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Comment: Re:"Liberty-Minded"? (Score 4, Insightful) 694

by odigity (#43963437) Attached to: The Free State Project, One Decade Later

I'm a libertarian and Free State Project early mover.

The few friends I have who go to Tea Party events do so while holding their nose for the sole purpose of hopefully spotting/recruiting the 3% of them who have actual potential for rationalism.

I don't know why you equate libertarian with Tea Party. So many of the comments in this thread are tragically ignorant and insulting.

Comment: Re:oh, goody (Score 0) 68

by odigity (#43664795) Attached to: Syria Falls Off the Internet Again

This attitude disturbs me. If I wanted to read retarded, barbaric "bomb them all into the stone-age" rhetoric, I'd go to Fox News. I expect better from Slashdot. There are millions of people in Syria. Some are children. Some are atheists. Some probably contribute to open source software and are active in Arab-spring-style activities.

Are you really comfortably advocating that all those human beings should die? Why? Because the actions of the Syrian government that claims ownership over those human beings do things you disagree with? Because I feel the same way about all governments. That's no excuse for cheering on the death/genocide of that government's domestic victims.

Comment: Re:Everyone should switch to IAX2 then... (Score 2) 116

by odigity (#43601899) Attached to: British Telecom Claims Patents on VOIP Session Initiation Protocol

Stop that!

You didn't personally create the patent system, and it doesn't even seem like you agree with it, so why apologize for it?

Bugs the crap out of me when people say "we" with regards to/ apologize on behalf of the actions taken by the government that claims ownership of you.

You are an individual. They are a network of thugs. Stop identifying with them, and stop collectivizing all individuals who live within these imaginary lines called the U S of A.

The Military

Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship 162

Posted by samzenpus
from the scuttle-the-ship's-computer dept.
An anonymous reader writes with some potentially troubling news about some security issues with the Navy's newest class of coastal warships."A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, the lead vessel in the $37 billion Littoral Combat Ship program, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Freedom arrived in Singapore last week for an eight-month stay, which its builder, Lockheed Martin Corp., hopes will stimulate Asian demand for the fast, agile and stealthy ships. 'We do these types of inspections across the fleet to find individual vulnerabilities, as well as fleet-wide trends,' said the official."
Government

House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law 142

Posted by samzenpus
from the taking-a-second-look dept.
SEWilco writes in with news that U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte plans on conducting "...a comprehensive review of US copyright law over the coming months.""In a speech given in celebration of World Intellectual Property Day at the Library of Congress today, Goodlatte mentioned a few examples of the sorts of problems that he hopes to address in such a review: 'The Internet has enabled copyright owners to make available their works to consumers around the world, but has also enabled others to do so without any compensation for copyright owners. Efforts to digitize our history so that all have access to it face questions about copyright ownership by those who are hard, if not impossible, to locate. There are concerns about statutory license and damage mechanisms. Federal judges are forced to make decisions using laws that are difficult to apply today. Even the Copyright Office itself faces challenges in meeting the growing needs of its customers - the American public.'"

+ - Ember Fest - A European Ember.js Conference 1

Submitted by joachimhs
joachimhs writes "Ember Fest is a new european conference that is based around the web framework Ember.js. Ember Fest will be arranged in Munich, Germany, starting on August 28th with two days of Ember.js Training and ending on August 30th with a conference day. Ember Fest are ready to accept submissions, as well as ticket sales. We hope to see as many people from the European Ember.js community as possible for this event!"

Comment: these words you keep using... (Score 1) 36

by odigity (#43535863) Attached to: 'Green' Galaxy Recycles Gas, Supercharges Star Birth

"This galaxy is the 'greenest' factory yet discovered... ...leaving no waste."

Green? Waste?

I keep seeing humans applying these fuzzy concepts with apparent emotional significance to inanimate objects and natural processes. What's green about turning hydrogen into stars? Green is suppose to be good, right? Is loose hydrogen bad? Don't stars use fusion to produce radiation? Don't the same people that talk about 'green' incessantly also speak badly of nuclear fusion and radiation? Isn't that called toxic waste when it's on this spinning rock? Speaking of waste, why is hydrogen that's not turned into stars considered waste? That seems highly subjective. Maybe I like scattered hydrogren gas...

Comment: ain't no such thing as IP (Score 2) 630

by odigity (#43485275) Attached to: Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed

I haven't had an opportunity yet to publish any non-trivial open source projects, but when I do, my LICENSE.txt file will simply contain the sentence "There ain't no such thing as intellectual property." and the following link:

https://mises.org/document/3582

Do what you want with my code, and don't bother me about licenses. If you're going to badger me about fantasy concept X vs fantasy concept Y, at least make it fun, like who would win in a fight -- Aragorn or Han Solo?

Comment: Re:Free Staters? (Score 1) 164

by odigity (#35138058) Attached to: New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts

The official organization known as the Free State Project is simply the bus. It's job is to get people to New Hampshire, not to tell them how to pursue liberty after they get here. (Really, the FSP's only real job is to host the website with the "statement of intent" and the signup and move counters.) Hence, there is no official connection between the FSP and the NHLA, or any other pro-liberty organization started by Free Staters.

However, the NHLA is primarily founded and run by Free Staters.

+ - New Hampshire begins open-data efforts-> 1

Submitted by Plugh
Plugh writes "The Free State Project was created to move 20,000 small-government activists to New Hampshire (here's the Slashdot story from 2002).

IT people, with our ability to work anywhere, were some of the first to move. Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy."
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Social Networks

+ - Ron Paul's use of the Internet in his presidential

Submitted by
tres3
tres3 writes "A recent New York Times article explores some of the success that Ron Paul's presidential campaign has had in using the Internet. The author correctly states that others aren't as successful because their approach led many to micromanage their Web sites. By contrast, [Ms. Teachout] said, the Paul campaign took the opposite lesson that it was about openness and power. He has over 1140 MeetUp Groups in 900 cities (including one in the green zone in Baghdad) that have operated largely independently from the campaign.

For instance the ThisNovember5th site was setup by Trevor Lyman using a video created by James Sugra without even consulting the campaign. That site brought in $4.3M from 37,000 donors in 24 hours. Mr. Paul estimated that the one-day haul had brought $10 million worth of free publicity. Ron said he hadn't even gotten around to thanking them yet. THANKS Guys!! There is a new money bomb web site being prepared now in celebration of the Boston Tea Party

The article goes on to cover the wide variety of supporters that the Paul campaign has attracted. In reality Dr. Paul didn't create these groups; he simply gave them a focal point to rally behind. And he used the Internet to unite them, or more accurately, the users of the Internet found his message and united themselves behind it. I guess that is why the author titled the article 'The Web Finds Ron Paul, and Takes Him for a Ride'."

There's no such thing as a free lunch. -- Milton Friendman

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