--- Log opened Tue Jan 25 00:00:10 2011 00:58 -!- Juul [~Juul@static.88-198-13-205.clients.your-server.de] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 01:19 -!- uniqanomaly_ [~ua@dynamic-78-8-95-44.ssp.dialog.net.pl] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:22 -!- uniqanomaly [~ua@dynamic-78-8-95-44.ssp.dialog.net.pl] has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 01:39 < fenn> "never before have so many people known so little about so much" 01:41 < fenn> just watched the final episode of connections.. very extropian, a little preachy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxttXUbcpzk 01:42 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:45 < fenn> Nomadicus: i would try a hardware development channel like #edev 01:54 < Lukas___> Good morning 02:12 -!- mayko [~mayko@71-22-217-151.gar.clearwire-wmx.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 02:13 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has quit [Quit: Page closed] 02:25 -!- mayko [~mayko@71-22-217-151.gar.clearwire-wmx.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 02:42 < fenn> "We have a moral obligation to increase the amount of technology in the world in order to increase the number of possibilities for the most people." 02:43 < fenn> strong words.. i used to take the relativist approach, but i'm reading "the moral landscape" and it's convincing me otherwise 02:43 < Utopiah> supposing everybody has the same access to technology? 02:44 < fenn> this was in the context of talking about how 2 million people per day flee their family farm to the cities 02:44 < fenn> the preceding sentence " Our call is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, but to expand the possibilities for others. " 02:45 < Utopiah> ironically enough, I could write sth like that yet when I read it from somebody else I think it's naively idealistic :/ 02:46 < fenn> i don't know who the dumb fuck was that decided idealism equals naivete 02:46 < fenn> but i want a time machine 02:47 < jrayhawk> his ending to the day the universe changed is a lot less clouded by his moral intuitions 02:49 < fenn> sorry i'm being confusing, the previous two quotes were kevin kelly 02:49 < fenn> burke was spot on about the internet accelerating invention 02:54 < jrayhawk> connects 2 and 3 didn't really have good central theses to drive them, but you should watch tdtuc 03:20 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-1b.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:20 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-1b.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has quit [Changing host] 03:20 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:34 -!- mayko [~mayko@71-22-217-151.gar.clearwire-wmx.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 03:51 -!- mayko [~mayko@71-22-217-151.gar.clearwire-wmx.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:05 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 04:18 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-3e.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:18 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@pppdyn-3e.stud-ko.rz-online.net] has quit [Changing host] 04:18 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:34 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:35 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has quit [Client Quit] 04:35 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:36 -!- superkuh [~hukrepus@unaffiliated/superkuh] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 04:38 -!- superkuh [~hukrepus@unaffiliated/superkuh] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:18 -!- klord [~klord@64.39.4.135] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:25 -!- Utopiah [~libre@rps7452.ovh.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 06:25 -!- Utopiah [~libre@rps7452.ovh.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:28 < Lukas___> Good mornin 06:29 -!- jmil [~jmil@c-68-81-252-40.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: jmil] 06:32 -!- elmom [~elmom@hoasnet-fe29dd00-137.dhcp.inet.fi] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 06:33 -!- elmom [~elmom@hoasnet-fe29dd00-137.dhcp.inet.fi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:36 < Lukas___> http://opensourcenano.net/ 06:40 -!- klord [~klord@64.39.4.135] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 06:41 -!- klord [~klord@64.39.0.76] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:02 < kanzure> http://spacehack.org/ "a directory of ways to participate in space exploration" 07:06 < Lukas___> O.O ... afk, I've got to go change my pants 07:08 < ThomasEgi> nice link *bookmarked* 07:13 < kanzure> heh social networking for todo lists? http://cohuman.com/about_us 07:14 < Lukas___> how exactly do you find all of these? 07:17 < kanzure> Lukas___: people won't stop sending me email :( 07:17 < kanzure> it's really debilitating 07:18 < ThomasEgi> kanzure, delete the mail acc ;) 07:18 < Lukas___> or not read them for a day 07:19 < kanzure> Lukas___: this is a fun tool if you want to browse around http://moreofit.com/ 07:19 < Lukas___> excellent 07:19 < Lukas___> thanks 07:20 < Lukas___> I've been using Stumbleupon 07:20 < Lukas___> it is very hit or miss 07:23 < Lukas___> May I please get a credibility check on this? http://www.fusor.net/ It don't trust it 07:23 < Lukas___> I* 07:24 < kanzure> 23:04 < fenn> shock wave fusion? 07:24 < kanzure> 23:04 < fenn> isnt that just bubble fusion with extra money thrown at it? 07:30 < kanzure> andrew was interviewed on 'singularity 1 on 1' a few days ago http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/andrew-hessel-on-singularity-1-on-1-dont-fear-synthetic-biology/ 07:31 < JayDugger> Inbox Zero brings many benefits. 07:31 < kanzure> what a weird site- there's a popup asking for me to subscribe and (get this!) "get a free copy of Accelerando straight to your inbox!!!1oneone" 07:32 < JayDugger> Lukas___ Your best starting point for fusor's is http://fusor.net/newbie/files/Ligon-QED-IE.pdf. 07:32 < JayDugger> Past that, you've got Bussard's work. 07:33 < JayDugger> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606# 07:33 < Lukas___> Thanks 07:33 < Lukas___> Kanzure: It was a decent interview 07:33 < kanzure> focusfusion.net seems to have a larger DIY community in new york, if you're building a reactor, Lukas___ 07:33 < Lukas___> as I suspected, he doesn't really buy into transhumanism, but is all for DIY science 07:34 < kanzure> andrew? nah he really buys into transhumanism 07:34 < kanzure> at least as much as it nets him more attention 07:34 < JayDugger> Focus fusion also has an interesting video, linked from that Google Video page. 07:34 < Lukas___> I think the last few minutes of the interview he addresses it (to be fair, he talks about the singularity specifically) 07:35 < Lukas___> : Thanks for the heads up on focusfusion 07:35 < Lukas___> I had no idea 07:36 < Lukas___> it was actually one of my subs that sent me the fusor.net link 07:36 < Lukas___> I didn't even know this movement existed 07:36 < kanzure> subs? 07:36 < Lukas___> subscribers 07:38 < kanzure> socal-diybio will be having a 1-year anniversary party later this month https://sites.google.com/site/socaldiybioparty2011/ 07:38 -!- jrabbit [~babyseal@unaffiliated/jrabbit] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 07:47 < Lukas___> "You're invited" :D "downtown LA" D: 07:48 < Lukas___> afk 07:48 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has quit [Quit: Page closed] 07:48 < kanzure> open moon's "c-rove" registered and received the ohanda trademark http://www.openmoon.info/2011/01/c-rove-hat-das-ohanda-label/?lang=en 07:49 < kanzure> i've never seen the actual schematics/files though, just lots of artist's renderings 07:49 < JayDugger> Yeah, but you're free to study those--all you want. ;) 07:50 < kanzure> maybe if i stare at it long enough, it will become real 07:50 < JayDugger> It reminds of the star-bellied sneeches star ship seven, by Seuss, Doctor. 07:51 -!- jrabbit [~babyseal@unaffiliated/jrabbit] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:53 < JayDugger> Rather snide of me to say so, I admit. 08:03 < kanzure> JayDugger: did you see my comments about a solution to the gada prize woes? 08:04 < kanzure> in particular, the reprap.org guys originally decided to make the competition require "regular blogging but not necessarily enough to share schematics or files" 08:04 < kanzure> they feel that *not* sharing anything would hinder reprap development 08:04 < kanzure> meanwhile i claim that just sharing only a little is useless for an open source project; it should be all open source or else it shouldn't really be about reprap.. 08:06 < kanzure> so, my proposal is to let gada prize participants license their work as GPL (in fact, force that) 08:06 < kanzure> then, they can apply a secondary license or clause to allow or exclude derivatives in the gada prize competition itself 08:07 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:09 < kanzure> however, there are many cases where participants will be submitting a derivative of some open-source component 08:10 < kanzure> if they make an entry that is a derivative of some non-prize-originating-part, and they slap a "no-derivative-in-gada-prize" clause on it, is that good/bad? 08:10 < JayDugger> Let me see. 08:14 < JayDugger> I suppose it depends on whether ego motivates more than the thrill of improving hardware. 08:15 < JayDugger> I don't see any reason to apply a "no-derivative-in-gada-prize" clause on any work, otherwise. 08:15 < JayDugger> other than ego, rather. 08:16 < JayDugger> And since RepRap specifically asks "please use the RepRap website for your Gada Prize entries", won't all the wiki entries get covered by GNU FDL? 08:17 < kanzure> the wiki thing is weird and not really too official 08:18 < JayDugger> It seems to endorse the goal of an open source hardware design by a weak means: please use this FDL wiki. 08:18 < JayDugger> Does it all hinge on the phrase "All entries must be open source hardware projects, including all designs, schematics, source code, CAD files, etc."? 08:19 < JayDugger> It seems to, but that sets up the question of which open source license. 08:20 < kanzure> i wonder how ben/josh could have written this much content without mentioning nanoengineer http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/toward-intelligent-nano-factories-and-fogs 08:20 < kanzure> josh even worked at nanorex so wtf? 08:20 < kanzure> oh, there's the mention 08:20 < kanzure> lol a sourceforge link? what in the name of fuck 08:22 < JayDugger> "A modern GPGPU [sic] can compare two pictures " 08:23 < JayDugger> Have you both Goertzel and Hall in person, kanzure? 08:23 < kanzure> have i what? 08:24 < JayDugger> Sorry. Serves me right for my earlier snide comment. Met, have you met...etc. 08:30 < JayDugger> Back to the Gada Prize question. If you require an open source license, RepRap has a strong preference for GNU GPL. 08:30 < kanzure> yes i'm aware of that 08:30 < kanzure> JayDugger: i've met ben in person (he's also presently paying some of my bills); josh and i haven't had any extended contact 08:30 < JayDugger> So says their Legal & Licensing page (http://reprap.org/wiki/Legal_and_Licensing). Requiring it has that precendent. 08:30 < kanzure> yes i know that 08:31 < kanzure> but in the gada prize participants are not presently required to release their contributions, only to "blog" 08:32 < JayDugger> But the Gada prize does require all entries to be an open source hardware project, including all designs, etc. 08:33 < kanzure> sort of; as you can see the writing is vague- are participants required to publish before or after the deadline? etc. 08:33 < JayDugger> I read that as "Keep your exact techniques under wraps, so long as you give good descriptions, right up until you submit. Then it becomes an open source hardware design." 08:34 < kanzure> yeah, that's probably how most people read it; and i don't agree with that concept 08:34 < JayDugger> Yeah, that needs clearer timing. 08:34 < kanzure> i mean, i don't think that's a good idea for the reprap community 08:34 < JayDugger> I see your point. 08:35 < JayDugger> Certainly races have more interest when every contestant can see everyone else's position. 08:35 < JayDugger> Why hurry if you don't know you're behind? 08:35 < kanzure> competition also breeds secrecy 08:35 < JayDugger> Well, it can, sure. 08:36 < kanzure> if you have something that you think will win why not wait until the last minute to announce it? especially if, in the mean time, someone could show you up and steal your $80k 08:36 < JayDugger> Right. 08:36 < JayDugger> That could well happen, and it gives a psychological advantage to teams with impressive rosters. 08:37 < JayDugger> I think the desirable result of a prize-winning device soonest gets served best by requiring open source hardware designs from the start. 08:37 < JayDugger> And also requiring near complete disclosure. 08:38 < JayDugger> all designs, schematics, source code, CAD files, etc. sufficient to reproduce the design. 08:39 < JayDugger> Not that it would stop a team from keeping a private repository or secret design, but that might turn obvious if they won. 08:39 < JayDugger> That would seem to do small harm and to confer little advantage anyway, besides it being impossible to prevent, 08:41 < JayDugger> I think your best bet is to require an open source license from the start, preferably just one (GPL), with the clearly stated goal of improving the RepRap design as quickly as possible. 08:41 < JayDugger> That should discourage most gaming of disclosure and license choice. 08:41 < JayDugger> OTOH, I suspect I overestimate the goodness of my fellow humans. 08:41 < JayDugger> That doesn't happen too often. :) 08:42 < JayDugger> If you stick to only extant licenses, you should avoid the "no-derivatives-in-Gada-Prize" clause case you mentioned. 08:43 < JayDugger> If someone else, the author of the original work, wants to whine, well...how derivative can something be before it's a fork? 08:44 < JayDugger> You can copyright a fork (flatware), I assume, despite the very narrow range of design space for forks. 08:45 < JayDugger> I don't think it is yet worth worrying about this particular hypothetical case. 08:48 < kanzure> "free technology academy" http://ftacademy.org/ seems to give you academic credits at universities? 08:50 < kanzure> european commission? hmm 09:04 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:45 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has quit [Quit: Page closed] 10:42 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 10:44 -!- jmil [~jmil@2001:468:1802:e148:223:32ff:feb1:9dfc] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:46 -!- Juul [~Juul@static.88-198-13-205.clients.your-server.de] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:49 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:17 < kanzure> so many comments :( http://70.32.108.164/~hplus/2009/11/17/eight-ways-vitro-meat-will-change-our-lives/ 11:37 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.6.161] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 11:52 < Utopiah> fenn: do you have the Pinball Effect as pdf? (can just find the audiobook) 12:10 -!- strages [~strages@c-71-207-215-204.hsd1.al.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:19 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:29 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 12:51 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 12:51 -!- Nomadicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has quit [Quit: KVIrc 4.0.2 Insomnia http://www.kvirc.net/] 12:57 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:06 -!- jmil [~jmil@2001:468:1802:e148:223:32ff:feb1:9dfc] has quit [Quit: jmil] 13:29 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:48 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-24-23-119-149.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 14:11 -!- jmil [~jmil@c-68-81-252-40.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:15 -!- Director_X [432affb1@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.42.255.177] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:41 -!- strages [~strages@c-71-207-215-204.hsd1.al.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 14:44 -!- Technicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:44 < kanzure> hi Technicus, hi Director_X 14:55 -!- mjr [mjr@aulis.sange.fi] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 14:57 -!- mjr [mjr@aulis.sange.fi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:59 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 15:01 < kanzure> (05:02:11 PM) Ben Goertzel: it seems awkward to need to make a new user account for each author 15:01 < kanzure> (05:02:54 PM) Ben Goertzel: Is it extremely quick and easy to make new user accounts? 15:01 < kanzure> me: dunno, i don't use wordpress 15:02 < kanzure> heh. 15:04 -!- mjr [mjr@aulis.sange.fi] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 15:06 -!- strages [~strages@70.90.224.229] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:07 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:07 -!- mjr [mjr@aulis.sange.fi] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:14 -!- augur [~augur@129.2.129.34] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 15:22 -!- Director_X [432affb1@gateway/web/freenode/ip.67.42.255.177] has quit [Quit: Page closed] 15:23 -!- Juul [~Juul@static.88-198-13-205.clients.your-server.de] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 15:23 -!- Juul [~Juul@static.88-198-13-205.clients.your-server.de] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:36 -!- augur [~augur@pool-74-96-20-124.washdc.east.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:44 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:49 -!- klord [~klord@64.39.0.76] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 16:01 < jrayhawk> What's this about? 16:01 < kanzure> i'm converting hplusmagazine.com from drupal to wordpress 16:17 < Technicus> kanzure: Hello. 16:27 -!- augur [~augur@pool-74-96-20-124.washdc.east.verizon.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:31 -!- augur [~augur@pool-74-96-20-124.washdc.east.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:35 -!- phreedom [~quassel@109.254.17.41] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 16:36 -!- phreedom [~quassel@109.254.17.41] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:42 < kanzure> hi Technicus.. what brings you around? 16:42 < jrayhawk> is there a particular reason you're switching from a CMS with a mediocre security history to one with an atrocious security history? 16:43 < kanzure> convincing them to do anything smart is like pulling teeth 16:43 < kanzure> plus, this way they pay me 16:46 < jrayhawk> so this is their idea rather than yours? 16:46 < kanzure> oh it's very much their idea 16:46 < kanzure> i'd just nuke the entire site from orbit if i was in charge 16:47 < jrayhawk> you seem bad at saying 'no' 16:48 < kanzure> fuckkkk "If Adrian and Forrest (who are closest to the technology and the innovators, and have been for years) do not think this will impede RepRap innovation, I don't think we need to dwell on this too much. Especially since every technology is fully published after the prize is awarded. " 16:49 < kanzure> aka "we're going to promote secrecy in the reprap community because it's less effort for us to consider bryan's 'no-derivative-for-gada-prize-competition' string idea" 16:49 < kanzure> *than for us to consider 16:51 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 16:51 -!- niftyzero1 [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/niftyzero1] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 16:51 < QuantumG> well so far the prize hasn't promoted shit 16:51 < kanzure> QuantumG: there's actually about 10+ teams.. 16:51 < QuantumG> right? 16:51 < kanzure> http://reprap.org/wiki/Gada_Prize 16:51 < QuantumG> I thought you said you had no interest 16:52 < kanzure> in what? 16:52 < kanzure> using that wiki page officially? correct.. 16:52 -!- niftyzero1 [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/niftyzero1] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:52 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:56 < AlonzoTG> http://www.par-metal.com/heatsink.php 16:56 < kanzure> i really realy don't like the "adrian and forrest don't think it's important, so ignore bryan" argument 16:56 < kanzure> forrest has been passing kidney stones for the past week and is still on pain meds (has admitted he hasn't been thinking straight) 16:57 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has quit [Client Quit] 16:58 < AlonzoTG> http://www.partsconnexion.com/product15114.html 16:59 -!- augur [~augur@pool-74-96-20-124.washdc.east.verizon.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:00 < AlonzoTG> http://tubedata.milbert.com/sheets/049/2/2A3.pdf 17:00 < Technicus> kanzure; I am here for exploring what is of interest, also to meet, learn and possibly teach. 17:01 < AlonzoTG> http://emissionlabs.com/datasheets/EML20B.htm 17:01 < kanzure> what can you teach? 17:01 < Technicus> I can teach what I have witnessed from experience and thought. 17:09 * AlonzoTG tries to think of some other random links that nobody's interested in. 17:09 -!- phreedom [~quassel@109.254.17.41] has quit [Quit: No Ping reply in 180 seconds.] 17:09 -!- phreedom [~quassel@109.254.17.41] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:10 < AlonzoTG> =\ 17:12 < AlonzoTG> You havto admit that the EML20B is a gorgeous piece of technology. =P 17:15 < AlonzoTG> I guess I'm on everybody's ignore list. =( 17:15 < ThomasEgi> banzai for semiconductors. 17:16 < AlonzoTG> Semiconductors aren't any fun. 17:16 < AlonzoTG> =P 17:16 * AlonzoTG has a 50 year old ST70. 17:17 < ThomasEgi> .. the vaccuum generation... impossible to teach. 17:17 < AlonzoTG> http://dynakitparts.com/store/product.aspx?id=2 17:18 < ThomasEgi> nice piece of nostalgia 17:19 < AlonzoTG> I have it installed in my HT system, 17:19 < AlonzoTG> it's running right now. 17:20 < ThomasEgi> good thing i dont have to pay your electricity bill ;) 17:21 < AlonzoTG> It was only $100, I paid it just now. 17:21 -!- strages [~strages@70.90.224.229] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 17:33 < QuantumG> http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/v12/n3/full/2100131a.html want a copy! 17:35 < kanzure> heh 17:35 < kanzure> "This paper uses psychoanalytic theory to understand the motivation of pro-space activists – people campaigning to increase human activity in outer space. It suggests that activists are motivated by fantasies of a spacefaring civilization, which manifest unconscious phantasies of omnipotence and fusion related to the experience of self in primary narcissism." 17:36 < kanzure> and anti-pro-space enthusiasts have a fantasy of curling up in a ball and dying? 17:37 < ThomasEgi> anti-pro? 17:38 < ThomasEgi> nonusage of doublenegation is prohibited? 17:38 < kanzure> prohibition doesn't work, ask the ruskies 17:45 -!- strages [~strages@wifi.makerslocal.org] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:47 < AlonzoTG> http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/81/fernbach81art.htm 17:56 < superkuh> http://superkuh.com/users/superkuh/Library/000-Engineering/Micromachining%20Using%20Electrochemical%20Discharge%20Phenomenon_%20Fundamentals%20and%20Application%20of%20Spark%20Assisted%20Chemical%20Engraving_%202009.pdf - a thorough and simple guide to machining ~100 micrometer scale structures in glass surfaces. 17:56 < kanzure> where did the electrodischarge machining reprap go? 18:00 < QuantumG> state of the union coverage has begun state of the union coverage has begun 18:00 < QuantumG> http://www.hulu.com/live?current_id=8 18:07 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:09 * AlonzoTG pulls out the rabbit ears to watch the Liar in Chief. 18:21 < fenn> did obama say anything we don't already know? 18:23 < AlonzoTG> He's not saying much of anything. 18:24 < QuantumG> duh.. it's not like he's announcing that he's going to invade Iraq 18:28 < fenn> i was reading a "how to make renewable electricity by 2035" talk yesterday; america has to build a 3GW nuclear reactor every week in order to do it 18:29 -!- Juul [~Juul@static.88-198-13-205.clients.your-server.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 18:31 < QuantumG> nuclear is renewable now? 18:32 < fenn> well, i think it is 18:32 < fenn> opinions may differ 18:32 < QuantumG> umm.. how do you define renewable? 18:33 < fenn> something we can do til the sun blows up 18:33 < QuantumG> "A natural resource is a renewable resource if it is replaced by natural processes at a rate comparable or faster than its rate of consumption by humans." 18:34 < superkuh> With breeder reactors new fissionable material is create by natural processes (humans are natural). 18:34 < superkuh> +d 18:36 < fenn> QuantumG: i suppose if you look at it wrong, bamboo is not a natural resource because eventually we'll run out of carbon dioxide 18:36 < fenn> er, renewable resource 18:38 < fenn> sigh.. television ftl 18:38 < jrayhawk> there is basically an infinite supply of fissile material in the ocean, it's just not economical to start using yet 18:39 < QuantumG> basically infinite eh 18:40 < kanzure> also, in other news, battlestar galactica is really good 18:40 < jrayhawk> http://www.google.com/search?q=uranium+ocean 18:43 < fenn> haha 'uraniferous coal ash' 18:44 < fenn> i remember reading somewhere there's more energy in the coal ash than the coal itself 18:44 < fenn> (in the form of uranium) 18:45 < fenn> the "peak uranium" mindset is the same "let's not even try to think how to make it work" attitude that sunk space solar power in the 1970's 18:53 < fenn> ah found it, "how long will nuclear energy last?" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html 18:54 < superkuh> That isn't even considering non-uranium fissiles. 18:54 < fenn> right 18:59 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:10 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 19:12 -!- strages [~strages@wifi.makerslocal.org] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 19:17 -!- phreedom [~quassel@109.254.17.41] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 19:21 < AlonzoTG> om 19:21 < AlonzoTG> The wind bag finally shut up. 19:24 < QuantumG> anyway, it's over, read this now: http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2011/01/space-colonization-as-savior-of.html 19:25 < Technicus> Thank you for sharing. 19:25 -!- Nomadicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:34 -!- genehacker [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:36 < kanzure> hi genehacker 19:36 < genehacker> hello 19:40 -!- Lukas___ [44c29d04@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.194.157.4] has quit [Quit: Page closed] 19:56 -!- Nomadicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has quit [Quit: KVIrc 4.0.2 Insomnia http://www.kvirc.net/] 20:00 -!- Technicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has quit [Quit: KVIrc 4.0.2 Insomnia http://www.kvirc.net/] 20:02 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.6.161] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:07 -!- Nomadicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:14 < Nomadicus> Hello. 20:16 < kanzure> hi Nomadicus 20:19 < Nomadicus> Do you have much knowledge about engineering Linux drivers? 20:20 < Nomadicus> Specifically I am trying to use a scanner. 20:20 < kanzure> have you tried xsane? 20:20 < kanzure> what is an engineering linux driver? 20:20 < kanzure> is this a special type of driver 20:21 < Nomadicus> It is not supported but some one started "reverse engineering" a driver. 20:22 < Nomadicus> This is causing me sadness. 20:33 -!- klafka1 [~textual@cpe-74-74-152-155.rochester.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Computer has gone to sleep.] 20:36 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-98-239-176-78.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:36 -!- genehacker_ [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:38 -!- genehacker [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 20:39 -!- genehacker_ is now known as genehacker 20:42 -!- eridu [debian-tor@gateway/tor-sasl/eridu] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 20:49 < Nomadicus> ls 20:54 -!- Nomadicus [~kvirc@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has quit [Quit: KVIrc 4.0.2 Insomnia http://www.kvirc.net/] 20:56 -!- Nomadicus [~Technicus@71-89-22-80.dhcp.stcd.mn.charter.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:02 -!- genehacker [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 21:04 -!- genehacker [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:04 < rumb42> Nomadicus: I've got a non-supported scanner, a virtual machine with an old windows install + driver - probably easier 21:05 < Nomadicus> I can not tolerate any Microsoft environments. 21:06 < rumb42> next best choice would be buy a compatible scanner - I can't imagine developing a scanner driver would be 'quick' at all 21:16 < kanzure> good night jerkbutts 21:28 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-98-239-176-78.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:35 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-98-239-176-78.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:40 -!- strages [~strages@wifi.makerslocal.org] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:46 -!- strages [~strages@wifi.makerslocal.org] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 22:23 -!- CryptoQuick [~CryptoQui@c-174-51-232-237.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:25 -!- jmil [~jmil@c-68-81-252-40.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: jmil] 22:27 < kanzure> "These two session were both devoted to various aspects of exploiting / exploring / utilizing the Moon. The first session concentrated on availability of lunar resources mostly. The second focused on considerations of what is needed to build out a lunar presence, especially a self sustaining one and past and present probes." 22:27 < kanzure> http://www.thefulfillment.org/chatlogs/010811ExploitingMoon.htm 22:27 < kanzure> http://www.thefulfillment.org/chatlogs/011511ToTheMoon.htm 22:31 < CryptoQuick> what the hell kind of chat logs are those?? 22:36 < kanzure> second life bullshit 22:37 < CryptoQuick> oh, hahaha 22:37 < CryptoQuick> I was like... damn, those names sound like radical faeries or something 22:38 < kanzure> everyone in second life has genderbending meta-philosophical woes or something 22:38 < kanzure> it's a username get over it :/ 22:38 < kanzure> (i mean, they should get over it, not you) 22:38 < CryptoQuick> mine was "Crypto Quicksand" ;D 22:38 < CryptoQuick> you spend much time in the cyberspace? 22:38 < kanzure> i thought i was in cyberspace 22:54 -!- delinquentme [~delinquen@c-98-239-176-78.hsd1.pa.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 22:56 < genehacker> is that moon stuff about the recent proposal to mine the moon for fuel?' 23:05 -!- genehacker [~chatzilla@cpe-70-112-176-113.austin.res.rr.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] --- Log closed Wed Jan 26 00:00:10 2011