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NIST Advanced Technology Program Awards

Posted by michael on from the buck-stops-here dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "Look, some research money awarded to all the recent slashdot topics! Printable LCD displays and circuits, high accuracy biometric algorithms, holographic data storage, an overclockers dream, and the DMCA fights back. See all the projects listed for NIST's FY2002 funding."

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  1. Links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone have links to the specific articles here on /.? (Posting Anonymously purely incase someone thinks this is a troll post, it honestly isn't)

  2. Slashdot pull? by jukal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Look, some research money awarded to all the recent slashdot topics

    Some of these might have actually got a pull from /. in getting the award. How about pulling one of these open source challenges as well? There seems to be a lot of interest for a Linux API for the Synaptic cPad for example - still it missing.

  3. This is corporate welfare by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It sounds like a good idea to fund technology that will improve our lives, but when the government uses public money to fund research that will eventually lead to large private profits by paying for the financial risk of researching the technology, it is corporate welfare.

    You may like the technology, but corporate welfare is a huge drain on the treasury that only makes the rich richer, borders on socialism, and forces the taxpayer to take the fall for technology that won't work for private businesses.

    More information on corporate welfare can be found here:

    http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-9.html

    http://www.citizen.org/congress/welfare/index.cfm

  4. Re:That's a lot of nuts! by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You make some good points, but the whole "get up and do something about it, like email a congressman" thing just doesn't work. They respond to large constituent bases. I realize that no one should criticize the government if he hasn't first taken the time to use his voice and speech to change something.

    In this case, you have to realize the utter futility of the act. I'm not flaming you (though I am peeved at how moderators love "get up and write a letter" posts), but really, the US government is not a monolithic thing--your local congressman won't really have anything to do with this organization. Do you think that this could get floor time? "My constituents have been claiming that another organization's awards are promoting copy propretecting viewpoints, and it's time we stopped that."

    Perhaps copy protection itself could, and I agree a letter for that would be a good idea, but congress has like zero say in overseeing the validity of these awards.

    --
    Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
  5. Re:Doesnt Suprise me by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Slashdot is widly seen around the web as a realable source for information."

    Reliable... as long as you actually read the article. Sometimes I think the /. presentation of a story should be moderate-able.

    "A user has moderated your story -1, Troll to your article titled "Microsoft Claims Linux is Slow""

    Heh. :)