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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.
"do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Yes, i do.
Thats the reason i dont have a blog, dont whore my photographs out to flicker, think myspace it a breeding experiment for retards and never heard of something called "meetup" before.
So i guess i dont really belong to the target demographics...
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
"An anonymous reader writes..."
Fabulous!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Having my data in several different databases that don't work together or coordinate their data in any way makes me feel safer than having all my data in one database for everyone to easily access. Reminds me of MS Passport.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
"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?""
Uhhh, what? This is like saying "Why not just start murdering people? Come on, look at how full our jails are with murderers!". Granted that's a little extreme, but the justification for uploading a naked photo of myself is basically "everyone else is doing it!". No thanks.
Also, the site looks damn awful. Can anyone say "two-bit idea with even less design time"?
I dread the day that my workplace can read all my Slashdot posts.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
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!
There is NOTHING in the law that states that any web site actually has to abide by their privacy policy. I wish I could remember the website that was challenged on their privacy policy (they sold ALL of their user information: 2.4+ million hits on Google "judge rules against website privacy policy")and the Judge ruled in favor of the website - I.e. the privacy policy on a website isn't worth the paper it's written on! (Prove me wrong, please!) And, in this day nd age with the NSA, Homeland Security, CIA, War on Terror, War on Druge, Repulicans in Charge, do you really think that any law will stop them?
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.
It's all part of the synergistic paradigm of Web 2.0 creating a forward-looking social matrix.
Well, he does say that he hasn't had a girlfriend in about two years. That could explain quite a lot of this...
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Show me the DNA.
"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.
there is only what makes you look good and what helps you avoid looking bad (think of this in a wide context - unless you are living isolated from humans, it applies anywhere - personal life, professionally, socially, everywhere). If everything you ever did only resulted in you looking good for everyone else around you, would really need privacy? Conversely, if you could avoid looking bad in everything you do, would you still need privacy?
So if you have something you like to keep private - 99.999% of the time, it has to do with looking good or avoiding looking bad.
Sad but true.
'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels
...I'd gladly take the Microsoft way.
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Jeez people, it's a line from userfriendly.org
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Open source, my ass!
If all of your personal information is publicly available, what happens to electronic commerce? Do our current norms of electronic commerce rely on certain information being "secret"? If all of my credit cards, social security numbers, and my mothers maiden names are available for anyone, would anyone dare to do business online with a person claiming to be "me"? What about public services, social security, child support, or medicaid? How would a government agency know if the person receiving the benefits was the "right" person?
On the other hand, could personal information be devalued to the point where nobody wants to collect it anymore?
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
Um, could someone explain how the OpenHuman concept "takes it one step further"? The founder's own page seems less open than most myspace pages.
It seems fairly obvious that being "entirely open" is a really, really stupid idea. It has been known at least since the 6th Century BCE that your personal information (history, status, intentions, beliefs, etc.) can and will be used against you by others seeking power and your subjugation. To suceed in a world of conflict and competition at times requires deception: insuring that others cannot pin you down, that if they seek to manipulate you their efforts are based on misinformation. Are you going to include on your resume a link to a page that contains naked pictures of yourself, that cataglogs your personal problems and issues, and that details your secret fantasies? Sometimes it's best to just shut the hell up. If you really need to divulge everything about yourself, for therapeutic reasons or whatever, why not do it anonymously? Unless, of course, attaching this information to your real name is to your advantage somehow.
Clearly the "open" information provided by the site's founder has been prudently selected. To frame its presentation by saying "oh, i'm being 100% open -- this is the real me" is actually quite clever. A page like his might help him make contacts, show off his computer skills, get girls, etc. But it would be of no use to him if he included information about his sexual dysfunction, his absolute hatred for his family and pictures of his hairy ass.
Ludwig Wittgenstein