# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1380301654 14400 # Node ID 1c6af9dd64d501cbf61a44ff3ac7527adcef3a03 # Parent be36b7325a47e6bcda3e88cc9df8d0f34bc7adc4# Parent b838bd76b081103b214f28d4f19ede2d9e6d4aa2 merge. diff -r be36b7325a47 -r 1c6af9dd64d5 org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Fri Sep 27 13:07:27 2013 -0400 +++ b/org/ideas.org Fri Sep 27 13:07:34 2013 -0400 @@ -26,8 +26,52 @@ If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. -/There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about -getting credit/ +#+begin_quote +There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about +getting credit. +#+end_quote + +- test dummies :: why don't we clone encephalic humans and use then to + test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It + would be ethical as long as there are women who are + willing to host the clones, and it would be a + trememdous resource for studying the human body. I + see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is + suffering, and it stands to save many lives throught + more advanced technology. + +- X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient + via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into + the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system + was coupled with a baysean model of the layout of the structure, + and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertaintity of the + model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage + and surgery risk could be minimized. + +- superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you + replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the + physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the + vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells, + or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to + retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during + perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses + superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by + superfluid from upstresm. In summary there are two things to + simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid + instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human. + +- projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by + makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see, + and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really + doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the + image from first principles, but most stuff is projective + guessing. + +- Intestinal flora maintainence :: why not innoculate babies at birth + with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they + naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient + extraction capabilities. Might also be abot to make their farts + not stink for life, too. - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover diff -r be36b7325a47 -r 1c6af9dd64d5 org/server.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/server.org Fri Sep 27 13:07:34 2013 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +#+TITLE: Server Culture +#+AUTHOR: Robert McIntyre, Dylan Holmes +#+EMAIL: rlm@mit.edu +#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org +#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org +#+MATHJAX: align:"left" mathml:t path:"http://www.aurellem.org/MathJax/MathJax.js" + +* Purpose + +- To empower users by providing free (libre), secure, user-friendly, + personal servers. +- To create software that capitalizes on the personal server model; + for example, personal e-mail servers, file serving and transfer. +- To provide intuitive and transparent web interfaces for configuration. +- To promote a culture of computer literacy in general and personal + servers in particular by writing modular + free applications with friendly interfaces, transparent configurability, + and lucid documentation. + +* VPS Service + +- Encrypted storage +- Domain registration +- Backup service +- Software bundles + +- Hardware +- Pricing + +* Web interface + +- Server configuration +- Package management +- File management +- Web terminal + +* Modules + These could have user friendly locations as subdomains of the main + domain that each person would already have (such as + mail.example.com, video.example.com) + +- user managament -- to give other people access to files, etc. +- E-mail +- File sharing +- Social media (e.g. via RSS feeds) + +* Brain stoming notes + + - What about small busineses? They are also entities that need + privacy and control over their own information. There's still no + really good way to get up and going as a small business with little + computer ability. + + - Bitcoin --- people could store their wallets on their own servers + and always have access to money. + + - Backups --- this should be taught to people and made extremely easy. + + - Legal issues -- should encrypt the server's hard drive + automatically. + + - Identity -- using openid or something, people can finally have an + online presence on the web. + + - Privacy -- one peoblem with proxy sites or VPNs is that they are + only as good as the company's word that they won't keep logs. If + people could somehow use their own servers as a VPN or proxy, they + they could ENSURE that no logs are kept. + + - If people have servers running all the time, they could donate + hard drive space and CPU power to worthy causes in addition to + money. (for example, consider donating hosting power to a favorite + comic). + + - Back up your personal files to your server. + + - Email lists -- where you can manage lists like at MIT, and people + can add themselves, etc. \ No newline at end of file