I have been thinking about this for months now. If I were to build a decentralized social network, I would construct it as a peer to peer network, where your account information is mirrored by enough peers to be accessable around the clock. Public key encryption would be used to protect account details that are only visible to friends, that way people can mirror your private info without being able to read it. This design would make it difficult to sensor, difficult for big brother to sift through, and spare people from needing to run a dedicated server for their account. Unfortunately, I have a lot of reading (about encryption) to do if I were to persue this project, but if anyone is interested, we can toss some ideas around here.
And it's really funny when the bookworm at HQ goes to look up the law that the cop is so sure exists, but can't seem to find it, while you're out on the side of the road and you have all sorts of apparently damning paraphernalia laid out on the trunk of your car. Cops hate it when you know more about the law then they do.
But do we arrest bankers who keep confidential client information in their house while they are on vacation and leave the back door unlocked so their neighbor can feed their cat? That seems like a closer analogy.
For people to choose to commit suicide at their workplace is significant. When you are going to take your own life, it's your decision when and where for it to happen. You don't accidentally intentionally kill yourself at your job, you choose to do so.
Well, if you don't want it any more, I'll take it. I got myself an n900 months and months ago and am still finding new uses for it. Ever since I've got it, I have been capable of keeping a telephone, calculator, browser, book reader, flashlight, media library/player, GPS navigation, TV remote and streaming set-top box in ONE pocket. Just be careful, because having so much useful stuff in one place is VERY appealing to thieves:(
Well, here's a word from me at least. Obama can eat a dick. I'm getting so fed up with this gradual transition to full autonomous surveillance. There will be people out in the streets about this when things start getting bad. Soon enough, the schism between reality and the fairy tales they told us about freedom in public school will be too wide even for the American Idol crowd to believe. An interesting time to live. It's just too bad we can't be investing these man-years and resources on attaining sustainability before the Earth becomes a giant radioactive ball of toxic shit inhabited by cannibalistic asshats.
Success is a very relative word here. In cases like this, success can be a company having the PR of Blackwater-errr.... Xe. errr.... Acadami, where failure can be a mob of tens of thousands with torches and sticks and rocks.
Shit man. I have a lot of sympathy for you. I have paid a few thousand dollars in fines (all traffic violations) and surcharges and had my license suspended for almost a year just because these fucking pricks keep thinking they have some sort of right to pull me over for totally bogus reasons and try their damned hardest to find my nug. (yeah, you fuckers pick up that piece of napkin under my gas petal while I sit in the fucking winter cold in a t-shirt. It sure looks like a joint, right? oh shit, its only a bit of napkin.) I cannot begin to list all the bad karma these fucking pigs generate.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
from the GPL 2 under terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and modification
I'll warn ahead of time, this is going to be a serious rant.
As a young citizen of New Jersey living no farther then 15 minutes away from mahwah, I have got a thing or two to say about the police in my area. Real Estate in this area is expensive as hell since NYC is not a long drive away. The area consists of infinite sprawling suburbs filled with middle class families living off of jobs in the city (where the money is). These are hardworking people who have a lot to loose and a little to gain from the forms of crime that the municipal police usually deal with. This makes Police work in the area rather dull, compared to cities like Hackensack and Paterson (or Camden...). It would make sense then for Police resources to be allocated to areas with higher levels of violent crime, but instead, these quiet suburban communities feed their pigs on the absurdly high property taxes levied on the absurdly expensive properties. Since the Police are given such a high budget they need to show that it is going to use. My town was one of the first in the area to replace their crown vics with dodge chargers, as well as acquiring several hybrid SUVs. They also need to catch enough "criminals" to show that they are needed.
Throw an over-paid pig in a new car with a new laptop which he can use to look up anyone's criminal record in seconds and they feel like they are ready to push crime to extinction. Every minor traffic offense, every 0.7 gram marijuana deal, every underage party, and every case of loitering must be eliminated. Since the police have eliminated all entertainment (that comes at a cost my generation can afford) from an entire county, we sit around and do nothing but smoke cigarettes. Apparently this looks too much like drug dealing to ignore so the police will use any shred of probable cause they can find to invade your life and look for the weed. When they don't find it, there is always something they can write you a ticket for.
When you die, your writings and works are the only thing left of you. They are the only way for someone to try to dig deeper into your mind and build up an understanding of your true character. A lot of crazy shit happens in a lifetime, someone may really appreciate you leaving a book of your reflections behind.
Now that my mind is running about this, I think I would go as far as to say that identifying ourselves as human first is even selfish. We share this planet with so many different forms of intelligent life. Animals and plants which have been here much longer then ourselves - each living being with it's on personality, emotions, desires, and place in our ecosystem. It is far past the time for us as a species to realize this fact, and change our ways. We must treat all animals the way we would like to be treated as well.
We human beings can learn so much from nature. We are the only ones who deal with such silly concepts as money, property (even of fucking ideas!), religion, bigotry. We are the only ones permanently developing our environment in ways that have such profound effects on our ecosphere. We are the only ones who bomb and shoot each other to an oblivion over resources which can easily be shared.
In the end, we are all in the same boat, we can either paddle together, or spin in circles. So far we're all getting pretty dizzy from the circles we're making...
Human language is just as imperfect as the wretched beings who designed it. I try make a point by being direct as possible. I'm not really all about political correctness and that shit. Does it really matter if I happen to call a woman my brother. When you call someone your brother, you're calling them family. Had I used the word 'sibling' instead of 'brother', I feel my post would seem much less personal, which was what I was aiming for.
In the spirit of brotherhood, I am not trying to flame or argue - just explaining my views. This is the internet after all. We come from all over the globe and every area tends to have a unique style thinking and communication.
In English, we tend to use male nouns a lot, but many times these nouns aren't used to describe males specifically. English doesn't provide an elegant combination of him/her (his/hers ect....) brotherhood, sisterhood, and yada yada yada. In the end, you need to choose to aggravate either the grammar nazis or the feminism nazis, right?:)
I was actually having the same conversation with one of my coworkers last night. The subject: Facebook. There used to be a day and age in America where you lived a professional life, and a private life, and there was little overlap.
Really, as long as the work is being done, it does not matter at all what I do in my left-over UNSOLD time. However, thanks to facebook, your friends are not the only ones who can pry into your private life. These days, employers look into all of the details of your personal life to judge you, instead of judging you based on your ability to actually work.
In the end, it doesn't matter. I don't have a facebook, and no one is going to stop me from smoking joints in my spare (unsold) time.
Essentially, a peer to peer open source social network
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You do not lose anything if someone else buys it.
If this were true, we would have nothing to worry about, but in our so-called free market, the consumers vote with their dollar. Everyone who buys the iPad votes for locked down hardware, drm, and furthermore state that it's ok to sell a product with such rediculous restrictions that if we install OUR software on OUR hardware, the warentee is void. We will end up with no alternatives to this if everyone else but you and I says, "Yes! This is ok! I'll take 3."
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I have been thinking about this for months now. If I were to build a decentralized social network, I would construct it as a peer to peer network, where your account information is mirrored by enough peers to be accessable around the clock. Public key encryption would be used to protect account details that are only visible to friends, that way people can mirror your private info without being able to read it. This design would make it difficult to sensor, difficult for big brother to sift through, and spare people from needing to run a dedicated server for their account. Unfortunately, I have a lot of reading (about encryption) to do if I were to persue this project, but if anyone is interested, we can toss some ideas around here.
And it's really funny when the bookworm at HQ goes to look up the law that the cop is so sure exists, but can't seem to find it, while you're out on the side of the road and you have all sorts of apparently damning paraphernalia laid out on the trunk of your car. Cops hate it when you know more about the law then they do.
But do we arrest bankers who keep confidential client information in their house while they are on vacation and leave the back door unlocked so their neighbor can feed their cat? That seems like a closer analogy.
It is an import tariff on King Bloomberg's police state so you can't avoid having to pay $14 for a pack of cigarettes.
For people to choose to commit suicide at their workplace is significant. When you are going to take your own life, it's your decision when and where for it to happen. You don't accidentally intentionally kill yourself at your job, you choose to do so.
Well, if you don't want it any more, I'll take it. I got myself an n900 months and months ago and am still finding new uses for it. Ever since I've got it, I have been capable of keeping a telephone, calculator, browser, book reader, flashlight, media library/player, GPS navigation, TV remote and streaming set-top box in ONE pocket. Just be careful, because having so much useful stuff in one place is VERY appealing to thieves :(
Well, here's a word from me at least. Obama can eat a dick. I'm getting so fed up with this gradual transition to full autonomous surveillance. There will be people out in the streets about this when things start getting bad. Soon enough, the schism between reality and the fairy tales they told us about freedom in public school will be too wide even for the American Idol crowd to believe. An interesting time to live. It's just too bad we can't be investing these man-years and resources on attaining sustainability before the Earth becomes a giant radioactive ball of toxic shit inhabited by cannibalistic asshats.
Success is a very relative word here. In cases like this, success can be a company having the PR of Blackwater-errr.... Xe. errr.... Acadami, where failure can be a mob of tens of thousands with torches and sticks and rocks.
Removing an accidental moderation.
fuck you, you ignorant.
Shit man. I have a lot of sympathy for you. I have paid a few thousand dollars in fines (all traffic violations) and surcharges and had my license suspended for almost a year just because these fucking pricks keep thinking they have some sort of right to pull me over for totally bogus reasons and try their damned hardest to find my nug. (yeah, you fuckers pick up that piece of napkin under my gas petal while I sit in the fucking winter cold in a t-shirt. It sure looks like a joint, right? oh shit, its only a bit of napkin.) I cannot begin to list all the bad karma these fucking pigs generate.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
from the GPL 2 under terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and modification
I'll warn ahead of time, this is going to be a serious rant.
As a young citizen of New Jersey living no farther then 15 minutes away from mahwah, I have got a thing or two to say about the police in my area. Real Estate in this area is expensive as hell since NYC is not a long drive away. The area consists of infinite sprawling suburbs filled with middle class families living off of jobs in the city (where the money is). These are hardworking people who have a lot to loose and a little to gain from the forms of crime that the municipal police usually deal with. This makes Police work in the area rather dull, compared to cities like Hackensack and Paterson (or Camden...). It would make sense then for Police resources to be allocated to areas with higher levels of violent crime, but instead, these quiet suburban communities feed their pigs on the absurdly high property taxes levied on the absurdly expensive properties. Since the Police are given such a high budget they need to show that it is going to use. My town was one of the first in the area to replace their crown vics with dodge chargers, as well as acquiring several hybrid SUVs. They also need to catch enough "criminals" to show that they are needed.
Throw an over-paid pig in a new car with a new laptop which he can use to look up anyone's criminal record in seconds and they feel like they are ready to push crime to extinction. Every minor traffic offense, every 0.7 gram marijuana deal, every underage party, and every case of loitering must be eliminated. Since the police have eliminated all entertainment (that comes at a cost my generation can afford) from an entire county, we sit around and do nothing but smoke cigarettes. Apparently this looks too much like drug dealing to ignore so the police will use any shred of probable cause they can find to invade your life and look for the weed. When they don't find it, there is always something they can write you a ticket for.
its fucking bullshit
do you really think that huge corporations deserve the right to cash in on the works of authors who have been dead for decades?
Too bad they don't focus on the poor Chinese wage slaves making their shit for pennies.
It is selfish to keep information to yourself which can benifit all of mankind (or a substantial portion).
When you die, your writings and works are the only thing left of you. They are the only way for someone to try to dig deeper into your mind and build up an understanding of your true character. A lot of crazy shit happens in a lifetime, someone may really appreciate you leaving a book of your reflections behind.
Liberty and justice for all are indeed socialist ideas. Liberty and Justice for those who can afford it sounds more capitalist to me.
Now that my mind is running about this, I think I would go as far as to say that identifying ourselves as human first is even selfish. We share this planet with so many different forms of intelligent life. Animals and plants which have been here much longer then ourselves - each living being with it's on personality, emotions, desires, and place in our ecosystem. It is far past the time for us as a species to realize this fact, and change our ways. We must treat all animals the way we would like to be treated as well.
We human beings can learn so much from nature. We are the only ones who deal with such silly concepts as money, property (even of fucking ideas!), religion, bigotry. We are the only ones permanently developing our environment in ways that have such profound effects on our ecosphere. We are the only ones who bomb and shoot each other to an oblivion over resources which can easily be shared.
In the end, we are all in the same boat, we can either paddle together, or spin in circles. So far we're all getting pretty dizzy from the circles we're making...
Human language is just as imperfect as the wretched beings who designed it. I try make a point by being direct as possible. I'm not really all about political correctness and that shit. Does it really matter if I happen to call a woman my brother. When you call someone your brother, you're calling them family. Had I used the word 'sibling' instead of 'brother', I feel my post would seem much less personal, which was what I was aiming for.
In the spirit of brotherhood, I am not trying to flame or argue - just explaining my views. This is the internet after all. We come from all over the globe and every area tends to have a unique style thinking and communication.
In English, we tend to use male nouns a lot, but many times these nouns aren't used to describe males specifically. English doesn't provide an elegant combination of him/her (his/hers ect....) brotherhood, sisterhood, and yada yada yada. In the end, you need to choose to aggravate either the grammar nazis or the feminism nazis, right? :)
amen brother
Get rid of money.
I was actually having the same conversation with one of my coworkers last night. The subject: Facebook. There used to be a day and age in America where you lived a professional life, and a private life, and there was little overlap.
Really, as long as the work is being done, it does not matter at all what I do in my left-over UNSOLD time. However, thanks to facebook, your friends are not the only ones who can pry into your private life. These days, employers look into all of the details of your personal life to judge you, instead of judging you based on your ability to actually work.
In the end, it doesn't matter. I don't have a facebook, and no one is going to stop me from smoking joints in my spare (unsold) time.
One of my friends showed me this project. It looks promising. http://www.joindiaspora.com/
Essentially, a peer to peer open source social network
You do not lose anything if someone else buys it.
If this were true, we would have nothing to worry about, but in our so-called free market, the consumers vote with their dollar. Everyone who buys the iPad votes for locked down hardware, drm, and furthermore state that it's ok to sell a product with such rediculous restrictions that if we install OUR software on OUR hardware, the warentee is void. We will end up with no alternatives to this if everyone else but you and I says, "Yes! This is ok! I'll take 3."
Then we'll be fucked.