YouTube - They are made out of meat

YouTube - They are made out of meat: "They are made out of meat"

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The Segway creator's next entrepreneurial spin - Feb. 16, 2006: "Segway creator unveils his next act
Inventor Dean Kamen wants to put entrepreneurs to work bringing water and electricity to the world's poor.
Fortune Magazine
By Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-large
February 16, 2006: 2:06 PM EST
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San Francisco (Business 2.0) - Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don't have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world—and an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs.

To solve the problem, he's invented two devices, each about the size of a washing machine that can provide much-needed power and clean water in rural villages."

This is an amazing invention.

ITunes Spying on YOU!

Is Apple's ITunes music player spying on you? This is a huge issue for people who use ipods because in order to get the most out of your player you have to keep the firmware and software updated. If the spyware behavior that Cory Doctorow is talking about is a mandatory piece of the updates then Apple is saying that if you bought and use the ipod with ITunes then they have the right to spy on you. And apparently their End User License Agreement says nothing about whether or not they gather the information and what they would do with it if they do. Here is an excerpt from the article on Boing Boing:
Boing Boing: iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?: "I love iTunes because it's a clean music player. But no amount of clean UI is worth surrendering my privacy for -- I wouldn't buy a stereo that phoned home to Panasonic and told it what I was listening to; I wouldn't buy a shower radio that delivered my tuning preferences to Blaupunkt. I certainly am not comfortable with Apple shoulder-surfing me while I listen to digital music, particularly if they're doing so without my meaningful, informed consent and without disclosing what they intend on doing with that data."

If this is true, it is a very good reason to consider switching music players. There is nothing more annoying to me thant to think that I would spend hundreds of dollars on something and then have the company that I bought it from use it as a surveillance device on me or treat me like I am renting the equipment rather than purchasing it.

Apple could do a much better job. I was actually considering getting an ipod, but now that they appear to be flexing their EULA I am not so sure.

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Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal: Program Alarms

Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal: Program Alarms: "The operating system featured a multi-programmed, priority/event driven asynchronous executive packed into 2K of memory. The Mean Time to Failure (MTBF) of the machine in a space environment was calculated at 50,000 hours -- almost 6 years, and it never failed in flight operations. It was truly a marvel for its time, a tribute to M.I.T.'s designers, and it accomplished a most complex mission." Don't you wish your computer only failed once every 6 years?

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Invictus - Wikisource

Invictus - Wikisource: "It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."