Tootfinder

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency
Siddhant S. Joshi, Preeti Mukherjee, Kirsten A. Davis, James C. Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16632

Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency
Computing systems face diverse and substantial cybersecurity threats. To mitigate these cybersecurity threats, software engineers need to be competent in the skill of threat modeling. In industry and academia, there are many frameworks for teaching threat modeling, but our analysis of these frameworks suggests that (1) these approaches tend to be focused on component-level analysis rather than educating students to reason holistically about a system's cybersecurity, and (2) there is no rubric f…

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

From Concept to Implementation: Streamlining Sensor and Actuator Selection for Collaborative Design and Engineering of Interactive Systems
\.Ihsan Ozan Y{\i}ld{\i}r{\i}m, Ege Keskin, Ya\u{g}mur Kocaman, Murat Ku\c{s}cu, O\u{g}uzhan \"Ozcan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16084

From Concept to Implementation: Streamlining Sensor and Actuator Selection for Collaborative Design and Engineering of Interactive Systems
Selecting appropriate sensors and actuators is a pivotal aspect of design and engineering, particularly in projects involving interactive systems. This article introduces the Design Thinking Based Iterative Sensor and Actuator Selection Flow, a structured decision-making approach aimed at streamlining this essential, yet often complex task. Created to accommodate individuals with diverse levels of technical expertise, our approach is uniquely suited for interdisciplinary teams of designers and …