HOPE
Hackers On Planet Earth (Hacker)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth
The Hotel Pennsylvnia ("Pennsylvania6-5000"), where it's held, is supposed to be demolished.
Missed 2010 and 2012.
The Last-HOPE was Jul18-20'2008 http://www.thelasthope.org/
OWASP: boring corporate presentatiion
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composting is not easy, get help
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multi-site: let others work your backyard
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Spin Farming: space-intensive (that doesn't sound right, the whole idea of SPIN is to get lots of yield per area)
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Vertical Farm: multi-story building, hydroponics: none built yet. Raise BioFuel?
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cityfarmer.org, cityfarmer.info, ryanishungry.com
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city money often avail: sanitation dept, etc
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Gweeds worked at Fat Duck, also does code
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Reclaiming celery
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Underground Supper Club
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Wiki for lab NoteBook
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food games: 3 random foods combined
- US military is largest consumer of oil
EducationKids/OLPC
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dang Ivan Krstic sick no-show
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GusAndrews
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silly politically correct crap
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Nell "wins" (compared to other girls) because of Miranda? I think that's a total mis-reading of the book. Miranda may have saved Nell, but it was that "interesting" life she was saved from that made her so special.
- attempt at teachers-are-key parallel
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focus on After School for Route Around?
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Lee Felsenstein of Home Brew Computer Club (is also in this space) and has written various critiques
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data analysis/inference w large data sets
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left in middle
Community Fabrication (Desktop Fab)
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RepRap, etc
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ProtoTyping machines: $60k, very closed
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3D printer $15k
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DIY: $600-3k: RepRap, Fab At Home and others
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current state: linux mid90s
Public IT: Groningen Netherlands
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focus: OpenOffice, Open Data, Open Source
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Diebold now called Premier
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smells like edge cases (handicap, multi-lingual) create infinite complexity. Maybe fall back to paper for long tail?
Free-music rant
- uh I don't see any part about the starving people
Prometheus radio: how to talk to normal people
- farm workers taught Reading in 45 days
Reprimand/Gonzo: fanboy inside-baseball
OLPC adhoc
- recent Olpc Update 1 improves power mgmt but may screw up mesh networking
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(everyone read Little Brother)
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30sec after callerID: he'll have basic info on you
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5min for criminal record, family
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from Stevens Tech talk: spent 5hrs researching one guy's info
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focusing on private databases: because govt usually outsources this stuff
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plenty from Social Networking
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Amazon has db of everyone's soul
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Google has more
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Mobile makes things worse: completely tied to you.
- And you can't take the battery out of your IPhone
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Justin Barber: killed his wife, caught [by](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Legal Center/Story?id=2101466&page=1) browser cache
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Goog Le owns the data the have: attitude
- won't remove it
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remember: DoubleClick, etc
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de-anonymizing:
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Dominos Pizza customer db: sold to Federal Marshall-s
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Stop N Shop selling data to HMO-s. Stopped by outrage.
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On Star can be activated remotely by warrant
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Car license plates being identified all the time
- roving cars scan 3k/hr
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Cell Phone location
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RABII
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tracking dwi, truants: must carry/register gps phone
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Tivo selling data
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Info Usa sells lots of lists
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used in Jury Pool investigation
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private companies: no FOIA
- LexisNexis (owned by Reed Elsevier) and Choice Point own everything now. [Biggest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice Point#National_security_contracts) client: US govt. And govt won't pass that info in FOIA request.
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local police: drones, UAV-s
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WebCam growing use
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Manhattan 3k/sqmi WebCam-s
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embedded Facial Recognition
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London: 50% of assaults caught on camera, 3% of crimes solved
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Newkirk Ave subway station: lots of WebCam-s, why? because neighborhood heavily foreign/Middle East?
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Univ Of Colo smoke-in: facial-recognition, suspended almost everyone
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Gait Recognition: FBI investing $1B
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Quividi billboards look at you
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Rick investigation
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just private db, no field work
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found someone else using his SSN
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follow-up: tracked him for year while Rick tried to hide, caught him bunch of times: Stealing Your Own Identity coming out soon
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FBI arrest story: Santoro
- FBI filed complaint w NYS licensure group yesterday
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Zen of Hacker: Joshua of FSF
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reading his speech
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Paul Graham Silicon Valley bit: need Subversive Culture
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Chemistry Set-s are lame now
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immigration blocks
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ATHF, other hoax charges
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Bruce Schneier: crime of the unexpected
DMCA: Marcia of FSF
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doesn't seem to know about Google Book Search
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Douglas Spink made millions, later ran drugs
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trains horse being held for ransom?
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/AmazingAnimals/story?id=4911317&page=1
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"relationships" with animals?
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DEA can do anything, so don't get into the drug biz
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Rules on disclosing ownership depend on state
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if you want real privacy you have to go outside US
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seychelles (mostly british Common Law), Lichtenstein, Vanautu
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may need US sub to open bank
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you can get these set up cheap/fast
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private Currency
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if you do gold/etc in US (DigiCash), Treasury Department will put you in jail.
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He's working on something new/digital
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raises moral/practical issues with clients you accept
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Feb'2009: see Timothy Ferriss quoting Neil Strauss' Emergency book on similar issues.
Simulating Universe
- simulate sample of 10^6 particles
Grand Theft Media: laslow.com (of Grand TheftAuto)
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goal: get heard
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Nancy Franklin article on news vs lies
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blogging is not Journalism
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Parody both sides to be credible
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Goal is to get people to think (via laughing), not to change their minds
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comedy is Viral
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federaljack.com questioner
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xm/sirius merger
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if you want to do Computer Game Start Up, do pc not console, so you can self-publish
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Gloria W says play Katamari
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biggest welcome ovation
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obsessions: photos
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Do Do skeleton: Super Sculpey
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has portable laser scanner
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new episodes in couple weeks
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ILM sold off their model biz last year
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jack off all trades
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shows they didn't do (because Discovery Channel was scared of advertisers): rfid-card security; teeth whiteners
Jello Biafra: news bits
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George W Bush firefighting budget cuts
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Iraq reparations: James Baker, Kuwait, Halliburton and ToysRUs
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Media Marketing Accountability Act (co-sponsored by Joseph Lieberman): ratings system worse than Tipper Gore's
Hope-6 was Jul21'2006 http://www.hopenumbersix.net/
- my photos - FlickR:HopeConference
Speaker Steven Rambam/Steven Rombom was arrested by the FBI while there.
notes from various sessions
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Razor blades most-stolen good
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Nokia building RFID readers into phones
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Already carrying RFID?
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Amex card
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car keys
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passports soon?
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pet chips?
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California stopping RFID in driversLic
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for 2 yrs
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fed RealID?
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Easy to disable
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2sec in microwave
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mass vandalism in store
- 20w EMP
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wrap in foil
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range is 2m on passive?
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- typical art-weenies
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philosophy
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messy use of "power", etc.
- Freedom and Social Solidarity
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like an animal rights nut
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or does this become fundamental in the future?
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software
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content
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AI uploaded entities - Accelerando (Charlie Stross)
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Freedom means not being subjugated by others
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"I'd rather have no software than proprietary software"
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Creative Commons do not provide freedom
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beware Trusted Computing
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NSA server
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subcontractors in India
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Hacking = Mental Play
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throw party
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write music
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esp tricky
- palindrome
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EMacs for secretaries
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hard programs are always hard
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but in Emacs, simple programs are useful
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dang we need Python equivalent
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Robert David Steele http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060720/dcth035.html
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close to an OSI agency?
- who will control?
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slides of threats and policies
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2nd book fresh-out
- he also writes piles of reviews there
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18 current genocides
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war over Clean Water
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good guys
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bad guys
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- history of not informing the US President of actions
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governance: Corruption and the Party Line
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Citizen Party: Third Party for Election Reform http://citizens-party.org
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Weird tech
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shock-wave generator: sonic weapon
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nail-gun into machine gun
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buffer overflow
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open too many loops/tangents
- esp via Story Telling
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then remaining flow goes right into UnConscious
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format string attack
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data content attack
- like SQL injection
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Milton Erickson stories
- shift Framing
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No Op sled
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give self opportunities rather than commands
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do it via Question
- can't be ignored
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books
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Radio
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ham
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reach anyone in world with 1w
- qualifiers?
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Part15
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super-low-power
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garage door openers
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iTrip iPod/FM interface
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QRP
- below 5w
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turn old radio into transmitter?
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- Software Defined Radio - SDR
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these guys did the Make Mag Micro Controller
- ladyada.net
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lots of old books available via BitTorrent
- Foxfire series
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customizing as path to Hacking
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is there a Linux for IRiver?
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clone of Roland analog synth
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what could I play with
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machine translation
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audio
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human-read
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human-word mashups
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auto-reader
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copyright battles
- precedent for desktop-fab
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35th anniversary just hit
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help
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proofread
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scan/type
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ebook reader
- cell-phone
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- what can you do cheaply?
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seems like speakers have shared workshop, not living together
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extra $250/month/person?
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non-speaker CoLiving collectives
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non-speak work-only shared spaces
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New Hack City social club? (dead?) in San Francisco
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L0pht Boston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht
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Graffiti Research Lab: LED "throwies"
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