Brad Fizpatrick sold LiveJournal so that he could concentrate on making cool software instead of managing a business. The software he has come up with is used throughout the internet. OpenID, and Memcached for example. Tim O'Reilly called Brad Fitzpatrick one of the heros of free software during a speech at OSCON. He gave up control of LiveJournal in order to do this, but he was still very influential. Now that he left SixApart I guess we are finding out how much he really was protecting us from their stupidity.
I think the solution is to pressure TV stations to provide listings in something like an RSS feed. Then all you need is a database of RSS feed URL's. Any idea's on how to sell TV stations on how this will benefit them?
From my understanding of it this GPL3 draft wouldn't prevent DRM technology from using it as a license. As an example of what it could potentially do is make it so that if someone uses GPL'd code to apply CSS encryption to a DVD then that DVD is automatically free, and clear of DMCA restrictions on trying to play back the content on that DVD regardless of if the key was given to play it back.
I'm not sure that the GPL could prevent creation of code that locks content without also preventing code that implements essential encryption technologies such as GPG, SSH, SSL etc. It just ensures that you cannot prosecute someone for trying to unlock that content if that content was locked using GPL'd code.
Most of the reasons for everything in the matrix are obfuscated. It's all part of how the machines control people. It seems to me that the reason that people in the matrix can sometimes alter it is because most of the computational power used to generate the dreamworld is the brainpower of the people trapped in it. Notice how Trinity asks for a program to be loaded into her brain by her operator. Little things like spoons can be passed from one mind to another, but an agent program is so big that it takes a whole human brain. The reverse is also true. Human minds connected to the matrix have some of their thoughts computed outside of their bodies. Thats why they only need the strong network link when they are entering, and leaving. Most of the time they don't need their physical brain all that much, because they can borrow little bits here and there. They do need a home base though to keep track of everything. Sort of like a file allocation table. If you have your conciousness fragmented all over a network you need something to glue it togeather. Additionaly humans aren't hurt by EMP, so humans are a good place to backup code.
Of course I could be seeing things the the authors didn't indend in an effort to make sense of it all.
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If having operatives get caught causes security to shut down all air traffic isn't that like a Denial Of Service attack?
Brad Fizpatrick sold LiveJournal so that he could concentrate on making cool software instead of managing a business. The software he has come up with is used throughout the internet. OpenID, and Memcached for example. Tim O'Reilly called Brad Fitzpatrick one of the heros of free software during a speech at OSCON. He gave up control of LiveJournal in order to do this, but he was still very influential. Now that he left SixApart I guess we are finding out how much he really was protecting us from their stupidity.
I think the solution is to pressure TV stations to provide listings in something like an RSS feed. Then all you need is a database of RSS feed URL's. Any idea's on how to sell TV stations on how this will benefit them?
From my understanding of it this GPL3 draft wouldn't prevent DRM technology from using it as a license. As an example of what it could potentially do is make it so that if someone uses GPL'd code to apply CSS encryption to a DVD then that DVD is automatically free, and clear of DMCA restrictions on trying to play back the content on that DVD regardless of if the key was given to play it back.
I'm not sure that the GPL could prevent creation of code that locks content without also preventing code that implements essential encryption technologies such as GPG, SSH, SSL etc. It just ensures that you cannot prosecute someone for trying to unlock that content if that content was locked using GPL'd code.
Maybe it is agent Smith that destabalizes the matrix with his replication.
Most of the reasons for everything in the matrix are obfuscated. It's all part of how the machines control people. It seems to me that the reason that people in the matrix can sometimes alter it is because most of the computational power used to generate the dreamworld is the brainpower of the people trapped in it. Notice how Trinity asks for a program to be loaded into her brain by her operator. Little things like spoons can be passed from one mind to another, but an agent program is so big that it takes a whole human brain. The reverse is also true. Human minds connected to the matrix have some of their thoughts computed outside of their bodies. Thats why they only need the strong network link when they are entering, and leaving. Most of the time they don't need their physical brain all that much, because they can borrow little bits here and there. They do need a home base though to keep track of everything. Sort of like a file allocation table. If you have your conciousness fragmented all over a network you need something to glue it togeather. Additionaly humans aren't hurt by EMP, so humans are a good place to backup code. Of course I could be seeing things the the authors didn't indend in an effort to make sense of it all.