I donno, web interfaces seem horribly inefficient and stupid relative to native interfaces. I pretty much considered WebOS fatally flawed the moment I heard about it. And it fulfilled my expectations. Worse, there are apparently some fools that decided MeeGo must follow WebOS's lead. lol
There is a very clear formula to building a better smartphone : Expand Android's NDK by optimizing glibc instead of using Google's minimal libc. Cut what features must be cut, but optimize anything that produces reasonable performance on mobiles. Improve the market place's support for native code. Voila, GNU Android. Infinitely easier porting for Linux libraries. All Android/Java based front ends, no X11. All Android applications "just work".
I'd adapt to applications costing money, but I'll never adapt to close source applications. I'm happy if they make everyone who wants it for free cross compile form source. I'll avoid their software like the plague if it creates a risk of spyware/malware, limits my ability to extend it, doesn't permit public security audits, etc.
PGP/GPG requires updating your email client, but now Tor and off-the-record messaging are brain dead simple, assuming you use modern clients, like Adium, Jitsi, etc.
Imho, the reprehensible behaviors of our governments over the last decade has made encrypting our communications a moral imperative. I have "nothing on the line" personally, but..
There are many activists in the world doing important things to undermine harmful sources of authority. And my own usage of cryptography helps prevent governments and corporations from identifying the interesting traffic quite so easily.
If you have an Android device, then you should check out the Guardian Project.
I honestly like Apple's hardware, well their laptops anyways. Yey MacBook Air!
I've never liked iOS ever since they introduced it without cut & paste. I'm cool experimenting with Apple's user-interface tweaks, like launchpad or whatever, but damn if dropping cut & paste didn't scream "you are not our target market". Apple has introduced cut & paste but damn if they haven't always lagged behind on critical features.
I'm currently using an N900 because I love the integration of VoIP with GSM and IM with SMS. I'm buying an Android soonish because only Android provides a full range of open source cryptographic options. See the Guardian Project.
Imho, the reprehensible behaviors of our governments over the last decade has made encrypting our communications a moral imperative. I.e. I've nothing important enough to keep secret, but damn if I'm not gonna make their lives harder by making my unimportant information inaccessible to them.
I support the publishing arms of the AMS, ASL, LMS, SMF, etc., i.e. societies for professional mathematicians. I'd imagine some professional societies are wasteful and stupid, but by-and-large professional societies prioritize helping their speciality, so they're probably fine unless they've been lured into a contract with a bad publisher like Elsevier.
Bitcoin is the most traceable "currency" in the world. It's just that bitcoin accounts don't have names attached, making them less tracable than bank account transfers, credit cards, etc., but certainly you can trace them, and ask the first legit possessor how they obtained them.
There should probably be an anti-fraud protocol that attempts to trace the paths of fraudulently transferred bitcoins. You could establish "super" civil rights protections around it that complied with the tightest civil liberties rules in various countries, much like wikileaks did for journalism, but ultimately provided a sensible framework for ex-post-facto dispute resolution.
You're talking about local gossip among fairly ignorant people who don't want their preconceived notions challenged.
Internet mobs out the lies far more quickly, witness this very case. Yes, we'll get some wrong obviously, but we amplify truth so much that lies mostly get acknowledged by the attacking communities.
Yes, quality counts in academic papers, but.. crappiness counts in patents.
Yes, crappiness mildly obstructs obtaining the patent, fine file more patents. Yet, crappiness is an incredible asset once you obtaing the patent, but the more overboard, the more people you can sue.
Umm, no. I said DHS was a bunch of incompetent buffoons.
If anybody involved in anything important had cared about this, they wouldn't have publicly asked for a retraction. DHS otoh doesn't do anything important.
Do you know what happens when real CIA agents get outed or academic cryptographers discover NSA breakthroughs? Absolutely nothing
If any real security threat appears, the CIA or NSA quietly say "Oops, too bad they figured that out. Please nobody make this worse by confirming its importance."
What does DHS do? "Oh hey, the media covered this biology paper. Let's get ourselves in the news by redacting it!"
And later they argue over who gets dibs on starting the DHS subcontractor to review all biology research before publication. Imagine all those biologists who didn't get accepted into PhD programs being paid per word redacted. Joking, you think I am, mmm?
Didn't wikipedia report 61%? You'd need a serious campaign effort of (a) Austin tech company donating money to his opponent (b) people canvasing the district tell people how he's trying to destroy the internet, and (c) a very good democratic candidate, maybe some tech exec, but it's feasible.
As observed here, we could realistically defeat Lamar Smith in 2012 because his district picks up much of Austin, including the University of Texas. Fill his local media with talk about Lamar Smith's attempt to destroy the internet.
There were people in NYC getting like 750 kbps download. Ain't no way you'd see that when torrenting.. or even using megavideo's paid version. Very much : Want. Click. Have.
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I donno, web interfaces seem horribly inefficient and stupid relative to native interfaces. I pretty much considered WebOS fatally flawed the moment I heard about it. And it fulfilled my expectations. Worse, there are apparently some fools that decided MeeGo must follow WebOS's lead. lol
There is a very clear formula to building a better smartphone : Expand Android's NDK by optimizing glibc instead of using Google's minimal libc. Cut what features must be cut, but optimize anything that produces reasonable performance on mobiles. Improve the market place's support for native code. Voila, GNU Android. Infinitely easier porting for Linux libraries. All Android/Java based front ends, no X11. All Android applications "just work".
Could you PLEASE STOP saying that GoDaddy recanted its support for SOPA!
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
I'd adapt to applications costing money, but I'll never adapt to close source applications. I'm happy if they make everyone who wants it for free cross compile form source. I'll avoid their software like the plague if it creates a risk of spyware/malware, limits my ability to extend it, doesn't permit public security audits, etc.
If you use Android, you should check out the Guardian Project.
PGP/GPG requires updating your email client, but now Tor and off-the-record messaging are brain dead simple, assuming you use modern clients, like Adium, Jitsi, etc.
Imho, the reprehensible behaviors of our governments over the last decade has made encrypting our communications a moral imperative. I have "nothing on the line" personally, but..
There are many activists in the world doing important things to undermine harmful sources of authority. And my own usage of cryptography helps prevent governments and corporations from identifying the interesting traffic quite so easily.
If you have an Android device, then you should check out the Guardian Project.
I honestly like Apple's hardware, well their laptops anyways. Yey MacBook Air!
I've never liked iOS ever since they introduced it without cut & paste. I'm cool experimenting with Apple's user-interface tweaks, like launchpad or whatever, but damn if dropping cut & paste didn't scream "you are not our target market". Apple has introduced cut & paste but damn if they haven't always lagged behind on critical features.
I'm currently using an N900 because I love the integration of VoIP with GSM and IM with SMS. I'm buying an Android soonish because only Android provides a full range of open source cryptographic options. See the Guardian Project.
Imho, the reprehensible behaviors of our governments over the last decade has made encrypting our communications a moral imperative. I.e. I've nothing important enough to keep secret, but damn if I'm not gonna make their lives harder by making my unimportant information inaccessible to them.
I support the publishing arms of the AMS, ASL, LMS, SMF, etc., i.e. societies for professional mathematicians. I'd imagine some professional societies are wasteful and stupid, but by-and-large professional societies prioritize helping their speciality, so they're probably fine unless they've been lured into a contract with a bad publisher like Elsevier.
I borrow my books from library.nu because they've generous lending terms.
Authors and editors are valuable, but publishers are basically parasites nowadays.
Also, GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA, but they pretend they did when talking to the press.
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
Bitcoin is the most traceable "currency" in the world. It's just that bitcoin accounts don't have names attached, making them less tracable than bank account transfers, credit cards, etc., but certainly you can trace them, and ask the first legit possessor how they obtained them.
There should probably be an anti-fraud protocol that attempts to trace the paths of fraudulently transferred bitcoins. You could establish "super" civil rights protections around it that complied with the tightest civil liberties rules in various countries, much like wikileaks did for journalism, but ultimately provided a sensible framework for ex-post-facto dispute resolution.
You're talking about local gossip among fairly ignorant people who don't want their preconceived notions challenged.
Internet mobs out the lies far more quickly, witness this very case. Yes, we'll get some wrong obviously, but we amplify truth so much that lies mostly get acknowledged by the attacking communities.
How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor
Cheezburger network CEO Ben Huh may pull over 1000 domains from GoDaddy in protest of GoDaddy's support for SOPA. Gizmodo has a list of companies supporting SOPA. Jeff Epstein has instructions for bulk transfers away from GoDaddy.
Adam Savage has also warned that SOPA could destroy the internet as we know it. Reddit concurs that SOPA could destroy them.
Two congressional staffers, Allison Halataei and Lauren Pastarnack, who helped write SOPA/PIPA become entertainment industry lobbyists
Yes, quality counts in academic papers, but .. crappiness counts in patents.
Yes, crappiness mildly obstructs obtaining the patent, fine file more patents. Yet, crappiness is an incredible asset once you obtaing the patent, but the more overboard, the more people you can sue.
Umm, no. I said DHS was a bunch of incompetent buffoons.
If anybody involved in anything important had cared about this, they wouldn't have publicly asked for a retraction. DHS otoh doesn't do anything important.
Do you know what happens when real CIA agents get outed or academic cryptographers discover NSA breakthroughs? Absolutely nothing
If any real security threat appears, the CIA or NSA quietly say "Oops, too bad they figured that out. Please nobody make this worse by confirming its importance."
What does DHS do? "Oh hey, the media covered this biology paper. Let's get ourselves in the news by redacting it!"
And later they argue over who gets dibs on starting the DHS subcontractor to review all biology research before publication. Imagine all those biologists who didn't get accepted into PhD programs being paid per word redacted. Joking, you think I am, mmm?
Off-the-record messaging is fucking trivial. I've many friend with whom I use off-the-record messaging.
Didn't wikipedia report 61%? You'd need a serious campaign effort of (a) Austin tech company donating money to his opponent (b) people canvasing the district tell people how he's trying to destroy the internet, and (c) a very good democratic candidate, maybe some tech exec, but it's feasible.
As noted upthread, Lamar Smith is vulnerable since UT Austin lies inside his district, meaning the internet could run a serious campaign against him.
As observed here, we could realistically defeat Lamar Smith in 2012 because his district picks up much of Austin, including the University of Texas. Fill his local media with talk about Lamar Smith's attempt to destroy the internet.
There were people in NYC getting like 750 kbps download. Ain't no way you'd see that when torrenting.. or even using megavideo's paid version. Very much : Want. Click. Have.