Intercepted phone call (video w. English subs) re. how Russian politicians are orchestrating the May 11 "referendum" in Donestk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In Crimea vote they might have been more subtle but there still were armed "pro-Russia" forces (in contact w. Russia) inciting and carrying out Crimea vote. When you hear text like this re. Donetsk (in the link above):
"write something like 99% [voting "yes"] down - are you going to [actually] walk around and collect [vote] papers? are you fucking insane?"
... it casts more doubt on the Crimea vote too. After all, same forces are working in both places.
In this case "free" means free as in you can do whatever you want with it (provided you have the right tools to do it) and not "free" as in free of charge.
Does that mean that people should not be developing GPL-licensed software for iPhone (as it violates the spirit of GPL, according to what you wrote above)?
It is free as in freedom - you can do whatever you want with it.
You may want to compile an app, but nowhere does it say that the tools to compile the app (or the environment where you can run the app) are necessarily free. For example, there are GPL-licensed Windows programs but that does not mean you get Windows to run them in for free.
I use VIM (and MacVIM when on Mac), mostly for Python development. What's this "IDE" thing again?
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I am wondering, though, what do others use for coding (and for Python coding in particular). Text editors are fine for many tasks, but perhaps there are more complex projects with lots of files which require something like Eclipse, etc. What's your experience w. that?
Clean rooming would be irrelevant if the actual encryption keys were included in any other project.
What if the software did not include the keys itself but provided an option to pull them from a known location on the internet (or maybe from torrents using a magnet link)?
Note that they are just claiming the ability to download copyrighted content as the reason for takedown (will we see a DMCA notice for IE and Firefox soon?). They might as easily use the same "reason" to issue notices to projects implementing this clean room specification.
That's why we need to promote transparency (which is the subject on this article). We need to make EU closer to people. "Media pay no attention" ? Well, euronews speaks about it. Other media don't ? Well let's watch the good media then.
Also we have to promote actions like La quadrature. Laquadrature watches EU when they vote something concerning freedom and internet.
Completely agree. We need more transparency and it is good to know what organisations and news services pay attention to what is happening re. privacy and freedom on the Net.
If it actually starts down the path to ratification, it will not be secret. For example, in the EU, it will have to be submitted to the legislative bodies for approval. In the US, it has to be submitted to the Senate and receive a 2/3 vote and then be signed by the President. I don't know offhand how other counties deal with ratifying treaties--I'm sure you can find out if you look.
At the moment when it gets down to ratification then the content of the treaty is probably not gonna change much. Maybe some countries will delay ratification but if the interests of the recording, etc. industry are involved then they will probably find a way.
If people want to have any say in what the treaty will look like then we need to be informed about it now. And not when it is up for just a "yes or no" vote.
Schweini: agreed re. the need for awareness-campaign.
And often an average web citizen may ask: "so what's in there for me?". If you can play with SPARQL queries yourself, on some data that are of interest to you, that would be another thing entirely.
As for getting interesting data to work on, you can use some of SIOC export plugins for WordPress and other blog/forum engines. Then collect data (that will require some crawling of data pages) and run queries over your own content. This data would be richer than simple web feeds and yet simple enough to be fun to work with.
One thing which is maybe overlooked is that SPARQL can query a web of data coming from different sources. An advanced SPARQL query could very well combine data from your blog, DBPedia and also from your existing RDBMSs / info systems exposed to SPARQL queries.
Second, the problem with "the semantic web" if you're relying on people providing the metadata themselves, is the reliability (trustworthiness?) of the person creating the metadata.
One of misconceptions about the Semantic Web - that it's only about metadata when in fact it's about a Web of Data, e.g., currently locked in in databases, blog engines or social software sites. (related: SemWeb FAQ entry on "Does the Semantic Web require me to manually markup all the existing web-pages... ?")
A very, very simple example - if you enable creation of RDF data creation in a WordPress weblog (via a WordPress SIOC plugin), all this information is generated automatically, from the data already inside a database. What you get is every blog post, etc. in a machine-readable form (RDF), ready for query and reuse.
Of course, that is very "light" semantics - expressing what the blog engine knows. As for data / structured content created by people directly - there's always risk for someone writing lies. Then there's a need for the concept of trust (can we trust the source?) and some ranking mechanism.
RDF is just a way to express knowledge. In answer to "any difference between this new RDF and..." you may take a look at the W3C Semantic Web FAQ (published very recently).
Now, like you said what we find depends on what we feed into search engines and on the engines themselves. To this regard it's work for better search engines and ranking algorithms, and the work described here is an important step in this path. There's a link to a technical report and more details posted (by a developer) in another Slashdot comment.
The author can do that, but what I said remains true - it won't add popularity to the program. Assuming that there is choice I would not purchase a program that is known to contain code that deletes your files at random. Even if I am assured that it will never trigger for registered users.
Plus, there is some percentage of users of pirated keys that would buy that software if it stopped working. But they are lost for sure if it damaged their system. Adding "explosive" code to the software will not benefit its sales, but may create bad publicity.
If a developer does that this is bad news for the popularity of his program. If Microsoft did that (destructive action) they might start loosing existing customers.
Destructive action is an extreme case of fight against piracy and it may even be acceptable, but only if the destructive action damages the installation of the program in question and its data, not the home directory or your hard drives.
The keys that the developer refers are probably valid keys (they unlock the software) that were put in the blacklist because they were used illegally (e.g., someone spread his key around). Programming errors may happen (e.g., an error that triggers destructive action even for a legal installation) and those can be costly. Even if that is a an illegal user you could "convert" his to paying for your software if it stopped working, but not after you trashed his hard drive.
Imagine a car stereo that would blow up the whole car if tampered with. Would you buy such a stereo? What if it goes off by mistake?
That's called security through obscurity. Which equals no *real* security at all.
If a student figured this the odds are that the bad guys knew about such things all along, even before this publication and independently from it. And what we get then is a *sense* of public safety, nobody worrying about the security holes and fixing them because nobody has made them public and the terrorists freely using them.
There are other ways, but "DVD Jon's" way is much more efficient.
Plus: he is getting rid of the DRM or manipulating with it while those other ways described in this article are actually giving in to Apple's DRM not fighting it.
Suggesting using the 'analog' loophole is a silly argument for not worrying about DRM and not breaking it.
The same way you should not then worry that your HDTV allows to play video at full resultion at only some devices because you can always watch the same video in lower resolution. If you use the 'analog' loophole, there is a loss of quality and the issue of speed - to convert to MP3 a collection with 30 days worth of music will take 30 days of recording.
We could take the analogy a bit further and say that you should not worry if e-books and documents get locked against, say, printing them. You can always take a screenshot of the screen and put it together in the Photoshop, take a picture of the screen with a digital camera. Or just take a sheet of paper and put down all the text of the document on paper. That's the kind of thing you are talking about when suggesting recording analog audio signal.
The shuttle Atlantis is set for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 11:41 a.m. EDT this morning. This "news post" is a little delayed. See NASA Launch Blog and NASA Online TV for up-to-date info.
It is not clear whether this GPL "test" will really happen in Israel.
Added at the bottom of that webpage: "Update (29.08.2006): Alexander told me yesterday that he has relocated to the US, although I don't know whether this is a consequence of me filing the lawsuit (or whether it's at all true)."
Clearly it is hard to say from that alone if this person has really relocated to the US or not. But what happens if he has? Will he be able to evade this lawsuit this way?
It would be interesting to try Bud out, but last I looked on their site they had presentations and description of the idea, but the game was not online yet.
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Intercepted phone call (video w. English subs) re. how Russian politicians are orchestrating the May 11 "referendum" in Donestk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In Crimea vote they might have been more subtle but there still were armed "pro-Russia" forces (in contact w. Russia) inciting and carrying out Crimea vote. When you hear text like this re. Donetsk (in the link above):
In this case "free" means free as in you can do whatever you want with it (provided you have the right tools to do it) and not "free" as in free of charge.
Does that mean that people should not be developing GPL-licensed software for iPhone (as it violates the spirit of GPL, according to what you wrote above)?
It is free as in freedom - you can do whatever you want with it. You may want to compile an app, but nowhere does it say that the tools to compile the app (or the environment where you can run the app) are necessarily free. For example, there are GPL-licensed Windows programs but that does not mean you get Windows to run them in for free.
The Web is a medium. A URL is an address of some data on it.
I use VIM (and MacVIM when on Mac), mostly for Python development. What's this "IDE" thing again?
-
I am wondering, though, what do others use for coding (and for Python coding in particular). Text editors are fine for many tasks, but perhaps there are more complex projects with lots of files which require something like Eclipse, etc. What's your experience w. that?
Clean rooming would be irrelevant if the actual encryption keys were included in any other project.
What if the software did not include the keys itself but provided an option to pull them from a known location on the internet (or maybe from torrents using a magnet link)?
Here's the DMCA takedown notice issued to the rtmpdump project:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159
Note that they are just claiming the ability to download copyrighted content as the reason for takedown (will we see a DMCA notice for IE and Firefox soon?). They might as easily use the same "reason" to issue notices to projects implementing this clean room specification.
http://www.megashare.com/935955
That's a great find, thanks.
That's why we need to promote transparency (which is the subject on this article). We need to make EU closer to people. "Media pay no attention" ? Well, euronews speaks about it. Other media don't ? Well let's watch the good media then. Also we have to promote actions like La quadrature. Laquadrature watches EU when they vote something concerning freedom and internet.
Completely agree. We need more transparency and it is good to know what organisations and news services pay attention to what is happening re. privacy and freedom on the Net.
Thanks for the link to La quadrature!
If it actually starts down the path to ratification, it will not be secret. For example, in the EU, it will have to be submitted to the legislative bodies for approval. In the US, it has to be submitted to the Senate and receive a 2/3 vote and then be signed by the President. I don't know offhand how other counties deal with ratifying treaties--I'm sure you can find out if you look.
At the moment when it gets down to ratification then the content of the treaty is probably not gonna change much. Maybe some countries will delay ratification but if the interests of the recording, etc. industry are involved then they will probably find a way.
If people want to have any say in what the treaty will look like then we need to be informed about it now. And not when it is up for just a "yes or no" vote.
Schweini: agreed re. the need for awareness-campaign.
And often an average web citizen may ask: "so what's in there for me?". If you can play with SPARQL queries yourself, on some data that are of interest to you, that would be another thing entirely.
As for getting interesting data to work on, you can use some of SIOC export plugins for WordPress and other blog/forum engines. Then collect data (that will require some crawling of data pages) and run queries over your own content. This data would be richer than simple web feeds and yet simple enough to be fun to work with.
One thing which is maybe overlooked is that SPARQL can query a web of data coming from different sources. An advanced SPARQL query could very well combine data from your blog, DBPedia and also from your existing RDBMSs / info systems exposed to SPARQL queries.
2 all: remove the ending slash '/' from the URL above, it will work then.
Correct link: http://www.deri.ie/fileadmin/documents/DERI-TR-200 7-04-20.pdf
One of misconceptions about the Semantic Web - that it's only about metadata when in fact it's about a Web of Data, e.g., currently locked in in databases, blog engines or social software sites. (related: SemWeb FAQ entry on "Does the Semantic Web require me to manually markup all the existing web-pages ... ?")
A very, very simple example - if you enable creation of RDF data creation in a WordPress weblog (via a WordPress SIOC plugin), all this information is generated automatically, from the data already inside a database. What you get is every blog post, etc. in a machine-readable form (RDF), ready for query and reuse.
Of course, that is very "light" semantics - expressing what the blog engine knows. As for data / structured content created by people directly - there's always risk for someone writing lies. Then there's a need for the concept of trust (can we trust the source?) and some ranking mechanism.
RDF is just a way to express knowledge. In answer to "any difference between this new RDF and ..." you may take a look at the W3C Semantic Web FAQ (published very recently).
Now, like you said what we find depends on what we feed into search engines and on the engines themselves. To this regard it's work for better search engines and ranking algorithms, and the work described here is an important step in this path. There's a link to a technical report and more details posted (by a developer) in another Slashdot comment.
The author can do that, but what I said remains true - it won't add popularity to the program. Assuming that there is choice I would not purchase a program that is known to contain code that deletes your files at random. Even if I am assured that it will never trigger for registered users.
Plus, there is some percentage of users of pirated keys that would buy that software if it stopped working. But they are lost for sure if it damaged their system. Adding "explosive" code to the software will not benefit its sales, but may create bad publicity.
Still, the author can do what he wants.
If a developer does that this is bad news for the popularity of his program. If Microsoft did that (destructive action) they might start loosing existing customers.
Destructive action is an extreme case of fight against piracy and it may even be acceptable, but only if the destructive action damages the installation of the program in question and its data, not the home directory or your hard drives.
The keys that the developer refers are probably valid keys (they unlock the software) that were put in the blacklist because they were used illegally (e.g., someone spread his key around). Programming errors may happen (e.g., an error that triggers destructive action even for a legal installation) and those can be costly. Even if that is a an illegal user you could "convert" his to paying for your software if it stopped working, but not after you trashed his hard drive.
Imagine a car stereo that would blow up the whole car if tampered with. Would you buy such a stereo? What if it goes off by mistake?
That's called security through obscurity. Which equals no *real* security at all.
If a student figured this the odds are that the bad guys knew about such things all along, even before this publication and independently from it. And what we get then is a *sense* of public safety, nobody worrying about the security holes and fixing them because nobody has made them public and the terrorists freely using them.
Absolutely. Agree with you for all 100%.
There are other ways, but "DVD Jon's" way is much more efficient.
Plus: he is getting rid of the DRM or manipulating with it while those other ways described in this article are actually giving in to Apple's DRM not fighting it.
Suggesting using the 'analog' loophole is a silly argument for not worrying about DRM and not breaking it.
The same way you should not then worry that your HDTV allows to play video at full resultion at only some devices because you can always watch the same video in lower resolution. If you use the 'analog' loophole, there is a loss of quality and the issue of speed - to convert to MP3 a collection with 30 days worth of music will take 30 days of recording.
We could take the analogy a bit further and say that you should not worry if e-books and documents get locked against, say, printing them. You can always take a screenshot of the screen and put it together in the Photoshop, take a picture of the screen with a digital camera. Or just take a sheet of paper and put down all the text of the document on paper. That's the kind of thing you are talking about when suggesting recording analog audio signal.
Shuttle is not running Windows (and thank God it is not).
Shuttle launch scrubbed for 24 hours. Next launch attempt is Saturday morning.
The shuttle Atlantis is set for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 11:41 a.m. EDT this morning. This "news post" is a little delayed. See NASA Launch Blog and NASA Online TV for up-to-date info.
It is not clear whether this GPL "test" will really happen in Israel.
Added at the bottom of that webpage: "Update (29.08.2006): Alexander told me yesterday that he has relocated to the US, although I don't know whether this is a consequence of me filing the lawsuit (or whether it's at all true)."
Clearly it is hard to say from that alone if this person has really relocated to the US or not. But what happens if he has? Will he be able to evade this lawsuit this way?
Related to the topic: Bud.com is a related passive multiplayer game. As reported in BoingBoing.
It would be interesting to try Bud out, but last I looked on their site they had presentations and description of the idea, but the game was not online yet.