Actually no, as I understand it they are asking for Google to stop misusing other parties' intellectual property, for want of a better phrase. In the same manner that US corporations have certain rights over their own creative works, and enforce those rights through the DMCA; EU citizens have certain rights over their own personal information, and can now enforce those rights through this so-called "right to be forgotten".
If US-based DMCA takedowns affect more than just Google's US-local domains, and they do, why should these EU-based takedowns not be treated similarly?
I wonder if the author just hasn't heard about MaidSafe?
Or perhaps the author doesn't think much of an "open source" project, owned and controlled by a single for-profit entity which operates a proprietary-relicensing model, and hence requires copyright assignment from any contributions.
If you want a device which covers most of your vision, get some VR or AR glasses - Google Glass is not what you're looking for. But if you want a mostly unobtrusive, hands-free display; to occasionally reference while you actually get shit done in the real world; then perhaps Google Glass could help you.
Contrary to the media headlines, Google Glass wasn't a complete failure, and wasn't shut down. Perhaps it was failure in the *consumer* market (which they never actually released into); but AFAIK it is still available, supported, and well used, in various medical/industrial settings.
If you lock yourself into using only things that are 100% free (as in speech), how are you more free than someone who has a choice of 100% of all the offerings available?
If you "lock yourself into" using something, you are necessarily less free than someone who doesn't. The difference is that by definition you cannot "lock yourself into" truly Free things, as you are always Free to unlock yourself, should you choose to.
However, becoming reliant on, or merely handing over your information to, a third-party black-box service effectively means that you can never be totally free of that third-party's influence.
Though I consider myself an open-source programmer, and an open-source advocate, it's not for the same reasons as Stallman.
FYI, Stallman would never describe himself as an "open-source advocate".
"Open Source" is a software-development methodology - that software is better if more people can access the source code. The primary concern is toward the interests of developers. "Free Software", as advocated by RMS, is a philosophical position - that everyone should have certain rights over the software they use. The primary concern is toward the interests of the end-user.
I believe that RMS takes the position that Free Software is a moral and ethical issue: That it is immoral and unethical to deny a person knowledge of, and control over, the software which they use. At an extreme, consider what rights people today have to so much as audit the code in their car, their insulin pump, or their implanted heart defibrillator (spoiler: they have no such rights).
You realise all browsers do that, and for a good reason, right?
Nope. Chrome does it much more elegantly IMO. They show that the site uses SSL, but that it is not secure (there's a red strike through the "https" IIRC).
Self-signed SSL certs actually break part of the point of how SSL certs are used on the web...
You know what breaks SSL even worse? Not using it at all. Yet non-https sites are often indicated to be *more* trustworthy (ie. there's no warning) than a site that uses a self-signed cert. Self-signed certs don't prevent impersonation of the site, true. But they do prevent passive eavesdropping. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
X Rebirth was pretty much panned by everyone who was a fan of the previous X games. Consequently, it's the only one of the X games that I haven't bought at least once.
Which has been proven false by pretty much every Humble Bundle which included a majority Linux-compatible games, since the very start of Humble Bundles.
revenue from linux users compared to total revenue for the humble indie bundle is only 11%
But the numbers show that those 11% of customers are willing to pay more for the product/s than a large proportion of the other 89%. If the product is being sold for more than $1, then those who are more willing to spend more are generally more valuable customers - as they will still be in the market for the product at a more expensive price, while the majority of free-loaders and cheap-skates disappear from the product's viable target market.
Number of programs which can parse text-based log files: >100,000 Number of programs which can parse systemd log files: 1 Are you okay with this situation? It seems a lot of people are not.
Diversification is the tradeoff between "some people get compromised sometimes" and "everyone gets compromised rarely".
If there is one development team, and one client, then if that client is found to be insecure, the only secure course of action is for everyone to stop using that protocol altogether. If there are many teams, and many clients, if one client is found to be insecure, people can just switch to a different client and continue on as before.
I'm not saying comcast is the answer, but government replacing them is not really the cure. At least not the cure unless you want your internet carrying 10 times the load it was designed for and the solution pushed being expanding lanes that only a small portion of people can legally use- or worse yet, have to pay a premium for express travel. Yes, some expansion to existing freeways have been adding toll lanes to an otherwise non toll road.
Not sure if sarcasm, or if completely oblivious to the currently ongoing net(flix) neutrality debate.
The data protection laws say, in summary, that companies who process peoples' personal information are responsible for keeping that information accurate and up-to-date, and to discard that information when it is no longer relevant.
The court ruling decided that search results on a person's name constituted personal information about that person. Hence search engine indexes are subject to the fore-mentioned laws.
any other complex program that isn't formed from a bunch of small "do one thing well!" utilities
Pipeline intercommunication aside, most large programs of any quality *are* formed from a bunch of small "do one thing well" utilities. They're commonly called "libraries".
Please tear up your Richard Stallman fanclub cards because what little software he's written has mostly been Emacs.
Emacs is *one* thing he's written. Wasn't he responsible for the first versions of pretty much *all* the GNU userspace tools? You know, the ones used by the Linux-using UNIX-philosophy-advocates?
That's not even bringing up the fact that SystemD is.. wait for it... built from a bunch of individual utilities that can actually be used by non-systemd programs.
Oh, great! So we can just install the SystemD init daemon, and not bother with the rest of its feature-creep?
Because you purchased the name, you can develop Minecraft 2
And so a whole new generation of gamers will learn the pain and heartache of a loved name from their childhood getting ruined by a poorly-thought-out corporate-developed sequel.
An email address "expiring" and being re-used these days is plain negligence on the part of the email provider. It's not like there's a shortage of domain names one can use for email, so there is no reason to reuse existing ones. Especially given the potential security issues which can arise - as demonstrated by this particular incident.
From a brief glance, Plex appears to be for streaming existing content. MediaGoblin is for hosting content you create.
Were I seeking a wider audience, I'd have the options of Vimeo or Xtube or Soundcloud or Bandcamp or Flickr to put my content online.
And if you don't want to turn your own content over to third parties, and thereby be subject to their licenses, and often arbitrary censorship/takedown decisions, you could use an instance of MediaGoblin to replace any or all of those services.
What's stopping me from using the dozens of web content galleries
Nothing, but if you're going to do that, you might choose to use MediaGoblin.
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Actually no, as I understand it they are asking for Google to stop misusing other parties' intellectual property, for want of a better phrase.
In the same manner that US corporations have certain rights over their own creative works, and enforce those rights through the DMCA; EU citizens have certain rights over their own personal information, and can now enforce those rights through this so-called "right to be forgotten".
If US-based DMCA takedowns affect more than just Google's US-local domains, and they do, why should these EU-based takedowns not be treated similarly?
Or perhaps the author doesn't think much of an "open source" project, owned and controlled by a single for-profit entity which operates a proprietary-relicensing model, and hence requires copyright assignment from any contributions.
5000 resumes in the first day
Privacy is only dead if you are willing to get over it.
If you want a device which covers most of your vision, get some VR or AR glasses - Google Glass is not what you're looking for. But if you want a mostly unobtrusive, hands-free display; to occasionally reference while you actually get shit done in the real world; then perhaps Google Glass could help you.
Contrary to the media headlines, Google Glass wasn't a complete failure, and wasn't shut down. Perhaps it was failure in the *consumer* market (which they never actually released into); but AFAIK it is still available, supported, and well used, in various medical/industrial settings.
If you "lock yourself into" using something, you are necessarily less free than someone who doesn't. The difference is that by definition you cannot "lock yourself into" truly Free things, as you are always Free to unlock yourself, should you choose to.
However, becoming reliant on, or merely handing over your information to, a third-party black-box service effectively means that you can never be totally free of that third-party's influence.
FYI, Stallman would never describe himself as an "open-source advocate".
"Open Source" is a software-development methodology - that software is better if more people can access the source code. The primary concern is toward the interests of developers.
"Free Software", as advocated by RMS, is a philosophical position - that everyone should have certain rights over the software they use. The primary concern is toward the interests of the end-user.
I believe that RMS takes the position that Free Software is a moral and ethical issue: That it is immoral and unethical to deny a person knowledge of, and control over, the software which they use. At an extreme, consider what rights people today have to so much as audit the code in their car, their insulin pump, or their implanted heart defibrillator (spoiler: they have no such rights).
Go home Sir Clive, you're drunk.
I distinctly remember playing HeroQuest on my Amiga 500 back in the day. Heck, I can still remember some of the music.
And for that matter so does Soylent News, which is even based on the same codebase as Slashdot!
Nope. Chrome does it much more elegantly IMO. They show that the site uses SSL, but that it is not secure (there's a red strike through the "https" IIRC).
You know what breaks SSL even worse? Not using it at all. Yet non-https sites are often indicated to be *more* trustworthy (ie. there's no warning) than a site that uses a self-signed cert.
Self-signed certs don't prevent impersonation of the site, true. But they do prevent passive eavesdropping.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
X Rebirth was pretty much panned by everyone who was a fan of the previous X games. Consequently, it's the only one of the X games that I haven't bought at least once.
The point was to refute the statement:
Which has been proven false by pretty much every Humble Bundle which included a majority Linux-compatible games, since the very start of Humble Bundles.
But the numbers show that those 11% of customers are willing to pay more for the product/s than a large proportion of the other 89%.
If the product is being sold for more than $1, then those who are more willing to spend more are generally more valuable customers - as they will still be in the market for the product at a more expensive price, while the majority of free-loaders and cheap-skates disappear from the product's viable target market.
Number of programs which can parse text-based log files: >100,000
Number of programs which can parse systemd log files: 1
Are you okay with this situation? It seems a lot of people are not.
I'm not fearful for my job.
It will be my job to unpick the huge steaming turd that some manager decided to outsource to a "3 month programmer".
I'm not fearful for my job; I'm fearful for my sanity.
It does if you're posting anything critical of $regime from within the borders of $regime.
Diversification is the tradeoff between "some people get compromised sometimes" and "everyone gets compromised rarely".
If there is one development team, and one client, then if that client is found to be insecure, the only secure course of action is for everyone to stop using that protocol altogether.
If there are many teams, and many clients, if one client is found to be insecure, people can just switch to a different client and continue on as before.
Number of executables which can parse systemd journal log files: 1
Number of executables which can parse traditional log files: >10000
Single points of failure are rarely a good idea.
Not sure if sarcasm, or if completely oblivious to the currently ongoing net(flix) neutrality debate.
The data protection laws say, in summary, that companies who process peoples' personal information are responsible for keeping that information accurate and up-to-date, and to discard that information when it is no longer relevant.
The court ruling decided that search results on a person's name constituted personal information about that person. Hence search engine indexes are subject to the fore-mentioned laws.
This isn't the 1700s anymore. Next to no one gives a shit about The Constitution or its "philosophy" anymore outside of neckbeard circle jerks.
A philosophy doesn't become irrelevant, simply because it is old.
Pipeline intercommunication aside, most large programs of any quality *are* formed from a bunch of small "do one thing well" utilities. They're commonly called "libraries".
Emacs is *one* thing he's written. Wasn't he responsible for the first versions of pretty much *all* the GNU userspace tools? You know, the ones used by the Linux-using UNIX-philosophy-advocates?
Oh, great! So we can just install the SystemD init daemon, and not bother with the rest of its feature-creep?
And so a whole new generation of gamers will learn the pain and heartache of a loved name from their childhood getting ruined by a poorly-thought-out corporate-developed sequel.
An email address "expiring" and being re-used these days is plain negligence on the part of the email provider.
It's not like there's a shortage of domain names one can use for email, so there is no reason to reuse existing ones. Especially given the potential security issues which can arise - as demonstrated by this particular incident.
From a brief glance, Plex appears to be for streaming existing content. MediaGoblin is for hosting content you create.
And if you don't want to turn your own content over to third parties, and thereby be subject to their licenses, and often arbitrary censorship/takedown decisions, you could use an instance of MediaGoblin to replace any or all of those services.
Nothing, but if you're going to do that, you might choose to use MediaGoblin.