on and so on. And they seem to manage to dictate to users what to buy and dictate to manufacturers what to make.

For people who actually want to use their phone as a tool rather than as an all-consuming 24/7 Netflix and Instagram stream, it's a travesty that Android has had so little in the way of decent small phones. This is especially true for people who spend considerable time doing physical activity outdoors rather than sitting at a desk writing fawning reviews of $1200 toys.

The Xperia Compact has been the only line with good performance and cameras, but it's gotten steadily more expensive and less compact. Plenty of people were interested in the Unihertz Jelly and Atom because they offered a smaller form factor, even despite the phones' clear limitations. I would be likely to buy the Atom myself if it had a quarter-HD (960x540) screen; that's 450 dpi, which is not unreasonable, while the 432x240 screen is just too low-res for many kinds of uses.

"Palm" has ticked a lot of the right boxes with this- genuinely small, high screen area to total area ratio, HD res (1280x720), IP68 and decent impact protection. But the price point is a real problem, and it's too bad it's tied to Verizon.

You should look at Kickstarter's own statistics before making up your own.

Kickstarter is a Donation platform, to support cool ideas.

I gave a small amount to both:

Carpool DeVille - The World's Fastest Hot Tub - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

and

Potato Salad - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Kickstarter is a Donation platform, to support cool ideas.

I gave a small amount to both:

Carpool DeVille - The World's Fastest Hot Tub - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

and

Potato Salad - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Well there was a company making these little things for $200. Looks like they just started shipping them, but I'm sure an industrial version could be made too

For extras I was thinking of things like the kickstarter backer pin from when the Planet Mercenary kickstarter. Not used for anything else, so they got someone to do a run of something like 5k pins. At that order size, it probably cost about a buck a pin according to this site, so that's roughly $5k. There were other greeblies too (postcard, for example), but probably not enough to take it over 10k, so let's say it's a 5-10k range.

Total funding through the kickstarter was about 350k. This site seems to indicate that the average rate for small business loans was about 6%. The kickstarter launched in april 2015 and the final update was emailed 12/29/17 so that's about 20 months. Loan calculator says that 350k at 6% for 1.7 years is 18090/mo, which totals to 361800, for a total of 11800 in interest.

So certainly the extras were less than interest, but I don't think I'd call it peanuts or "more or less free". A set with more electronic extras, or where the extras are more of something that matches the base item, to hold down extra-only production costs, is probably closer, but still not likely to be ignorable.

The NES Classic Edition isn't getting any new games (officially). It has no (Nintendo approved) update mechanism.

But the original Nintendo Entertainment System is getting plenty of new indie games. If you haven't heard of them, then perhaps the developers of platformers like Twin Dragons and The Curse of Possum Hollow and Lizard need to step up their advertising.

I'm no moon landing conspiracy theorist but the combination of losing the Saturn blue prints and not having a viable ship to get to the moon and not having space suits that can allow a person to survive on the moon a pretty strong factors to consider.

I don't usually respond to ACs, especially when they're spouting easily and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories. But, in the interests of correcting the internet:

YouTuber Curious Droid, who creates videos about lots of rocket and aeronautic history, just recently put out a video about recreating the F-1 engine. Short answer: the blueprints aren't lost, but they do not contain all the necessary information about how to make the engine. A lot of that information about assembly technique was not well documented. Each engine, although more or less the same, was practically hand-made by skilled technicians.

NASA does have suits that went to the Moon. For instance, the Smithsonian has been carefully restoring and documenting Armstrong's lunar EVA suit for permanent display. I am a backer of that successful kickstarter effort, and have been getting regular updates as they prepare for its debut next year (50th anniversary).

I'm not asking for an oracle, but for a good filter.

You don't need a team full of PhDs to figure out that Air Umbrella was an unworkable and terribly impractical idea, or that Solar Roadways was a stupid idea because it compromised both the function of a solar panel and a road to make a whole that was far worse and more expensive than simply building both of those things next to each other.

Lots of people in fact pointed that out. A site staffed by a bunch of volunteers with a decent understanding of physics and electronics would go a long way. And if you have $10K to spend, you could hire a bunch of engineers to take a quick cursory look at a bunch of stuff and give a quick opinion on whether it's obviously stupid or not.

Kamala ? Shit !!! I remember Kamala!

Kamala habs a kickstarter now. We need a Kamala for president yo

Why is it stupid? Sometimes people need something that they cannot make themselves yet will never be made by any company because the demand is so low it would not even register as noise on their sheets.

The Link is such a product which got made and the quality is as perfect as it could be. People took the chance because there was no alternatives.

Then he should be pleased that they have gone back to the original design they had for the remake.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Hell, having them release the source code for the original game was worth the price of admission alone.

While we're discussing teachable moments, let's touch on "making crucial, consequential changes in staff and scope" based on "a verbal commitment".

It's the other way around. They were trying to do more and more based on the strength of the verbal commitments they had, and when they realized that their development staff were going hog wild with that extra stuff, that's when they made the "crucial" and "consequential changes in staff and scope" in order to rein it in and bring it back on track.

From a February blog entry:

...As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners. The more that we worked on the game, the more that we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great. ... As the CEO and founder of Nightdive Studios ... I let things get out of control. I can tell you that I did it for all the right reasons, that I was totally committed to making a great game, but it has become clear to me that we took the wrong path, that we turned our backs on the very people who made this possible, our Kickstarter backers.

I have put the team on a hiatus while we reassess our path so that we can return to our vision. We are taking a break, but NOT ending the project. Please accept my personal assurance that we will be back and stronger than ever. System Shock is going to be completed and all of our promises fulfilled.

Stephen Kick

This Kickstarter project for 'Mycroft Mark II: The Open Voice Assistant' is trying to be the open and privacy safe version of the Echo: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Very interesting use case and development, but this is somewhat amusing to see that Snowden is posting his privacy apps to Google Play (in addition to F-droid)... It's not a good message sent to people in my opinion.

I think it's time that we get something alternative to Google and Apple, like project eelo.io seems to be starting.

Pimax: World's First 8k VR

It's been reviewed by a number of outlets already, so its not vaporware, though it has a few issues.

Excellent list. Here are my additions

8) If you can't afford to give your employees at _least_ 2 monitors EACH then don't be surprised when they leave
9) Likewise if you aren't willing to explore standing desks and/or other ergonomics likes keyboards/mice, you don't deserve your workers
10) People are an ASSET and INVESTMENT; not an "resource" to be strip-mined
11) There is never time to do it right the first time, but there is always time to do it over -- Murphy's Computer Law
12) Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away
13) You _can't_ solve _every_ problem with tech.
14) People are part of the _cause_ of the problem
15) Good people are expensive
16) IT is designed to _serve_ the employees; lose the attitude
17) You get the security you pay for

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I'd agree with your and the parent's assessment as well.

Back in 2007:

* Windows stability was joke. /que Your mouse has moved, please reboot!
* Linux stability was legendary. Custom kernels FTW!

Ironically, in 2017:

* Windows is (finally) stable
* Linux seems to be getting more unstable with each passing year

On the other hand, who knew that:

* Windows would turn into a complete clusterfuck of spyware
* Linux would dominate the Top 500 supercomputers, and be on 2 billion devices
* Windows Phones. MWUAHAHA! LOL. Even with a ~20 year head start MS _still_ couldn't figure out how to make Windows on a Phone sell.

> Linux support of notebook computers

Yup, that has always been an Achilles heel of Linux. All the *nix geeks (myself included) switched over to MBPs (MacBook Pros). We get a good GUI and BSD out-of-the-box. Dual booting, a dedicated Windows box, VMWare are not going away anytime soon but at least we have choices.

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> That disaster isn't, and wasn't.
Incorrect.

As a graphics, UI, andU UX guru, the ribbon interface is shit. It has certain strengths but MORE weaknesses then a traditional menu. You obviously are NOT an expert or else you wouldn't be blind to BOTH the pros and cons.

The #1 goal of an UI is to empower users. Which means making it EASIER for users to do what they need to do -- NOT HARDER.

Office on OSX has done it right: You show both The menu bar AND the ribbon bar. The _user_ decides which is more convenient, not some hack UX designer who doesn't have a clue about Function over Form.

> There's a reason that interface has been widely adopted,
1. Quantity != Quality. McDonals severs BILLIONS but that doesn't make it gourmet food.

2. Modern UX designers are idiots. They don't understand the first thing about good design even if Tog told them

> Presenting all options to all users at all times is frankly a disaster when learning a new system.
ONE size does NOT fit all. You are assuming that a user is _always_ learning a new system. While the ribbon bar MAY be faster for SOME tasks for a BEGINNER it is a complete clusterfuck for advanced users.

The Ribbon bar is shit precisely because:

* One MUST resize the window to see ALL the options.

* One can't "detach" one ribbon bar so that _multiple_ are visible. You are stuck with this shitty "tab" system where only 1 ribbon bar is active. WTF.

* Hiding choices and therefore being inconsistent are far WORSE. Menus are _consistent_ -- they don't fucking disappear. Playing the "guess-where-my-icon" game is bullshit once you have some familiarity.

Anyone defending the Ribbon Bar doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about.

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> You can't criticize or fire them since they're doing it for free.

That's not true. They DON'T get a free pass just because they are "working for free." Imagine someone giving out free food at a public venue -- if they don't follow health codes and makes everyone sick they don't get a free pass just because they are doing it "for free."

The cost is independent of quality. If someone has a shitty design and/or implementation their bullshit needs to be called out. The "silent majority" giving tacit consent is precisely the problem.

> Firefox because of the fucking memory leaks.

We've been bitching about that for YEARS ...

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Firefox OS was treated more like a project like NodeWebkit or Electron: A sand-boxed browser that calls custom external components that could be more sand-boxed browsers. It was inefficient and a memory hog for the hardware it was being designed for. The failure (misrepresentation?) of Matchstick.tv left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

After attempting to read through the 100 million lines of article I gave up around the point where they started talking about writing flowcharts to represent code. But they did mention this was connected to a Kickstarter project called Light Table (which apparently somehow inspired Apple's Swift??). So I watched the kickstarter video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) and the kickstarter page ( https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... ) and I still don't have a clue what it is, what is new about it, or how it makes programming unnecessary. Are we supposed to be spending writing tools that write programs instead of writing programs? Aren't we already doing that?

Maybe someone with an entire day of their time can read the article and decipher what it is they are talking about.

It sounds to me more like they are making code harder than it actually is.

Your response is silly. "It looks like you know what you're talking about, but don't know what you're talking about; and you're still wrong." You also behave like a microeconomist, which is a type of economist who routinely builds up complex explanations for how the world works only to find out the macroeconomist has the bigger boot when his toys get stomped into the ground.

My main interest is in project management. You're right about the indirect experience: I like to read books full of actual things that happened in businesses, or follow kickstarter projects that publish in excessive detail (e.g. Kokoon.io). I like to see how things happened, what went wrong, what went right, and how the people involved responded; that's information that I can recall when facing similar problems so as to better-evaluate and develop an appropriate strategy.

How much of your experience with Chinese manufacture is in the modern frame (post-2005--should be most of your experience) and in the development of high-quality products, rather than simply a low-cost alternative product? People economize, and so we have the well-understood race-to-the-bottom in which we want to market a product-shaped object at the lowest price so that people buy it. A $30 Toys-R-Us bike isn't a $2,000 Trek bike; on the other hand, a $400 GT Tachyon is pretty decent (made in Taiwan, using Shimano parts made in China--so does the Trek).

He raised around $34,757 to save pepe! https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Every crowd-funded project I've seen has a blurb at the end saying that it may fail and you may lose your money.

But I agree with you that crowdfunding (in its current state) is just a half-assed version of venture capitalism where the project owner retains 100% ownership and control, instead of having to share it with the people putting up the money. I've only "contributed" to two projects - one was an art project, and the other was for a device which I always wondered why it didn't exist and the project already had a working prototype.

I look at crowdfunding and I start to understand why a minimum wage is important. The problem isn't that employers are greedy. It's that a subset of job-seekers are stupid and will agree to work for a lot less than their labor is worth, consequently driving down the prevailing wage for everyone. As long as this subset willingly contributes to crowdfunded projects for nothing more than a promise for the completed product (which might not even happen), crowdfunding is going to continue in this sorry state. As an initial investor, you should get partial ownership of the resulting company (even if a minority share so the owner retains full operational control). That way if the owner eventually sells for $2 billion, the initial investors share in that windfall instead of the owner pocketing everything.

Simple answer to that question: To teach children how to break down a process. I learned programming concepts before I learned about other things. Coding CAN teach analytical skills if people don't just copy and paste. Of course when I learned programming from Logo, Basic and Pascal you couldn't use the Internet to look everything up. Just had to try and break down the problem. I've taught children as young as 6 programming concerts and others are trying to teach the basic concepts at a younger age, like a game, which I think is rather brilliant. you can teach programming through board games.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (yes. believe it or not it CAN teach pattern recognition which is good for programming and other things)
http://home.bloxelsbuilder.com...
http://codemonkeyplanet.com/ (this one I haven't tired but it looks FUN
A simple answer besides giving more ideas of how, is because you don't have to be a math wiz to be a great programming. It's about problem solving. I've always seen it as a a MacGyver type of affair: see the problem use what you have, make it work. Math can help, but not essential. Problem solving skills and being able to break a task down is THE most important part of programming, and that children should be developing as fast as they can for everyday life.

Oh, for video games that teach programming:

https://codecombat.com/
https://checkio.org/
https://vim-adventures.com/
http://www.cyber-dojo.org/
https://lightbot.com/
http://importantlittlegames.co...
https://www.gog.com/game/space...
https://www.gog.com/game/human...
http://www.machineers.com/#_=_
http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/pro... (this is more for making RPG games rather than a game, but students from 11+ seem to like it, I specifically link to the "XP" version because the others seemed less intuitive for students)

For aspiring writers to do their craft and do/learn programming:

https://renpy.org/ (specifically for graphic novels, the rest are all text only)
http://textadventures.co.uk/sq...
http://textadventures.co.uk/qu...
http://inform7.com/ (for zork fans especially)
http://www.tads.org/
https://twinery.org/

I've used many of these to help in teaching programming to children of various ages. Hope you all find this list useful.

I've spent a couple years designing programs for teaching children from 6+ how to do programming. One of the best tools by far is MIT's Scratch.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

With a little adult guidance, you can have them doing electronic story books, drawing, simple quizzes, and tons more (one student recreated pac-man). Kids learn about use of sprites, pictures, control statements very quickly. It's all drag/drop action blocks which make it easy to learn. Some kickstarter campaign had some interesting ideas of teaching programming through robotics.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

I'd start with Scratch, you'll be impressed, There are books available you can use with you kids:

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/w...

Hope that's helpful.

I've spent a couple years designing programs for teaching children from 6+ how to do programming. One of the best tools by far is MIT's Scratch.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

With a little adult guidance, you can have them doing electronic story books, drawing, simple quizzes, and tons more (one student recreated pac-man). Kids learn about use of sprites, pictures, control statements very quickly. It's all drag/drop action blocks which make it easy to learn. Some kickstarter campaign had some interesting ideas of teaching programming through robotics.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

I'd start with Scratch, you'll be impressed, There are books available you can use with you kids:

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/w...

Hope that's helpful.

Kickstarter doesn't maker any sense (for those buying in) *at all* !!! The only people that benefit from Kickstarter are the Kickstarter owners, who get their cool cut* regardless of outcome.

*varies by country, up to 8% it seems. Note that the website claims the fees aren't paid if the campaign isn't funded, but that just means the money didn't pass the target set by the fundraisers - it does not mean any product is produced.

I can see "laptops" that are just a screen, a keyboard, a humongous battery and a dock bay for your phone.

Meet the superbook

Funny what a quick Google search turns up...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keecker/keecker-the-worlds-first-homepod

Well, perhaps I should've included some link, so here are two: http://www.up-board.org/upsqua... https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... But yes, they have a stupid name for the boards. Luckily, the name doesn't make the hardware any worse.

Nope, with an SD card. You'll need to supply your own tape recorder:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

Creative Commons? Free Software? Never heard of them? Small wonder this happens with people like you wallowing in the inevitability of being a slave to corporate computing. There are genuinely things you can do *NOW*:

Support creative commons works instead of Hollywood trash.
Support the FSF
Contribute to the Linux Foundation Support Open Education and OpenCourseWare.

All I ever see here is whining about, and then ultimately pandering to, Hollywood, code.org, Microsoft, etc. For all the comments on stories about Windows it seems a great many of you enjoy being Microsoft's whipping boy by using and supporting Windows (even after Microsoft's many many indiscretions, if they really bother you then stop using it, otherwise STFU) and a lack of support for CC material while you're a slave to Hollywood garbage proves that it's enough for you to complain about it as a means to justify you then rolling over and taking whatever they shove in you.

The goal of the project is to be able to restore fertility and endocrine health to young cancer patients

A woman in her 20s gets ovarian cancer and is unable to reproduce ever again, that's bad enough, but there's also the added awfulness of menopause. Osteoporosis, heart disease, a bunch of other shit that cancer survivors really shouldn't have to deal with.

Fourth, tissue engineering like this is really in it's infancy. Successfully duplicating an organ should be exciting to you even if you don't happen to have that organ and you aren't convinced the organ's function is really so important. You like your testicles functional? How about having a non-diabetic pancreas? Odds aren't bad you'll have problems with some organ some day and could benefit from a new one. Lessons learned here won't be strictly confined to ovaries, it makes it more likely an organ you'll want to replace will be possible. Plus, what the fuck? Slashdot is news for nerds who are supposed to like technology. Just because it's wet, squishy, and feminine, we've decided we don't like THIS technology?

Fifth, how much time and money were "wasted" on this? From NIH reporter, it looks like $300,000 was spent specifically on this project. About a third of a single tomahawk missile, like the 60 we used to do fuck all in Syria in a vain attempt to boost Trump's ratings. Or less than three times as much as has been raised to make onesies for fully grown manchildren.

In conclusion, leave questions about science and priorities to the adults.

Billionaires/Millionaires invests in start-up that could improve their profit margins by a non-trivial amount. Who cares? Show me the article when the technology is working and proven beneficial or otherwise.

I can show you an example of where this sort of thing is actually being used today.

"We take scrap from rockets and turn that into premium carbon fiber skateboards"
http://www.121cboards.com/

Each skateboard removes five pounds of carbon fiber from landfill.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Dumb ass millennials say "oh I am investing in this glorious business"

except it's just some idiot making promises that can't be met and then the idiot runs off with whatever money was pledged

Yeah but how the fuck are you gonna say no to Waffles the Memory Foam Corgi?

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

I'm really looking forward to the launch of Micro.blog. I've supported the project, which will release a mobile client and a backend that simply build upon open stuff like RSS (which everyone and their mother supports).

Twitter doesn't have any attraction to me. It's just one big bucket of, well, of everyone. So as a consequence, it feels like I don't know anybody there.

To start with, Twitter did not sell off "their API". They sold Fabric which was a tool to help others with app development, not developer access to Twitter.

Secondly, as far as I knew the number one hugest blocker to Twitter API use was Twitter not letting new developers have more than a tiny amount of allowed API calls, or rules around how much a client could write anyway (as the article alludes to). In fact there was a huge Kickstarter campaign that succeeded in part because this is one of the few developers on earth that has a key that allows them much larger numbers of users to post tweets.

I personally have some fun ideas for Twitter use in apps I'd love to try. With access to Twitter via API being limited though, I will never put forth the effort into making them happen. So has Twitter (or all Twitter) finally let developers write REAL twitter clients again that any number of people can use?

If not good luck and thanks for all the fish.

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