A fair dispute-resolution process would be like this:
Anyone is allowed to run a DNS server, and put whatever information on it they like
Anyone is allowed to point to anyone else's DNS server
There is no intellectual property in any correspondence between IP addresses and domain names
In consequence, anything goes, and if someone doesn't like someone else's lookup table, they can create their own and hope people use it. If people don't want to, tough.
Having said that, I don't think it's important anymore, most people look in up in Google rather than trying to guess the URL.
The Cato institute supposedly favours "liberty" - their slogan is "25 years of advancing liberty". But that apparently doesn't include the liberty to help blind people read electronic books. Nor does it include the liberty to use Linux.
my question was really whether in the abstract sense people would be interested in writing clients -- given a
fully functional server -- since if nobody would be interested there's no point in doing it.
My intuition is that people would be willing to work on it.
But the only way to know for certain is to release the client and see what happens. BTW, it doesn't have to be a fully-featured server, a minimal one will do to start with.
Not really, WorldForge is a real-time roleplaying game, whereas what's being proposed here is a turn-based empire-building game, similar to Master of Orion.
I was once involved, many years ago, on a collaborative open source project to write a similar game. it was the first open source project I was involved with, and was a failure, mainly because there was no established codebase or leader before the project was opened up to collaboration. So I think I may be able to offer you some advise.
Some questions: how much of the game is coded now? In particular, how far are you with defining the file formats for orders and game positions?
I think you need to make it open source, if you want anyone to help you code it. If you want helpers, the file formats need to be defined, and a minimal server needs to be in place. Communication between the server can clients can be by ascii files, which can be sent over the net using TCP, or by using a web-based interface to the server. Multiple clients can be, and perhaps will be, written.
As an aside, I note you are coding it in Python, which is an excellent language and a good sign.
But it bears emphasizing: you won't get significant help from the free software community until the project has already progressed part a certain minimal size.
I also think you should make provision in your game system for computer opponents. These would, to the server, be clients like any other, but would be a progream making the decisions not a human. Then a player could play on his own PC instead of over the net. Also, you could have tournaments between different computer opponents.
Linux and open source give everyone the power to see and change the source, and distribute those changes to their fellows. Microsoft seeks, as a fundamental goal, to deny people that power.
If my taxes pay for science, I should be entitled to the results of the research, and if the scientists won't disclose it, they should be forced to hand back all public money that went into their research and all the research they used in making their discoveries.
Our story for today, children, is how the
drug company Glaxo Smithklein stopped the nasty
South African government from stealing their
patented AIDS medicines. The evil South Africans
wanted to treat some of their sick people,
without paying the patent holders.
Thanks to the virtuous IP laws, Glaxo Smithklein made profits of $5 zillion last year.
If I was Dr Sattler, I'd get in contact
with the police. What these lawyers are doing
is, in effect, demanding money with menaces, which may well be a crime in Germany. It'd be nice to see these pond scum doing
time, or even heavily fined.
sharing v.t. 1. a give-and-take arrangement where two people agree to
use each other's property on an equal basis;
2.(regarding Microsoft Shared Source)
an arrangement whereby Microsoft takes what belongs to Microsoft's customers, and gives nothing in return.
some people don't want to give away their hard earned work for nothing. is there something wrong if bill g. doesn't want to to that??
Of course not. What's wrong with Bill Gates is that he wants other people to give away their hard earned work (i.e. non-GPL'ed
free software) to Microsoft for nothing in
return (i.e. Microsoft won't free their mods
to others' free software).
If you want to waste your time writing code that won't make you money that's fine with me
If you think the only worthwhile use of one's
time is that which makes one money, I feel sorry
for you. As it happens, I do produce free software.
don't expect companies to follow suit
Oh, I must have imagined reading that IBM
are employing thousands of people to write
free software. I must also have imagined
seeing
their web site. Or could it be that
you are mistaken?
At it happens, I've recently been working on this very problem. I've
devised the
Herbivore Protocol to solve
it, and am
currently coding a prototype version (Herbline).
This example illustrates how Herbivore will work:
Alice and Bob both use herbivore-compliant MUAs.
Alice sends a message to Bob (it's the first time they've
emailed each other). The message is send as plain text, but
the herbivore subsystem inserts some extra headers,
which say that Alice's MUA is herbivore-aware, and
what Alice's GPG public key is.
Bob's MUA reads the email. The Herbivore subsystem in the MUA
notes that Alice's email is came from a Herbivore-aware client,
and remembers Alice's public key.
Bob decides to reply to Alice's message. He composes his reply
as normal, and presses SEND. The Herbivore subsystem in Bob's
MUA automatically encrypts the email with Alice's public key,
before sending it to her.
When Alice's MUA receives the message, it is automatically
decoded (using Alice's private key). Alice then sees on her
screen the message that Bob sent her.
I hope the music industry suffers 100% drop in
sales.
I also hope that no-one buys another film DVD,
ever again.
That would serve them right for trying to
take
away freedom on our computers. it would also
reduce their financial capacity for instituting lawyer attacks on open source software.
Personally, I would like to see vermin like
Steve Heckler
bankrupt, homeless and living as a down-and-out.
Re:The real terrorists on Vodafone.......
on
Echelon in the News
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· Score: 1
Not a joke at all; drug dealers and the like really do use prepay mobile phones to communicate. And why not? It's cheap, it's convenient, and it doesn't attract suspicion.
If you don't like Echelon, use encryption
on
Echelon in the News
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· Score: 3
Don't like Echelon/Carnivore/whatever? Then
you should routinely encrypt your emails with
GPG (or equivalent).
However, I don't like Echelon, and I don't do this. Why not? Because it's too much hassle, both for the sender and the receiver of the email.
To fix this problem, I'm designing a system
called Herbivore
which is intended to make the encryption
transparent to the user; it does this by adding some extra fields to the email header, which broadcast a user's public key.
So if I'm using a Herbivore-compliant
email client, and the person I send email to is too, then all messages (except the first one
sent between us) will be automatically
encoded and decoded using GPG.
(Before you rush out to download Herbivore --
it isn't implemented yet. I'm currently writing a very simple command-line email client
that implements Herbivore; then I will add the
functionality
to one of the common open source email clients
(probably kmail as that is what I use)).
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A fair dispute-resolution process would be like this:
In consequence, anything goes, and if someone doesn't like someone else's lookup table, they can create their own and hope people use it. If people don't want to, tough.
Having said that, I don't think it's important anymore, most people look in up in Google rather than trying to guess the URL.
Actually, the SSSCA is listed. I got it wrong.
*blush*
I see no mention of the SSSCA or DMCA.
The Cato institute supposedly favours "liberty" - their slogan is "25 years of advancing liberty". But that apparently doesn't include the liberty to help blind people read electronic books. Nor does it include the liberty to use Linux.
So, let's get this right:
Yeah, right.
... but I'd like to burn all existing copies of Windows XP and Office XP, plus all copies of their source code. That'd make a nice bonfire.
Perhaps Bill Gates could be the Guy.
my question was really whether in the abstract sense people would be interested in writing clients -- given a fully functional server -- since if nobody would be interested there's no point in doing it.
My intuition is that people would be willing to work on it.
But the only way to know for certain is to release the client and see what happens. BTW, it doesn't have to be a fully-featured server, a minimal one will do to start with.
There's already a similar project, WorldForge
Not really, WorldForge is a real-time roleplaying game, whereas what's being proposed here is a turn-based empire-building game, similar to Master of Orion.
I was once involved, many years ago, on a collaborative open source project to write a similar game. it was the first open source project I was involved with, and was a failure, mainly because there was no established codebase or leader before the project was opened up to collaboration. So I think I may be able to offer you some advise.
Some questions: how much of the game is coded now? In particular, how far are you with defining the file formats for orders and game positions?
I think you need to make it open source, if you want anyone to help you code it. If you want helpers, the file formats need to be defined, and a minimal server needs to be in place. Communication between the server can clients can be by ascii files, which can be sent over the net using TCP, or by using a web-based interface to the server. Multiple clients can be, and perhaps will be, written.
As an aside, I note you are coding it in Python, which is an excellent language and a good sign.
But it bears emphasizing: you won't get significant help from the free software community until the project has already progressed part a certain minimal size.
I also think you should make provision in your game system for computer opponents. These would, to the server, be clients like any other, but would be a progream making the decisions not a human. Then a player could play on his own PC instead of over the net. Also, you could have tournaments between different computer opponents.
Herbivore has an advantage over PGP-like systems isn that it is intended to be effort-free in normal use.
Is MS Windows compatible with democratic values?
Democracy means ``people power''.
Linux and open source give everyone the power to see and change the source, and distribute those changes to their fellows. Microsoft seeks, as a fundamental goal, to deny people that power.
The Camram project is a spam-blocking system.
Camram is at the moment vapourware, but I'm currently talking with them about merging the Camram idea into my Herbivore project.
(Herbivore is a public-key email encryption system which aims to provide effort-free strong email encryption for eveybody).
If my taxes pay for science, I should be entitled to the results of the research, and if the scientists won't disclose it, they should be forced to hand back all public money that went into their research and all the research they used in making their discoveries.
Our story for today, children, is how the drug company Glaxo Smithklein stopped the nasty South African government from stealing their patented AIDS medicines. The evil South Africans wanted to treat some of their sick people, without paying the patent holders. Thanks to the virtuous IP laws, Glaxo Smithklein made profits of $5 zillion last year.
If I was Dr Sattler, I'd get in contact with the police. What these lawyers are doing is, in effect, demanding money with menaces, which may well be a crime in Germany. It'd be nice to see these pond scum doing time, or even heavily fined.
Disclaimer: IANAL, and especially IANA German L.
From the Microsoft Encarta Dictiionary:
some people don't want to give away their hard earned work for nothing. is there something wrong if bill g. doesn't want to to that??
Of course not. What's wrong with Bill Gates is that he wants other people to give away their hard earned work (i.e. non-GPL'ed free software) to Microsoft for nothing in return (i.e. Microsoft won't free their mods to others' free software).
If you want to waste your time writing code that won't make you money that's fine with me
If you think the only worthwhile use of one's time is that which makes one money, I feel sorry for you. As it happens, I do produce free software.
don't expect companies to follow suit
Oh, I must have imagined reading that IBM are employing thousands of people to write free software. I must also have imagined seeing their web site. Or could it be that you are mistaken?
Whoa, if it's bold, it's suddenly insightful
But of course :-)
Is the moderation system about contents or HTML skills ?
AFAICT, it's about moderating-up posts that bash Microsoft.
He's saying, in effect:
Thanks, Bill, for showing us your true colours so clearly.
I would like to ask:
At it happens, I've recently been working on this very problem. I've devised the Herbivore Protocol to solve it, and am currently coding a prototype version (Herbline).
This example illustrates how Herbivore will work:
I hope the music industry suffers 100% drop in sales.
I also hope that no-one buys another film DVD, ever again.
That would serve them right for trying to take away freedom on our computers. it would also reduce their financial capacity for instituting lawyer attacks on open source software.
Personally, I would like to see vermin like Steve Heckler bankrupt, homeless and living as a down-and-out.
Not a joke at all; drug dealers and the like really do use prepay mobile phones to communicate. And why not? It's cheap, it's convenient, and it doesn't attract suspicion.
Don't like Echelon/Carnivore/whatever? Then you should routinely encrypt your emails with GPG (or equivalent).
However, I don't like Echelon, and I don't do this. Why not? Because it's too much hassle, both for the sender and the receiver of the email.
To fix this problem, I'm designing a system called Herbivore which is intended to make the encryption transparent to the user; it does this by adding some extra fields to the email header, which broadcast a user's public key.
So if I'm using a Herbivore-compliant email client, and the person I send email to is too, then all messages (except the first one sent between us) will be automatically encoded and decoded using GPG.
(Before you rush out to download Herbivore -- it isn't implemented yet. I'm currently writing a very simple command-line email client that implements Herbivore; then I will add the functionality to one of the common open source email clients (probably kmail as that is what I use)).
hat is the sound of Indian geeks leaving the country en masse for greener and more liberal countries.
Which countries would they be? They all behave like fascist control freaks with regard to the net.