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Admito que la escribo antes de haber leído el artículo. Pero el titular que ponen en Reddit a la noticia me ha hecho pensar:

The absurdity of HSBC bankers skating on serious drug money laundering charges while the Secret Service hunts down a 26-yr-old for downloading too many scholarly articles is an example of our justice system’s chillingly warped priorities.

La respuesta que se me ocurre es que en la justicia americana, como en cualquier otra ahora mismo, muy presionada por grandes corporaciones, trata de ser ejemplarizante con los casos relativos a Internet. Las sentencias tratan de sentar precedente y acojonar a los que vendrán. Qué bien nos vendría algo así para lidiar con la corrupción política.

26-year-old Internet activist’s tragic suicide raises questions about prosecutorial overreach

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Nunca viene mal tener ases en la manga para cualquier posible brainstorming startupero. Aquí van dos de los míos: las líneas y grupos de investigación de las facultades de Informática de la Autónoma y la Complutense.

Aquí la Autónoma.

Aquí la Complu.

Extraído de este artículo de Entrepreneur.com

1. Re-imagine a familiar situation. To think more creatively, consider alternatives to obvious choices. If you assume that a restaurant will buy and prepare the ingredients for your meal, then make a list of other options. Perhaps the customers bring their own ingredients for the chef to prepare, or the restaurant provides ingredients that customers cook at their tables. “Think of opposites or radical differences,” Staw says.

That exercise can lead to exciting new business ideas. For example, companies like Bag Borrow or Steal and Rent the Runway, which both allow customers to rent high fashion goods, started as alternatives to the assumption that we have to own our wardrobes.

2. Practice breaking the rules. ”To learn how to act creatively, you have to violate norms,” Staw says. Practice breaking the rules with harmless violations that might be embarrassing or uncomfortable, like asking to read a poem over the loudspeaker at the grocery store, or offering to help the usher hand out programs at a play.

It’s okay if you get shot down — the point is to get comfortable trying options that most people would rule out immediately. Staw calls these “lessons in chutzpah” because they help you gather the nerve to take creative risks. Just thinking of rules to bend promotes creativity because you force your brain out of its comfort zone.

You can also look for ways that others are breaking norms. For example, Staw’s son discovered that teenage girls like mismatched socks, so he created LittleMissMatched, a colorful teen clothing line.

3. Make a list of things that bother you. As you go about your day, Staw suggests creating a “bug list,” or a list of annoyances. You might list slow internet or noisy air conditioner units. “Usually, if something has bothered you, that means there’s a hole in the service,” Staw says.

By thinking of possible solutions, you may stumble on a product opportunity. For example, one frustrated inventor created a stemware tether to stop wine glasses from chipping in the dishwasher.