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List of Genius Ideas
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* child-renting service (metallic)

  rent children to hormonal women by the hour. everybody wins, especially the
  children.

* tater tits (evulish)

  Tater tots shaped like breasts would revolutionize the food industry.

  Everyone likes breasts, thefore everyone would love tater tits!

* a rent-a-gun service! 1-800-RENT-A-GUN

  rent guns out by the hour, ammo is by-the-bullet.  in today's hectic world,
  do you really have time to buy a gun, or keep up with the latest trends in
  gun-fashion? leave it to us!

* artificial rainforest in Antarctica

  hey, if they have artificial indoor skiing in the desert, why not?

* "robot" drivers

  we can do robot drivers today! in fact, many jobs can be accomplished by
  a human, remotely, via computer.

  in fact, the general populace is so fascinated with the combination of
  The Same Old Thing done in a novel way that people will PAY US to do our
  work for them.

  a whole new future economy built upon an underclass of remote workers
  working out of tiny one-room apartments is just waiting to be born.

* hand sanitizer / alcoholic beverage (evulish)

* compute cycle commodities market
  design and build a platform for commercial distributed computing and get
  people to install it. sell time on the grid to the highest bidder.
  why? the most-run application on the planet in terms of cycles is the
  Windows System Idle Process

* a timeline of human history plotting the evolution of modern human
  activities in an attempt to clarify how modern activities and interests are
  tied to the past.

* a coffee pot with a heater that will only function when the pot has water in
  it. coffee pots tend to crack when heated empty.

* smart traffic lights. 

* design a cheap kit for converting existing gas-powered automobiles to other
  fuels, since we'll have lots of cars sitting around after we run out
  of oil

    SCOOPED: http://e-volks.com/kit3.html

* reconstruct the entire structure of a local network by passively capturing
  all available packets and against a predefined set of 'fingerprints',
  allowing one to make an educated guess as to what is on the network and what
  hardware, operating system and applications are generating the traffic.

    I implemented a rudimentary system of this type in 2006 with my LANMap
    program <URL: http://parseerror.com/lanmap/>, which people seem to like
    and it even made in into Debian. But a far slicker implementation is
    possible.

    Apparently Windows Vista has a feature called Network Map which does this
    to a degree <URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/networking.aspx?tabid=1&catid=1>
    although it looks limited; also, it's unclear if it is passively
    generated.

* a filesystem that supports things useful operations that I want to do, like
  prepending, insertion/modification/deletion at arbitrary locations,
  etc. in reasonably good time.

* transfer native processes between machines
  I want to be able to start an application, any application, on one
  desktop, and then drag it to another desktop of another machine and I
  want the app to continuing running on the new machine. why don't we
  already have this? this would be tricky, but goddammit, i want it

    VMotion sort of does this:
      http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/vmotion_features.html

* spacial password pattern recognizer
  figure out if your password is a simple keyboard pattern, i.e.
  "qwerty", "asdf", "1q2w3e4" or "1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb"

* A long-term news aggregation and analysis project
  Track long-term trends