Don't even try it. We need local solutions that scale ''left'' down to some kind of district/relational size. In other words it IS all about who we are, plus where we want to grow as people and think long-term and quality of life while doing this.
Facebook is a Web site that's privately owned with an end-user license agreement the user must adhere to that's more heavily supply oriented than demand based IN TERMS OF CONTEXT, not to mention all that data and information.
They'll begin to reverse engineer, drop api support or strip the api's down ( Google never will ) and could implement Web performing,.NET-centered stuff at the first opportunity to contravene all of your open activity.
"can-you-see-me-now dept." NO! shit! This is radar. How do you know what it is if you really don't know where?
Two questions I have as a taxpaying citizen who has to fund this:
... Yongcai Li, 33, a resident of China, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay $790,683 in restitution to Cisco Systems in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Li procured counterfeit Cisco products in China in response to orders and then shipped the products to the U.S., the DOJ said.
Shouldn't restitution be paid back to the manufacturing country within the country of origin? Why is the 9th Circuit doing this or whichever court when China should be prosecuting it? I personally cannot stand the government of China they are a commercial-corporate / agrarian / Communist mix which is repetitively detrimental to the fundamentals of a contemporary, capitalist government.
ICE and CBP have seized more than 94,000 counterfeit Cisco networking devices and labels in the operation, the DOJ said.
Is that Cisco IOS? I have never encountered a more inefficient, bloated piece of networking software after reading Cisco's IOS manual. Notice I said inefficient? True, there is little need for competition in this area since most people don't program for ethernet or administrate that layer, much less ethernet bridging over VPN. This could say something about the Cisco brand or "label" of merchandise. Perhaps that software/firmware is a bit too expensive and inclusive only to Cisco's own area of encumbrance ( this is an uncommon but practical legal term and definition ) when theft of Intellectual Property is happening, huh?
"Microsoft Bob" are the tendencies of a person or people, not an artifact alone! It isn't corporate personhood either -- something SCOTUS and bigwig entrepreneurial types haven't sufficiently addressed as of right now.
Figure it out yet, fat figurers? And Microsh*t it remains with regard to:.Xls files plus screwing SQL, Cisco routing and, I.E. version whatever they got out now . . .
Multicore has been with us for over a decade now. It is practical and conducive to build open cores from class declaration up so methods, file types and handlers exist between architectures and at same time there's decoupling of needed resources as processes.
To point the way to what exists now there's Yellow Dog Linux for both Macintosh and Apple's PPC platform:
The older version works on MacOS 8/9. The new one works on Mac OS X.
Linmac or lintel would be most nice for us micro-engineers. The smaller businesses we want to associate with could branch away from both static software design and largescale deployment tied to that very design, focusing more on customizing digital end-pieces to attach to current semiconductor inputs if the correlated software to do that in places (like EAGLE for Ubuntu) is manufactured and delivered in an open core form of engagement.
We've been reporting for the last week or so on the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen
voting machines which are flipping votes from Democratic candidates to others
in, so far, at least four states. We've showed you actual footage of it and how
even after being "recalibrated" these machines still continue to flip votes.
[ snip ]
Unfortunately, it's not just the error-prone, hackable, wholly unverifiable
iVotronics from ES&S which are failing. Error-prone, hackable and wholly
unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting
systems made by Hart InterCivic, Diebold and Sequoia Voting Systems are also
having the same problems across the country. And the Democrats, who have the
most to lose, continue to do nothing about it...
On Monday, we posted a video of a WV county clerk demonstrating the vote-flips
on the ES&S iVotronic and suggesting that the problem was due to touch-screen calibration issues on the machine. The video then shows the clerk inserting
a cartridge into the machine to recalibrate it, after which the machine still
mis-records a vote.
[ snip ]
While recalibration has been ordered in many of these cases, it needs to be
pointed out that there is no way that any touch-screen voting machine should
ever have a cartridge inserted into it, for any reason, by anybody, after it's
already been programmed for an election. That is the very moment these machines
are the most vulnerable to malicious software and other forms of tampering and
attack. That recalibration is being advised where these problems have occurred
--- instead of complete removal from service, to be replaced by paper ballots
--- is insane.
Recalibration, so far, has been the response prescribed by election officials
and, to their shame, we have seen absolutely no sign that the DNC and Barack
Obama attorneys have done anything to take appropriate action...
... We now have reports of voting flipping in Texas on both Hart InterCivic DREs and, of course, the always unreliable
ones made by Diebold.
Last week, from the Houston Chronicle:
[Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman's] office was informed early today that
some of the first voters had cast straight-ticket Democratic ballots and then
discovered that the electronic machines listed them as voting for John McCain in
the presidential election.
In the report, Kaufman, as expected, tries to play down the reports of problems.
Harris County (Houston), the largest county in the second largest uses the Hart
InterCivic eSlate DRE. Though the eSlate is not a touch-screen --- voters use a
wheel and a button to select candidates from the computer screen --- it's still
an unverifiable DRE voting system.
Our friend Pokey Anderson, an election integrity advocate in Houston, and host
of KPFT/Pacifica's Sunday Monitor program, confirmed with one of the first 30 or
so voters to vote on the first day of early voting at the West Gray
Multi-Service Center that her straight ticket Democratic vote was flipped to McCain...
Here's a "little gray men" fiasco which I have personal experience with. This UFO abductee and charlatan along with his group of friendlies really got to the serious UFO investigators, crystal-loving peaceniks and hippies back in the day:
Brian Allen Scott is a purported UFO abductee who claims to have been kidnapped by gray aliens while living with his family in Arizona. Later in the 1970s not long after building up this story with additional claims of continued contact with and abductions by the same type of aliens, Scott makes a glory hound visit to Peru, South America with some bosom buddies. After interpreting strange etchings in boulders and rocks near the Nazca Lines as the Incans' ancient account of visitors from space, Scott stepped under an arch at Isla Del Sol in Tiahuanaco between the borders of Bolivia and Peru and reportedly became spiritually "transformed," somehow becoming a personal conduit for an intergalactic being named Voltar who was both the essence of a larger, gray alien and the reincarnation of Incan god Ticci Viracocha. Scott returned to "spread the word of Voltar" to the public in Tustin, Orange County, California.
While getting his group to videotape his tirades in Tustin and at the same time forming a network behind the scenes with the Tustin City Council, Scott gained increased publicity within the community of UFO believers. Receiving considerable private funds and having a play based off of his supposed encounter, Scott and his cohorts devised a media campaign revolving around traveling to Washington D.C. to the Jimmy Carter White House just before the Iranian hostage crisis started to try to deliver a "message" from Voltar under the pretext of what Scott, et al. called the "The Voice of Common Man". This message also contained a prophecy about a race of benevolent large aliens mentioned once before returning to Earth in 2011.
Scott's stories of abduction and having been the living reincarnation of Viracocha have been thoroughly debunked by several UFO researchers and a scientist over the years on purely evidential grounds, lack of meaningful corroboration and Scott being unable to reproduce quantifiable facts based on either proof or verifiable measurements that solidly backed up his claims. The whole ordeal sounds like something out of the 1970's The Questor Tapes ( see the following paragraph with an external citation ), more recently the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or an Erich von Daniken book.
Scott currently works as a well paid Health Sciences designer for a defense contractor in Pennsylvania and runs a web site still maintaining he was abducted by aliens.
"...The Seventies brought into prominence a case involving a character named Brian Scott. It was written up in a book called The Etherian Invasion and was critically dissected in a paper by Alvin Lawson for the 1976 CUFOS conference. Scott's aliens are clones of a central host intelligence in the form of a vast on-board computer. There is a second floor on the saucer where young clones are grown in cylinders. During an early hypnosis session Scott feels his heart has left his body. In the third hypnosis session he has a vision of a cataclysm sweeping the Earth and learning this would happen on December 14, 2011 from his alien Host.
Though deeply impressed by the emotionality of Scott's recountings under hypnosis, investigators found suspicious aspects to the case that made them doubt Scott's credibility. Though they did not play a role in discounting Scott's claims at the time, cultural factors were eventually uncovered for aspects of the case. Lawson checked local TV schedules at the time of the hypnotic regressions and found a repeat of a failed TV pilot, The Questor Tapes, which had a scene of stored human clones in
This is where the ~why~ in technology is kind of important, much less bringing in the critical issues of security and compliance. Whether it's a more integrated cookie function specification like a better way of utilizing flash cookies being operated by private marketplaces and somehow, concurrently, have independent oversight by regulatory forces or it's the ad-hoc, free markets and buyer beware system we're stuck with now there's got to be a better way to run commerce.
I think when it comes to content using cookies there is the application layer stuff plus subscription technologies which are preferred to ad buys and I don't think it's the interface as much as it's the format that is imporant.
I think source-side.FLVs are good. Whether a streaming FLV file is obscured or the URL is open users at any rate should be able to 1) embed links to the video and 2) modify the pixel ratios with respect to their machine's memory. Generally I believe what browser is playing what media file and the physical/virtual location are what the flash cookies now store as retrievable data.
Yeah really -- Redmond now has a "clear, build, hold" counter-insurgency strategy 2-3 years too late where the "terrorists" are Open Source proponents and the military at large as Microsoft is clueless.
I really like wine, though. It runs slow on my x86 system but runs Win98 apps good w/o the silly windows registry foolishness.
Perhaps the U.S. Vice president who previously headed a federal energy taskforce that purposefully excluded wind, solar and other green energies directly talked to the administrators at BLM and "encouraged" them to reduce their application intake?
>> I'll believe that you had something else in mind, because that particular example is a piss-poor example for needing new property delineation and laws. That one was plain, old-fashioned theft, nothing more, nothing less. Theft of the physical kind.
Exactly. It was theft. Whether this took place in a university or business it is a model example of why we need better property delineation laws that follow a different scale -- physically and virtually they have to go together now, not apart. As for how it works, I back up what I say with proper logic and facts.
>> It had _nothing_ to do with IP. There was no copyright infringement of any kind, there was no patent infringement, and there was no trademark infringement.
Well that's so yesterday.
>> At the end of the day, what remains is "dumb PHB steals X from work, thinking it was Y." Ok, "secretly borrows" over the weekend. In this case X was a piece of computing, but the act itself had been no different if X were, say, one of the company trucks to haul his own furniture with.
This is where you programmers need to learn how to advance your linear thinking. It isn't X and Y, black and white, with both a known and predictable depth presenting itself as a problem to be solved during each work cycle.
With virtual property becoming a main fixture of American society what we have is X, Y, Z and time.
This includes but goes above and beyond patents, I.P. and trademark claims. We have to have measurable, safe property containers -- think of this as a more evolved form of rack space -- which delivers our Internet property to us virtually on a subscription-and-transaction basis without the possibility of rip offs occurring because the event horizon for scams will get reduced to zero by linking in: independent peer review, oversight, honest assessment of resources and infrastructure and repeated testing & analysis to assure success in the field without conflicts.
I think that we are entering a new period of economic reality and that, in terms of intellectual property, "something that was already solved for everything else" hasn't been solved.
The recent/. story of somebody taking off with a shared xbox Linux Webserver for their kids amusement is a fresh example of why we first need property delineation, second we need to collectively and professionally learn how to safely decouple not separate the Web content from all of the backoffice context, digital maintenance and upkeep. I believe only with those measures in place will American society control our virtual assets as single and parallel entities and employ intellectual property therein. You have to learn to crawl before learning how to walk..
>>... software and tried to handwave in the fallacy that they need completely other constructs, for something that was already solved for everything else. See, you need to _license_ software, because, OMG, otherwise you'd think you bought the rights to that program as a whole! WTH? We already had the distinction between buying a book, and buying the ownership of a novel itself. You didn't need to "license" a book, or a vinyl record, or a newspaper.
>> Even after the loophole of, basically, "yeah, but you need to copy the program to memory, which is making a copy, and you need a license to make copies" was closed, we got stuck with the same stupidity as a before. Nah, see, it's _licensed_, not sold
I went to an installfest last night in my community.
When I got there there was only one computer out on display and it was OS X. All of the participants were in their early to mid 20s. All were white and male. There was no installing. Hence, no recruiting or planning on how to get the message out about the benefits of FOSS. Two guys were talking about procmail and exchanged info, that was good. A larger group of guys were talking about how to divide integers and still have measurable units to work with using some programming language, not much going on there. When I first walked in I didn't say much except to ask about the OS X system. I pulled out my Schaum's C++ crash course book & Rails Cookbook and learned a little about programming pointers. While doing this I listened in to the ambient conversation. I wasn't spying I am not currently a student and I just wanted to know what the others thought of me seeing as I don't usually go to installfests. Several folks thought I was a professor! Most women or any intelligent, rational person probably wouldn't have made the assumption of professor and that's my point. In addition to scaling up diversity among the FOSS masses and somehow bridging that aim into recruitment we need to reassess the big picture of software. A few ideas: more code re-use and adaptable licensing which supports this, more for-profit industry alliances, limited partnerships and collaboration -- where profit by way of open source is measurable and at the same time increases our credibility. Last of all -- definitely phase down development of CLI it is too hard for over 90% of everyday people to use efficiently and wisely.
What I'm saying is like it or not this installfest situation I experienced last night is pretty much the state of C.S. and programming collectives on campuses across the USA today. We used to have issues with the prima donnas among us taking up too much turf -- then stuff like PHP and Internet cafes happened and that condescending ``'tude`` kind of went away. In addition to increasing the finance, more political and legal considerations for open source users and good looking, Hollywood-style marketing of FOSS there needs to be a change in our 'tudes. Like one Presidential candidate in particular has said all along it's about hope and change is certainly a factor where hope is concerned.
First, cynicsreport's post above mine should have at least gotten a score of 2 or 3. Read the post from beginning to end -- giving him/her a 1 is simply mislabeling that diligence. He doesn't mention S.o.A. but is clear enough on referring to API inclusiveness which is what most programmers today understand.
My post: flamebait?? Perhaps off-topic but certainly not flame bait. Where is your rationale with calling me a flamebaiter? I am engendering communication and coordination on development issues and the ownership factors that affect them here. Everyone knows microshit has a long reach maybe they've gotten to the core beneficiaries of slashdot too.
It's not my fault that <p> paragraph breaks sometimes don't work at the beginning of HTML posts and between italics mark-up. Fix the damn code!
Trolltech is dead tech. It always had a dumb name.
The timing of this move and both the economical and legal reasons ( i.e. telecom issues ) for it happening are very questionable. On this day Microsoft reports the strongest quarterly earnings in years and vmWare gets a boost in profits too whose server virtualization Redmond is all over. Yesterday facebook.com reports microsoft will now control facebook's ad buys and delivery of its ad syndication which by todays standards in transparency and oversight actually means microshit will fully control facebook's user data and therefore the content integrity of facebook user profiles.
Look at the dates. Look at *what* is in Slashdot's cited article to see this professionally sick pattern of behavior ( brackets contain words I use for emphasis ) --
'' Trolltech has discontinued its Linux-based "Greenphone" development platform. Touted upon its introduction as the first _Linux-based_ mobile phone with _user-modifiable firmware_ ( big time SoA opportunity ), the device will be superseded by various third-party products, including not only open phones, but also portable media players, navigation devices, and home automation equipment, the company says.
Trolltech made a big splash with the Greenphone at _LinuxWorld 2006_. As the first Linux-based mobile phone with user-modifiable firmware, the phone was designed to provide wireless carriers and [componentized, service-level] third-party [access to] [Service oriented Architecture] ''
This supply side storage capacity news is old news.
What about taking along your gmail text, images and bittorrent audio on a wii-mote or a hacked iPod?
First, solve the aesthetics ( care & handling ), support and personal device connectivity of apps for said devices. After this the carriers will come in to provision bandwidth on a subscription basis.
>> 1. Developer A writes some code for OpenBSD (or whatever) 2. Developer B says "that's cool, I wish Linux had that" 3. Developer B ports developer A's code to Linux 4. Developer B then starts improving on A's code >>
I think it's ABCBA, or ABCAB -- writing the code, implementing it and code review means 3 parties.
>>However, developer B doesn't want to release his changes under the BSD license, so the improved version goes out GPL-only. Developer A says "hey, wait, that sucks", because now he can't incorporate those changes back into OpenBSD, which does (I assume) have a policy that all code must be BSD-licensed.
Single-use licensing can work with Community Centric Licensing which AFAIK imports strengths of reusing/sharing/replicating source code. We don't have CCL yet. Are not BSD and GPL the same except the latter requires source code inclusion?
In reply to deviate_this ( first response to original ): >> So how do you claim the moral high ground when you just took someone else's project and forked it so that they can't use it the way they originally intended?
Derivative works stay in the public domain and are subject to this. Community and collaborative are co-existing, but certainly universal, enterprise fixated licensing can make a difference.
Quick notes on moving past single-user EULA licensing:
emphasis on community means truly shared limited emphasis on collaboration: shared but truly unique
An early version of AW had a kermit comm protocol built in.
You're right AW was not based on HyperCard, my bad. I'm pretty sure though that the first version of AW had backwards compatibility with elements of HC hypermedia.
It is interesting that on/. nowadays the original post can be modded zero but replies can be 1, 2 or 3. WTF? Isn't that contradictory?
Appleworks shipped with MacOS versions 8.x and 9.x has very useful communications and drawing programs, plus a fair spreadsheet program. It is some people at Apple who have abandoned this marvelous suite of programs and not the users themselves. If I'm not mistaken Appleworks was a continuation of and improvement to HyperCard.
Maybe when transparency is spoken of what should be accounted for here in both matters of dynamic strategy and software independence is: who, what, when, where, and why? It seems like those dabbling in facebook's api and submission process know the who's, what's there and when it's happening.
The where and why are left to corporate choice and chance. We know from http://whois.domaintools.com/facebook.com that facebook.com is in Palo Alto, was created in March of 1997 and 38% of recent visits to it are from the U.S. That's a 50 state demographic. Using this, the demander or user numbers can by no means be broken down into regional outputs because there are inherently minimum amounts of transparency in corporate business models.
I get a sense that what developers want is regional solutions to local, cultural issues which present themselves as technological challenges that can span across national borders.
I think facebook is better as a template or framework to copy and reuse for some physical district made up of people ( a village ) then use in a centralized social networking site like NewsCorp/Rupert Murdoch's myspace. Yet is it really possible to copy and reuse a facebook API? That depends on if both the API framework and contributing programmers use and review demand-based[1], clean open architectures. The reusability and openness are a critical why part to this complex social equation for open source programmers, engineers and economists.
[1] - Remember the phrase, "The customer is always right?"
>> I'm one of the original designers/developers of Subversion, and even we (in the svn developer community) are well aware of both sides of the coin. We're seriously considering adding decentralized features to svn 2.0.
Sounds to me like what this community is proposing is evolutionary changes in version tracking and SCM, away from the prima donna model of one guy at his terminal behind the wall.
This work won't be accomplished in a new version of git, but over several lifecycles and updates to the core routines that define what version update routines are and how they operate in a distributed environment.
>> We've also added true merge-tracking magic to the imminent svn 1.5 release (so svn is no longer "hand waving" merges, they'll be just as simple as in decentralized systems.)
"Magic"? You must understand sussman, there is nothing simple about merges within and without the use of decentralized systems. What I just said is the reason they're decentral and are operationally redundant in manner of time and place. The reason distributed connections should be able to handle co-dependent nodes in decentralized ways is to beat the central office model. The reason we want to beat the central office model is whenever someone takes repository A offline or makes line edits under the old framework of subversion and CVS, everyone else loses their work.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't even try it. We need local solutions that scale ''left'' down to some kind of district/relational size. In other words it IS all about who we are, plus where we want to grow as people and think long-term and quality of life while doing this.
Facebook is a Web site that's privately owned with an end-user license agreement the user must adhere to that's more heavily supply oriented than demand based IN TERMS OF CONTEXT, not to mention all that data and information.
They'll begin to reverse engineer, drop api support or strip the api's down ( Google never will ) and could implement Web performing, .NET-centered stuff at the first opportunity to contravene all of your open activity.
"can-you-see-me-now dept." NO! shit! This is radar. How do you know what it is if you really don't know where?
No, I AM a moron in this department and that's digital archiving and keeping numerical track of user posts. Never mind..
D00d, we are *exactly* 300 users apart with our #32141x86 user number, and we post next to each other... What are the odds? Psych out!
Shouldn't restitution be paid back to the manufacturing country within the country of origin? Why is the 9th Circuit doing this or whichever court when China should be prosecuting it? I personally cannot stand the government of China they are a commercial-corporate / agrarian / Communist mix which is repetitively detrimental to the fundamentals of a contemporary, capitalist government.
Is that Cisco IOS? I have never encountered a more inefficient, bloated piece of networking software after reading Cisco's IOS manual. Notice I said inefficient? True, there is little need for competition in this area since most people don't program for ethernet or administrate that layer, much less ethernet bridging over VPN. This could say something about the Cisco brand or "label" of merchandise. Perhaps that software/firmware is a bit too expensive and inclusive only to Cisco's own area of encumbrance ( this is an uncommon but practical legal term and definition ) when theft of Intellectual Property is happening, huh?
"Microsoft Bob" are the tendencies of a person or people, not an artifact alone! It isn't corporate personhood either -- something SCOTUS and bigwig entrepreneurial types haven't sufficiently addressed as of right now. Figure it out yet, fat figurers? And Microsh*t it remains with regard to: .Xls files plus screwing SQL, Cisco routing and, I.E. version whatever they got out now . . .
It isn't.
Multicore has been with us for over a decade now. It is practical and conducive to build open cores from class declaration up so methods, file types and handlers exist between architectures and at same time there's decoupling of needed resources as processes.
To point the way to what exists now there's Yellow Dog Linux for both Macintosh and Apple's PPC platform:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/faq/
The older version works on MacOS 8/9. The new one works on Mac OS X.
Linmac or lintel would be most nice for us micro-engineers. The smaller businesses we want to associate with could branch away from both static software design and largescale deployment tied to that very design, focusing more on customizing digital end-pieces to attach to current semiconductor inputs if the correlated software to do that in places (like EAGLE for Ubuntu) is manufactured and delivered in an open core form of engagement.
Here's an update on bradblog.com about bad problems down in Texas:
Brad Friedman's blog:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6584#more-6584
We've been reporting for the last week or so on the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines which are flipping votes from Democratic candidates to others in, so far, at least four states. We've showed you actual footage of it and how even after being "recalibrated" these machines still continue to flip votes.
[ snip ]
Unfortunately, it's not just the error-prone, hackable, wholly unverifiable iVotronics from ES&S which are failing. Error-prone, hackable and wholly unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems made by Hart InterCivic, Diebold and Sequoia Voting Systems are also having the same problems across the country. And the Democrats, who have the most to lose, continue to do nothing about it...
On Monday, we posted a video of a WV county clerk demonstrating the vote-flips on the ES&S iVotronic and suggesting that the problem was due to touch-screen calibration issues on the machine. The video then shows the clerk inserting a cartridge into the machine to recalibrate it, after which the machine still mis-records a vote.
[ snip ]
While recalibration has been ordered in many of these cases, it needs to be pointed out that there is no way that any touch-screen voting machine should ever have a cartridge inserted into it, for any reason, by anybody, after it's already been programmed for an election. That is the very moment these machines are the most vulnerable to malicious software and other forms of tampering and attack. That recalibration is being advised where these problems have occurred --- instead of complete removal from service, to be replaced by paper ballots --- is insane.
Recalibration, so far, has been the response prescribed by election officials and, to their shame, we have seen absolutely no sign that the DNC and Barack Obama attorneys have done anything to take appropriate action ...
Last week, from the Houston Chronicle:
[Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman's] office was informed early today that some of the first voters had cast straight-ticket Democratic ballots and then discovered that the electronic machines listed them as voting for John McCain in the presidential election.
In the report, Kaufman, as expected, tries to play down the reports of problems. Harris County (Houston), the largest county in the second largest uses the Hart InterCivic eSlate DRE. Though the eSlate is not a touch-screen --- voters use a wheel and a button to select candidates from the computer screen --- it's still an unverifiable DRE voting system.
Our friend Pokey Anderson, an election integrity advocate in Houston, and host of KPFT/Pacifica's Sunday Monitor program, confirmed with one of the first 30 or so voters to vote on the first day of early voting at the West Gray Multi-Service Center that her straight ticket Democratic vote was flipped to McCain ...
Here's a "little gray men" fiasco which I have personal experience with. This UFO abductee and charlatan along with his group of friendlies really got to the serious UFO investigators, crystal-loving peaceniks and hippies back in the day:
Brian Allen Scott is a purported UFO abductee who claims to have been kidnapped by gray aliens while living with his family in Arizona. Later in the 1970s not long after building up this story with additional claims of continued contact with and abductions by the same type of aliens, Scott makes a glory hound visit to Peru, South America with some bosom buddies. After interpreting strange etchings in boulders and rocks near the Nazca Lines as the Incans' ancient account of visitors from space, Scott stepped under an arch at Isla Del Sol in Tiahuanaco between the borders of Bolivia and Peru and reportedly became spiritually "transformed," somehow becoming a personal conduit for an intergalactic being named Voltar who was both the essence of a larger, gray alien and the reincarnation of Incan god Ticci Viracocha. Scott returned to "spread the word of Voltar" to the public in Tustin, Orange County, California.
While getting his group to videotape his tirades in Tustin and at the same time forming a network behind the scenes with the Tustin City Council, Scott gained increased publicity within the community of UFO believers. Receiving considerable private funds and having a play based off of his supposed encounter, Scott and his cohorts devised a media campaign revolving around traveling to Washington D.C. to the Jimmy Carter White House just before the Iranian hostage crisis started to try to deliver a "message" from Voltar under the pretext of what Scott, et al. called the "The Voice of Common Man". This message also contained a prophecy about a race of benevolent large aliens mentioned once before returning to Earth in 2011.
Scott's stories of abduction and having been the living reincarnation of Viracocha have been thoroughly debunked by several UFO researchers and a scientist over the years on purely evidential grounds, lack of meaningful corroboration and Scott being unable to reproduce quantifiable facts based on either proof or verifiable measurements that solidly backed up his claims. The whole ordeal sounds like something out of the 1970's The Questor Tapes ( see the following paragraph with an external citation ), more recently the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or an Erich von Daniken book.
Scott currently works as a well paid Health Sciences designer for a defense contractor in Pennsylvania and runs a web site still maintaining he was abducted by aliens.
http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleGaucheEncounters.html
"...The Seventies brought into prominence a case involving a character named Brian Scott. It was written up in a book called The Etherian Invasion and was critically dissected in a paper by Alvin Lawson for the 1976 CUFOS conference. Scott's aliens are clones of a central host intelligence in the form of a vast on-board computer. There is a second floor on the saucer where young clones are grown in cylinders. During an early hypnosis session Scott feels his heart has left his body. In the third hypnosis session he has a vision of a cataclysm sweeping the Earth and learning this would happen on December 14, 2011 from his alien Host.
Though deeply impressed by the emotionality of Scott's recountings under hypnosis, investigators found suspicious aspects to the case that made them doubt Scott's credibility. Though they did not play a role in discounting Scott's claims at the time, cultural factors were eventually uncovered for aspects of the case. Lawson checked local TV schedules at the time of the hypnotic regressions and found a repeat of a failed TV pilot, The Questor Tapes, which had a scene of stored human clones in
This is where the ~why~ in technology is kind of important, much less bringing in the critical issues of security and compliance. Whether it's a more integrated cookie function specification like a better way of utilizing flash cookies being operated by private marketplaces and somehow, concurrently, have independent oversight by regulatory forces or it's the ad-hoc, free markets and buyer beware system we're stuck with now there's got to be a better way to run commerce.
I think when it comes to content using cookies there is the application layer stuff plus subscription technologies which are preferred to ad buys and I don't think it's the interface as much as it's the format that is imporant.
I think source-side .FLVs are good. Whether a streaming FLV file is obscured or the URL is open users at any rate should be able to 1) embed links to the video and 2) modify the pixel ratios with respect to their machine's memory. Generally I believe what browser is playing what media file and the physical/virtual location are what the flash cookies now store as retrievable data.
Or having to register your email address thru paranoidlinux.org to get the download? Hello?!
Yeah really -- Redmond now has a "clear, build, hold" counter-insurgency strategy 2-3 years too late where the "terrorists" are Open Source proponents and the military at large as Microsoft is clueless.
I really like wine, though. It runs slow on my x86 system but runs Win98 apps good w/o the silly windows registry foolishness.
Perhaps the U.S. Vice president who previously headed a federal energy taskforce that purposefully excluded wind, solar and other green energies directly talked to the administrators at BLM and "encouraged" them to reduce their application intake?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/
Clean coal is a myth. So are fuel efficient SUVs. Meet the new WMDs.
Verizon's open platform is going to have more full disclosure.
>> I'll believe that you had something else in mind, because that particular example is a piss-poor example for needing new property delineation and laws. That one was plain, old-fashioned theft, nothing more, nothing less. Theft of the physical kind.
Exactly. It was theft. Whether this took place in a university or business it is a model example of why we need better property delineation laws that follow a different scale -- physically and virtually they have to go together now, not apart. As for how it works, I back up what I say with proper logic and facts.
>> It had _nothing_ to do with IP. There was no copyright infringement of any kind, there was no patent infringement, and there was no trademark infringement.
Well that's so yesterday.
>> At the end of the day, what remains is "dumb PHB steals X from work, thinking it was Y." Ok, "secretly borrows" over the weekend. In this case X was a piece of computing, but the act itself had been no different if X were, say, one of the company trucks to haul his own furniture with.
This is where you programmers need to learn how to advance your linear thinking. It isn't X and Y, black and white, with both a known and predictable depth presenting itself as a problem to be solved during each work cycle.
With virtual property becoming a main fixture of American society what we have is X, Y, Z and time.
This includes but goes above and beyond patents, I.P. and trademark claims. We have to have measurable, safe property containers -- think of this as a more evolved form of rack space -- which delivers our Internet property to us virtually on a subscription-and-transaction basis without the possibility of rip offs occurring because the event horizon for scams will get reduced to zero by linking in: independent peer review, oversight, honest assessment of resources and infrastructure and repeated testing & analysis to assure success in the field without conflicts.
I think that we are entering a new period of economic reality and that, in terms of intellectual property, "something that was already solved for everything else" hasn't been solved.
The recent /. story of somebody taking off with a shared xbox Linux Webserver for their kids amusement is a fresh example of why we first need property delineation, second we need to collectively and professionally learn how to safely decouple not separate the Web content from all of the backoffice context, digital maintenance and upkeep. I believe only with those measures in place will American society control our virtual assets as single and parallel entities and employ intellectual property therein. You have to learn to crawl before learning how to walk..
>>... software and tried to handwave in the fallacy that they need completely other constructs, for something that was already solved for everything else. See, you need to _license_ software, because, OMG, otherwise you'd think you bought the rights to that program as a whole! WTH? We already had the distinction between buying a book, and buying the ownership of a novel itself. You didn't need to "license" a book, or a vinyl record, or a newspaper.
>> Even after the loophole of, basically, "yeah, but you need to copy the program to memory, which is making a copy, and you need a license to make copies" was closed, we got stuck with the same stupidity as a before. Nah, see, it's _licensed_, not sold
I went to an installfest last night in my community.
When I got there there was only one computer out on display and it was OS X. All of the participants were in their early to mid 20s. All were white and male. There was no installing. Hence, no recruiting or planning on how to get the message out about the benefits of FOSS. Two guys were talking about procmail and exchanged info, that was good. A larger group of guys were talking about how to divide integers and still have measurable units to work with using some programming language, not much going on there. When I first walked in I didn't say much except to ask about the OS X system. I pulled out my Schaum's C++ crash course book & Rails Cookbook and learned a little about programming pointers. While doing this I listened in to the ambient conversation. I wasn't spying I am not currently a student and I just wanted to know what the others thought of me seeing as I don't usually go to installfests. Several folks thought I was a professor! Most women or any intelligent, rational person probably wouldn't have made the assumption of professor and that's my point. In addition to scaling up diversity among the FOSS masses and somehow bridging that aim into recruitment we need to reassess the big picture of software. A few ideas: more code re-use and adaptable licensing which supports this, more for-profit industry alliances, limited partnerships and collaboration -- where profit by way of open source is measurable and at the same time increases our credibility. Last of all -- definitely phase down development of CLI it is too hard for over 90% of everyday people to use efficiently and wisely.
What I'm saying is like it or not this installfest situation I experienced last night is pretty much the state of C.S. and programming collectives on campuses across the USA today. We used to have issues with the prima donnas among us taking up too much turf -- then stuff like PHP and Internet cafes happened and that condescending ``'tude`` kind of went away. In addition to increasing the finance, more political and legal considerations for open source users and good looking, Hollywood-style marketing of FOSS there needs to be a change in our 'tudes. Like one Presidential candidate in particular has said all along it's about hope and change is certainly a factor where hope is concerned.
nice try
Oh good, cynicsreport got credit where credit is due: ''Score:3, Insightful''
First, cynicsreport's post above mine should have at least gotten a score of 2 or 3. Read the post from beginning to end -- giving him/her a 1 is simply mislabeling that diligence. He doesn't mention S.o.A. but is clear enough on referring to API inclusiveness which is what most programmers today understand.
My post: flamebait?? Perhaps off-topic but certainly not flame bait. Where is your rationale with calling me a flamebaiter? I am engendering communication and coordination on development issues and the ownership factors that affect them here. Everyone knows microshit has a long reach maybe they've gotten to the core beneficiaries of slashdot too.
It's not my fault that <p> paragraph breaks sometimes don't work at the beginning of HTML posts and between italics mark-up. Fix the damn code!
The timing of this move and both the economical and legal reasons ( i.e. telecom issues ) for it happening are very questionable. On this day Microsoft reports the strongest quarterly earnings in years and vmWare gets a boost in profits too whose server virtualization Redmond is all over. Yesterday facebook.com reports microsoft will now control facebook's ad buys and delivery of its ad syndication which by todays standards in transparency and oversight actually means microshit will fully control facebook's user data and therefore the content integrity of facebook user profiles.
Look at the dates. Look at *what* is in Slashdot's cited article to see this professionally sick pattern of behavior ( brackets contain words I use for emphasis ) --
'' Trolltech has discontinued its Linux-based "Greenphone" development platform. Touted upon its introduction as the first _Linux-based_ mobile phone with _user-modifiable firmware_ ( big time SoA opportunity ), the device will be superseded by various third-party products, including not only open phones, but also portable media players, navigation devices, and home automation equipment, the company says. Trolltech made a big splash with the Greenphone at _LinuxWorld 2006_. As the first Linux-based mobile phone with user-modifiable firmware, the phone was designed to provide wireless carriers and [componentized, service-level] third-party [access to] [Service oriented Architecture] ''
This supply side storage capacity news is old news.
What about taking along your gmail text, images and bittorrent audio on a wii-mote or a hacked iPod?
First, solve the aesthetics ( care & handling ), support and personal device connectivity of apps for said devices. After this the carriers will come in to provision bandwidth on a subscription basis.
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1. Developer A writes some code for OpenBSD (or whatever)
2. Developer B says "that's cool, I wish Linux had that"
3. Developer B ports developer A's code to Linux
4. Developer B then starts improving on A's code
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I think it's ABCBA, or ABCAB -- writing the code, implementing it and code review means 3 parties.
>>However, developer B doesn't want to release his changes under the BSD license, so the improved version goes out GPL-only. Developer A says "hey, wait, that sucks", because now he can't incorporate those changes back into OpenBSD, which does (I assume) have a policy that all code must be BSD-licensed.
Single-use licensing can work with Community Centric Licensing which AFAIK imports strengths of reusing/sharing/replicating source code. We don't have CCL yet. Are not BSD and GPL the same except the latter requires source code inclusion?
In reply to deviate_this ( first response to original ):
>> So how do you claim the moral high ground when you just took someone else's project and forked it so that they can't use it the way they originally intended?
Derivative works stay in the public domain and are subject to this. Community and collaborative are co-existing, but certainly universal, enterprise fixated licensing can make a difference.
Quick notes on moving past single-user EULA licensing:
emphasis on community means truly shared
limited emphasis on collaboration: shared but truly unique
An early version of AW had a kermit comm protocol built in.
/. nowadays the original post can be modded zero but replies can be 1, 2 or 3. WTF? Isn't that contradictory?
You're right AW was not based on HyperCard, my bad. I'm pretty sure though that the first version of AW had backwards compatibility with elements of HC hypermedia.
It is interesting that on
Appleworks shipped with MacOS versions 8.x and 9.x has very useful communications and drawing programs, plus a fair spreadsheet program. It is some people at Apple who have abandoned this marvelous suite of programs and not the users themselves. If I'm not mistaken Appleworks was a continuation of and improvement to HyperCard.
The where and why are left to corporate choice and chance. We know from http://whois.domaintools.com/facebook.com that facebook.com is in Palo Alto, was created in March of 1997 and 38% of recent visits to it are from the U.S. That's a 50 state demographic. Using this, the demander or user numbers can by no means be broken down into regional outputs because there are inherently minimum amounts of transparency in corporate business models.
I get a sense that what developers want is regional solutions to local, cultural issues which present themselves as technological challenges that can span across national borders.
I think facebook is better as a template or framework to copy and reuse for some physical district made up of people ( a village ) then use in a centralized social networking site like NewsCorp/Rupert Murdoch's myspace. Yet is it really possible to copy and reuse a facebook API? That depends on if both the API framework and contributing programmers use and review demand-based[1], clean open architectures. The reusability and openness are a critical why part to this complex social equation for open source programmers, engineers and economists.
[1] - Remember the phrase, "The customer is always right?"
>> I'm one of the original designers/developers of Subversion, and even we (in the svn developer community) are well aware of both sides of the coin. We're seriously considering adding decentralized features to svn 2.0.
Sounds to me like what this community is proposing is evolutionary changes in version tracking and SCM, away from the prima donna model of one guy at his terminal behind the wall.
This work won't be accomplished in a new version of git, but over several lifecycles and updates to the core routines that define what version update routines are and how they operate in a distributed environment.
>> We've also added true merge-tracking magic to the imminent svn 1.5 release (so svn is no longer "hand waving" merges, they'll be just as simple as in decentralized systems.)
"Magic"? You must understand sussman, there is nothing simple about merges within and without the use of decentralized systems. What I just said is the reason they're decentral and are operationally redundant in manner of time and place. The reason distributed connections should be able to handle co-dependent nodes in decentralized ways is to beat the central office model. The reason we want to beat the central office model is whenever someone takes repository A offline or makes line edits under the old framework of subversion and CVS, everyone else loses their work.