tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.comments2024-03-04T06:09:18.295+00:00open...Glyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger5846125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-58423660390700140682016-01-08T10:31:48.825+00:002016-01-08T10:31:48.825+00:00Hi Glyn,
I thought you and your readers would be ...Hi Glyn,<br /><br />I thought you and your readers would be interested to know about this indiegogo campaign directly related to the topic you cover here:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/campaign-against-mass-surveillance-in-the-uk#/<br /><br />Diana (OFE)Meditative Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11492558378031316654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-3274140205244177692014-04-23T02:53:58.696+00:002014-04-23T02:53:58.696+00:00Oh, Dogster, what is going on? The site is in tro...Oh, Dogster, what is going on? The site is in trouble, real trouble. What did deaf do to you?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389157136129544751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-75469981438457666182014-03-27T08:53:53.599+00:002014-03-27T08:53:53.599+00:00Long live RMS!
He is an inspiration to me, and on...Long live RMS!<br /><br />He is an inspiration to me, and one of the most influential people.<br />leon.horvat@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09975560858878026585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-86639088298822463442014-01-27T12:27:59.252+00:002014-01-27T12:27:59.252+00:00Thanks. Yes, archive.org is a great resource, but...Thanks. Yes, archive.org is a great resource, but I prefer to have some more copies available - it's sometimes a little slow, and doesn't always have completely sites.Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-14178318718844653692014-01-27T12:15:07.111+00:002014-01-27T12:15:07.111+00:00Hi Glyn,
you do know that https://web.archive.org/...Hi Glyn,<br />you do know that https://web.archive.org/web/20130318123010/http://www.h-online.com seems to have the H. It is probably a good idea to have a more authoritative source for your articles and repost them, but it may be less work and faster to set up links to archive.org. :)<br /><br />Best,<br />BernhardBernhard E. Reiterhttp://intevation.de/~bernhard/index.en.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-7256103012283031662013-11-08T07:58:38.616+00:002013-11-08T07:58:38.616+00:00yes, you're right, they're acting just lik...yes, you're right, they're acting just like amazon here. good to hear people are aware of these issues in South Africa. <br /><br />As it happens, I've just written a piece for techdirt about south africa leading the way on bilateral investment treaties, too...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-15819062878911015482013-11-08T03:05:54.731+00:002013-11-08T03:05:54.731+00:00Deja Vu: Google setting us up for an Amazon Swindl...Deja Vu: Google setting us up for an Amazon Swindle via the Play Store :( <br /><br /> New PlayStore TOS:<br />... Google may remove from your Device or cease providing you with access to certain Products that you have purchased... Et.al. <br /><br />Reference: <br />https://play.google.com/intl/en-za_za/about/play-terms.html <br /><br />Just did a websearch (right now I'm too pissed off to use the verb "google" ) on RMS' comments on the Swindle and found your blog entry: opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/04/rms-on-amazons-swindle.html?m=1 <br /><br />I'm in South Africa and I'm surprised at this DRM restriction, it removes our rights to fair dealing and established law regarding the purchase and use of goods and services, much in the same way as Amazon does.<br /><br />SA consumers take a critical view of any DRM, particularly from the time onwards of nonsensical Region Control restrictions when DVD became popular. Nobody ever buys a region locked DVD player here.<br /><br />I think Google should respect the fact that our devices are ours to use as we wish, this issue is not about security or propagation of malicious code into the cyber ecosystem, but a backdoored attempt to strip away the users rights.<br /><br />Shame on you, Google! And you supposedly do no evil? <br />Saffernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-74797056423007995752013-11-01T08:45:00.535+00:002013-11-01T08:45:00.535+00:00@andrew hardly...@andrew hardly...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-83286925461002025802013-10-31T23:41:15.341+00:002013-10-31T23:41:15.341+00:00And yet another textbook example of the music indu...And yet another textbook example of the music industry attempting to keep their heads above water and their ’dream’ alive, as they continue to fight the uphill battles with the computer and software industry. Only this time online power figures, Google are giving a run for their money. <br /><br />Do you think record labels made the right choice for not granting these licenses to Google?Andrew Hwangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-59138483589914472062013-10-25T12:15:04.028+00:002013-10-25T12:15:04.028+00:00Pete Gilbert:
You would wish that the psychos who...Pete Gilbert:<br /><br />You would wish that the psychos who run our "Human Rights and Democracy" had 1/100 of Putin's moral fiber. Stop watching CNN, Fox News, BBC, MSNBC, Guardian, Spiegel and all other "pravda".<br /><br />As for this:<br /><br />Glory for Putin and Glory for Russia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-90727367636576817992013-08-12T02:00:43.612+00:002013-08-12T02:00:43.612+00:00Don't trust what they say. They are sneaky. Wa...Don't trust what they say. They are sneaky. Watch your back.DiannaAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02496351303143023620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-4749805506265499902013-08-09T18:52:51.526+00:002013-08-09T18:52:51.526+00:00excelente - muchas gracias...excelente - muchas gracias...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-34613972808450436662013-08-09T18:48:20.989+00:002013-08-09T18:48:20.989+00:00hemos traducido el texto aqui: http://stop-monsant...hemos traducido el texto aqui: http://stop-monsanto.es/2013/08/09/por-que-monsanto-dice-salir-de-europa-la-respuesta-esta-en-tafta-ttip-via-glynmoody/ <br />gracias)<br /><br />translate to spanish )<br />thx.<br /><br />Bye...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00023627107108082542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-41908599112124446242013-08-03T09:53:21.566+00:002013-08-03T09:53:21.566+00:00Regarding the bakery and cake comment above:
Pers...Regarding the bakery and cake comment above:<br /><br />Person wrote: "If you go to a backery and buy a cake, is it unethical if you don’t get the recipe as well?"<br /><br />The analogy between recipe and source code, in the way you present it, is flawed.<br /><br />Let me explain: the cake is the OUTPUT of the recipe. If a recipe is freedomrespecting (by allowing unrestricted use, modification, and distribution with out without modification), then this does not apply to the OUTPUT, i.e. the cake. Put another way: the cake (output) is not the corresponding source of the recipe-steps performed. (See http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1116 at tracktime 30:58)<br /><br />To fix the analogy. Here's an example of a violation of "freedomrespecting recipes":<br />Assume a recipe-seller states: "all my recipes are freedomrespecting." You then decide to purchase from him a recipe-executor-black-box, and a number of recipes on USB-stick. At home you plug in the recipes-USB-stick into the recipe-executor-black-box and select "Grandma's ultraspecial chocolate cake". The executor-black-box removes some ingredients from the connected ingredients-containers (flour, sugar, chocolate, etc.). You cannot see what's going on inside, but after one-and-a-half hours... out comes a cake!<br />So you tell yourself: well that's great, but I want to bake this cake with my own hands and change the steps slightly. You connect the recipes-USB-stick to your own computer, expecting to find the steps. But low and behold: you find that the "recipes" are only in a machine-readable binary format, that you cannot decipher them.<br />This is a freedomrespecting recipe violation!!! If the recipes really were free, you would have received not only the binary format, but the steps of the recipe in human-readable english as well!<br /><br />Now lets say you have aquired a freedomrespecting recipe for a cake (and here I really mean a free recipe, in that it is not obfuscated or coded; but instead a description of steps). Lets say you have a bakery and sell a customer the cake (baked according to the recipe): do you have to give the customer the recipe?<br />No, since the cake is the output. You are not selling the customer the steps to produce the cake.<br /><br />But now you might try and apply this to software and say: "But look here: the binary program is the output of the source code. So if you pass on the binary program, you don't have to pass on the souce code, right?"<br />This would be a misunderstanding, since the program is NOT the output of the source code. Instead: the program is merely the output of a compiler. But the binary program is a direct transformation of the source code: The steps in the program, are still the steps in the source code. We say: the source code is the "CORRESPONDING SOURCE" of the program binary.<br />Thus with free software, the software ... in all the forms it is distributed: binary, etc. needs to include the "corresponding source", that give one the freedom to modify it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-18093725605317365072013-07-22T06:29:16.987+00:002013-07-22T06:29:16.987+00:00Remarkable!Remarkable!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-83945981110047152102013-07-05T18:24:22.299+00:002013-07-05T18:24:22.299+00:00unfortunately, that would be an impossible amount ...unfortunately, that would be an impossible amount of work. as it is, I have to hand paste all the links in to create the page...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-24556807324825975312013-07-05T18:20:56.984+00:002013-07-05T18:20:56.984+00:00I like the idea of a Tweetlog, but I already have...I like the idea of a Tweetlog, but I already have one by running my own StatusNet site - I'll always have access to my Dents, in context, with no additional effort required. <br /><br />Something I'd like to see in your Tweetlog is a link back to the original Tweet, so that we can see the original context, and any replies.<br /><br />--Bob.<br /><a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman" rel="nofollow">@bobjonkman@sn.jonkman.ca</a><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-5923845725366454522013-07-05T18:07:29.820+00:002013-07-05T18:07:29.820+00:00well, this is slightly different, because it's...well, this is slightly different, because it's a blog where each post is a set of tweets that aren't otherwise available in a consolidated formGlyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-5095710078144191532013-07-05T18:04:40.968+00:002013-07-05T18:04:40.968+00:00It might be useful, but I have found annoying to h...It might be useful, but I have found annoying to have Twitter digests embedded in article feeds when I already subscribe to the corresponding microblog. A separate "Twitter digest" feed would solve that : integrate the digests in the blog layout but keep it a separate feed... But that requires more flexibility than Blogger provides.Jean-Marc Liotierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064902723155303224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-6643833623925781262013-06-08T17:10:52.590+00:002013-06-08T17:10:52.590+00:00Musicalise.me represents a new concept in the worl...<a href="http://www.musicalise.me/" rel="nofollow"> Musicalise.me</a> represents a new concept in the world of royalty free music marketplaces. Rather than a set price for licenses, visitors to this royalty free music library can actually choose how much they wish to pay to license each individual track. Granted, there is a minimum fee of $1 for every track, but considering that this covers a license for unlimited usages this is truly <a href="http://www.musicalise.me/" rel="nofollow"> Royalty free</a>.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509783617280400203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-60889091119480724692013-05-13T06:47:55.719+00:002013-05-13T06:47:55.719+00:00@sheogorath: not sure where you get that figure fr...@sheogorath: not sure where you get that figure from - could you explain, please?Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-86172422147252313452013-05-13T03:16:41.793+00:002013-05-13T03:16:41.793+00:00Don't worry so much, it's only a publisher...Don't worry so much, it's only a publisher's copyright, which will expire on 01/01/2037, if I have my maths correct.Sheogorathhttp://archiveofourown.org/users/sheogorathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-44387021067629772042013-04-18T07:14:26.760+00:002013-04-18T07:14:26.760+00:00Yes, part of the problem is that people aren't...Yes, part of the problem is that people aren't really aware of what's going on here.Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-26335053829401328842013-04-17T22:43:06.188+00:002013-04-17T22:43:06.188+00:00I'm sorely disappointed in the integrity of th...I'm sorely disappointed in the integrity of those UK Supermarkets. I'm sure it's not much better elsewhere, but that makes a point to stay vigilant.<br /><br />Thanks for brining this to my attention.Dannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09294830966262713532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-48715809092579604872013-02-20T22:57:35.194+00:002013-02-20T22:57:35.194+00:00@filmoyster - thanks for that update. hadn't ...@filmoyster - thanks for that update. hadn't seen those figures beforeGlyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.com