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by mjgoins 16y ago
My question: Is the test site served via HTTPS?
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Absolutely impossible. I met them before they had their hit kickstarter project, and they were just really enthusiastic about building a real alternative to the social networks, and were spurred on after seeing Eben Moglen's 'Freedom Box' t
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Nina Paley on Creative Commons' Non-Commercial Problem(blog.ninapaley.com)
3 points by mjgoins 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Is there a transcript for those who don't want to risk puking?
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Creative Commons should never have considered the notion of 'Non Commercial' licenses, for this very reason. They should have learned from the software world that non-commercial means non-free. [Edit: the CBC response is of course misinform
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Oracle has been invited to participate in the project.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I don't mind paying for free software, if I think it's worth it. But I wouldn't take their proprietary software even if you paid me.
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The Dark Side of Android Hacking(engadget.com)
18 points by mjgoins 16y ago|10 comments
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by mjgoins 16y ago
This affects me in no direct way. I officially have a good life.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Physical goods come with EULAs already. They should be legally worthless, of course, but they do exist.
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Diaspora Considering Abandoning AGPL?(identi.ca)
3 points by mjgoins 16y ago|6 comments
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Privacy Tool for Iranian Activists Disabled After Security Holes Exposed(wired.com)
3 points by mjgoins 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I'm sick of all these low-wage foreign workers stealing our precious jobs.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
For those of us who don't have the faintest interest in the game itself, but are fascinated by the things humans choose to do with their brief lives, can you explain why this game is like a spreadsheet?
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by mjgoins 16y ago
He addresses the politeness issue in the follow up by saying, quite rightly: To the authoritarian mind, there are only two responses to a demand: submission or defiance, and anything less than total submission is defiance.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
The rights the author describes his exercise of can be swept away with the stroke of a pen, and once that happens, they won't be coming back.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
It's particularly bad as a long-time free software desktop user who finally this month broke down and bought an Android phone as his first smart phone. It's like going back to the days of Windows 95. Back to the days when you had no idea wh
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I have this problem in English, and I'm not even young by tech standards. I should probably spend some time re-learning to write, because it's kind of frightening.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
No, no, you don't understand. Amazon and Microsoft didn't violate any of his patents. Thats why he's not suing them.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Yes, the gist of both books is "There is no mysterious stuff out there, we don't need God or even physics to explain the mind, it's all just computation happening in your brain. Both consciousness and free will are ways of describing some o
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I say this every time this topic comes up, which seems to be often, so I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but y'all need to read 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan Dennett, followed up by his longer more important work, 'Consciousness Explained
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I don't think strict 14 year copyright was in effect anywhere where industrialized printing and reproduction was also extant. On the other hand, there have been documented instances where simply ignoring copyright led to economic boom. Th
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Yes, and it's pretty much harmless in itself, but since when does installing one package (esp. from a third party with no verification beforehand) install a new apt key into your keyring (thus allowing all packages signed by that key, no ma
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by mjgoins 16y ago
This package installs a cron job that affects how apt functions on your system. You're basically giving google root on your machine.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Hopefully this invalidates some patents.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=albeit&oldid=...
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I believe the site we now know as facebook was, as recently as a couple years ago, referred to by its then primary user base, college students, as 'The Face Book'.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I don't know if it's possible to copyright data (if I understand your definition of data correctly), but it should not be, at least, not in the US. A quick skim of the wikipedia article on US copyright law shows that the scope of copyright
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by mjgoins 16y ago
"Remember Paul Graham's words:"? Seriously? This messiah thing has got to stop.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
The worst part is that the mainstream media really does know what they're doing in this case. They're not idiots. They're being manipulative.

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