...and also removing any/. RSS feeds on my Web portals, with a message explaining the reason for the change to users. http://soylentnews.org/ is the beginning of the new/. alternative
After all, they duplicated the site/logo/etc without the permission of the actual copyright owners.
They could also make a case for monetary damages and damages to their reputation (trademark?), especially when you consider lost advertisement revenue (if we do believe that the advertisement business model for the Web makes any sense).
Given all of this, plus the problems with TrueCrypt authorship etc. I think the best course of action is replacing with a free implementation, maybe starting with something like this?
Ah, I see the current TrueCrypt license has undergone substantial changes since the early days. Looks like a complete mess to me:/
...if you distribute modified versions of TrueCrypt,
you cannot charge for copies. That is non-free... ...nothing in the license constitutes a promise not to sue for copyright infringement. Our counsel advises that a plain reading of this indicates that if Fedora complies with all the requirements of the TrueCrypt license, we would nonetheless have no assurance that TrueCrypt will not sue me for my acts of copying, distribution, creation of derivative works, and so forth...
TrueCrypt seems to be reserving the right to sue any licensee for copyright infringement, no matter whether they comply with the conditions of the license or not. Based on this, our counsel advised that above and beyond being non-free, software under this license is not safe to use... Our counsel advised us that this license has the appearance of being full of clever traps, which make the license appear to be a sham (and non-free).
Given all of this, plus the problems with TrueCrypt authorship etc. I think the best course of action is replacing with a free implementation, maybe starting with something like this?
Replying to my own thread, which I realize is bad manners...I want to avoid a flamewar joined by Google employees and I refuse to respond to them individually (I also wouldn't reason with the Stasi). The parent post is upvoted by my peers for a reason...we're living in a totalitarian surveillance network in which Google is the primary player and I think we're finally realizing how much the most public advocate of FOSS has become a spook agency in conjunction with the NSA. Let's shun them as we should, for embracing (and making piles of money off of) FOSS and then acting against the interests of freedom. As the weeks go by, we'll continue to learn how Google has betrayed even our most basic freedoms. Beyond that, they've done some work on the ground, the same work a spy agency would have done in the past. Who's holding the shit-bag now?
This is a joke and amounts to nothing but a smoke screen. We now know that Google is an active partner of the NSA and the U.S. government...we should treat them *as* the NSA. What does any of this matter when Google has whole division(s) dedicated to preparing data for use by the NSA. They'll give keys, they'll give data, they'll give metadata, they'll give educated guesses, they'll prepare 3D topographic maps about that data.
We should keep investigating why it works but, to be fair, the history of communications is implementing tech before we understand it (e.g. the first trans-Atlantic cable, implemented before we understood wave-particle duality, and therefore couldn't troubleshoot it well when it broke).
Let's not forget this important quote:
"I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."
...that's Isaac Newton telling us, "I can explain the effects of gravity but I have no clue WTF it is."
Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
Actually, Steamboat Willy was a cartoon parody of a Buster Keaton film.
Seriously, web programming is for chumps, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.
Having worked on websites since '97 (and learned "on the job", so to speak), I can actually say it's getting better quickly. Standardized approaches like responsive design and Bootstrap are helping tremendously. Also, most of the technologies you mention are used in a small percentage of Web applications...for better or worse, most Web developers are dealing with the LAMP stack + HTML + CSS + JavaScript.
...my hunch is that Bada will take center stage for Samsung, and only share code with or assimilate the Tizen components that have restrictive and/or non-copyleft licenses.
The primary victim of "Web 2.0" seems to have been anonymity. We are tracked. Everywhere on the Web. And we have to work much harder than we should not to reveal ourselves...and it's not just our identity, it's our location, our friends, our habits, our pleasures.
The domain name has since been transferred to the CM Team, but I wanted to make a few things clear.
I purchased the CyanogenMod.com domain name 3 years ago and have been responsible for the renewal fees ever since. This means I (my company) legally owned the domain name. It was fully registered in the United Kingdom. I hear people saying about ‘trademark’. Yes, CyanogenMod is now a registered trademark in the US. But the domain was registered in the UK well before that trademark. I don’t want to get into any legal battles here, but US trademark’s are not valid in the UK unless they are registered here with the IPO.
The term 'hi-jacked' is just wrong, the domain name was always in my control. I didn't hijack anything. I initiated a transfer out process with my registrar today who restored the DNS entries to their own. This in turn deleted all MX entries and other records. The term 'hi-jacked' has just derived from tech blogs creating stories for link bait.
The term 'extortion' is also wrong. If I was out for the money, why an earth would I have transferred the domain to the CM Team for free?
I really don't want to make a meal out of this, nor do I want to get into the rigmarole of having to keep fighting off the haters on here or Twitter or my personal email. I would just simply ask that some people act a little more mature about this whole situation and let's all move along.
The domain name has now been rightfully transferred to the great guys behind CyanogenMod and I will continue to use the mod on my devices. I will just be stepping down from my previous role as 'webmaster'.
If I have offended anyone during all of this commotion then I apologise. In the meantime, let’s all move along and play nicely. This incident was blown way out of proportion. There are far more important things in life than to worry about internet disputes.
Slashdot Mirror
...and also removing any /. RSS feeds on my Web portals, with a message explaining the reason for the change to users. http://soylentnews.org/ is the beginning of the new /. alternative
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
I believe you mean Minilla:
http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Minya
Having watched Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla last night, I feel obligated to remind you that it may also be Little Godzilla: http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla_Junior
Hm, /. may have a valid case to chase after.
After all, they duplicated the site/logo/etc without the permission of the actual copyright owners.
They could also make a case for monetary damages and damages to their reputation (trademark?), especially when you consider lost advertisement revenue (if we do believe that the advertisement business model for the Web makes any sense).
Linux has LUKS and dm-crypt (Android uses a modified version of dm-crypt to protect the /data partition in newer revs.)
re: TrueCrypt container format, dm-crypt and cryptsetup/LUKS: http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60464139008/alternative-truecrypt-implementations
Given all of this, plus the problems with TrueCrypt authorship etc. I think the best course of action is replacing with a free implementation, maybe starting with something like this?
Ah, I see the current TrueCrypt license has undergone substantial changes since the early days. Looks like a complete mess to me :/
...if you distribute modified versions of TrueCrypt, you cannot charge for copies. That is non-free...
...nothing in the license constitutes a promise not to sue for copyright infringement. Our counsel advises that a plain reading of this indicates that if Fedora complies with all the requirements of the TrueCrypt license, we would nonetheless have no assurance that TrueCrypt will not sue me for my acts of copying, distribution, creation of derivative works, and so forth...
TrueCrypt seems to be reserving the right to sue any licensee for copyright infringement, no matter whether they comply with the conditions of the license or not. Based on this, our counsel advised that above and beyond being non-free, software under this license is not safe to use...
Our counsel advised us that this license has the appearance of being full of clever traps, which make the license appear to be a sham (and non-free).
Given all of this, plus the problems with TrueCrypt authorship etc. I think the best course of action is replacing with a free implementation, maybe starting with something like this?
Replying to my own thread, which I realize is bad manners...I want to avoid a flamewar joined by Google employees and I refuse to respond to them individually (I also wouldn't reason with the Stasi). The parent post is upvoted by my peers for a reason...we're living in a totalitarian surveillance network in which Google is the primary player and I think we're finally realizing how much the most public advocate of FOSS has become a spook agency in conjunction with the NSA. Let's shun them as we should, for embracing (and making piles of money off of) FOSS and then acting against the interests of freedom. As the weeks go by, we'll continue to learn how Google has betrayed even our most basic freedoms. Beyond that, they've done some work on the ground, the same work a spy agency would have done in the past. Who's holding the shit-bag now?
This is a joke and amounts to nothing but a smoke screen. We now know that Google is an active partner of the NSA and the U.S. government...we should treat them *as* the NSA. What does any of this matter when Google has whole division(s) dedicated to preparing data for use by the NSA. They'll give keys, they'll give data, they'll give metadata, they'll give educated guesses, they'll prepare 3D topographic maps about that data.
...at least, algorithmic composition: SuperCollider
We should keep investigating why it works but, to be fair, the history of communications is implementing tech before we understand it (e.g. the first trans-Atlantic cable, implemented before we understood wave-particle duality, and therefore couldn't troubleshoot it well when it broke).
...that's Isaac Newton telling us, "I can explain the effects of gravity but I have no clue WTF it is."
Let's not forget this important quote: "I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."
Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
Actually, Steamboat Willy was a cartoon parody of a Buster Keaton film.
Seriously, web programming is for chumps, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.
Having worked on websites since '97 (and learned "on the job", so to speak), I can actually say it's getting better quickly. Standardized approaches like responsive design and Bootstrap are helping tremendously. Also, most of the technologies you mention are used in a small percentage of Web applications...for better or worse, most Web developers are dealing with the LAMP stack + HTML + CSS + JavaScript.
Like Tizen, a successor to Maemo/MeeGo but with the community in mind:
...my hunch is that Bada will take center stage for Samsung, and only share code with or assimilate the Tizen components that have restrictive and/or non-copyleft licenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_(operating_system)
The primary victim of "Web 2.0" seems to have been anonymity. We are tracked. Everywhere on the Web. And we have to work much harder than we should not to reveal ourselves...and it's not just our identity, it's our location, our friends, our habits, our pleasures.
"This was like going to an autopsy... You know it’s dead and nothing’s gonna change that, but you gotta do an autopsy to find out what killed it. Or who killed it.”
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/
Either CM is making that quote up or he got the negative attention he deserves and is trying to save face.
I'd guess it's the latter.
Yup, the CM team acknowledged the transfer to them too: http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-resolved
...not sure what the guy hoped to accomplish, but I assume he's regretting it now. Nothing gained but enmity.
Ahmet Deveci 8:22 PM
For the record, regarding: cyanogenmod.com
Following the saga from : http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/psa-transition-to-cyanogenmod-org it would appear that I have been labelled a 'thief' an 'extortionist' a 'liar' and a bunch of other somewhat degrading comments.
The domain name has since been transferred to the CM Team, but I wanted to make a few things clear.
I purchased the CyanogenMod.com domain name 3 years ago and have been responsible for the renewal fees ever since. This means I (my company) legally owned the domain name. It was fully registered in the United Kingdom. I hear people saying about ‘trademark’. Yes, CyanogenMod is now a registered trademark in the US. But the domain was registered in the UK well before that trademark. I don’t want to get into any legal battles here, but US trademark’s are not valid in the UK unless they are registered here with the IPO.
The term 'hi-jacked' is just wrong, the domain name was always in my control. I didn't hijack anything. I initiated a transfer out process with my registrar today who restored the DNS entries to their own. This in turn deleted all MX entries and other records. The term 'hi-jacked' has just derived from tech blogs creating stories for link bait.
The term 'extortion' is also wrong. If I was out for the money, why an earth would I have transferred the domain to the CM Team for free?
I really don't want to make a meal out of this, nor do I want to get into the rigmarole of having to keep fighting off the haters on here or Twitter or my personal email. I would just simply ask that some people act a little more mature about this whole situation and let's all move along.
The domain name has now been rightfully transferred to the great guys behind CyanogenMod and I will continue to use the mod on my devices. I will just be stepping down from my previous role as 'webmaster'.
If I have offended anyone during all of this commotion then I apologise. In the meantime, let’s all move along and play nicely. This incident was blown way out of proportion. There are far more important things in life than to worry about internet disputes.
Thanks again,
Ahmet