So what I think we need, is for the core team for each major toolkit to sit in a room and try to design an extensible network transport that they can all agree to use. With a core set of features, and perhaps some toolkit specific extensions. Perhaps ending up with a process similar to the way HTML has evolved over time.
I see a story but it's devoid of links. Does anybody know where the papers can be downloaded?
Michael Bolton, is that you!??!
I've just started using Windows 7 at a new job and a minor configuration setting (the theme) will bring it back to a mostly XP look/environment, at least for the overall UI. It actually has a slightly better task bar where you can drag and drop buttons to different ordering locations, which was something I've wished for for years in XP. Combine that with a couple registry settings to enable focus follows mouse and XKeyMacs and it's almost a useful environment. Almost.
Not that there's anything wrong with your comment, but I was pointing out that ISPs will still know which sites you are visiting (by IP address). This is a well known problem in secure communications; they know who you are talking to even though they don't know what you have said. And with the current belief of guilt by association, that will still be a problem.
Think 'dissidents read slashdot'.
TLS does nothing to prevent your ISP from knowing which sites your are going to, only the data you are sending and receiving from them.
The point of creating an open source alternative to a proprietary system is not to make something that is almost the same but not quite as good, it is to create something that will continue to live on after the proprietary company dies. Or something that allows you to modify and fix the code if you find a bug and the proprietary company is non-responsive to a legacy product.
RMS started his crusade when he couldn't get the manufacturer to fix a binary printer driver. This project aims to give that option to those that use modern cell phones.
It's not just about reimplementing what there already is, it's about creating open and free versions of what is closed a proprietary.
> Keep your hands off my fucking internet.
It's not our internet anymore. It hasn't been for quite a while now.
My work is still copyrighted, but I include a README file stating that people are free to redistribute my work for non-commercial purposes; anything else and they can contact me. So it's not just about downloading copyrighted work, it's about downloading copyrighted work that the distributor has not expressly permitted downloading.
It's not all about illegal downloading.
..or Vi, whatever floats your boat.
When William Gibson was disucssing Neuromancer, he mentioned that the major technology that he completely missed was...the cellphone.
On ubuntu (I've used 10.04 or later) magnet links 'just work', popping up a dialog in Firefox and opening them in transmission.
I just finished reading the book 'Artificial Life' by Steven Levy and it goes in depth about such ideas (can computer programs and virus' be considered 'alive'). A very interesting read and highly recommended.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
