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Its CC so you can find the PDF on torrents if you don't want to support them.

Your exchange volume would be incredibly low.

Mtgox's current volume is 38492
http://www.mtgox.com/trade/history

The exchange volume on the mtgox exchange is currently 57239. So a bit more than 2 people.

See ref: http://www.mtgox.com/trade/history

both a wire and a piece of copper are antennas. maybe not good ones, but still it'll pick up much more EM waves than a strand of fibre.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

you should definitely check out portableapps.com Lots of OSS that can be ran from a thumb drive.

Looks like it only applies to manufacturing. I see nothing in what you posted that would prevent a complete IP release.

Then there's no value in the internet/socialnets unless you can make your data private?

I absolutely agree that we need an open standard, but from an end user standpoint it is integrated. I have a single point of entry that percolates data across my social net.

I really hope jabber is the future of social networking. Also of interest, facebook just recently set up their IM service to use jabber.

I'm renovating a house, setting up my own aluminum forge, hardware hacking at my local hackerspace, following of my friends who're trying to make it with their bands, building a campground, working full time...

I don't know why being on top of social media precludes having a life.

And my daughter was born via immaculate conception.

I have a life. I just have no time to deal with multiple websites.

In total that took me maybe 4 hours to set up spread across the launches of various platforms.

Yeah. I only have the twitter app installed on facebook because I'm old school like that. I don't *believe* that my friends apps can access my feed data, though I could be wrong.

And as far as them relaying/repeating info that I post... How is that different from a normal conversation with my friends?

I rarely post stuff to facebook that isn't public. When I do its usually locked down to a select group of friends and is about a party or something.

My twitter account updates my buzz feed via google's built in functionality.

It also updates my facebook status via the twitter app for facebook. (although @replies stay on twitter, which I like)

It also updates my away message for AIM/ICQ/MSN/Jabber/gtalk/FBChat/IRC via a twitter plugin for Adium (there's probably one out there for Pidgin too).

It also updates my personal website via a little php-rss script.

It also updates my myspace status via a myspace app for twitter. (although again, @replies stay on twitter)

I can post to twitter via the standard web interface, instant message, a tiny python script I wrote (useful for liveblogging robotics projects), my cellphone (via swift twit).

I can post pictures using twitpic, or songs using blip.fm.

This is my giant social networking machine. It's been working pretty well thus far, as new things come out, I integrate them. I have my public feed (twitter), private feed (facebook+privacy settings w/ friend groups), and super private feed (livejournal, which isn't connected to anything).

I really can't see any added value that buzz gives my machine, but I've integrated it anyway.