It’s time for these companies to do what’s right for the users and fully adopt OpenID as relying parties. That doesn’t fit in with their strategy of owning the identity of as many Internet users as possible, but it certainly fits in with the Internet’s very serious need for an open, distributed and secure single log in system (OpenID is all three).
With “these companies” referring to AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!. I couldn’t agree more.
If two people love each other, unconditionally. If they want to express that love in promising each other, the world and maybe their God, to stay together and care for each other until death do them part.
OLPC also hopes to encourage the children [...] to explore the technology under the surface. [...] a view source key has been added to the laptop keyboards, providing them with [...] the code that enables the activities that they use from day to day.
[...] OLPC has written much of what can be in Python, a scripting language, to enable children to view the source code.
Their SVG page reads this notable development guideline:
Authors of OLPC content should try to use SVG wherever possible. Only use bitmaps such as JPEG or PNG where it is not possible to use SVG.
As a sidenote, their Python page pointed me to Movable Python. This product enables you to run Python programs from your USB memory stick, without installing software on the PC you’re using. Sounds like something I will be using.
Peter Gutmann wrote a very long article concerning the impact of the Windows Vista “content protection” specifications. I spent the previous hour reading this article and comprehending its implications. Somehow I had hoped that MSFT had changed. Become more open. But little of that hope is left.
If Vista turns out to be as limiting - “costly” - for the PC user as stated, then maybe this pain will lead to more users switching to alternative OS’s. It might also drive users to alternative methods of acquiring entertainment, when their legal “premium content” doesn’t show properly or requires expensive hardware.
First found via Reddit, decided it was too long. Refound tonight via Karel Donk.
the effect [of porn] is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women
There are corporate voices asking for the right to influence data transmission on the internet. This would mean that providers, or network operators, could interfere with services you use online.
The internet wouldn’t be the internet if there wasn’t a sound response: Save the internet! On this site, all sorts of organisations and individuals unite to fight for network neutrality. Since that’s what it’s all about.
The idea of the free software movement is that software users are morally entitled to four essential freedoms, essential for living as part of a free society where people can cooperate when they wish:
Freedom to run the program, as you wish.
Freedom to study the source code, and change it to do what you wish.
Freedom to make copies and distribute them to others, when you wish.
Freedom to distribute modified versions, when you wish.
Instead of giving priority to freedom and community, the open source philosophy agrees with Microsoft that what matters is making software powerful, reliable and convenient.
People who hold those views have a right to their opinion. I disagree with their opinion, so I vociferously object when people label me or GNU/Linux with the slogan open source.
Anyone committing aggression with software patents deserves bad things to happen
