On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ed Hagopian <edhagop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Colonel Wiedenman is managing both the grant for the high school program
> and a $3.5 million grant to the retail start-up TechShop<http://www.techshop.ws/> (it
> is a bit like a Kinko’s, but instead of copiers, members pay to use laser
> cutters). As part of that contract, Darpa employees will have access to
> TechShop’s tools after midnight, when the doors are closed to the public,
> since Darpa has no lab space of its own.*
> *
> *
> That is funny as hell. The DARPA kids don't have their own toys to play
> with so they made arrangements to use the hackerspaces'.

> Ok. So here is a lovely hypothetical for us - DARPA comes a callin with
> cash on hand. Do we accept it? And for arguments sake lets say they have no
> influence on whatever projects are being worked on, but they do ask for at
> least access to whatever it is we come up with.

> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 4:11:01 PM UTC-5, neeboy wrote:

>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/**10/06/us/worries-over-defense-**
>> dept-money-for-hackerspaces.**html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/us/worries-over-defense-dept-money-...>

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