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Pirates, Web 2.0, and Hundred Dollar Laptop
Update on the One Laptop per Child Project. dominique_cimafranca writes "Ethan Zuckerman gives a report on his visit to the headquarters of the One Laptop per Child project. Some details on practical design considerations such as the hinge, the rabbit ears, and why the hand crank was ultimately left out (apparently, Kofi Annan broke the crank on a prototype). Several pictures, and a look at the motherboard of the OLPC laptop."
TOR Calls Out Torvalds, Stallman on Web 2.0. theodp writes "In an unusual defense of partner CMP's trademarking of Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly points a finger at Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman in his rebuttal posts. TOR also says the blogger who posted the O'Reilly-approved cease-and-desist letter from CMP 'owes us an apology for the way he responded' (he got one)."
Fallout from The Pirate Bay Raid. Tyler Too writes "The Swedish national police website has been taken offline by a denial of service attack which started Thursday night. That's not the only fallout from the raid on The Pirate Bay: there's a demonstration planned in Stockholm on Saturday."
U.S. Government Ordered The Pirate Bay Shutdown? mkro writes "According to the Swedish government sponsored tv channel SVT, U.S. government officials -- after being approached by the MPAA -- requested the Swedish justice department to take down The Pirate Bay. According to the story, the Swedish justice department asked police and prosecution to act, but when they explained the laws are too vague, they turned directly to the state attorney and the chief of the national police force."
...and get to puppetteer your own US foreign policy today!
MPAA: get Heathrow drug dogs sniffing DVDs!
RIAA: get Swedish police shutting down torrents!
GNAA: get chocolate buttsecks!
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And the guy's writing the article for IEEE Spectrum. Good luck in your next job.
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Do I need to be on Internet2 to use sites that are part of Web 2.0 or is it backwards compatible?
We can't insult TOR or ODN may get angry
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Dang-it... with the pirate bay shutdown, global warming is sure to pick up speed now.
I am d3matt
In other news, I've trademarked "404" (my slashdot user id number).
From now on, all use of "404" on the internet is subject to licensing fee.
I don't see what your problem is: they bought those laws fair and square.
uR iGn0ranc3, Their Power
And check out this yearly graph too.
Seriously, I have never heard any one abbreviate Tim O'Reilly TOR.
Oh, yeah. And Linus is LBT (which is also Lettuce, Bacon, and Tomato), Alan Cox is AC (anonymous coward), Paul Graham is PG (parental guidance - which is way too mild, IMO, for his near-pornographic technical book, On Lisp), and Bruce Perens is BP (blood pressure, Black Panthers, or Solomon Islands, of all things).
Huh. Maybe we should stick to spelling out the names. Except RMS (root mean square - voltage and stuff) and ESR (electron spin resonance), because we've been using those for years.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Ok, how about every just start calling these things Web 2.1 an we'll be done with it already...
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
...for all their "new" servers!
Ssshhhh!! I'm trying to trademark Web 3.0! ;)