Exactly. Watch the history of the Wikipedia article. Now that light has been shed on the issue, I'll bet the article becomes extremely accurate by the end of the day.
Cool exploit, but worm-spamming your own public site is a bit, um, not well thought out. Or maybe it's a great way of getting a job. Depends on the legality of the worm, I suppose.:)
I encourage you to read the source site, which details a ground-up, sophisticated mesh of communities based on consensus. While it gives everyone a say in any governance decision, it is radically different from the traditional concept of direct democracy. Note also that Metagovernment is a global project and not focused on any singular government. In fact the first targets are very small, non-governmental communities such as condominiums and clubs. Transformation of something like the US federal government may take... a few years.:)
The borrowing of the term "open source" refers (loosely) to the ideals of the open source movement, not the management processes any project may use. In fact, "open source governance" is a governance methodology, and not the same as the governance mechanism of any existing OSS projects.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the best conspiracies are completely in the open. People never suspect because they figure a real conspiracy would try to hide itself.
So if the owners of Hulu are in fact aliens, this is exactly the sort of ad campaign they would run.
Hm. Guess we're screwed.
(So let's just hope they're abundantly stupid like the aliens in Signs and never take into account the fact that if water kills you on contact, maybe you shouldn't invade a planet covered in mostly water, inhabited by beings made of mostly water. HTF did that movie ever get past the script stage?)
Yeah, but can they make something as cool as Windows Mojave?
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I love this stuff... It is all optional. There is no requirement to do it. Oh, but if you don't opt in, your life will suck.
My favorite is medical privacy forms: I, James T Victim, hereby give my consent to Dr. Scrupulous to share every facet of my every bodily function, my entire medical history (including incriminating stuff I have to reveal for medical purposes), and my entire credit record to whomever may request it for whatever reason. I understand that I can refuse to allow this sharing, but then the doctor may deny me medical care and I will likely die a horrible, painful death.
A website is a public-facing document. It explicitly exists to transfer information from the operators' servers to the computer of anyone who for whatever reason accesses that server.
It seems unreasonable to claim that there should be any sort of restriction on who can do what with the address that points people to your website. If you don't want people going there, then make your site password-protected.
I used to admin this rickety old voicemail system which had been set up (by someone else, mind you) on a generic ("white box") DOS PC with a million cards sticking out of it.
One day, I came in to the office to complaints that the voicemail was down. I found the machine unresponsive, so rebooted it. I suspected the drive wasn't spinning because I didn't hear much sound coming from it. Due to loud noise in the closet, I held my ear to the box to listen better.
As I set my head against the server, the true problem became painfully evident... the cooling fan had stopped spinning, the PC had completely overheated, and it chose that moment for the power supply to literally explode from the heat. A plume of pure white smoke came out with a loud popping sound... My ear was ringing for hours afterward.
OK, so it didn't actually tear apart into tiny pieces, but it did effectively blow up.
The best part is that, if I forget my adapter, the company makes tons of profits on selling after-market power adapters! They make so much money on those $30 aftermarket adapters that they can afford to drop their prices elsewhere!
This also means they are helping out the economy, and so, by your participation, you are helping the economy.
Without this sort of lock-in price-gouging, the U.S economy could be in real trouble. It could even go into a deep recession.
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Sunlight is the best antiseptic.
Exactly. Watch the history of the Wikipedia article. Now that light has been shed on the issue, I'll bet the article becomes extremely accurate by the end of the day.
Weird. As I was reading through this thread, just before I came to your post, I had the (almost exact) same idea.
Oh dear. My primary computer has half as much RAM as a graphics card.
(Hangs head in shame.)
For some reason, online quizzes always seem to ask me about my predilections for some Cowboy guy...
It seems this conversation might benefit from a link to the original source data:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1
Psssst! Hey man, want some splat? I'll get you freaky painted.
2 EUR a ball, 20 for a baker's dozen.
Just don't share a dirty gun with your friends.
Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model
Shhhh! Nobody tell The Washington Post , which reaches 1.3 million people in the DC area alone.
Even putting it in an ecode tag doesn't work well. But then again, there isn't really a need for it on /.
On the Twitter /. feed, this of course shows as:
slashdot Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? http://tinyurl.com/c3j4n8
P.S. Now if you want a really short URL, try http://tinyarro.ws/ (no affiliation; just impressed by the idea)
Cool exploit, but worm-spamming your own public site is a bit, um, not well thought out. Or maybe it's a great way of getting a job. Depends on the legality of the worm, I suppose. :)
I encourage you to read the source site, which details a ground-up, sophisticated mesh of communities based on consensus. While it gives everyone a say in any governance decision, it is radically different from the traditional concept of direct democracy. Note also that Metagovernment is a global project and not focused on any singular government. In fact the first targets are very small, non-governmental communities such as condominiums and clubs. Transformation of something like the US federal government may take... a few years. :)
The borrowing of the term "open source" refers (loosely) to the ideals of the open source movement, not the management processes any project may use. In fact, "open source governance" is a governance methodology, and not the same as the governance mechanism of any existing OSS projects.
Despite the name, hermit crabs are not crabs.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
OK, so the source is viewable, but does it qualify as free software as in freedom?
Or is that a senseless question anyway since it runs under Windows?
Yet another additional surplus extra "me too" in the market.
P.S. For reference, see:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/18/apples_iphone_3_0_expands_the_yawning_competitive_gap.html
I think the term you are looking for is citizen science.
Fortunately for them and the script writers... an the day they invaded, there was absolutely no rain anywhere on Earth.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the best conspiracies are completely in the open. People never suspect because they figure a real conspiracy would try to hide itself.
So if the owners of Hulu are in fact aliens, this is exactly the sort of ad campaign they would run.
Hm. Guess we're screwed.
(So let's just hope they're abundantly stupid like the aliens in Signs and never take into account the fact that if water kills you on contact, maybe you shouldn't invade a planet covered in mostly water, inhabited by beings made of mostly water. HTF did that movie ever get past the script stage?)
You're forgetting how government bureaucracy works. It would be something more like:
An interception event may have been detected. Do you wish to give permission to avoid preventing continuance?
Acknowledge - Defer
Yeah, but can they make something as cool as Windows Mojave?
I love this stuff... It is all optional. There is no requirement to do it. Oh, but if you don't opt in, your life will suck.
My favorite is medical privacy forms:
I, James T Victim, hereby give my consent to Dr. Scrupulous to share every facet of my every bodily function, my entire medical history (including incriminating stuff I have to reveal for medical purposes), and my entire credit record to whomever may request it for whatever reason. I understand that I can refuse to allow this sharing, but then the doctor may deny me medical care and I will likely die a horrible, painful death.
A website is a public-facing document. It explicitly exists to transfer information from the operators' servers to the computer of anyone who for whatever reason accesses that server.
It seems unreasonable to claim that there should be any sort of restriction on who can do what with the address that points people to your website. If you don't want people going there, then make your site password-protected.
I used to admin this rickety old voicemail system which had been set up (by someone else, mind you) on a generic ("white box") DOS PC with a million cards sticking out of it.
One day, I came in to the office to complaints that the voicemail was down. I found the machine unresponsive, so rebooted it. I suspected the drive wasn't spinning because I didn't hear much sound coming from it. Due to loud noise in the closet, I held my ear to the box to listen better.
As I set my head against the server, the true problem became painfully evident... the cooling fan had stopped spinning, the PC had completely overheated, and it chose that moment for the power supply to literally explode from the heat. A plume of pure white smoke came out with a loud popping sound... My ear was ringing for hours afterward.
OK, so it didn't actually tear apart into tiny pieces, but it did effectively blow up.
The best part is that, if I forget my adapter, the company makes tons of profits on selling after-market power adapters! They make so much money on those $30 aftermarket adapters that they can afford to drop their prices elsewhere!
This also means they are helping out the economy, and so, by your participation, you are helping the economy.
Without this sort of lock-in price-gouging, the U.S economy could be in real trouble. It could even go into a deep recession.