IANAA, but perhaps you could form a non-profit organization and filter your expeneses related to open source development through it? Check out these guys, that seems to be what they are doing. Of course with the mountain of regulations faced by a nonprofit these days, who knows...
With all the talk about planted web-sites and other guerilla-advertising tactics, it is refreshing to do a google search for Momento. I couldn't find any relevent results. Same even with the imdb.
The question is, is this really better for the movie? Do planted sites hurt the legitamacy of a film or does not having them just make it harder to compete?
Please take a moment to read through the article and write up a response. The internet is becoming a predominant form of communication with everyday people. If you don't say anything, I'm sure someone else will.
Sure this sounds like political mumbo-jumbo or might sound like the obvious thing to do, but most of you will just read this story and move on. Take a few minutes to preserve sanity in the regulations.
If you compile from source, you are open to having a compilier that generates code with trojans or back doors. If you take binaries, you leave the door wide open.
But that doesn't even matter. Why not?
If you ask the NSA if they can break XYZ encryption system, their response is "We won't have to." They of course mean that the weak link is by far the user, not the software. If you are downloading updates, you are probably connected to some sort of network. So you spend all day setting up a firewall and blocking all sorts of traffic. But what happens when your pissed off friend walks up to your desk and reboots into single user mode? We should spend more time educating the users about what -behaviors- are putting them at risk, then we can worry about what kind of packages they are downloading. Atleast if some package contains some destructive code, we will all hear about it. But have you ever taped a password to your monitor? Which is worse?
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IANAA, but perhaps you could form a non-profit organization and filter your expeneses related to open source development through it? Check out these guys, that seems to be what they are doing. Of course with the mountain of regulations faced by a nonprofit these days, who knows...
With all the talk about planted web-sites and other guerilla-advertising tactics, it is refreshing to do a google search for Momento. I couldn't find any relevent results. Same even with the imdb.
The question is, is this really better for the movie? Do planted sites hurt the legitamacy of a film or does not having them just make it harder to compete?
Please take a moment to read through the article and write up a response. The internet is becoming a predominant form of communication with everyday people. If you don't say anything, I'm sure someone else will.
Sure this sounds like political mumbo-jumbo or might sound like the obvious thing to do, but most of you will just read this story and move on. Take a few minutes to preserve sanity in the regulations.
Agenda's Palm Clone
Sharp
PalmPalm's Phone PDA
VTech's Updated Version
Samsung's Yopy
Lernout & Hauspie's version with Speech Recognition
maybe more?
At this rate, I might as well develop one.
If you compile from source, you are open to having a compilier that generates code with trojans or back doors. If you take binaries, you leave the door wide open.
But that doesn't even matter. Why not?
If you ask the NSA if they can break XYZ encryption system, their response is "We won't have to." They of course mean that the weak link is by far the user, not the software. If you are downloading updates, you are probably connected to some sort of network. So you spend all day setting up a firewall and blocking all sorts of traffic. But what happens when your pissed off friend walks up to your desk and reboots into single user mode? We should spend more time educating the users about what -behaviors- are putting them at risk, then we can worry about what kind of packages they are downloading. Atleast if some package contains some destructive code, we will all hear about it. But have you ever taped a password to your monitor? Which is worse?