This mosquito laser has been working for 11 years but is owned by a patent troll [intellectualventures.com] more interested in lawsuits than in helping the 400,000 children who die from malaria every year.
and what happens when those children have ten children and those children have ten moer and the country is now filled with 100x more people ?
Is there a prize for getting more and more children except having nothing else ?
Reductions in infant and child mortality are generally tied to reduced birth rates, not higher. High birth rates in poor countries are in large part (but not entirely) based on ensuring that some of them make it to adulthood. As infant and childhood survival rates go up, birth rates tend to go down.
They tend to go down, problem is they arent going down fast enuff. If anything pops are skyrocketting because the balance of death and surviving childhood are broken today.
Look at africa, countries there are overpopulated and have far too many kids NOW, and its only getting worse.
You're not going to get to 2.1 overnight. Fertility rates in Africa peaked at about 6.7 from about 1960 to about 1973. It's down to about 4.25 now (about a 37% reduction) and the projected trend is to reach population replacement rate by the end of the century. Maybe it will go down faster as conditions improve, but until conditions improve, it's going to remain relatively high.
> 3. It's down to about 4.25 now (about a 37% reduction) and the projected trend is to reach population replacement rate by the end of the century
Thats bullshit, watch any tv show or clip of africa and the kids clearly outnumber the adults. Theres no way each mum only has 2 kids. Any doco on a town or village, clearly tells the story of a woman with at least 5 kids.
Wow thats really smart, yes lets tell africans its good to have 10 kids each and when their country doubles in people every 10 years its a good thing.
Yes a city with a 100M is perfect sensible, with shit floating in the streets, and rubbish everywhere because of too many people.
You cant have it all, if everyone has 5 kids tomorrow or the day after tomorrow when their country is stripped bare , the water runs out, famines etc the dead will be 10x larger.
We as a planet dont have a choice, we cant have it all.
Right, that's what patent trolls due for a living. They destroy real use of the technology, while sucking out legal fees far in excess of the legitimate profit justified by what the patent actually does.
This usually happens because manufacturing is hard, and most of the money to be made from an invention is usually the money made by successfully running a factory.
Nobody can say what the cost of hardware would really be if a thousand Indian and Chinese manufacturers and engineers spent a few years out-cheaping each other.
Right, Except there is a minimum cost, and the minimum is likely going to be more than 50$ (which a conservative minimum and is about the cost of a cell phone with a camera and a lidar both of which are produced at scale currently, I think a safer bet would be 200$, the reason for this being the need for precise optics and lenses for both camera and laser)
A mosquito net is ~3$ a can of deet is about that much. Right now the cost of the prototype mosquito fence looks to be at least 5k$
Intellectual Ventures isn't actually a patent troll. When he left Microsoft and was looking for something new to do Myrvold saw lots of interesting patents that were not being used, mostly because good inventors tend to be shitty managers. IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies to get them out in the world rather than letting them sit dormant. They don't just sit on them and sue anyone doing anything even vaguely similar like a typical patent troll.
" IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies to get them out in the world rather than letting them sit dormant."
If you speak from experience, I would like to talk to you. hkeithhenson at gmail.
When the Asian hornets started invading France, I tried to talk to them about licensing the mosquito laser. The idea was to upgrade it to kill hornets and install systems in bee yards.
My experience at IV was as a contracted security engineer setting up access control and security video at the headquarters and later the lab about a decade ago. (I think the lab has since moved to a different building.) The people that I worked with, administrative and management folks mostly, seemed quite proud of the organization they were associated with and the things that they were doing. My understanding is that they worked mostly with manufacturers, so a laser or farm equipment manufacturer would
Typically what I think of patent trolls are IP holders who spend more time in court suing anyone doing anything vaguely like whatever they hold the IP of.
Well, then look up what the word means and figure out it isn't defined as, "companies who sue more than cusco likes," but is instead based on weather they sue people for a making the product when they don't even make it themselves.
While the practice of patent trolling is not illegal, a company that acts as a patent troll files patent claims without any intention of ever developing a product or service. - - - - - This doesn't describe IV, as their main source of revenue is companies to which they license the IP that they hold. Yes, they'll sue if the believe someone is infringing their (imaginary) property, but that's not their main line of business.
LOL, I'm not even going to read all your words. What I saw was that you chose to quote investopedia.
That's a great resource for learning about the stock market. But why would you think stock brokers would be the people defining words like this? Give me a break.
Maybe do a search at this website called "slashdot" and you can learn about what the word means in actual use.
Actually the price for one of these lasers can provide thousands of free mosquito nets, which are more effective. Mervold donated the price of a couple of them to the Gates Foundation to do just that. The mosquito laser is a cool toy though, I watched it in their lab when I was there working on their security system. It targets only female mosquitoes of the species which can carry malaria and ignores the rest, since mosquitoes are an integral part of many ecosystems.
Oh, Intellectual Ventures. I hate those f'ers, and I mean I hate them personally. Used to be in the same office complex as them in Bellevue WA. You should have seen the exotic cars (lambos and bugattis) they raced around in the parking deck with absolutely no concern for pedestrians on their way to work.
I just want a robot laser to zap weeds, I don't care if it's cost effective. I have killed many a weed in my day as there are many many weeds in my area.
They're made in Mexico, with one phone call, they transport themselves right up to your doorstep. Just feed them them some tacos and a couple of liters of Coca Cola
Oh look, another worthless drive-by comment by Slashdot's pecker whacker. Tell us Cwiss, why do you persist on posting on a site you yourself describe as "Slashdot is just a pale imitation of itself these days."
Is that because you yourself are a pale imitation of a human being? A bloated fat mess?
Why do you spend so much time and energy on a website you trash? Is it because it's part of your mental disorder of always giving yourself a way out if things don't work your way?
Is a five year contract at half the local poverty rate and no health insurance really that" nice"? Where you have to struggle to afford a tiny studio apartment?
You obviously want money, which is why you bounce around from one nonsensical money making scheme to another.
Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.
Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always
Someone asked why I work in government IT for the last seven years. As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." The federal workforce is aging out. At 51YO, I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience. Five-year employment contracts are nice.
You are such a liar creimer! We have access to all your Internet traffic and I can guarantee that nobody asked you about this. You made everything up as usual, you delusional stupid fool!
"I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience": More like an old delusional 52 year-old oaf with a 7 year-old brain and with an experience of 1 month for a normal person.
Hey creimer! I think that I have just got a very brilliant idea to fix your dying YouTube channel! Here it is: you should create your own reality show and publish it on your channel. I am sure that you would get billions of views! Given the point where you are at currently with your channel, you have nothing to lose really! That would be quite a pivot for you since you say that you are used to pivot!
Here is what I envision, I can't possibly envision how the concept could be trademarked so just copy it like
Someone asked why I work in government IT for the last seven years. As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." The federal workforce is aging out. At 51YO, I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience. Five-year employment contracts are nice.
As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." Did he tell you if the job description asked for a big oaf? It must have and the recruiter must have seen a perfect fit when he saw you!
Hey creimer the schemer! Since you say you know what are doing and that your schemes are search friendly thus guaranteed to work, why don't you prove it to us once and for all?
Here is what I suggest: Go to Shark Tank and ask for money to buy more video gear so you will be able to do even more precise videos!
I bet you 50$ that Mr. Wonderful, a Canadian, will crush you like the cockroach you are! You have nothing to lose in trying and failing again creimer since it is the story of your life just like the post
You dare giving lessons to Jayz2Cents which has 3.32M subscribers for 1,553 published videos. That's an average of 2138 subscribers for every video that he published.
Not a good move IMHO but creimer says he has secret and trademarked marketing/scam strategies at his disposal so, who knows? CROFLOL!
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to make one of these for a home garden.
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I want someone to make one of these for mosquitoes.
Mosquito Laser [youtube.com]
This mosquito laser has been working for 11 years but is owned by a patent troll [intellectualventures.com] more interested in lawsuits than in helping the 400,000 children who die from malaria every year.
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Reductions in infant and child mortality are generally tied to reduced birth rates, not higher. High birth rates in poor countries are in large part (but not entirely) based on ensuring that some of them make it to adulthood. As infant and childhood survival rates go up, birth rates tend to go down.
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You're not going to get to 2.1 overnight. Fertility rates in Africa peaked at about 6.7 from about 1960 to about 1973. It's down to about 4.25 now (about a 37% reduction) and the projected trend is to reach population replacement rate by the end of the century. Maybe it will go down faster as conditions improve, but until conditions improve, it's going to remain relatively high.
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Thats bullshit, watch any tv show or clip of africa and the kids clearly outnumber the adults. Theres no way each mum only has 2 kids. Any doco on a town or village, clearly tells the story of a woman with at least 5 kids.
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Welcome to the world, racist.
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From what I remember the mosquito laser is not economically viable
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Right, that's what patent trolls due for a living. They destroy real use of the technology, while sucking out legal fees far in excess of the legitimate profit justified by what the patent actually does.
This usually happens because manufacturing is hard, and most of the money to be made from an invention is usually the money made by successfully running a factory.
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Due to the cost of the hardware alone
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Right, Except there is a minimum cost, and the minimum is likely going to be more than 50$ (which a conservative minimum and is about the cost of a cell phone with a camera and a lidar both of which are produced at scale currently, I think a safer bet would be 200$, the reason for this being the need for precise optics and lenses for both camera and laser)
A mosquito net is ~3$ a can of deet is about that much. Right now the cost of the prototype mosquito fence looks to be at least 5k$
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Have you ever even heard of laser engravers, or makers?
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Intellectual Ventures isn't actually a patent troll. When he left Microsoft and was looking for something new to do Myrvold saw lots of interesting patents that were not being used, mostly because good inventors tend to be shitty managers. IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies to get them out in the world rather than letting them sit dormant. They don't just sit on them and sue anyone doing anything even vaguely similar like a typical patent troll.
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" IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies to get them out in the world rather than letting them sit dormant."
If you speak from experience, I would like to talk to you. hkeithhenson at gmail.
When the Asian hornets started invading France, I tried to talk to them about licensing the mosquito laser. The idea was to upgrade it to kill hornets and install systems in bee yards.
No luck whatsoever.
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My experience at IV was as a contracted security engineer setting up access control and security video at the headquarters and later the lab about a decade ago. (I think the lab has since moved to a different building.) The people that I worked with, administrative and management folks mostly, seemed quite proud of the organization they were associated with and the things that they were doing. My understanding is that they worked mostly with manufacturers, so a laser or farm equipment manufacturer would
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"IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies"
This is what a patent troll does.
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Typically what I think of patent trolls are IP holders who spend more time in court suing anyone doing anything vaguely like whatever they hold the IP of.
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Well, then look up what the word means and figure out it isn't defined as, "companies who sue more than cusco likes," but is instead based on weather they sue people for a making the product when they don't even make it themselves.
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https://www.investopedia.com/t... [investopedia.com]
While the practice of patent trolling is not illegal, a company that acts as a patent troll files patent claims without any intention of ever developing a product or service.
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This doesn't describe IV, as their main source of revenue is companies to which they license the IP that they hold. Yes, they'll sue if the believe someone is infringing their (imaginary) property, but that's not their main line of business.
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LOL, I'm not even going to read all your words. What I saw was that you chose to quote investopedia.
That's a great resource for learning about the stock market. But why would you think stock brokers would be the people defining words like this? Give me a break.
Maybe do a search at this website called "slashdot" and you can learn about what the word means in actual use.
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Just picked one at random, the pretty much all say the same thing.
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"IV buys patents and then licenses them to companies"
This is what a patent troll does.
You're a moron. This is what a moron does.
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Actually the price for one of these lasers can provide thousands of free mosquito nets, which are more effective. Mervold donated the price of a couple of them to the Gates Foundation to do just that. The mosquito laser is a cool toy though, I watched it in their lab when I was there working on their security system. It targets only female mosquitoes of the species which can carry malaria and ignores the rest, since mosquitoes are an integral part of many ecosystems.
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but zapping a mosquito is *so* much more satisfying than screening it out . . .
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I want someone to make one . . .
. . . fot humans!
-- Zorlac of Baaal
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to make one of these for a home garden.
It is way too big for a home garden.
This may be a better fit: Tertill Garden Weeding Robot [amazon.com].
I am skeptical if this is a cost-effective way of weeding a home garden.
I use teenaged forced labor: I unplug the router until the tomato patch is weed-free.
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I just want a robot laser to zap weeds, I don't care if it's cost effective. I have killed many a weed in my day as there are many many weeds in my area.
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"I use teenaged forced labor: I unplug the router until the tomato patch is weed-free."
My kingdom for a mod point. Bravo! If only I still had any, and my grandchild is still in diapers.
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They're made in Mexico, with one phone call, they transport themselves right up to your doorstep. Just feed them them some tacos and a couple of liters of Coca Cola
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I though Fanta was the Mexican drink of choice...
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Twist: Written by a Canadian, due to fleeing Muricans.
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There were less than eleven thousand US immigrants to Canada in 2019. /yawn
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Tertill Weeding Robot
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... [kickstarter.com]
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Oh look, another worthless drive-by comment by Slashdot's pecker whacker. Tell us Cwiss, why do you persist on posting on a site you yourself describe as "Slashdot is just a pale imitation of itself these days."
https://cdreimer.com/ktbb/2017... [cdreimer.com]
Is that because you yourself are a pale imitation of a human being? A bloated fat mess?
Why do you spend so much time and energy on a website you trash? Is it because it's part of your mental disorder of always giving yourself a way out if things don't work your way?
Yo
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Is a five year contract at half the local poverty rate and no health insurance really that" nice"? Where you have to struggle to afford a tiny studio apartment?
You obviously want money, which is why you bounce around from one nonsensical money making scheme to another.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.
Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always
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What could possibility go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong is your usual crammar, Cwiss.
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Someone asked why I work in government IT for the last seven years. As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." The federal workforce is aging out. At 51YO, I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience. Five-year employment contracts are nice.
You are such a liar creimer! We have access to all your Internet traffic and I can guarantee that nobody asked you about this. You made everything up as usual, you delusional stupid fool!
"I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience": More like an old delusional 52 year-old oaf with a 7 year-old brain and with an experience of 1 month for a normal person.
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Hey creimer! I think that I have just got a very brilliant idea to fix your dying YouTube channel! Here it is: you should create your own reality show and publish it on your channel. I am sure that you would get billions of views! Given the point where you are at currently with your channel, you have nothing to lose really! That would be quite a pivot for you since you say that you are used to pivot!
Here is what I envision, I can't possibly envision how the concept could be trademarked so just copy it like
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How about a vacuum cleaner?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Boy you sure looked young back then, you look rough now.
A 48 year old modest virgin with fifteen websites about himself. So modest.
And who buys a 700$ vacuum cleaner is whoever wants to, fat man.
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Someone asked why I work in government IT for the last seven years. As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." The federal workforce is aging out. At 51YO, I'm a young whippersnapper with 25 years of tech experience. Five-year employment contracts are nice.
As the recruiter told me, "Once you're in, you're in for life." Did he tell you if the job description asked for a big oaf? It must have and the recruiter must have seen a perfect fit when he saw you!
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Hey creimer the schemer! Since you say you know what are doing and that your schemes are search friendly thus guaranteed to work, why don't you prove it to us once and for all?
Here is what I suggest: Go to Shark Tank and ask for money to buy more video gear so you will be able to do even more precise videos!
I bet you 50$ that Mr. Wonderful, a Canadian, will crush you like the cockroach you are! You have nothing to lose in trying and failing again creimer since it is the story of your life just like the post
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You dare giving lessons to Jayz2Cents which has 3.32M subscribers for 1,553 published videos. That's an average of 2138 subscribers for every video that he published.
Not a good move IMHO but creimer says he has secret and trademarked marketing/scam strategies at his disposal so, who knows?
CROFLOL!
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Well, there's the Tertill. I want one, but my wife won't let me pay $400 for a weeding robot. It's a cool concept, though.
https://tertill.com/collection... [tertill.com]
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Well, there's the Tertill. I want one, but my wife won't let me pay $400 for a weeding robot. It's a cool concept, though.
$400 would buy a lot of mulch. I have no trouble with weeds when my garden is mulched.