She said (paraphrasing), "Open Source. Those people decided they wanted nothing to do with copyright."
She's a little bit wrong there when you consider that the GNU General Public License uses copyright as the vehicle through which the license is enforced. What she meant to say was that the free software movement requires people be able to copy and modify their software as part of the definition of software freedom. Not quite as good for a sound bite but a truer meaning for those who care.
I would also like to see them offer some sort of standard way to export a user's photos, conversations, friend graph, and everything else needed to leave without being able to carry on some sort of continuous existence on another system. I would also like them to AGPL their software but I'm realistic and expect export is the best they will do so long as they're not challenged by a new system with the freedom to migrate.
To me, software freedom is being able to choose and customize the software I use without limit. With applications like Facebook, I cannot of course do any more customizing than the Facebook allows me to. The FSF tried to address this problem with the AGPL and many web applications have rightfully chosen it as a way to give users freedom online. Unfortunately there's a rather big part of the equation that the AGPL and the four traditional freedoms miss. It's that our data is often stuck inside even AGPLd applications. If we want to have true freedom online we need The Freedom to Migrate and it seems Diaspora is trying to provide.
Assuming the company owns the copyright to the modifications they made, no they wouldn't need to provide their modified source to their employees. One of them must have the source to have developed the modifications but there's no propagation in what you described. With the GPL, the copyright holder is the party of reference, not the coder, employee, PHB, or anyone else.
The GPL uses the terms convey and propagate rather than distribute. Propogation is what you're referring to and the way I read it with my non-lawyer eye is... if an organization holds copyright to their changes or is using a publicly available version of the program(and therefore source is available from other channels) they are not in violation of the GPL.
My question to you is how are you able to possess code subject to the GPL yet deny your employees access to the source code? Why would you?
Where did you find those 1gb and 700mb files? Can't find them to download them direct. I was getting 1MB/s earlier so imagine I would be seeding the largest files quite soon.
I downloaded the 40mb(h264 mov) file which was all of 31 seconds. What would be super awesome though would be a torrent of a longer period of time...like an hour at least. Pretty please NASA? If the Norweigans can do it with a train ride surely we can do it for a great solar instrument like this.
That is a good point. Perhaps they're targeting the hardest targets and are preparedto brute-force these "high value" passwords one at a time thereby building an elite password dictionary.
Url shorteners are an unnecessary security risk and also creates single points of failure for long term Internet stability. We should try to avoid them and instead encourage popular sites to provide their own shortened links. For more, here's a noteworthy blog post on the subject: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
Math is necessary for programmers but also for life. That wasn't the best thing in TFA though. The most insightful nugget in this piece was that we should think strategically about what we choose to learn. One the one hand, a programmer can chase the buzz...Rails, Struts, and the Twitter API and get jobs with the cool kids. Far better is to learn general tools that will be around a long time. This is why I like free software and gnu/*nix. The community has built a core set of tools(scripting/database/web) that stands to be around for 20-50 years or more. Just something to think about as you build your programmer/sysadmin toolset (assuming programming/sysadmin work isn't just a temporary thing for you).
As soon as I read about this on/. I realized Firefox is downloading an update to 3.6.2. This is why free software is our best tool against malware. Reaction time can scale with importance. And (shameless free software plug alert) it's why I wrote what's in my sig.
How would this new reactor they're developing compare with a breeder reactor. From what I remember a breeder reactor will take the waste from traditional Uranium fission and convert it into Plutonium. So it's more efficient but the waste has an increased perceived scariness factor. Either way you have hazardous material to contain, perhaps this way we can reduce the amount of it that we must store.
So in these other counties that already have it, can you describe what you have like this? I'd like to know do these systems tend to support more than one wireless carrier? Do they try for exclusivity with vendors? Are there caps like this $25/month? Are they opt-in? Does the vendor of a good/service have to pay a surcharge over what a merchant credit account would do? I guess I could search on it a bit but I also like the idea of getting some spontaneous information here.
I don't need Windows on TV. I've already got gnu/linux there doing everything I want. What I need is a wireless keyboard with a built in touchpad and good range <$100.
Looking at ncomputing's site, I have hard time believing they can run 30 computers with XP, playing video, etc. from one HP slimline.
I use FastCopy since it's free software and skips files that haven't changed. Has lots of other nice features as well but I've not seen it widely mentioned anywhere. Enjoy.
Nintendo is a company dear to many of our hearts since many of us are nostalgic for their early games. They've continued to innovate in game play and still provide a lot of pleasure in leisure time. That being said, they are only rivaled by Apple in their record of locking down their proprietary systems. In gaming, it's not a big deal but in education, it's another story.
In education, we need to avoid putting up artificial walls where they needn't exist. Children should be free to explore as long as they're not a danger to themselves or others. That's why free software is essential in education. It encourages cooperation, learning, and exploration. I fear that Nintendo is going to continue to lock down their systems when they're used in an educational setting and if that's the case, we should skip it. There's nothing worse than a teacher having to answer a question with, "That's just the way Nintendo made it I guess."
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She said (paraphrasing), "Open Source. Those people decided they wanted nothing to do with copyright."
She's a little bit wrong there when you consider that the GNU General Public License uses copyright as the vehicle through which the license is enforced. What she meant to say was that the free software movement requires people be able to copy and modify their software as part of the definition of software freedom. Not quite as good for a sound bite but a truer meaning for those who care.
s/leave without/leave while/
Yes, I promise to use the Preview stage in earnest from now on.
I would also like to see them offer some sort of standard way to export a user's photos, conversations, friend graph, and everything else needed to leave without being able to carry on some sort of continuous existence on another system. I would also like them to AGPL their software but I'm realistic and expect export is the best they will do so long as they're not challenged by a new system with the freedom to migrate.
YES! I just ordered the discussion page as a book! It's going to look great next to XKCD Volume 0 that I just put on its own shelf.
To me, software freedom is being able to choose and customize the software I use without limit. With applications like Facebook, I cannot of course do any more customizing than the Facebook allows me to. The FSF tried to address this problem with the AGPL and many web applications have rightfully chosen it as a way to give users freedom online. Unfortunately there's a rather big part of the equation that the AGPL and the four traditional freedoms miss. It's that our data is often stuck inside even AGPLd applications. If we want to have true freedom online we need The Freedom to Migrate and it seems Diaspora is trying to provide.
Assuming the company owns the copyright to the modifications they made, no they wouldn't need to provide their modified source to their employees. One of them must have the source to have developed the modifications but there's no propagation in what you described. With the GPL, the copyright holder is the party of reference, not the coder, employee, PHB, or anyone else.
The GPL uses the terms convey and propagate rather than distribute. Propogation is what you're referring to and the way I read it with my non-lawyer eye is... if an organization holds copyright to their changes or is using a publicly available version of the program(and therefore source is available from other channels) they are not in violation of the GPL.
My question to you is how are you able to possess code subject to the GPL yet deny your employees access to the source code? Why would you?
Where did you find those 1gb and 700mb files? Can't find them to download them direct. I was getting 1MB/s earlier so imagine I would be seeding the largest files quite soon.
I downloaded the 40mb(h264 mov) file which was all of 31 seconds. What would be super awesome though would be a torrent of a longer period of time...like an hour at least. Pretty please NASA? If the Norweigans can do it with a train ride surely we can do it for a great solar instrument like this.
The only thing crazier than a dynamically generated regex is running a proprietary browser on top of a proprietary operating system.
That is a good point. Perhaps they're targeting the hardest targets and are preparedto brute-force these "high value" passwords one at a time thereby building an elite password dictionary.
Url shorteners are an unnecessary security risk and also creates single points of failure for long term Internet stability. We should try to avoid them and instead encourage popular sites to provide their own shortened links. For more, here's a noteworthy blog post on the subject: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
I wear IR glasses so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.
Math is necessary for programmers but also for life. That wasn't the best thing in TFA though. The most insightful nugget in this piece was that we should think strategically about what we choose to learn. One the one hand, a programmer can chase the buzz...Rails, Struts, and the Twitter API and get jobs with the cool kids. Far better is to learn general tools that will be around a long time. This is why I like free software and gnu/*nix. The community has built a core set of tools(scripting/database/web) that stands to be around for 20-50 years or more. Just something to think about as you build your programmer/sysadmin toolset (assuming programming/sysadmin work isn't just a temporary thing for you).
Camel Lights, now with siRNA Nanoparticles!
I'm also noticing that the minimize icon is shaded so it looks out of place at the usual position.
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close
SumatraPDF ftw.
As soon as I read about this on /. I realized Firefox is downloading an update to 3.6.2. This is why free software is our best tool against malware. Reaction time can scale with importance. And (shameless free software plug alert) it's why I wrote what's in my sig.
Thanks. Guess the slashdot lazyweb is alive and well.
How would this new reactor they're developing compare with a breeder reactor. From what I remember a breeder reactor will take the waste from traditional Uranium fission and convert it into Plutonium. So it's more efficient but the waste has an increased perceived scariness factor. Either way you have hazardous material to contain, perhaps this way we can reduce the amount of it that we must store.
So in these other counties that already have it, can you describe what you have like this? I'd like to know do these systems tend to support more than one wireless carrier? Do they try for exclusivity with vendors? Are there caps like this $25/month? Are they opt-in? Does the vendor of a good/service have to pay a surcharge over what a merchant credit account would do? I guess I could search on it a bit but I also like the idea of getting some spontaneous information here.
I don't need Windows on TV. I've already got gnu/linux there doing everything I want. What I need is a wireless keyboard with a built in touchpad and good range <$100.
Looking at ncomputing's site, I have hard time believing they can run 30 computers with XP, playing video, etc. from one HP slimline.
I use FastCopy since it's free software and skips files that haven't changed. Has lots of other nice features as well but I've not seen it widely mentioned anywhere. Enjoy.
Nintendo is a company dear to many of our hearts since many of us are nostalgic for their early games. They've continued to innovate in game play and still provide a lot of pleasure in leisure time. That being said, they are only rivaled by Apple in their record of locking down their proprietary systems. In gaming, it's not a big deal but in education, it's another story.
In education, we need to avoid putting up artificial walls where they needn't exist. Children should be free to explore as long as they're not a danger to themselves or others. That's why free software is essential in education. It encourages cooperation, learning, and exploration. I fear that Nintendo is going to continue to lock down their systems when they're used in an educational setting and if that's the case, we should skip it. There's nothing worse than a teacher having to answer a question with, "That's just the way Nintendo made it I guess."