As someone else pointed out, that's Moxie's other project, Convergence. The trouble with "web of trust" schemes like that is fake "people", i.e. dummy accounts. Dummy account generators have trashed Craigslist, turned Hotmail into a reply service for spammers, garbaged Gmail, filled Google+ with fake accounts, and created vast numbers of bogus Yelp reviews. See my paper "Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social." for the details of who does that dirty work.

The trouble with crowdsourcing is that crowds can be outsourced.

• The National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This is what's used to check who can buy a gun. It's currently a kludge, works differently in some states, and is up only 17 hours a day. (It's down on Xmas.) There should be an app for that.
• E-Verify , for checking whether someone is authorized to work in the United States. There should be an app for that. Then there would be no excuse for not checking.

One app for the left, and one app for the right.

I have a TechShop membership, and have spent a lot of time there. What goes on there is mostly not all that high-tech. Most of it is hobby artwork. Some people are repairing cars. Others are making furniture. The electronics facilities are basic and little used. Much of the machine shop usage is by pros from companies nearby that need some machining done.

At times, it's rather pathetic. iPhones and iPads are made in China. Here in Silicon Valley, we have people making bamboo cases for them, and cheap plastic things to hold them on dashboads with suction cups.

Medical devices should not have Internet access.

Receiving time from a GPS receiver is much safer. That's a broadcast signal with a fixed message format.

Until this, few phones sent your audio to a third party. The telco had to have the audio stream, but they don't store it. Telcos are regulated in this area. Even for wiretaps, US telcos don't store audio; they forward it in real time to law enforcement or security agencies.

Then Apple comes along. It starts storing all your audio and recognizing as much of it as possible, escaping liability through a vague EULA. That has to be a concern. How do you know when it's listening? And will you know when Apple changes the rules to something like "we collect all your voice input to improve the quality of voice recognition"?

This is a fairly common scam. Using it to steal Lego bricks puts you in the "American's Dumbest Criminals" category. How did this clown get to be a VP of SAP?

Right. The insiders sold $9 billion in stock. Facebook, Inc, only raised $7 billion. Accel Partners sold about 25% of their Facebook stock. DST Group (Russia) sold 37% of theirs.

Facebook is probably worth around $10 a share. Even that assumes 10% growth for the next 10 years, which is rather good. It's entirely possible that Facebook may not be a big deal as social moves to mobile.

Clearly, the DoD criteria for military movies don't include the movie making any sense. The U.S. Navy supported "Battleship".

A Navy vs. aliens movie might make sense. "Battleship" isn't it. (It does beat "The Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (1966), but it cost about 100x as much to make.) One based on a board game is an indication that Hollywood really is out of ideas. They've already done all the fairy tales (there are two Snow White movies this year), all the top-tier comic book characters, many of the second-tier comic book characters, and have made sequels to almost everything that ever turned a profit. ("Police Academy 8" is in development.)

Now this is how a real board looks. All the outward facing connectors are on one edge. The connectors are of types suitable for external connections, properly mounted hard to the board. The board has mounting holes.

There will probably be additional models. Note that the silk screen shows spaces for two more ICs that aren't populated here.

It's even assembled in Great Britain.

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That site has such intrusive code that Firefox 12 with high security settings won't even display it.