Re:Our whole calendar is messed up.
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The Math of Leap Days
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The whole 7 day week is rather random too- based on some out-of-date dogma that is probably mistranslated. (the original word in Genesis translated as "day" was more accurately "a period of time" although it was often "day" but not necessarily) - so we force the meaning of "day" onto it and have a 7 day week. Silly number.
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
Actually 7-day week makes sense if you have a 28-day month.
One thing to take away is that higher mental abilities come not from stimulating an area of the brain but by shutting it down. Do we need an external device to do that?
3. The FRS is run by the Board of Governors who are appointed by the President of the United States. The place where I work is run by the Board of Directors, who are selected by shareholders.
- The policy of the Federal Reserve to give members of the banking industry the power to both elect and serve on the Federal Reserve's board of directors creates "an appearance of a conflict of interest."
- The GAO identified 18 former and current members of the Federal Reserve's board affiliated with banks and companies that received emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, and Lehman Brothers.
(OpenSocial is NOT that - it's just a standard for creating application platforms).
OpenSocial could be a good start, if only it could be extended to cover interaction between the profiles on different networks that implement it. We could call it FreeSocial:)
I don't know how such a service could be offered in a decentralised way.
How? By creating a set of standards/protocols.
Imagine several dozens different operators, that all agreed as to what a 'social profile' is and how those different social profiles can communicate with each other.
You export your profile from Facebook. Use a tool that converts that profile into standard profile - perhaps some XML description, with pictures, etc, packed into one container file. All operators are capable of importing that file into their site and generate the profile for you. At any point in time, you can take your profile out and take it elsewhere.
Now all the data that you have in your profile is only accessible to that operator, that you chose based on the fact that you trust them (for some reason). Or you can even host your own profile locally, like you would host an email server on your own box if you chose to. Each time when you connect with a 'friend' on a different operator - you have a box with that other operator's 'privacy policy' that you can 'Agree' to. You can also choose which parts of your profile are visible to that network and which ones aren't.
And of course there is a need for a set of protocols so that people who have their standardized social profiles with different operators could communicate with each other and share stuff.
All those operators can differentiate themselves by providing different features and implement things differently, but would have to agree on the least common denominator of supported features.
How many of them do you think have a chance to become a monopoly? Diaspora maybe?:)
If a critical mass of them would agree on some standards, walled garden type social networks would have no reason to exist.
An ultimately secure OS would be the one that does not do anything at all. No inputs and no outputs. Perhaps iOS is closer to that ideal than any other.
And the solution to the created problem is:
Create a system that tracks your every website visit. Very appropriate for the type of people who see internet fragmentation as a problem.
From FAQ:
What is augmented browsing?
Imagine your regular browsing experience with an additional layer on top of it. StormDriver provides such a layer. Let’s imagine you logged in to StormDriver and you’re reading an article on your favorite news site. Thanks to StormDriver you can share your views instantly with other users who are reading the article at the same time. You can interact with them through chatting, commenting and rating the website but you can also check out the sites they came from and follow them if they decide to go somewhere else.
Why is the whole Islamic world up in arms against their own governments now?
Here's a possibility: Libya's Great Man-Made River Project (http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html) is at the final stages of development. A huge water scheme that was virtually not announced in Western media.
"In the 1960s during oil exploration in the southern Libyan desert, vast reservoirs of high quality water were discovered in the form of aquifers." The "Great Man-Made River Project" is essentially a set of pipelines that bring that water to the populated parts of Libya. That would make Libya a "source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries".
Now how would that reflect on the bargaining power West would have for oil?
Now have there not been any cases in history when US would create conflicts within certain countries by financially supporting a group opposing to the mainstream power? What can be a better reason for UN to bring air force into the country than a large scale internal conflict like the one happening now?
what's going to happen is M$ is going to take the code and use it to add new features to Kinect in future releases
No they won't. Microsoft is notoriously unable to reuse free (as in libre) software that can't be repackaged into a binary that they can sell for $$$ without releasing the source code for. It's just impossible for them because of their very nature as a closed-source software vendor. Any GPL code out there will not be touched by Microsoft with a 10 foot pole.
So what if we write every possible iteration of code for Kinect and release it under GPL?
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640K should be enough for anyone
The whole 7 day week is rather random too- based on some out-of-date dogma that is probably mistranslated. (the original word in Genesis translated as "day" was more accurately "a period of time" although it was often "day" but not necessarily) - so we force the meaning of "day" onto it and have a 7 day week. Silly number.
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
Actually 7-day week makes sense if you have a 28-day month.
One thing to take away is that higher mental abilities come not from stimulating an area of the brain but by shutting it down. Do we need an external device to do that?
Hopefully FreeNAS project moves to 9.0 sooner rather than later.
In other news: A new debugger can prove that your code has no bugs.
In Soviet Russia your car drinks and drives over you!
3. The FRS is run by the Board of Governors who are appointed by the President of the United States. The place where I work is run by the Board of Directors, who are selected by shareholders.
- The policy of the Federal Reserve to give members of the banking industry the power to both elect and serve on the Federal Reserve's board of directors creates "an appearance of a conflict of interest."
- The GAO identified 18 former and current members of the Federal Reserve's board affiliated with banks and companies that received emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, and Lehman Brothers.
The Sanders Report on the GAO Audit on Major Conflicts of Interest at the Federal Reserve (pdf)
WikiFloods?
(OpenSocial is NOT that - it's just a standard for creating application platforms).
OpenSocial could be a good start, if only it could be extended to cover interaction between the profiles on different networks that implement it. We could call it FreeSocial :)
I don't know how such a service could be offered in a decentralised way.
How? By creating a set of standards/protocols.
:)
If a critical mass of them would agree on some standards, walled garden type social networks would have no reason to exist.
Imagine several dozens different operators, that all agreed as to what a 'social profile' is and how those different social profiles can communicate with each other.
You export your profile from Facebook. Use a tool that converts that profile into standard profile - perhaps some XML description, with pictures, etc, packed into one container file. All operators are capable of importing that file into their site and generate the profile for you. At any point in time, you can take your profile out and take it elsewhere.
Now all the data that you have in your profile is only accessible to that operator, that you chose based on the fact that you trust them (for some reason). Or you can even host your own profile locally, like you would host an email server on your own box if you chose to. Each time when you connect with a 'friend' on a different operator - you have a box with that other operator's 'privacy policy' that you can 'Agree' to. You can also choose which parts of your profile are visible to that network and which ones aren't.
And of course there is a need for a set of protocols so that people who have their standardized social profiles with different operators could communicate with each other and share stuff.
All those operators can differentiate themselves by providing different features and implement things differently, but would have to agree on the least common denominator of supported features.
Here's a list of FOSS type social networks being developed / in operation now: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Distributed_social_network
How many of them do you think have a chance to become a monopoly? Diaspora maybe?
Might be a workaround for some:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkcompatibility/
An ultimately secure OS would be the one that does not do anything at all. No inputs and no outputs. Perhaps iOS is closer to that ideal than any other.
Create a system that tracks your every website visit. Very appropriate for the type of people who see internet fragmentation as a problem.
From FAQ:
What is augmented browsing? Imagine your regular browsing experience with an additional layer on top of it. StormDriver provides such a layer. Let’s imagine you logged in to StormDriver and you’re reading an article on your favorite news site. Thanks to StormDriver you can share your views instantly with other users who are reading the article at the same time. You can interact with them through chatting, commenting and rating the website but you can also check out the sites they came from and follow them if they decide to go somewhere else.
Why is the whole Islamic world up in arms against their own governments now?
Here's a possibility: Libya's Great Man-Made River Project (http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html) is at the final stages of development. A huge water scheme that was virtually not announced in Western media.
"In the 1960s during oil exploration in the southern Libyan desert, vast reservoirs of high quality water were discovered in the form of aquifers." The "Great Man-Made River Project" is essentially a set of pipelines that bring that water to the populated parts of Libya. That would make Libya a "source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries".
Now how would that reflect on the bargaining power West would have for oil?
Now have there not been any cases in history when US would create conflicts within certain countries by financially supporting a group opposing to the mainstream power? What can be a better reason for UN to bring air force into the country than a large scale internal conflict like the one happening now?
what's going to happen is M$ is going to take the code and use it to add new features to Kinect in future releases
No they won't. Microsoft is notoriously unable to reuse free (as in libre) software that can't be repackaged into a binary that they can sell for $$$ without releasing the source code for. It's just impossible for them because of their very nature as a closed-source software vendor. Any GPL code out there will not be touched by Microsoft with a 10 foot pole.
So what if we write every possible iteration of code for Kinect and release it under GPL?