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OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready?
An anonymous reader writes "Many people love and use open source software. Open source has made an impact in just about every place imaginable; education, hardware, coke, beer, cell phones, pharmaceuticals, search engines and encyclopedias. However, OpenHuman takes it one step further and invites you to open source yourself to experiment with the open human idea. This may sound crazy and rife with privacy concerns but as the author asks, do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
"...do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Yes I do. Of course, I make very sparing use of those technologies, and I post AC at Slashdot.
I would consider opensourcing myself, but I'm afraid I'd be immediately forked.
I plan on open sourcing my daily schedule. In this way, everyone gets to decide what I have for breakfast, what kind of shampoo I use, what kind of clothes to wear, and where I work. I've already started, I've been experimenting with running all of my personal correspondence through a "meWiki", which lets any member of the public edit every message I write before it gets sent out. TESTICLES.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
...And her name is Paris Hilton.
"An anonymous reader writes..."
Fabulous!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Oh man, some further reading reveals the reasoning for my last point.
"# I can't do without Microsoft Frontpage. I know that the next MS Office won't include Frontpage anymore. And this site was planned in Frontpage."
From the Site's Admin's Page.
From The Website:
# Put your naked pictures (not pornographic or erotic, just naked)
Guess they just want the bare essentials...
Have you read my journal today?
Open source has turned into a fad that's sweeping the nation! How about we call anything and everything open source so that we can appeal to that demographic and sell whatever products we want! Yay! Open Source Mac and Cheese! Open Source High-Top Sneakers!
Let's all share in the love of Richard Stallman and stop this trendy madness!
ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM
a documentary featuring Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Danger Mouse(of Gnarls Barkley), doesone and more!
You wouldn't believe the number of "patches" my wife submits daily to "improve" me. Then my kids have their suggestions about how I can do everything better than I am. If I google my name thousands (literally) of hits come back, many of those are in response to RFC's caused by my asking questions or giving opinions on the net. It's a constant race to stay one e-mail address ahead of the spammers and my IM client is constantly in motion due to one customer passing my contact info on to another.
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.
I got together with a like-minded open-source linuxchick some time ago and we produced a couple of extremely viable derivative works. Fortunately, neither one of us tried to exert control over the other's homegrown portion of either of those derivative works.
The trouble is that the derivative works are now starting to think about creating next-gen derivatives which has me sort of worried about whether they'll respect the ideals of the community or if they'll become sellouts like Novell...
Oh, well, I suppose we'll just have to wait and see...
Give a man a match: warm him for an instant. Douse him in petrol and set him aflame: warm him for the rest of his life.
Show me the DNA.
Frontpage, no wonder the page looks like shit.
Ok, so you can make a nice looking page using Frontpage, but for some reason it seems to be the source of many bad pages. And, while it would be nice to think that Frontpage is dying a much deserved death, its mostly just getting a name change. Office 2007 has Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007, which is the successor to Frontpage. One can only hope that no one notices it, and the few who do are scared off by the whole "Sharepoint" bit in the name.
I swear, if I have to work on one more Frontpage generated page, I'm going to kill someone. The code that it spits out is a mess, and trying to work with CSS in Frontpage is akin to having your testicles in a vice.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
"Open source has made an impact in just about every place imaginable; education, hardware, coke, beer,"
Seriously. After joining the open source movement, I have encountered more free beer than ever before.
Why are people moderating the parent Informative rather than Funny? Is it supposed to be an ironic act and I'm just not getting it?
"E pur si muove!" - attributed to Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
It certainly explains his site.
...I'd gladly take the Microsoft way.
Need a color? Try 100 random colors
Open source, my ass!