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Technology that can save lives: a new insulin pump

This post is OT in my blog but I think this news on TechCrunch needs attention, because technology should always be created keeping “life” in mind, any form of life.

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The open source scooter

When I saw that yesterday… I had to take a picture :D

Malaguti Firefox

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Hilarious PHP code snippet

function setParameter( $c ) { $this->parameter = $n; }

:) :) :)

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Evolutionary energy

While the orbo machine demonstration has been postponed again (and I’m going to postpone also my comments about the machine), I’d like to point out some other interesting projects:

and the best Italian website/forum about the MEG (Motionless Electromagnetic Generator) and free energy.

…google for more info…

hey, remember I’m not a physicist :)

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Google has a huge solar project

I didn’t know that but Google is doing a really good work with solar energy, producing something like 9-10,000 KW/h every day!

Check the Google Solar Panel Project.

Actually I don’t think solar energy could solve the energy problem but… waiting for someone to invent something better, I say “good work” to Google.

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reCAPTCHA: good job

I don’t like captcha systems too much, they take you too much time to type unreadable alphanumeric strings, today I found a new project by Carnegie Mellon University: reCAPTCHA and it looks like this:

reCAPTCHA screenshot

I like the interface, it could be nice to have only one captcha system for all websites, so visitors wouldn’t have to understand different UI from a website to another.

reCAPTCHA is a webservice and it’s free thus it’s easy to integrate, just a note:

The only reason we would charge is if you are a large corporation that uses a lot of our bandwidth, or if you require special services from us.

How much “a lot” is? I would prefer a clearer contract. Actually I would prefer an open development model.

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The problem with free software? Fragmentation

I feel this as a big problem in Italy because of my involvment in some free projects, I don’t know if it’s the same in other countries but I can imagine that’s pretty the same situation.

A free project is created starting from an idea of a single person, some other joins, some other say “hey I want to do this instead of this” and create another project. What’s the result? The failure of at least one of the projects.

It’s absolutely sad to see good projects dying because people can’t find common objectives and work together!

If you come second, don’t impose your ideas, join the community and work for it, if you really want to contribute put down your own pride and work for the free software, not only for yourself and your name!

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