Comment Re:I'm more worried abut the USA losing control... (Score 1) 77
People also forget that it wasn't ICANN that let ICE seize those domains, it was VeriSign, who administers the
Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets 210
As if the flood waters weren't bad enough for the people of Queensland, it now appears that there are sharks swimming in the streets. Two bull sharks were spotted swimming past a McDonald’s in the city of Goodna, Butcher Steve Bateman saw another making its way past his shop on Williams street. Ipswich councillor for the Goodna region Paul Tully said: "It would have swam several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway. It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the main street."
Comment Re:Post needs editing (Score 1) 1155
yes, caps uses more zeros, which anyone can clearly see are fatter, thereby clogging up the tubes!
Comment Re:Without open alternatives, this will continue.. (Score 1) 119
what's the status of voip over jabber?
Jingle works fine and is supported by a couple of clients, including Pidgin, Empathy, Gajim and Google Talk.
Comment Re:yuck (Score 1) 119
Skype is proprietary, uses a proprietary protocol and has taken extreme measures to obfuscate their traffic and functioning of their program. And the Linux version is just horrible in every way possible.
Submission + - HDCP master key is legitimate. Blu-ray is cracked.
adeelarshad82 writes: Intel has confirmed that the leaked HDCP master key protecting millions of Blu-ray discs and devices that was posted to the Web this week is legitimate. The disclosure means, in effect, that all Blu-ray discs can now be unlocked and copied. HDCP (High Definition Content Protection), which was created by Intel and is administered by Digital Content Protection LLP, is the content encryption scheme that protects data, typically movies, as they pass across a DVI or an HDMI cable. According to an Intel official, the most likely scenario for a hacker would be to create a computer chip with the master key embedded it, that could be used to decode Blu-ray discs.
Comment Re:what do we want again? (Score 1) 363
OneSocialWeb is a bunch of extensions to XMPP and some implementations of them that pretty much makes it into the distributed facebook TFA wants.
To say that XMPP has failed to take of would be like saying that about Linux around 1995.
Comment Re:what do we want again? (Score 1) 363
It says on the "Public XMPP Services" page that it's just a list of servers that have been registered. I do think most XMPP deployments have enabled talking to other servers (aka federation).
Spectrum is an server component that acts as a gateway to other networks (MSN, ICQ, AIM etc), so contacts on those networks appears as regular jabber contacts. You do need an account on those networks thou. It's pretty much server side Pidgin, same backend at least.
Comment Re:what do we want again? (Score 1) 363
So, do Jabber servers all talk to each other like email servers?
They do actually.
I thought that was the last bit of the equation that didn't take off....I know all ISPs run email servers, but few-to-none run XMPP servers...
There's a bunch. And GTalk is Jabber.
And there's Facebook chat, but it doesn't talk to other servers
And you can run your own if you want. Which I do, and I can can talk to people on MSN (and other networks if I had contacts on those).
Currently there's only a OSW-plugin for one of the server implementations, but that will probably come.
Comment Re:what do we want again? (Score 1) 363
Jabber/XMPP works terrific, thanks for asking! And OneSocialWeb is exactly what TFA is asking for!
Comment Re:We have it. It's called the World Wide Web. (Score 2, Informative) 363
Add http://onesocialweb.org/ and you have status updates and privacy control too!
A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook 363
qwerty8ytrewq writes "Ryan Singel, writing for Wired, claims that Facebook has gone rogue: 'Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. ... And Facebook realized it owned the network. Then Facebook decided to turn "your" profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves. But to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.' Singel goes on to call for an open, distributed alternative. 'Facebook’s basic functions can be turned into protocols, and a whole set of interoperating software and services can flourish. Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page in the style of your liking.' Can Slashdotters predict where social networking is going? And how?"
Relatedly, jamie points out a graphical representation of how Facebook's privacy settings have changed over the last five years.
Comment cashefs (Score 1) 297
I would like to see something like this, except as a file system layer similar to unionfs that does copy-on-read from some other place (network, slow usb hdd etc) , and purges or keeps files (based on popularity) when the place it caches to gets full.
Comment Ahem (Score 2, Informative) 360
Like vimperator?
Comment Re:woo (Score 1) 583
m/([bd]?a|t?c|[kz])?sh/
