Sorry for replying ot my own post, but I forgot a few parts of the idea.
Events are pretty trivial, since they can be an ordinary xCal (XML-encoded iCal) events with fields for invitees, whether people are attending, and whether others are welcome (and will be allowed to add themselves to the attendees list). People changing attendance status can be handled using the update feature of the iCal standard.
Likewise, the bulk of a person's profile would be an XML-encoded vCard, for all their personal and contact information.
There should also be a way to request a dump of activities since a specified time form each user (with an option to restrict this to times since accepting their friend request.
One of the projects which I have on my list of ideas for when I have spare time is to try and design a distributed social networking system. My thoughts so far are that XEP-0033 could be used for announcing things like wall posts (using the facebook terminology for features), album uploads and edits, comments, and so on, to send a short description and a link to the actual content, which could then be either displayed by an XMPP client (such as pidgin), or filtered, buffered, and wrapped into a HTML document by a server to get an effect like a facebook news feed.
One's profile information would be most obviously sent as an XML document with an XSLT to produce XHTML for viewing in a browser, or for handling by one's friends and applications as desired. Users would be able to subscribe to their friend's walls, and request notification of posts made there, perhaps filtered by some sort of scoring mechanism (based on type of post, number of responses, and so on), although this could be done by the subscriber's server, and then select items from there to watch. This would be not entirely dissimilar to using RSS feeds to distribute RSS feeds for each wall post.
Groups and fan pages can work in much the same way as human users, except a group has potentially multiple accounts controlling it and has extra fields for officers (orthogonal to admins) such as a club chairman, and each user's profile has separate lists for friends, groups, and fan pages. When adding the non-humans, the default access should be lower (merely name, id, and possibly picture) than for friends.
Applications would have two flavours: system apps and external apps. System apps are things like facebook's friend wheel app, which actually relies on information in the system and so can request access to your profile fields, friends list and so on to operate, and can add extra fields to your profile (in their own namespace, of course). They would act las XMPP robots, interacting with the user purely through the system. External apps are things like farmville, where it makes minimal use of your profile info, but does post self advetisements to the user's wall and can identify their friends suing their profile information, but which merely link to the flash/SVG/HTML5 application, and send them from their own server via HTTP.
It would be logical to be able to request services via HTTPS, using HTTP authentication, and requiring authentication would prevent leaking images as occurs in facebook (which serves up images from fbcdn completely unprotected). the server software would be able to send different versions of the page to different user,s and yet another to un-authenticated users.
In a nice, theoretical representative democracy, a government is elected to govern in the best interests of its electors and those under their protection (minors, the mentally disabled, and so on). To bring this back on topic, the important question is whether spending $36M on the FOSS solution is better FOR THE PEOPLE OF MUNICH than spending $23M on the MS solution.
In the channels I use (at least, those which are large enough to have people who aren't friends IRL), all have a policy that a chanop involved in an argument can't use his ops in any matter relating to that argument (although another op may decide that the argument is annoying or off-topic and kick everyone involved). Netops are another matter entirely, but I've never seen a freenode one do anything worth swearing at him over.
A lot of people seem to think that girlintraining is an MtF transsexual, simply based on her username (I thought that too, for a while) and there are many who would refer to transsexuals by their original sex, so he probably got his slang right but the message wrong.
Blatantly no true: think how many styles of music were not invented until after the 60s. All the fans of those types of music would still buy modern music. In fact, a short copyright period would encourage innovation, because only a really good band/composer would be able to produce new works in old styles with consistent success, since if it isn't as good as the old work people won't buy it.
Apart from the SP's point about laws and treaties not defining morality, one could argue that
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
means that in the extreme case of there being no copyrights or patents there would be no material interests to protect, so the Charter only means that the rights defined by law must be enforced.
Once could also claim that corporate copyrights don't count because a corporation is not a human, and so does not have human rights, so the Charter does not apply there.
I;m sure there is an equivalent of Godwin's Law for stories related to science or technology, regarding the correct size of the kilobyte. Until someone names it though, remember that Hitler would have supported decimal kilobytes:)
One is hello world, mostly in C, the other is an example of abusing the ELF standard to create a 45-byte executable to return 42. THe submitter did RTFA, he just didn't phrase the summary well.
I think you are thinking of the MPEG-LA, not the MPEG itself. The MPEG-LA is a separate entity which operates the MPEG patent pool, but the standards are specified by MPEG.
That works as long as you know they are only waterboarding. If the enemy is occasionally really drowning prisoners and showing the corpses to other prisoners, it would become much more effective.
I don't believe the US does that, but the people who capture US special forces might.
I lost interest when I stopped being in the industry to an extent, but Conroy had initially wanted to disect SSL traffic as well. Did he go ahead with that requirement?
Nope, thankfully, he's given up on the idea of filtering anything but port 80. I don't know what any of the tested filers would do if you put any other type of traffic on that port (I suspect it would get re-routed to the bit bucket), but even plain HTTP on any other port is currently to be completely unfiltered.
I think the banks and other big businesses told him how important encrypted traffic is.
The whole system is riddled with problems. Material which is offensive but not sexual in nature (ie. violence) can be awarded R18+. Material which is offensive but not violent in nature (ie. porn) can be awarded X18+. Material which happens to be both (ie. porn with a plot), even if the violence is not of an offensive nature, is eligible for neither classification.
I have heard a funny example of this in action, although I haven't checked if it is true: a porno based on/Pirates of the Caribbean/ which has graphic sex scenes (which would get it an R18+ rating) and mild swashbuckling violence and mild fantasy horror (which would get it an M15 or MA15+ rating) combine to give it an X18+ rating (which is heavily restricted, even compared to R18+), even though I am told that there is never any fighting in the sex scenes.
It would be reasonable for official secrets to be illegal to record in any fixed medium or disseminate, if the person who had the information knows it to be secret, although that would only valid if and only if official secrets weren't abused to protect things that shouldn't be secret.
In that case, the information itself is supposed to be not widely known and merely releasing the information could be harmful. In all the other cases, the harm comes from already-illegal usage of the information, or the means of producing the information both of which are either able to be dealt with by targeting the actual harmful action, or by notifying the appropriate overseas authority. Taboo subjects aren't actually harmful either to produce or use except possibly to the person who produces/uses it.
I don't think classified material provides enough of a justification for a system so stupid and bad as the proposed Australian filter, or any similar level of intrusion into the people's civil liberties.
I am part of several minor channels on Freenode, an op on some and the founder of two, and have never had a problem with freenode being over-serious, even on largely social channels.
He wouldn't be able to get that done inside 2 terms without a lot of luck and support on the Hill. It doesn't really matter what he says about it, it isn't going to be anything more than a pipe dream
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Sorry for replying ot my own post, but I forgot a few parts of the idea.
Events are pretty trivial, since they can be an ordinary xCal (XML-encoded iCal) events with fields for invitees, whether people are attending, and whether others are welcome (and will be allowed to add themselves to the attendees list). People changing attendance status can be handled using the update feature of the iCal standard.
Likewise, the bulk of a person's profile would be an XML-encoded vCard, for all their personal and contact information.
There should also be a way to request a dump of activities since a specified time form each user (with an option to restrict this to times since accepting their friend request.
One of the projects which I have on my list of ideas for when I have spare time is to try and design a distributed social networking system. My thoughts so far are that XEP-0033 could be used for announcing things like wall posts (using the facebook terminology for features), album uploads and edits, comments, and so on, to send a short description and a link to the actual content, which could then be either displayed by an XMPP client (such as pidgin), or filtered, buffered, and wrapped into a HTML document by a server to get an effect like a facebook news feed.
One's profile information would be most obviously sent as an XML document with an XSLT to produce XHTML for viewing in a browser, or for handling by one's friends and applications as desired. Users would be able to subscribe to their friend's walls, and request notification of posts made there, perhaps filtered by some sort of scoring mechanism (based on type of post, number of responses, and so on), although this could be done by the subscriber's server, and then select items from there to watch. This would be not entirely dissimilar to using RSS feeds to distribute RSS feeds for each wall post.
Groups and fan pages can work in much the same way as human users, except a group has potentially multiple accounts controlling it and has extra fields for officers (orthogonal to admins) such as a club chairman, and each user's profile has separate lists for friends, groups, and fan pages. When adding the non-humans, the default access should be lower (merely name, id, and possibly picture) than for friends.
Applications would have two flavours: system apps and external apps. System apps are things like facebook's friend wheel app, which actually relies on information in the system and so can request access to your profile fields, friends list and so on to operate, and can add extra fields to your profile (in their own namespace, of course). They would act las XMPP robots, interacting with the user purely through the system. External apps are things like farmville, where it makes minimal use of your profile info, but does post self advetisements to the user's wall and can identify their friends suing their profile information, but which merely link to the flash/SVG/HTML5 application, and send them from their own server via HTTP.
It would be logical to be able to request services via HTTPS, using HTTP authentication, and requiring authentication would prevent leaking images as occurs in facebook (which serves up images from fbcdn completely unprotected). the server software would be able to send different versions of the page to different user,s and yet another to un-authenticated users.
In a nice, theoretical representative democracy, a government is elected to govern in the best interests of its electors and those under their protection (minors, the mentally disabled, and so on). To bring this back on topic, the important question is whether spending $36M on the FOSS solution is better FOR THE PEOPLE OF MUNICH than spending $23M on the MS solution.
Not just that, but if you have the choice between hiring people and paying them the dole, you might as well get something useful out of them.
In the channels I use (at least, those which are large enough to have people who aren't friends IRL), all have a policy that a chanop involved in an argument can't use his ops in any matter relating to that argument (although another op may decide that the argument is annoying or off-topic and kick everyone involved). Netops are another matter entirely, but I've never seen a freenode one do anything worth swearing at him over.
A lot of people seem to think that girlintraining is an MtF transsexual, simply based on her username (I thought that too, for a while) and there are many who would refer to transsexuals by their original sex, so he probably got his slang right but the message wrong.
It is if the other you is eating pie.
Blatantly no true: think how many styles of music were not invented until after the 60s. All the fans of those types of music would still buy modern music. In fact, a short copyright period would encourage innovation, because only a really good band/composer would be able to produce new works in old styles with consistent success, since if it isn't as good as the old work people won't buy it.
Apart from the SP's point about laws and treaties not defining morality, one could argue that
means that in the extreme case of there being no copyrights or patents there would be no material interests to protect, so the Charter only means that the rights defined by law must be enforced.
Once could also claim that corporate copyrights don't count because a corporation is not a human, and so does not have human rights, so the Charter does not apply there.
Just be glad they're not playing Dwarf Fortress. That would give you some really messed up kids.
I;m sure there is an equivalent of Godwin's Law for stories related to science or technology, regarding the correct size of the kilobyte. :)
Until someone names it though, remember that Hitler would have supported decimal kilobytes
One is hello world, mostly in C, the other is an example of abusing the ELF standard to create a 45-byte executable to return 42. THe submitter did RTFA, he just didn't phrase the summary well.
if you want c++ cstdlib would work, and that's ignoring that C is still a good language for some important fields (like kernels and bit bashing).
I think you are thinking of the MPEG-LA, not the MPEG itself. The MPEG-LA is a separate entity which operates the MPEG patent pool, but the standards are specified by MPEG.
Security guards are immune to the mind trick because it requires the victim to have a brain.
Has it been written up for submission to the IETF? There doesn't seem to be an actual formal description of the protocol on the site.
Nope, you can just disable using a plugin for PDFs, or use a different plugin.
That works as long as you know they are only waterboarding. If the enemy is occasionally really drowning prisoners and showing the corpses to other prisoners, it would become much more effective.
I don't believe the US does that, but the people who capture US special forces might.
And his are probably small enough to be represented life-size.
He knows it doesn't. He just doesn't care.
I lost interest when I stopped being in the industry to an extent, but Conroy had initially wanted to disect SSL traffic as well. Did he go ahead with that requirement?
Nope, thankfully, he's given up on the idea of filtering anything but port 80. I don't know what any of the tested filers would do if you put any other type of traffic on that port (I suspect it would get re-routed to the bit bucket), but even plain HTTP on any other port is currently to be completely unfiltered.
I think the banks and other big businesses told him how important encrypted traffic is.
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The whole system is riddled with problems. Material which is offensive but not sexual in nature (ie. violence) can be awarded R18+. Material which is offensive but not violent in nature (ie. porn) can be awarded X18+. Material which happens to be both (ie. porn with a plot), even if the violence is not of an offensive nature, is eligible for neither classification.
I have heard a funny example of this in action, although I haven't checked if it is true: a porno based on /Pirates of the Caribbean/ which has graphic sex scenes (which would get it an R18+ rating) and mild swashbuckling violence and mild fantasy horror (which would get it an M15 or MA15+ rating) combine to give it an X18+ rating (which is heavily restricted, even compared to R18+), even though I am told that there is never any fighting in the sex scenes.
It would be reasonable for official secrets to be illegal to record in any fixed medium or disseminate, if the person who had the information knows it to be secret, although that would only valid if and only if official secrets weren't abused to protect things that shouldn't be secret.
In that case, the information itself is supposed to be not widely known and merely releasing the information could be harmful. In all the other cases, the harm comes from already-illegal usage of the information, or the means of producing the information both of which are either able to be dealt with by targeting the actual harmful action, or by notifying the appropriate overseas authority. Taboo subjects aren't actually harmful either to produce or use except possibly to the person who produces/uses it.
I don't think classified material provides enough of a justification for a system so stupid and bad as the proposed Australian filter, or any similar level of intrusion into the people's civil liberties.
I am part of several minor channels on Freenode, an op on some and the founder of two, and have never had a problem with freenode being over-serious, even on largely social channels.
He wouldn't be able to get that done inside 2 terms without a lot of luck and support on the Hill. It doesn't really matter what he says about it, it isn't going to be anything more than a pipe dream