osOpinion: Are today’s open source-centric web sites just faking it?
Now it would be intresting if slashdot started publishing under the Open Content Liscense.
LinuxFund.org needs projects to fund
“A ceiling of $1,000 per grant will be imposed, but the organization is also donating tape drives, SCSI hard drives, and other equipment to suitable seekers.”
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.NET? Are we insane?
“Now, our information won’t reside under our control. It’s empowerment favoring corporations, not consumers/users.
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People! Wake up! Don’t you know what excessive power causes? In the first place, it causes corruption! What is stopping content/access providers from spying on your information? The law? How could you possibly enforce the law in case of a crime, if you weren’t able to know in the first place if the crime was committed? You already know your privacy is being invaded with targeted ads and the like. Is it time to give up more private information to a service provider?”
Don’t forget what happens when service companies go under, like boo.com selling customer information to pay off creditors.
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This claims to be the
This claims to be the web page of Neal Town Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and other works.
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The Space Shuttle and the
The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End
“Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.”
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top 10 jobs men want,
top 10 jobs men want, now the 10 worst
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Testing Without a Formal Test
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Failed dot-coms may be selling
Failed dot-coms may be selling your private information
One glowing reason why industry/self regulation doesn’t work in the on-line privacy realm.
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Chivalry as a model for
Chivalry as a model for hacking in the OpenSource world.