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Hacking My Child's Brain
| Quote: | As a software engineer, I see the human mind as a beautiful combination of software and hardware. That's why I'm trying to hack my son's brain.
Caleb, 6, suffers from sensory processing disorder. To get a glimpse of what life is like for him, imagine you have no peripheral vision, and you constantly hear echos and distorted, out-of-sync sounds, making it hard to understand speech or appreciate music. When you walk, you can't tell where your legs are, or whether your arms are swinging. Sometimes just keeping your balance is difficult. You exasperate people for doing things you're not even aware of, like bumping into them or not making eye contact. |
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One more thing - not too techy, but rather sociologically interesting (still, it involves tech, the info kind  ):
What Would Jesus Wiki?
| Quote: | | Conservapedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia that offers the historical record from a conservative perspective, is attracting lots of derisive comments on blogs and a growing number of phony articles written by mischief makers. |
Does that remind you of the ideas from Stephenson's Snowcrash novel? All those separate entities governed by authorities subscribing to different, sometimes to a dramatic extent, points of view?
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"<Immortal_Peregrin> The first time I read Neuromancer was in a txt file."
"<Vesper> The first time I read The Hacker Crackdown was on my mobile phone."
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:56 am |
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Found BBC FOCUS magazine today.
It has some pretty interesting, though short, articles online. Maybe that's for the better..
Also, I started subrscribing to Reuters' tech newsletter, but it's poorly updated, though it somtimes finds stuff before others do..
The HOSTB is developing a lip-reading computer to help solve cxrimes, somehow.
Exactly how do they suppose it's going to do that?
I imagine they'll send surveilance footage through it.. But this will only help out in non-audio surveilance cams and won't the cameras need to be about head level in order to get a good view of someones lips moving?
Or have I misinterpreted this entirely?
Smart car closer to commercial release. Hopefully we'll have fully automatic cars packed with sensory equipment by 2030. I didn't find anything about this in WIRED blog "Autopia", oddly enough, though I did find an article on wifi TV coming to American cars. This is old news in Korea, the Koreans are getting the fucking internet in their automobiles! (Linky earlier in techy news..)
My beloved government has designed a Vault 13-like shelter containing samples of nearly every kind of edible crop and stuff on Svarlbard! Kick ass!
I'm going to leech this title right off WIRED; Hacker RFID Demo Killed by Corporate Lawsuit Threat.
Fucking crazy. At least now the cat's kinda out of the basket anyways..
Are you a lazy slob, though ambitious and you've got so many great ideas for stories you never bother writing? Your troubled days are over! Insert 25 keywords of your choice into this new Mexican software and it fucking writes you a story!
Hot damn!
A kinda lame article on PSP hacking. No real news, actually..
Kinda cyberpunk I guess, a woman tries to trade her baby for a Dodge Intrepid.
And I'm through, got class soon anyways..
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:07 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:37 pm |
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Aww..
I thought it said "penguins" up until the point where it said the scientists controlled the poor birds flight.. Still, incredibly awesome!!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:36 pm |
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That's evil o.O
but yeah, awesome 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:57 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:55 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:09 pm |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:48 am |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:13 am |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:44 pm |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:49 am |
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I'd really like to know what the corporation's theory of recovery would be in that case. The truth is an absolute defense to defamation claims... oh, there it is... they're somehow claiming patent infringement!!?? 
Well, I guess that could work on its face; 35 USC 271(a) states that [e]xcept as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
However, I don't see how they could prevail in the suit... uses of patented items for research do not ordinarily constitute infringement, unless such uses have a commercial application. That's not really the case here, unless the courts decide to construe product testing as a commercial purpose... which would be very unlikely because there is a legitimate and compelling public interest in not discouraging products testing that has consumer safety as its goal.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:14 pm |
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| Urshanabi wrote: |
I'd really like to know what the corporation's theory of recovery would be in that case. The truth is an absolute defense to defamation claims... oh, there it is... they're somehow claiming patent infringement!!??
Well, I guess that could work on its face; 35 USC 271(a) states that [e]xcept as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
However, I don't see how they could prevail in the suit... uses of patented items for research do not ordinarily constitute infringement, unless such uses have a commercial application. That's not really the case here, unless the courts decide to construe product testing as a commercial purpose... which would be very unlikely because there is a legitimate and compelling public interest in not discouraging products testing that has consumer safety as its goal. |
Maybe we can try this: Replace "patent infringement" with "lost business due to cancellation of lucrative government contracts" and I believe that would answer the question.
Can a minivan be green? The Union of Concerned Scientists have crated a virtual one that's supposed to reduce emissions 40 percent. Of course, OPEC will make certain that it never leaves the hard drive.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:18 pm |
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I think I read somewhere that for every monetary incentive a government gives car manufacturers to produce cars that use little of no petroleum, the oil companies pay them even more money not to do it. That could be a rumor, though... anyone else ever heard of this?
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Nano-technology and Military Weapons Research |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:42 pm |
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Now this is somewhat disturbing:
| Quote: | | Most European and Asian countries have nanotech projects integrated within other military projects. Sweden and the USA have dedicated nanotechnology defence research projects. According to Nanowerk, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends well over 30% of all federal investment dollars in nanotechnology. In 2006, estimated DoD nanotechnology expenditures will be $436m. About $1m will be spent on risk-related research. |
This stuff has the potential to be as nasty as any biological weapon. 
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