His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions. [ Reply to This | Parent ] even more:More about Shawn at MIT by arbitraryaardvark (Score:4) Starting Score: 1 point Moderation +2
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His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.
We're working on that.
http://www.bedreststudy.com/default.aspx
I was turned down for this study, but the lab results I got today looked good, so I may reapply.
That, once 1 year on the moon, the human body would have become incapable of sustaining itself on earth ? Or has this little tidbit been conveniently ignored. We could send people there for long times, we are not capable of getting them back.
Going there, like Laika, is a one way ticket : no way back.
That's not a bug. It's a feature.
I nominate one Wesley Crusher Done. wil wheaton wil@wilwheaton.net monolith press
1) really is a rock star. 2) plays mean guitar hero 3) adminsters systems well. 4) rules the earth 5) has clever nick name 6) gave pax keynote 7) insane DIY cred
The dark side's callin' now, nothin' is real She'll never know just how I feel From out of the shadows she walks like a dream Makes me feel crazy, makes me feel so mean
Ain't nothin' gonna save you from a love that's blind When you slip to the dark side you cross that line On the dark side, oh yeah On the dark side, oh yeah
Slashdot wrote: It appears that a lot of the information was just copied from other sources without any analysis of what was being copied. now why does this seem vaguely familiar?
1. This was a civil trial - Capitol vs Thomas - not a criminal trial.
2. The level of proof required was much lower than a criminal trial.
3. Since its a civil trial, she can just go bankrupt (the jury award isn't a fine resulting from a criminal trial - fines for criminal convictions aren't generally dischargeable in a bankruptcy). (parent is already modded up) Parent is right. The Duluth Press article (TFA) was accurate, but the other media reports I've been seeing on this, Brietbart and AP, have it wrong, saying she was fined for illegal downloading. The articles don't give any address to contact for corrections. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/national/main3330186.shtml http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071004233021.itudt24b&show_article=1 Perhaps she can sue them for libel to raise the money she now owes, since a recklessly false claim of illegality is actionable. Dunno.
Do we know the names and home addresses of the plaintiff's lawyers? I'd like to add them to my christmas card list. In fact, we should all send them christmas cards, to show that there are no hard feelings.
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To ^not^ Catch Terrorists. Fixed. Lemme guess: number of terrorists, other than John Gilmore, caught, zero? This either means that it works perfectly or doesn't work at all. Number of sharks with lasers on their heads caught? Also zero? LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch ^sharks^.
In theory you can get a free credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com, as required by federal law. Not to be confused with freecreditreport.com, which is free for $12.95 a month forever, a scam run by experian. My credit had been hit by an identify thief,and I've been trying to get some false info taken off my experian report. The online site didn't work. Calling the toll free number got me an automated thingy and no way to reach a live operator to explain what I actually needed, so today after a couple of weeks I got the form letter refusing to give me the report I'm entitled to under federal law, so I started calling, to try to reach a live human being. No live response at the 1-877 number, just loops of answering machines that hung up after awhile. So I called corporate at 714.830.7000, at 5:29 pm eastern. Operator hung up on me. Called back, same operator, wouldn't tell me her name, wouldn't put me through to a supervisor, kept sending me to an answering machine that after awhile of canned ads hung up on me. Went through this 4 times.
I've been meaning to email tony.hadley@experian.com> vp govt relations Matthew Besler Public Relations Manager ("flack", not a real manager) Tel: +1 224 698 4415 Email: matthew.besler@experian.com, about this, to ask them why they don't answer their phones, but I'm lazy and didn't get around to it. So, experian, are you going to answer your phone next time I call?
Monopolies are at best bad for the market, and at worst bad for Humanity.
Above post is modded 5 for insightfully wrong.
There are two kinds of monopolies, those imposed by government, and those produced by the market, such as ownership of a unique item, or possession of a trade secret.
The second kind is good for the market - it is what drives waves of innovation, of the sort that Moore's law is an example of.
The first kind can be harmful to the market, but the harm done minimizes at it approaches the second type in effect. Patents, when enacted in 1790s, were useful in driving technology. Perhaps today, as the singularity approaches, 17 years is too long.
mod parent up. I am skeptical of the claim that 2 billion was lost from this one pirate. How much does Microsoft make in all of China? As Mencius wrote, in a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?
Oh there's sober men & plenty And drunkards barely twenty There are men of over ninety That have never yet kissed a girl. But give me a rambling rover Fae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world. I've roamed through all the nations Ta'en delight in all creation And I've tried a wee sensation Where the company did prove kind. When parting was no pleasure I've drunk another measure To the good friends that we treasure For they always are in our mind. There's many that feign enjoyment From merciless employment Their ambition was this deployment From the minute they left the school And they save and scrape and ponder, While the rest go out and squander See the world and rove and wander - And they're happier as a rule. If you're bent with arthritis Your bowels have got colitis You've galloping ballicitus And you're thinking it's time you died.
If you've been a man of action While you're lying there in traction You may gain some satisfaction Thinking "Jesus, at least I've tried."
Bigger better lasers currently are being driven by the demand curve for blowing things up, but bigger better lasers will be useful later for space propulsion.
Maybe slashdot is the wrong place to ask this, but I've been wondering about the ID requirement to enter federal courthouses. Have there been any cases challenging this in court? I'm looking for the name of the case, or a url to the text.
At Volokh, Professor Orin Kerr notes a 6th circuit decision (pdf) about whether the 4th Amendment's expectation of privacy applied to Yahoo emails. Yes. Wired has more. EFF's friend of the court brief may have helped. -- Meanwhile Dr. Kerr has more on the case, here.
b) we're not going to see any economic return on investment from it,
I'll quibble with that. The present value of the economic return approaches zero because of the long time frame, but once other star systems are reached, the information flow from those systems has economic value.
Japan, for example, is a culture capable of planning economic development projects with 100 year payoffs. You correctly describe this as having quasi-religious and ideological aspects, but once established, the info flow from other systems will be economically significant.
Enjoy your blog, those of your books I've read, and your participation here. Just quibbling.
Just good lawyers? Screw that, how do we help them? Do they have a donation site setup. Do they need any information to stick it to the RIAA? Someone has balls, let's help them. Information that might be useful: Addresses, business and home, of the RIAA officers and employees who - might- be part of, or know about, a conspiracy. Phone numbers and emails, in case we want to send them christmas cards. Same info for members of the law firms the RIAA uses, since they -might- be part of, or know about, a conspiracy. Building from there, it wouldn't hurt to have contact info for their neighbors, ministers, bankers, ex-spouses,anybody who might know about a conspiracy. Checking with the attorney disciplinary commission, to see if their have been any prior allegations of conspiracy or extortion, might be useful. Birthdates, social security numbers, swiss bank account numbers, to the extent that this info can be obtained legally from public records, can help in doing further research on these topics. Easy to set up as an open source project with anonymity for users. Anybody doing this yet?
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This article is a dupe. Here's what I said about Shawn last time:
:More about Shawn at MIT by arbitraryaardvark (Score:4)
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/212243
Low-tech Inventions That Help Change Lives
arbitraryaardvark (845916) on Thursday October 11, @07:41PM (#20947701)
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276 [wired.com]
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/ [flickr.com]
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php [instapundit.com]
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/ [aidg.org]
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.
His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.
His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.
here is an article about Shawn at MIT, in a class where they come up with this kind of stuff. Article is by Pagan Kennedy in the New York Times.
We're working on that. http://www.bedreststudy.com/default.aspx I was turned down for this study, but the lab results I got today looked good, so I may reapply. That, once 1 year on the moon, the human body would have become incapable of sustaining itself on earth ? Or has this little tidbit been conveniently ignored. We could send people there for long times, we are not capable of getting them back. Going there, like Laika, is a one way ticket : no way back. That's not a bug. It's a feature.
I nominate one Wesley Crusher
Done.
wil wheaton
wil@wilwheaton.net
monolith press
1) really is a rock star.
2) plays mean guitar hero
3) adminsters systems well.
4) rules the earth
5) has clever nick name
6) gave pax keynote
7) insane DIY cred
obligatory Eddie and the Cruisers
The dark side's callin' now, nothin' is real
She'll never know just how I feel
From out of the shadows she walks like a dream
Makes me feel crazy, makes me feel so mean
Ain't nothin' gonna save you from a love that's blind
When you slip to the dark side you cross that line
On the dark side, oh yeah
On the dark side, oh yeah
Slashdot wrote:
It appears that a lot of the information was just copied from other sources without any analysis of what was being copied.
now why does this seem vaguely familiar?
(but, good links, good analysis, yay parent post)
Amen. I was just about to try to tag it "transparent aluminum"...
Better!, it's made from opaque alcohol.
TFA: The glue-like polymer used in this experiment, which is polyvinyl alcohol, was as important as the layer-by-layer assembly process
"stronger than steel" says Roland. OK, fine, but is that per volume, per pound, per dollar's worth?
I'm assuming volume, but it didn't say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGfNSA3QmWg&NR=1
http://xkcd.com/store/
"Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!"
1. This was a civil trial - Capitol vs Thomas - not a criminal trial.
2. The level of proof required was much lower than a criminal trial.
3. Since its a civil trial, she can just go bankrupt (the jury award isn't a fine resulting from a criminal trial - fines for criminal convictions aren't generally dischargeable in a bankruptcy).
(parent is already modded up)
Parent is right. The Duluth Press article (TFA) was accurate, but the other media reports I've been seeing on this, Brietbart and AP, have it wrong, saying she was fined for illegal downloading. The articles don't give any address to contact for corrections.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/national/main3330186.shtml
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071004233021.itudt24b&show_article=1
Perhaps she can sue them for libel to raise the money she now owes, since a recklessly false claim of illegality is actionable. Dunno.
Do we know the names and home addresses of the plaintiff's lawyers? I'd like to add them to my christmas card list. In fact, we should all send them christmas cards, to show that there are no hard feelings.
Astroglide http://www.astroglide.com/
WD-40 http://www.wd40.com/
Wet http://www.stayswetlonger.com/
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To ^not^ Catch Terrorists.
Fixed.
Lemme guess: number of terrorists, other than John Gilmore, caught, zero?
This either means that it works perfectly or doesn't work at all.
Number of sharks with lasers on their heads caught? Also zero?
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch ^sharks^.
In theory you can get a free credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com, as required by federal law. Not to be confused with freecreditreport.com, which is free for $12.95 a month forever, a scam run by experian. My credit had been hit by an identify thief,and I've been trying to get some false info taken off my experian report. The online site didn't work. Calling the toll free number got me an automated thingy and no way to reach a live operator to explain what I actually needed, so today after a couple of weeks I got the form letter refusing to give me the report I'm entitled to under federal law, so I started calling, to try to reach a live human being.
No live response at the 1-877 number, just loops of answering machines that hung up after awhile.
So I called corporate at 714.830.7000, at 5:29 pm eastern. Operator hung up on me. Called back, same operator, wouldn't tell me her name, wouldn't put me through to a supervisor, kept sending me to an answering machine that after awhile of canned ads hung up on me. Went through this 4 times.
I've been meaning to email tony.hadley@experian.com> vp govt relations
Matthew Besler Public Relations Manager ("flack", not a real manager) Tel: +1 224 698 4415 Email: matthew.besler@experian.com, about this, to ask them why they don't answer their phones,
but I'm lazy and didn't get around to it.
So, experian, are you going to answer your phone next time I call?
Monopolies are at best bad for the market, and at worst bad for Humanity. Above post is modded 5 for insightfully wrong. There are two kinds of monopolies, those imposed by government, and those produced by the market, such as ownership of a unique item, or possession of a trade secret. The second kind is good for the market - it is what drives waves of innovation, of the sort that Moore's law is an example of. The first kind can be harmful to the market, but the harm done minimizes at it approaches the second type in effect. Patents, when enacted in 1790s, were useful in driving technology. Perhaps today, as the singularity approaches, 17 years is too long.
mod parent up.
I am skeptical of the claim that 2 billion was lost from this one pirate.
How much does Microsoft make in all of China?
As Mencius wrote, in a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?
Perhaps someone can update these lyrics for me:
Rambling Rover
- trad,from Silly Wizard
- chorus: -
Oh there's sober men & plenty
And drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety
That have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a rambling rover
Fae Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over
And together we'll face the world.
I've roamed through all the nations
Ta'en delight in all creation
And I've tried a wee sensation
Where the company did prove kind.
When parting was no pleasure
I've drunk another measure
To the good friends that we treasure
For they always are in our mind.
There's many that feign enjoyment
From merciless employment
Their ambition was this deployment
From the minute they left the school
And they save and scrape and ponder,
While the rest go out and squander
See the world and rove and wander -
And they're happier as a rule.
If you're bent with arthritis
Your bowels have got colitis
You've galloping ballicitus
And you're thinking it's time you died.
If you've been a man of action
While you're lying there in traction
You may gain some satisfaction
Thinking "Jesus, at least I've tried."
Bigger better lasers currently are being driven by the demand curve for blowing things up, but bigger better lasers will be useful later for space propulsion.
Dunno if you know this thread has been blogged by clever nick name.t his-was-his-mi.html
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/07/
Maybe slashdot is the wrong place to ask this, but I've been wondering about the ID requirement to enter federal courthouses. Have there been any cases challenging this in court? I'm looking for the name of the case, or a url to the text.
That's what I've been saying over at the xkcd forum.
Autism is a spectrum. ...AHDH... asperger's syndrome ... mild autism ...full-on autism.
extrovert... "normal"... introvert... geek... slashdot reader
2009: "Autism cured, Slashdot readership plummets."
Here's how I submitted the story a few days ago:
At Volokh, Professor Orin Kerr notes a 6th circuit decision (pdf) about whether the 4th Amendment's expectation of privacy applied to Yahoo emails. Yes. Wired has more. EFF's friend of the court brief may have helped.
--
Meanwhile Dr. Kerr has more on the case, here.
b) we're not going to see any economic return on investment from it, I'll quibble with that. The present value of the economic return approaches zero because of the long time frame, but once other star systems are reached, the information flow from those systems has economic value. Japan, for example, is a culture capable of planning economic development projects with 100 year payoffs. You correctly describe this as having quasi-religious and ideological aspects, but once established, the info flow from other systems will be economically significant. Enjoy your blog, those of your books I've read, and your participation here. Just quibbling.
Just good lawyers? Screw that, how do we help them? Do they have a donation site setup. Do they need any information to stick it to the RIAA? Someone has balls, let's help them.
Information that might be useful:
Addresses, business and home, of the RIAA officers and employees who - might- be part of, or know about, a conspiracy. Phone numbers and emails, in case we want to send them christmas cards.
Same info for members of the law firms the RIAA uses, since they -might- be part of, or know about, a conspiracy.
Building from there, it wouldn't hurt to have contact info for their neighbors, ministers, bankers, ex-spouses,anybody who might know about a conspiracy.
Checking with the attorney disciplinary commission, to see if their have been any prior allegations of conspiracy or extortion, might be useful. Birthdates, social security numbers, swiss bank account numbers, to the extent that this info can be obtained legally from public records, can help in doing further research on these topics.
Easy to set up as an open source project with anonymity for users. Anybody doing this yet?
howard bashman collects news reactions and has audio of the hearing. here