omouse

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by omouse 16y ago
Uh, if they can build interfaces for their sysadmins and business people to use, then they can easily adapt those to be used by the US military/intelligence agencies. Have you ever used a web framework like Django? Imagine its admin interfa
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by omouse 16y ago
Cool, so the war in Afghanistan is over?
813.
by omouse 16y ago
The title demonstrates why "open source" is a bad term to use. It's been loaded with multiple meanings. I thought the book was about startups that created free/open source software.
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by omouse 16y ago
You're revising history a bit; when fascism was rising there were a lot of people that were fighting against it such as the socialist and the communists and the anarchists. Unfortunately, other societies were trying to contain those sociali
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by omouse 16y ago
What do you consider fringe politics? And why would forcing people to vote keep them from becoming overly influential?
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by omouse 16y ago
What you've pointed out are problems with large governments in general. Australia still has a lot of problems and when you have larger states that means the law applies to more people. Even if the majority of people are in favour of a law,
817.
by omouse 16y ago
Why not have more direct democracy at the local level and make it so that initiatives don't apply to the entire state? Split things up into smaller regions that are closer to the size of Switzerland :)
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by omouse 16y ago
Wow, they're really going to argue that this is about costs? :| I think the real problem is that there's still a state government. The people who know how to balance the budget best and know what needs/wants they need to fulfill are the peo
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by omouse 16y ago
Why aren't you a fan of direct democracy? I thought The Economist leaned right on some issues....
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by omouse 16y ago
The BNP have a percentage of the voters, they should get a percentage of the say. The fact that I consider someone to be utterly despicable doesn’t give me the right to disenfranchise them. I completely disagree with that. Anyone that wou
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by omouse 16y ago
...really? really? You've forgotten about Abu Grahib and all the extraditions to other countries that practice torture?
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by omouse 16y ago
Making money is ok, you do have to acquire resources. But you can do it without resorting to creating an advertising network ;) I'm not sure what the solution is to your problem, but start charging money for some of the information somehow,
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by omouse 16y ago
What Kiip does is so brilliant it's almost shocking. The rewards network provides game developers with a targeted advertising system that aligns in-game achievements with brands. In other words: score a thousand points, and a voucher for a
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by omouse 16y ago
Also, Stallman has been taking baby steps for a very very long time. He didn't start with a completely free software machine at all. He used a proprietary compiler at first, a proprietary editor, etc. in order to build everything up. In tod
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by omouse 16y ago
Saying "Big Brother" is simply telling the truth. When the US government and other governments feel it's okay to illegally wiretap people and the TSA subjects you to full body searches and cellphones make you easy to locate and the US gover
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by omouse 16y ago
There's no contradiction. The prices in BTC for services/goods are lowered until people want to pay. With speculation, the trick is that eventually the currency has to land in the pockets of someone who will trade it for services/goods. If
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by omouse 16y ago
How does it benefit regular folks who aren't part of the boss class? :-|
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by omouse 16y ago
I could tell just from the menu links: Consulting, Coaching, Training, Speaking. Those are all pretty much synonymous :-| And all the Agile/XP stuff, ugh.
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by omouse 16y ago
They moved from their own infrastructure to AWS because they thought it would be more reliable and because they don't have much manpower.
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by omouse 16y ago
There isn't much of a point to this because it doesn't change the fundamental type of data that is being piped around. You're still dealing with strings or lists of strings. The advantage of something like PowerShell, an OS built on Common
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by omouse 16y ago
Government and business are in bed together. This is how the capitalist system works.
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by omouse 16y ago
One day (if not already) they'll be a Harvard Business School case-study of how corporations can create value through strategic use of Open Source communities. Yeah, that's just what we need, more money polluting the free software communi
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by omouse 16y ago
Wow, I like this article a lot. It's anti-capitalist and anti-turning everything into some profit-motivated enterprise, but it stops short of using communist/socialist/anarchist/revolutionary terminology! What an excellent read. The challen
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by omouse 16y ago
I used to think that marketing didn't matter then I realized it does matter. Now I'm realizing that it doesn't matter again and that it's just another way that the profit motive seeps into the project and starts making it un-fun. Marketing
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by omouse 16y ago
A revolution for the rich and those who can afford fiber or are they making it more affordable now?
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by omouse 16y ago
The article assumes we want to pay taxes and that a significant portion of our tax dollars are spent wisely thus making taxation an advantage of the dollar. Convincing Americans to switch to a currency other than the dollar is roughly as f
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by omouse 16y ago
Does anyone here actually like Ayn Rand and her writings?
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by omouse 16y ago
For the love of god, please please please download as much as you can and post it on BitTorrent and Archive.org or some other site.
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by omouse 16y ago
It looks like they're trying to co-opt the effort in order to slow it down. A lot of people have already switched from OOo to LibreOffice.
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by omouse 16y ago
Keep spare domains around and keep mirrors of your content. Make sure to keep a static copy around as it can be a pain in the ass to setup a database server and other apps quickly. Toss the mirror on BitTorrent and get friends, family, stra

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