Comment Re:I was *not* plain wrong -- unlike some 'rebutta (Score 0) 223
The fact Google redistributed the files in their own source repo is legally bad, no?
The fact Google redistributed the files in their own source repo is legally bad, no?
The key to social network interoperability is the 'OStatus' suite of protocols and formats. Diaspora will be implementing this, but what really exited me the other day was the first open source implementations of OStatus communication between Status.net (wot powers identi.ca, etc) and itself (screencast is available via the link above) based on the Federated Social Web's SWAT0 test, and then shortly afterwards other systems (MiniMe). Work is under way to implement this in other systems such as ELGG, Drupal, WordPress, Google Buzz, Diaspora, etc. Some probably slightly out of date info on this can be found on the Status.net wiki.
a suite of protocols and formats have been developed over the years to achieve this. look for the Data Portability movement for one or the largest groupings of like minded folk, although the dev action is fairly distributed.
the current two interesting things to watch is the development of OAuth 2, for distributed apps, which will help with the sharing of the various open standards of profile information and the like, and the Google Buzz method of using Salmon and PubSubHubbub to aggregate comments to an article.
i'm looking forward to being able to connect WordPress, Drupal, etc, sites together to aggregate community content.
bah, maths is just applied logic.
(apologies for the horrible personal pronoun usage there..)
How long before someone snuffs it on Facebook before their time?
I'm sure hundreds have already. I'd expect their friends and relatives would appreciate this service, but I wonder how they're going to deal with photoshopped obituaries. I'd expect they'd naturally try to contact the user directly, but what if they're AFK for a number of days or more?
I'll be celebrating Samhuinn by partaking in Samhuinn Fire Festival in Edinburgh, a modern retelling of ancient stories and myths regarding the transition between Summer and Winter, played out by an amazing community of volunteers and friends. I find this (the weeks of preperation and the event itself) a whole lot more satisfying in so many ways than other 'traditional' hallowe'en events.
(nitpick; it's a Celtic culture thing rather than tied to any one country.)
The existence of a file format to encompass an EP or LP style collection of files is a nice idea. There exists
"The alternative to a distributed system like a free market is a centralised system like a Government, which takes a large proportion of our earnings and then wastes them."
That's a bit of false dichotomy. There is a plurality of potential progressive political systems with features likes transparency, participatory and direct democracy, decentralisation, etc, that would work as checks and balances to avoid the bad aspects of "big government".
The problem is that it's only a pseudo-TAZ. Their rules do not trump US law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prosecution_Service
"The Crown Prosecution Service, or CPS, is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for public prosecutions of people charged with criminal offences in England and Wales. Its role is similar to that of the longer-established Crown Office in Scotland, and the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland. The CPS is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (currently Keir Starmer QC) who answers to the Attorney General for England and Wales (currently The Baroness Scotland of Asthal).
"The Crown Prosecution Service is responsible for criminal cases beyond the investigation, which is the job of the police. This involves giving advice to the police on charges to bring, and being responsible for authorising all but a very few simple charges (such as begging), and preparing and presenting cases for court, both in magistrates' courts and, increasingly, the Crown Court."
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart