Meme – Yahoo’s Improvement on Twitter
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I don’t care for the name. Meme, like gene, is supposed to represent a defining concept. Paradigm is perception. Meme is the mental construction that we can share. (A meme can be “wrong” like government. But it’s something (an idea) we can exchange and understand. I think Yahoo has muddled the pond. IMHO!
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.314f8f63df41800c448cd89e0a88dd31.331&show_article=1
Japanese firms to develop small nuclear reactors
Oct 24 01:08 AM US/Eastern
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Japan’s major nuclear reactor manufacturers have begun developing small nuclear power systems for both developed and emerging countries, a report said on Saturday.
Toshiba Corp. is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the United States, the Nikkei business daily said.
The new reactor, the Toshiba 4S, is designed to minimise the need for monitoring and maintenance, with an automatic shutdown function to ensure safety in case of problems, the newspaper said.
Toshiba plans to market the reactor first in the United States, while foreseeing demand from emerging countries in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe as well as in Africa, it said.
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For America’s “lost generation” of nuke engineers, I’m sure the approval of this will really put a knot in their shorts.
At one time, America “owned” the nuclear engineering niche.
France gets 80% of its power from nukes; we get near zero.
Argh!
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Thanks for signing up for the Qipit online service, the company that specializes in high quality mobile copy solutions. We are making a change in the focus of the company toward the development of smart phone applications and technology for the enterprise. In fact, our first application Qipit White, is available now for the iPhone, with more applications and platforms to follow. Starting this past Wednesday (October 21, 2009), the Qipit online mobile copy service stopped accepting new user registrations.
What this means to you?
As an existing user, you can still use the service as normal until November 9, 2009, at which time the ability to create new copies (using Web upload, our facebook applications, Shozu, copy@qipit.com, and color@qipit.com) and to share (by sending faxes and emails) will be discontinued. On December 6, 2009, the service will be completely taken offline. We encourage users to download all of the information you would like to keep, prior to this date. After the service is taken offline, your information will no longer be available.
As we say goodbye to Qipit the online service, Qipit will live on in a series of smart phone applications and as a technology for the enterprise. Back in September we launched our first smart phone application, Qipit White, for the iPhone, it shares much of the same functionality of the online service, but works much faster! We will continue to support Qipit White and future applications based on the technology behind Qipit for the iPhone, Android and other smart phone platforms. Be sure to keep an eye on http://www.qipit.com and the Qipit Blog for the latest news on new applications.
You can read more about the changes at Qipit at our blog. Please feel free to share your thoughts and farewells to the Qipit online service.
Many thanks,
~ the Qipit team
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Posted by reinkefj
Wall Street Journal
Tuesday 20 Oct 09
Page A1 and A18
(behind a paywall)
Has an article about selling things to the poor at prices they can afford.
Here’s two of the products.
http://www.instructables.com/community/Oorja-Stove-taking-off-in-India/ $28
http://www.naaptol.com/brands/WO-Brands-W77O-Brands-shopping-W139O/Godrej/Refrigerators.html $70
“Marketing ice to eskimos”?
Here are companies making stuff for poor people.
Since we in the good old US of A are poor, (just look at the dollar), maybe someone should be doing this here?
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/video-500-mapleseed-drone-takes-flight/
Video: $500 Mapleseed Drone Takes Flight
* By Noah Shachtman
* October 21, 2009
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Last year, the Pentagon’s mad science arm let expire a Lockheed contract to build a mini-drone in the shape of a maple seed. Lord knows how much the project costs. But it’s a good bet the Lockheed ‘bot had a price tag several orders of magnitude higher than this $500 maple-drone, put together by students at the University of Maryland.
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Neat. Pioneering work done by a grad student team?
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Smart meters could be ‘spy in the home’
Smart meters could become a ‘spy in the home’ by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to conce rn at Britain’s surveillance society.
By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 10:30AM BST 11 Oct 2009
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The DECC document adds households could even have their power to some appliances turned off remotely to help the national grid if there is too much demand. It says: “In terms of potentially intrusive non-physical behaviour unrelated to data, smart metering potentially offers scope for remote intervention such as dynamic demand management, which is designed to assist management of the network and thus security of supply. This could involve direct supplier or distribution company interface with equipment, such as refrigerators, within a property, overriding the control of the householder.”
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I always think of what can go wrong.
Turn off the refrig to “save the grid” and the food goes bad.
Turn off the heat to “save the grid” and people die.
Turn off power to politically “wrong” people?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://beta.kodakgallery.com/gallery/footerLinksContent.jsp?pageID=600010
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Argh! Why make me responsible for backups. That’s why I subscribe to the service by my purchases!
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http://www.dailyblogtips.com/spellchecker-drives-a-stake-through-vampire-words/
Spellchecker Drives a Stake Through Vampire Words
from Daily Blog Tips
by Mike Marshall
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3. Use Exclusion Dictionaries to Mark Them
My favorite solution, although it requires a little more energy, is to establish an “Exclusion Dictionary”. This dictionary lists words that you want to exclude from the basic spelling dictionary within MS-Word. When the word is added to the exclusion dictionary, the spell checker will no longer perceive it as a correctly spelled word, and will flag it as an error. When configured to check spelling as you type, this prevents these nasty words from creeping into your text by immediately marking them as issues.
To create an exclusion list, you need only add the word to your exclusion dictionary (a text file) under your MS-WORD application data. Each vampire word is entered on a single line in this file, and from that point forward is considered a misspelled word and highlighted by the spell checker.
What makes this method so nice is that you can consider the word’s real value, and tell the spellchecker to ignore its use, if desired.
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Here’s a great suggestion!
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TN: Docs faxing patients’ data to Indiana company
Tennessean
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“Doctors’ offices in Tennessee have been accidentally sending patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories, to an Indiana businessman’s fax machine for the past three years. The sensitive medical information was supposed to be sent to the Tennessee Department of Human Services, but Bill Keith, owner of SunRise Solar Inc. in Indiana, says hundreds of confidential medical faxes having been coming to him. ‘This is a total breach of privacy,’ Keith said. ‘This is supposed to be confidential, and it just so happens we have some scruples here and wouldn’t do anything with that information. We’ve shredded them, but you can have a file an inch thick in no time.'”
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The technology of fax has to be decades old. And, yet, the TN state gooferment still relies upon it.
There are so many things that could be done. Doesn’t take a genius to figure them out.
Why can’t they use encrypted email?
Why can’t they require a “handshake code” before faxing?
Why can’t the TN gooferment call the docs to pick up their forms?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/mediasaurus.html
Mediasaurus
Today’s mass media is tomorrow’s fossil fuel. Michael Crichton is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
By Michael Crichton
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The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification – framing the debate in terms that ignore the real issues. For example, when I watch Crossfire, or Nightline, or MacNeil-Lehrer, I often think, wait a minute. The real issue isn’t term limits; it’s campaign finance reform. The real issue isn’t whether a gasoline tax is regressive, it’s national security – whether we’d prefer to go back to war in the Gulf instead of reducing oil consumption by taxing it more heavily, as every other nation does. The real issue isn’t whether the United States should have an industrial policy, it is whether the one we have – no policy is a policy – serves us well. The issue isn’t whether Mickey Kantor is a protectionist, it’s how should the US respond to its foreign competitors.
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He hits the nail on the head. The media is just SO biased that it distracts from the data, info, knowledge, and wisdom from the “story”.
It’s a long article but it does highlight how bias and technology are making the “media” obsolete.
Interesting?
How do we capitalize on the replacement?
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