2009-04-14.log

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kanzurepaper has been archived08:10
kanzurepaper-sharing mailing list: http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/papers08:58
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kanzureis frankhardy == wildcatcad?10:51
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kanzurefenn: where is the lifecycle-assessment machine comic strip image?11:11
kanzureok, found it11:12
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facefacehttp://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5904/106511:29
facefaceI'm thinking about modelling embryogenisis for the purposes of 'growing form x' from a pre-defined genetic circuit 11:29
facefaceReconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy11:29
facefacewhat a crappy article! plz ignore me11:39
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kanzureHello truename.12:41
truenamehey.. I've been perusing the open manufacturing list and I saw a link to here12:41
kanzureAh, awesome.12:42
kanzureYou're in the right place.12:42
truenameis this channel about biohacking, open manufacturing type stuff or just everything?12:42
truenameah k12:42
kanzureboth12:42
kanzuretruthfully those two things are the same thing12:42
truenameyeah but open manufacturing has less well developed hardware for macroscopic self-replication.. so far12:44
kanzureheh, we're working on that :)12:44
truenamehence the taking over the world topic..12:45
kanzurethat's just a joke about pinky and the brain12:46
kanzurewe're not actually rabid world conquerors12:46
truenameyeh12:46
truenamei read that wired article posted to the list about hacker spaces.. i didn't realize there was a whole movement behind that.. I thought i was going to have to move to SF to go to techshop12:47
truenameturns out there's a hackerspace type place assembling in pittsburgh12:48
kanzureso, techshop isn't hackerspaces, and techshop isn't fablab12:49
kanzurethese are actually different individual movements12:49
kanzuretechshop is a gym-model machine shop of sorts, where you aren't allowed to build your own tools12:49
kanzurefablabs tend to be more academic :/12:49
kanzurehackerspaces tend to be more "let's glue LEDs together"12:49
truenamewhich is about the extent of my hardware knowledge :(12:50
truenameI'm a programmer, but the reprap and macro scale replication stuff fascinates me, and is why I'm here really12:52
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katsmeow-afknow i remember, i have all *!*@*hsd*.pa.comcast.net on ignore because of someone else12:56
kanzuretruename: good, good. recently we've been playing around with http://pythonocc.org/13:06
kanzurefenn: there's an API ref generator script if you haven't seen it, it comes with the svn repository.13:09
kanzurebut that doesn't tell you anything, and I haven't seen the OCC 5.1 docs to compare it13:10
kanzurehttp://cc.aljazeera.net/ "creative commons repository"13:14
kanzureyay CC repos are starting to appear13:14
kanzureoh wait, nevermind, it's just a gallery of bullshit13:15
fennare you talking about doxygen the documentation generator?13:17
fennbecause that's totally worthless13:18
fenni can get that info better and more accurately by looking at the source13:18
fennthe help file i'm looking at tells you really basic thing like what the acronyms stand for and what the software is capable of, and some tiny bits of sample code13:19
fennwildcat-cad is graham somethingorother13:19
fennfrank hardy is just someone trying to play with it13:20
kanzureoh, were they using doxygen? they had some sort of html-frames thingy, and now that I think about it, it did look like standard doxygen generated stuff13:21
* kanzure hunts for a microphone13:21
* katsmeow-afk presents one13:22
fenntruename: techshop is bullshit anyway13:22
truenamei think this concept of community run hacker spaces based on european computer clubs is more what I originally imagined techshop to be13:28
fennno it's actually a bunch of greedy corporate scumbags setting up a 'company store' type of franchise.. people just haven't realized it yet13:39
fennthey get lots of free publicity from various publishing companies for some reason13:40
fennor maybe it's not so free13:40
fennpretty cool book on life cycle assessment http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/Contents.html14:11
fennyou have to manually edit the url to go to next page for some reason14:11
fennonly talks about energy though14:12
fennheh there's a chapter about nuclear bombs14:27
fenn'how much energy would the lucky recipients have received if the bombs were used?'14:28
fennthe answer: about 3 times the energy that went into making the bombs in the first place14:29
genehackerlooks like they might have started making my reprap parts again15:05
genehackersaw the xaxis slide in a print tray15:06
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fenngenehacker: regarding delivery by UAV's you may wish to read appendix C for reassurance that it is indeed feasible and practical http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/ps/253.326.pdf15:48
kanzureAdapted liquid crystal display backlighting unit for densitometry of stained polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels15:52
genehackerhmmm...15:54
genehackerDNA synthesis is more fun though15:54
genehackerhttp://metasurfing.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-of-new-age-of-wind-power.html15:54
genehackergeez15:54
genehackerI am surprised at the amount of power a kite generator can put out15:54
genehacker6MW with something the size of a 74715:55
genehacker10 kw with something about the size of a piano15:57
genehackerI need one of those15:57
fenncool animation at the end.. 16:03
fennglad to see makani power is actually doing something16:03
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genehackerit might even be possible to keep a UAV up for months if you make it solar powered16:08
fennwhy months? i'd say indefinitely16:22
fennanyway the point was that the range and efficiency are not dependent on the scale of the plane, only on the fuel, so a small UAV could theoretically go 4000km16:23
fennor 13000km fully loaded with fuel16:27
splicer_...interNIC:s whois look is strangely fucked up right now16:48
splicer_(lookup)16:48
splicer_http://www.internic.net/whois.html16:49
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fennsplicer_: why do you say that? looks fine to me16:52
genehackermechanical breakdown fenn16:55
splicer_hmm.. it works again... it was defunct for the last 5min... no data and different timestamp every time16:55
fenni'd hope you could keep an electric motor going in clear skies for more than a few months16:55
fennthere's no weather at high altitude16:56
genehackerwhat about anvil clouds?16:57
genehackerhmmm...16:57
fennyou avoid them, or just go higher16:57
genehackerI guess if they were brushless16:57
fenneven hobby RC planes use brushless motors16:57
fennso, no weather, no dust, what could go wrong?16:58
genehackeryeah they do16:58
fennvolcanic eruption? meteor impact?16:58
fennlaser beams?16:58
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fennthe only thing stopping this is the FAA16:59
genehackerhmmm17:04
kanzurevolcanic eruption, meteor impact, laser beams17:05
kanzurethings that can destroy the FAA?17:05
genehackerthough solar powered UAVs tend to be small17:05
genehackerwell the FAA has trouble regulating UAVs17:06
genehackerthe technology is cheap enough and ubiquitous enough such that it is now unregulatable17:06
fennwe just need to make volcanoes, lasers, and meteors cheap and ubiquitous17:11
kanzurelasers: check17:22
kanzuremeteors: check. just in the wrong place.17:22
kanzurevlcanoes: ssh, it's where I put my evil lair17:22
fennkanzure: do you have a copy of fab.cba.mit.edu/git-repos ?17:22
fenntrying to make some space on my disk17:23
kanzureyes17:23
kanzurewait17:23
kanzurelet me check before you delete17:23
genehackerhttp://www.clare.com/Products/SolarCell.htm17:23
genehackera solar cell smaller than a penny17:23
genehackerwhat could one use this for?17:23
kanzurefenn: I have about.git, content.git, world.git, academy.git, classes.git17:23
kanzureanything else?17:24
kanzurewhy haven't you picked up your hard drive yet?17:24
* kanzure just finished an interview with Singularity Hub17:24
fennnot enough money17:25
kanzureno gas?17:26
fennhuh?17:26
fennwell the hard drive i'm looking at is $11017:26
kanzureI offered you a free 500 GB hard drive17:26
fennyou did?17:26
kanzureremember?17:26
kanzurefuck..17:26
fennno17:26
kanzureblah17:26
kanzurewell screw you, go ahead and try to delete stuff17:26
kanzureif you don't want it :)17:26
fennno, i want more space, not to delete stuff17:26
kanzureheh.17:26
fenni'd burn to dvd but my dvd's are locked up in the shop17:27
kanzurewell come by any time17:27
fennok where do i go17:28
kanzuredo you know where I live?17:28
fenner... some dorm on campus?17:28
kanzureclose enough17:28
kanzureif you can get to 24th and guadalupe, you're good.17:28
kanzurethe interview: http://heybryan.org/chats/2009-04-14_SingularityHub_interview.html17:30
splicer_I ordered 4TB of disk 2 days ago17:31
fenn"Once you go around the internet a certain number of times, you begin to run into the same people, or the same topics and similarly interesting things." it's true!17:31
kanzuresplicer_: :)17:33
splicer_...i guess that's when you realize you know everything17:33
kanzurefenn: sarcasm?17:34
splicer_(... gonna encrypt the suckers with TrueCrypt i think)17:34
splicer_is it illegal to own pirated material in the us btw? ... is the posession illegal... like with drugs or unlicenced firearms?17:37
bkeroYes17:37
kanzureis my brain an unlicensed firearm?17:38
splicer_can you get into trouble if someone looks at your ipod?17:38
bkeroWe have a thing that not many other countries have, which is a concept of privacy.17:38
splicer_kanzure: na, unhinged maybe17:39
bkeroThe authorities would need a legitimate reason to look at your iPod.  And then a reason to suspect that the music on your iPod is pirated.17:39
bkeroThen they would need to prove that it's pirated.17:39
kanzureif they look at it without a warrant, you have the upper hand17:39
splicer_has that ever happened?17:39
kanzureprobably.17:39
fennsplicer_: my understanding is that it's only illegal to redistribute copyrighted material, not to possess it17:41
splicer_that's the way I understood it too... same law was applied here in 2005.17:42
fennthere is this thing with RIAA claiming you have caused damage to their business by downloading copyrighted material, but that's not really legal as far as i know17:42
fennit's just that most people find it easier to fork over $n dollars to RIAA than $M to lawyers etc17:43
splicer_they have sued successfully17:43
splicer_things were shiny here up until first of april...17:43
splicer_then a law cam into effect that made it possible for copyright holders to request the owner of a specific IP-adress... used to be only the police could.. and they were not allowed to beacuse f the privacy concern... offence was not considered serious enough.17:45
fennblah.. that'll just drive things further into darknets17:47
fenni think they've sued people who dont even own computers17:48
fennso apparently it doesn't even matter17:48
splicer_yes... It was an eyeopener to me that most people don't actually understand what the net is.17:48
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splicer_There is a lobby group here called the Anti Piracy Bureau... they wanted the recent legislation so they would be able to successfully procetute illegal filesharers...17:50
kanzureheh so a friend suggested that I start attending all of the advanced classes and just hang out17:50
kanzuremake some comments about how the professors are all wrong17:50
kanzurehave a good time.17:50
splicer_....when 'the Anti Piracy Bureau' went online, some kids registered 'The Piracy Bureau'...17:52
splicer_...they got a lot of press... and they ended up starting a political party... as a joke: 'The Pirate Party'.17:53
splicer_... but it's getting pretty big now to everyones surprise, their youth section is the second biggest of all political parties here17:54
splicer_in 2 months there is an election for the general assembly of the european parliament, and it looks like 'The Pirate Party' are going to take seats there. 17:56
fennwow17:59
fenni'll believe it when i see it17:59
splicer_The Party switched primary focus from piracy to personal integrity on the net... there was an very unpopular echelon like law passed here late last year.18:04
splicer_There is also the Pirate Bay Trial, which was extremely badly prepared by the prosecution... the ended up looking like assholes in the media.18:05
fennpersonal integrity?18:08
splicer_privacy.. sorry18:08
fennah are you referring to the packet logging of everything to/from russia?18:09
splicer_yes.. that's the one... that would work wouldn't it? ; )18:10
fennseems like they'd just move their servers somewhere else18:10
fennwhoever it was they were trying to catch18:10
splicer_...or use encryption18:10
fennencryption can't hide things after the fact18:11
fennlike "you sent xx gigs of data to this IP"18:11
fennand they can find your keys and decode the data18:11
fennfor example by bashing in your door and taking the computer18:11
splicer_... and freezing my ram18:12
fenneh, good luck with that18:12
splicer_it actually works.. it seems ram keeps most of the data for at least 10min after power is swithed off... 18:14
splicer_it's possible to copy the ram without opening the machine even... one can plug in an USB drive.. boot to that and the only program the usb runs fetches the contents of ram.18:16
fenni'll keep it in mind next time i'm raided by a TLA18:17
fennreboot -> memtest18:17
fennyes, officer?18:18
fennjust doing a monthly memtest, you know18:18
splicer_it's something one would want the motherboard to do automatically18:18
fennyou know i'm surprised nobody's found any hardware backdoors yet18:19
fennor at least they havent been publicized18:19
splicer_you mean the rumors about chinese manufactued PC:s?18:20
fennyeah, there's no reason why intel/U.S. government wouldnt do it too18:22
splicer_is any of it actually manufactured in the US? 18:23
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splicer_my current processor is made in Malaysia18:23
fenni read somewhere that no US manufacturers have the capability to make blank PCB materials18:25
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splicer_I don't know... that's a fast changing world.18:26
splicer_It seems if there were backdoors, it would be a weapon one could use only once. 18:27
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fenntypical spy problem18:27
fennif you've read any vernor vinge stuff he goes into it18:27
splicer_I'm not so big on fiction18:28
fennhttp://vrinimi.org/front9uns.jpg18:28
fennyour loss18:29
splicer_maybe18:30
genehackerblank pcb materials?18:30
fennhttp://vrinimi.org/back9rev.jpg18:30
fenngenehacker: fiberglass with copper foil, mostly18:31
genehackerwhat do you mean?18:31
genehackerfor what are they used for?18:31
genehackerspying?18:31
fennfor making circuit boards18:32
splicer_we were talking about where circuitry was manufactured18:32
genehackeroh18:33
fenntalking about why we haven't seen any chinese hardware backdoors in IC's yet18:33
splicer_i really like the fact that I can encrypt my stuff so noone... absulutely noone can get to it.18:33
genehackerand the possibility of spy chips?18:33
genehackerhow do you know the chinese can't18:33
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genehackerhaven't you heard of content control chips?18:34
fennheh like the V-chip?18:34
genehackerno18:35
genehackerforgot the exact name18:35
genehackerbut it's a pretty scary chip18:35
splicer_I didn't look into that... there were rumours but has anything ever been found?18:35
fennmind control chips?18:35
fennembedded in cell phone towers?18:35
splicer_i have my tinfoil hat for that18:36
genehackerno18:36
fenntinfoil hat can't stop aliens, dude18:36
genehackerhttp://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/05/174523918:36
splicer_good... they can take me home18:36
fennin fact, my sources inform me that most aluminum foil has embedded alien circuitry to amplify the mind control waves18:36
genehackeroh yeah the TPM chip18:37
splicer_... I'm all for bringing porn to the third world18:37
genehackerOther uses18:38
genehackerAlmost any encryption-enabled application can in theory make use of a TPM, including:18:38
genehacker    * Digital Rights Management18:38
genehacker    * Software license protection & enforcement18:38
genehacker    * Password protection18:38
genehackerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module18:38
splicer_checking18:38
genehackerDRM and software license protection and enforcement chipped in is a bit scary18:40
splicer_heh.. i hadn't heard of this ; )18:42
splicer_DRM is one of those things I thought we were  done with... it was tried, it fucked things up, it failed.18:46
splicer_One of the claims of 'The Piracy Bureau' is that file sharing systems are the new printing press. That procecuting TPB is like procecuting the new Gutenberg. 18:58
fennyep, except nobody's figured that out yet except pirates18:59
genehackerheh18:59
fennsee for example the lack of a debtorrent repository, or wikipedia torrent18:59
fennor distributed youtube19:00
fennsurely someone's working on that O-o19:01
genehackerheh youtube has such a selection it's practically youtube19:01
genehackerand backup website that play removed videos19:02
fennsay that again, but make sense19:02
splicer_fenn.. there are some cloud streaming systems... I know one of the skype guys has a project that works along those lines.19:03
fennwhat is 'cloud'? i hear this all the time and it seems to mean different things to different people19:06
kanzureit means bullshit19:06
fennit's like 'disconnected from reality computing'19:07
splicer_what.. you don't like buzzwords all of a sudden? ; )19:07
splicer_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost19:07
splicer_(movies through distributed sources)19:08
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fenni dont get how that could work with a flash player19:11
genehackeryou'd be surprised what flash can do19:12
kanzurewhat people are talking about when they say cloud stuff, they're really just talking about the Amazon S3 API and the Google thingy API19:12
kanzureisn't flash just java except web2.0-ier?19:12
splicer_yeah.. AS3 is.19:13
fennflash doesnt run when the browser isn't open19:13
kanzurefenn: not true :(19:13
kanzureunfortunately :(19:13
fenneh?19:13
kanzureflash can run as a separate app actually19:13
fennbut it's not running in the background as a p2p file sharing server19:14
kanzure./flashinterpreterthingy blah.flashthingy &19:14
fennso you're limited to the upload of users who are currently watching the show19:14
kanzurethen run 'bg'19:14
fennand 99% of DSL/cable modem are much higher download then upload rate19:14
genehackerhttp://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/1319:14
kanzureheybryan.org <- case and point19:15
bkerosdsl is fucking expensive19:15
genehackerlinux is teh evils19:15
bkerowhat19:15
fennoo scaryy "a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on"19:16
fenni guess green on transparent is twice as evil19:16
splicer_obvious terrorist19:17
fennthat whole thing is one non-sequitur after another19:17
fennanyway, joost doesn't fit my definition of p2p19:18
fennor distributed or whatever19:18
fennit's a "user-supplemented" content distribution network19:19
splicer_problem is, a torrent tracker is better.19:19
splicer_yes19:19
fennDHT is better19:19
fennnothing can stop a DHT short of a nuclear bomb19:19
fennand then some19:20
fennmultiple nuclear bombs19:20
fennhum19:20
splicer_hehe.. that came up in the trial btw.. it was one of the things the prosecution learned during trial.19:20
fennwhat what?19:21
bkerogenehacker: give the eff all of your manbabies19:21
splicer_another thing was that the torrent usually pointed to multiple trackers... they assumed that because they downloaded the torrent file from TPB... the download used that tracker.19:21
splicer_This they learned during the third day i think it was of... trial... they hadn't documented what tracker was used. 19:22
kanzurewtf? srsly?19:23
fennd'eaux19:23
fennbtw you can use multiple trackers at once19:23
splicer_There were 2 withesses... that had been paid to download... one hadn't documented it.. the other one said in court he had done it.. but could not produce the documentation whan asked.19:24
splicer_It was just a great trial.19:24
splicer_The funniest thing was... the procecution claimed it was this well organized organization... it was supposed to be lead by a guy who owned a hosting company... he is wealthy... an heir to a big fortune...19:27
splicer_so the prosecution claimed he was the brain... he had paid the youngsters to do this criminal act.. create TPB.19:27
splicer_And after a few days... the whole trial was what.. 10 days maybe... after a few days... they start to understand that noone was in charge... it was a hacker space....19:29
splicer_this wasn't even on the prosecutors map... he just couldn't understand it.19:29
fennthey based a trial on two (paid) witnesses?19:31
fennseems like it'd be worth having a pre-emptive fuckup trial just to muddy the waters19:32
fennact like you're the prosecution but just do a terrible job of things19:32
splicer_They had 2.5 years to prepare the thing... they fucked it up19:32
splicer_There is a rumor why they were raided in the first place... this was discussed in the media at the time19:35
fennum, because the RIAA said to?19:36
splicer_yupp19:36
fennjust goes to show "if you want something done right, do it yourself"19:36
splicer_the rumor is US authorities put pressure on swedish authorities and the swedish minister of justice ordered the raid.19:37
splicer_...after the raid TPB was down for 3 days19:41
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fennkanzure: did you really have a plot of diybio posts per day?19:55
* ybit wonders why the map of hackers linked to from diybio.org is titled "st. louis hackspaces'19:56
ybits/hackers/diybioers19:56
ybithackerspaces*...19:57
ybitor something like that, it was last night when i looked @ it19:57
* fenn wonders what "© Copyright DIYbio 2008" means19:57
ybito.O19:58
ybithmm19:58
ybitmaybe not exclusive, hopefully, surely19:58
splicer_...see.. time for the revolution... come join the biopunks ;)19:59
ybitthat should use the kopimi imho19:59
ybits/that/they19:59
fennis diybio a corporation? (nonprofit?)19:59
ybiti haven't seen mention of it yet20:01
ybitguess jason and mackenzie would be the guys to ask..20:01
ybitdo they ever lurk here?20:01
ybiti saw a 'cowell' at one time20:01
fennyes, cowell is cis-action20:02
fenni remember some news piece that said 'so mac sold his car to start diybio'20:02
fennwhich seems like an odd thing to do20:02
fennmailing lists being free and all that20:03
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ybitperhaps to buy a bunch of cheap off-the-shelf products for the experiments during the meetings...20:04
splicer_maybe to free the time they are putting in20:06
splicer_I'm glad they do it20:06
splicer_There will be others20:07
fennother community labs you mean?20:07
splicer_yeah20:07
fenncertainly; there already are20:07
fennnyc and sf20:07
splicer_what are those called?20:07
ybithuh, there's a diybio igem team this year?..20:07
splicer_really?20:08
fennnoisebridge and, uh.. lemme look20:08
ybithttp://vimeo.com/3454392 it's mentioned @ 3:3120:09
fennok nyc hasnt got a lab yet, they are sort of hanging around NYC-resistor i guess20:09
fennseattle has a lab20:12
splicer_NYC have a blog and a youtube channel I think: http://www.biopunk.org/diybionyc-taking-off-t110.html20:13
splicer_Thank you for noisebridge... i missed that.20:13
ybitah, 20:14
ybitDIYbio iGEM teams, DIYbio Safety Working Group, and a DIYbio symposium at iGEM 200920:14
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fennso, nyc has "We have some gel boxes, a transfer apparatus, a big power supply, a dry incubator, a microfuge, and a water bath. But we have no place to put it yet.20:14
ybitWhy is this spam/nonspam?20:14
ybitMackenzie Cowell20:14
ybit to diybio, diybio-nyc, diybio-boston, diybio---seatt., DIYbio-SF, diybio-announce, diybio-chicago20:14
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ybitshow details Apr 10 (4 days ago)20:15
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ybitSeveral weeks ago the Director of iGEM (my old boss) asked me to drop by to chat.  He basically told me iGEM wasn't going to allow amateur teams for 2009, despite earlier statements to the contrary, for two reasons:20:15
ybit1. iGEM depends on the academic institution of each team to provide a safety framework for that team.  Because there is no formal safety framework or guidelines or precedent for amateur teams working outside of traditional labs, iGEM is afraid of the potential safety liability and doesn't want amateur teams to participate until there is some kind of framework (2010!).20:15
ybit2. Most of iGEM's funding comes from grants to support undergraduate education.  A host of amateurs who are not undergraduates would be supported by grants for undergraduate education, which could be a situation the grantors wouldn't like.  Randy didn't want to take that risk.20:15
ybitack!20:15
* ybit deserves a trout smacking20:15
ybitmeant to paste the email title..20:15
splicer_This is why I'm glad DIYbio exists. They can deal with this. The community needs the biobricks.20:17
fennsomeone needs to make a plasmid with the entire briobricks library on it20:19
fennthen it's a simple matter of ordering pcr primers or making them from scratch20:20
splicer_hehe.. neat20:20
fennand then stick that plasmid in some e. coli and distribute it widely20:21
splicer_...would be a heavy plasmid probably20:21
fennuntil we have desktop dna synthesizers capable of multi-kb oligo's, it's the only way to get widespread diffusion20:22
fennotherwise it costs too much to prepare the library20:22
fennfilter paper is cheap; DNA purification is not20:23
splicer_i don't know enough... isn't it just PCR?20:24
splicer_I have this idea of biopunk in the back of my head... I don't want to deal with wetlabs... i want to design things in cads.20:25
splicer_There is no intristic value in the DIY thing for me20:26
genehacker_that's why I want to make a multi kb gene synth fenn20:27
fennyeah20:27
fennsplicer_: it's essentially a software problem at this point20:27
genehacker_i figure we could easily do at least 65,000 mer20:27
fennsplicer_: the biobricks people just havent provided a formal syntax for how to put the pieces together20:27
fenngenehacker_: i think you'll need some kind of error checking for that20:28
genehacker_or error correction20:28
fennsame thing20:28
fennhave you looked at r. durans yet?20:28
splicer_I feel a bit like when William Gibson bought his first pc... a mac.. and herd this scraping sound... and took it back to the store.. and was dismayed to learn that inside was a lowtech disk spinning really fast.20:28
genehacker_yes20:28
fennmacs didnt have disks inside?20:29
splicer_it was a mac20:29
fenni mean, they didnt have a hard drive20:29
genehacker_http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~allen/PAPERS/grasp.plan.ra03.pdf20:30
fennup until the quadro i think20:30
splicer_Gibson explained that he thought computers were theese chrystalline pure structures.20:30
genehacker_kanzure you interested in topology of mating parts right?20:30
splicer_fenn: maybe it was the floppy20:31
kanzureybit: there is no diybio igem team because igem doesn't like diybio20:31
ybitsí, i gathered that :)20:31
genehacker_so what I want to know is how we can drive an epson printer head20:31
kanzuregenehacker_: yes, I am interested in the topology of mating parts20:32
kanzuregenehacker_: what do you mean 'drive' and what do you mean by 'head'?20:32
kanzuredo you mean an inkjet cartridge holder thingy?20:32
genehacker_the part that sprays the inkdroplets20:33
genehacker_the thing that shoots the ink20:33
genehacker_that you don't replace20:33
fennwhy not just use the printer as-is?20:33
kanzuregasp!20:33
genehacker_because then you have to build an anoxic chamber for it20:33
fennbesides that whole ink-level chip thing, which you can get around by not using an epson printer, but HP instead20:33
fennwell you're going to have to do that anyway20:34
genehacker_there is a reason why I want to use an epson head20:34
fennHP makes piezo heads now20:34
genehacker_replaceable piezo heads?20:34
genehacker_the epson printer I have doesn't have an inklevel sensor20:34
genehacker_and there are various work arounds for that anyway20:35
genehacker_if HP makes replaceable piezo heads then we have a winner20:35
fennwell i'm feeling lazy and dont see anything right off the bat20:36
fennso good luck with your printer endeavors20:36
genehacker_well we just need something that can dispense a precise amount of liquid20:36
kanzureI know it's useless, but there was a neat paper about how to use headphones to dispense precise amounts of liquid20:38
genehacker_that's not useless20:38
genehacker_link to paper20:38
genehacker_this is better than a printer head20:39
genehacker_printer heads are hard to find20:39
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/books/papers/Controlled%20deposition%20of%20picoliter%20amounts%20of%20fluid%20using%20an%20ultrasonically%20driven%20micropipette.pdf20:39
genehacker_wrt headphones20:39
kanzureControlled deposition of picoliter amounts of fluid using an ultrasonically driven micropipette20:39
kanzure"composed of a micropipette astened to a lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric"20:40
kanzurehaha. duct tape!20:40
genehacker_a microplotter, hmmm...20:40
genehacker_how viscous a liquid can this thing put out?20:40
kanzureI saw a recent paper that plotted viscosity of fluids and something about inkjet printers20:42
genehacker_if it pulls liquid back into the syringe it might be a problem20:42
genehacker_hmmm20:42
genehacker_why not make an array of these things to shoot colloidal silica for quick ceramics20:43
kanzuredon't you knowh ow to operate a pipettor?20:43
kanzurehuh?20:43
kanzurean array of these giant things?20:43
genehacker_well I must go now20:43
kanzurehm. this could be used to manufacture small dots of ice.20:44
splicer_kanzure, you're in the BioBricks Foundation?20:44
splicer_There is no hard and fast rule that hinders DIY:ers from getting hold of BioBricks right? It's just that the question hasn't come up?20:48
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fennsplicer_: there is supposed to be a material transfer agreement but in some contexts that can get bypassed21:08
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fenncan't decide whether encryption on a pcr machine is overkill or not21:11
fennit would raise the cost and development complexity significantly21:11
splicer_fenn: thanks... interesting form of open source then.21:12
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kanzurefenn: thanks for those diybio emails.21:35
kanzureI feel like I'm herding really stupid cats there sometimes21:35
kanzureit's like being on damage patrol duty :(21:35
fenni figure nothing's permanent anyway21:36
kanzuredid you read the interview transcript?21:37
fennyeah21:37
kanzurewas there anything I said that was particularly stupid?21:37
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fenn_not that i recall.. i'm not sure i want to be associated with "keiki gels" though :P21:38
kanzureheh.21:38
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kanzureblah, got another email saying I qualify for an fMRI study21:56
kanzurebut I have glasses and no contacts21:56
kanzure"would you like a free fMRI study of your brain?" 21:57
kanzure"uh, hell yes?"21:57
fenni feel like i should go to the shop and work on stuff22:05
fennbut i'd rather watch anime..22:05
fennsuch a cruel world22:05
kanzureyou could do .. both?22:29
fennno, unfortunately22:30
fennonce i get my wearable online22:30
kanzurepfft, laptop?22:30
kanzureum, anyway22:30
kanzureCampbell was trying to propose a new project to me today22:30
kanzurebut I set my foot down and said no,22:31
kanzureso now we're really really doing skdb22:31
fennheh22:31
kanzurejust need to write up some timeline goals for him 22:31
kanzureand I think he's willing to find some funding for it or something22:31
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kanzurefunding in terms of, I mean, stuff to pay me or others or something22:32
fenni dont even know what skdb needs atm22:32
kanzurehuh? I do. I was going to go off and do that face stuff, but then I got distracted and I've been reading papers for the last 36 hours22:32
fennright22:32
genehackerwhat use would ice dots be?22:33
fennfor making molds22:33
kanzuregenehacker: you could pour polymers over it and they set22:33
kanzureyeah22:33
kanzurebut would they melt too quickly? I dunno22:33
genehackeroh rapid freeze prototyping22:33
kanzureyeah22:33
fennjust use polymers that cure at <0C22:33
genehackerI was thinking you were using them for some sort of new food22:33
fennheh like dippin dots22:33
kanzurefenn: we have those?22:34
fenn... and this machine makes DIPPIN DOTS22:34
fenn*ding*22:34
kanzureyay22:34
genehackeryou could also use sodium acetate22:34
genehackerif you could find away to shoot it out rather than contacting the surface22:34
kanzureblow air22:35
genehackerthat might cause the sodium acetate to crystallize22:35
kanzureno, the water I mean22:36
kanzureto make the drop fall off of the pipette tip22:36
kanzurewhat the fuck jonathan22:38
kanzure"graphics are a requirement"22:38
kanzureburn in hell. give me a shell or give me death22:38
fenngraphics in this case being some html forms22:39
fenni mean there's nothing graphical about PCR really22:39
fenna progress bar? what?22:40
fennok off to the shop to get some dvd-r's and maybe do some electronics22:41
genehackergraphics are a requirement for PCR?22:44
kanzuregenehacker: Jonathan Cline is making a thermocycler22:44
kanzureso he wants to write some software for his laptop22:44
kanzureand he wants to make it graphics-only22:44
kanzureinstead of something that you don't have to look at22:44
genehackerwhatisthisidon'teven22:45
genehackeris it going to look like something out a scifi movie?22:45
kanzureuh? why would I know the answer to that?22:45
genehackerI don't know either22:46
genehackera timer perhaps?22:46
fenn... or not. anyway i'm bored22:46
genehackera couple of LEDs?22:47
fennpcr machines mostly look sort of like an overgrown calculator22:50
fenncalculator + test tube tray22:51
fenni dont imagine this would be much different22:51
fennkanzure: i've read all those papers you just forwarded22:55
* fenn pats self on back and puts email in 'done' tray22:55
genehackergood point22:56
kanzurefenn: I don't know if that's good or bad. some of them were bad papers.22:57
fennis 11pm on a tuesday too late for meatspace activities?22:57
kanzureif you have a giant concrete building to play in? nah22:57
fenni mean primate social activities22:58
fenni dont think anyone is in the concrete building22:58
fennat least les isn't answering any phones22:58
fennnot that that means anything22:58
* fenn grumbles about keys22:58
fenn*pout*22:58
fennping reply! response: negatory22:59
genehackerno23:00
kanzurefenn: I still don't have keys to ADL23:00
genehackerit is never too late23:00
genehackerit's called nightlife23:00
* kanzure makes a bat-face23:00
* fenn puts on night-vision goggles23:03
* kanzure mounts ultrasonic transducers on his forehead and runs into things23:05
kanzureor something23:05
fennchair legs :P23:05
fennok so i could use a 500GB hard drive and some fresh air23:06
fennor any hard drive really23:06
kanzureI'll probably be asleep sooner rather than later, so if you want to get it tonight, now would be good23:06
fennok; assuming i'm at 24 & guadalupe, then what?23:06
kanzureyou go to the big tall white building and call me.23:07
kanzureit's one street to the west of guadalupe23:07
fennby subway and italian longhorn?23:08
kanzureso coming up from the south, you could probably take 'san antonio' instead of guadalupe, and get a space out in front.23:08
kanzureyep23:08
kanzuresubway is directly under me.23:08
fennok see you in 20 mins23:08
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kanzureblah, I somehow was booted from my KDE session by removing a hard drive that wasn't wired up? I probably bumped something :/23:12
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