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     1.4  If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it,
     1.5  please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do.
     1.6  
     1.7 -/There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
     1.8 -getting credit/ 
     1.9 +#+begin_quote
    1.10 +There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
    1.11 +getting credit.
    1.12 +#+end_quote
    1.13 +
    1.14 +- test dummies :: why don't we clone encephalic humans and use then to
    1.15 +                  test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
    1.16 +                  would be ethical as long as there are women who are
    1.17 +                  willing to host the clones, and it would be a
    1.18 +                  trememdous resource for studying the human body. I
    1.19 +                  see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
    1.20 +                  suffering, and it stands to save many lives throught
    1.21 +                  more advanced technology.
    1.22 +
    1.23 +- X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
    1.24 +     via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
    1.25 +     the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
    1.26 +     was coupled with a baysean model of the layout of the structure,
    1.27 +     and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertaintity of the
    1.28 +     model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
    1.29 +     and surgery risk could be minimized.
    1.30 +
    1.31 +- superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
    1.32 +     replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
    1.33 +     physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
    1.34 +     vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
    1.35 +     or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
    1.36 +     retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
    1.37 +     perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
    1.38 +     superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
    1.39 +     superfluid from upstresm. In summary there are two things to
    1.40 +     simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
    1.41 +     instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
    1.42 +
    1.43 +- projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
    1.44 +     makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
    1.45 +     and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
    1.46 +     doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
    1.47 +     image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
    1.48 +     guessing.
    1.49 +
    1.50 +- Intestinal flora maintainence :: why not innoculate babies at birth
    1.51 +     with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
    1.52 +     naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
    1.53 +     extraction capabilities. Might also be abot to make their farts
    1.54 +     not stink for life, too.
    1.55  
    1.56  - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
    1.57       can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover

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     2.4 +#+TITLE: Server Culture
     2.5 +#+AUTHOR: Robert McIntyre, Dylan Holmes
     2.6 +#+EMAIL:     rlm@mit.edu
     2.7 +#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
     2.8 +#+INCLUDE:   ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
     2.9 +#+MATHJAX: align:"left" mathml:t path:"http://www.aurellem.org/MathJax/MathJax.js"
    2.10 +
    2.11 +* Purpose
    2.12 +
    2.13 +- To empower users by providing free (libre), secure, user-friendly,
    2.14 +  personal servers.
    2.15 +- To create software that capitalizes on the personal server model;
    2.16 +  for example, personal e-mail servers, file serving and transfer.  
    2.17 +- To provide intuitive and transparent web interfaces for configuration.
    2.18 +- To promote a culture of computer literacy in general and personal
    2.19 +  servers in particular by writing modular
    2.20 +  free applications with friendly interfaces, transparent configurability,
    2.21 +  and lucid documentation.
    2.22 +
    2.23 +* VPS Service
    2.24 +
    2.25 +- Encrypted storage
    2.26 +- Domain registration
    2.27 +- Backup service
    2.28 +- Software bundles
    2.29 +
    2.30 +- Hardware
    2.31 +- Pricing
    2.32 +
    2.33 +* Web interface
    2.34 +
    2.35 +- Server configuration
    2.36 +- Package management
    2.37 +- File management
    2.38 +- Web terminal
    2.39 +
    2.40 +* Modules
    2.41 +  These could have user friendly locations as subdomains of the main
    2.42 +  domain that each person would already have (such as
    2.43 +  mail.example.com, video.example.com)
    2.44 +  
    2.45 +- user managament -- to give other people access to files, etc. 
    2.46 +- E-mail
    2.47 +- File sharing
    2.48 +- Social media (e.g. via RSS feeds)
    2.49 +
    2.50 +* Brain stoming notes
    2.51 +  
    2.52 +  - What about small busineses?  They are also entities that need
    2.53 +    privacy and control over their own information. There's still no
    2.54 +    really good way to get up and going as a small business with little
    2.55 +    computer ability.
    2.56 +    
    2.57 +  - Bitcoin --- people could store their wallets on their own servers
    2.58 +    and always have access to money.
    2.59 +
    2.60 +  - Backups --- this should be taught to people and made extremely easy.
    2.61 +
    2.62 +  - Legal issues -- should encrypt the server's hard drive
    2.63 +    automatically.
    2.64 +
    2.65 +  - Identity -- using openid or something, people can finally have an
    2.66 +    online presence on the web.
    2.67 +    
    2.68 +  - Privacy -- one peoblem with proxy sites or VPNs is that they are
    2.69 +    only as good as the company's word that they won't keep logs. If
    2.70 +    people could somehow use their own servers as a VPN or proxy, they
    2.71 +    they could ENSURE that no logs are kept.
    2.72 +
    2.73 +  - If people have servers running all the time, they could donate
    2.74 +    hard drive space and CPU power to worthy causes in addition to
    2.75 +    money. (for example, consider donating hosting power to a favorite
    2.76 +    comic). 
    2.77 +
    2.78 +  - Back up your personal files to your server.
    2.79 +
    2.80 +  - Email lists -- where you can manage lists like at MIT, and people
    2.81 +    can add themselves, etc.
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