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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
Feedly adds 500,000 new users
in 48 hours
after Google announces Reader shut down
Here is my
contribution to the cause:
Feedly in 5 minutes –
a quick
introduction and How To.
Updated with lots more hidden features and
tips and tricks,
since yesterday.
e.g. Keyboard Shortcuts are great,
especially gg.
--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 12:27 PM EDT |
I sure hope that the costs made are to be paid by the attorneys & friends
(like Ortiz and collegues) personally.
Just like their victim would have had to pay personally if
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 12:41 PM EDT |
Five
Best Google Reader Alternatives
72% 962/1334 --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 07:55 PM EDT |
Newspick
MIT Technology Review has the same author,
Danger Lurks in Growing New Internet
Nationalism
And on a related subject, SSRN has Mark Fenster
The
Implausibility of Secrecy
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 09:49 PM EDT |
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-
extensio/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk
bbbdekmmmcbfjd
RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) 2.2.0
Adds one-click subscription to your toolbar. Visit website
ID: nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
Quote:Browser add-ons
Chrome does not natively support RSS feed discovery the way
that every other major browser does, and the extension that
Google built to give it that feature has been removed from
the Chrome Web Store.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-10088_7-57574462/8-google-
reader-alternatives-for-your-pc/?
part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 03:20 AM EDT |
quoting:
"There are three categories of hackers:"
Russian, Chinese, pranksters
Please add a fourth one:
The USA/Israel designing and releasing the stux-virus to
target an 'undesired' industrial installation using intimate
knowledge of the target hardware/software.
ref: the off-topic thread 'below'.
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Authored by: JimDiGriz on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 07:13 AM EDT |
One year on OSI’s board (aka one year in OSI’s licensing)
Since it has been roughly one year since Mozilla nominated me to sit on the OSI board,
I thought I’d recap what I’ve done over the course of the year. It hasn’t been a
perfect year by any stretch, but I’m pretty happy with what we’ve done and I
think we’re pointed in the right direction. Because my primary public
responsibility on the board has been chairing the license committee, this can
also sort of double as a review of the last year in
license-discuss/license-review (though there is lots of stuff done by other
members of the community that doesn’t show up here yet).
Outside of
licensing, my work has consisted mostly of cheerleading the hard work of others
on the board (like Deb’s hard work on
our upcoming DC meeting and the work
of many people on our membership initiative) – I haven’t listed each
instance of that here.
“Wikimedia Deutschland offices in Berlin, during the tour
at the Chapters Meeting 2011“, by Mike Peel, under CC-BY-SA 2.5.
(Mind you, CC is not actually OSI-certified ;)
Some things that got
done:
- Drafted and published a beta Code of Conduct for
license-discuss/license-review. This was drafted with the intent that it
will eventually be a CoC for all of OSI, but we’re still formally beta-testing
it in the license committee community.
- Revised the opensource.org/licenses landing page
to make it more useful to visitors who are not familiar with open source. Also
poked and prodded others to do various improvements to the FAQ, which now has categories and a few
improved questions.
- Revised OSI’s history page. The main changes
were to update it to reflect the past 5-6 years, but also to make it more
readable and more positive.
- Oversaw a number of license submissions. I
can’t take much credit for these- the community does most of the heavy lifting.
But the group submitted in the past year include AROS, MOSL, “No Nonsense“, and CeCILL. The new EUPL is in the pipeline as well.
- Engaged Greenberg Traurig as outside counsel to OSI,
and organized and hosted a board face-to-face meeting at Greenberg’s San
Francisco office space.
- Helped keep lines of communication open (and
hopefully improving!) with SPDX and OKFN.
Some projects are important, but
incomplete:
Some projects never really got off the
ground:
- I wanted to get GNOME to join OSI as an affiliate. This, very indirectly,
spurred the history page revision mentioned above, but otherwise never really
got anywhere.
- I wanted to have OSI reach out to the authors of the CPOL and push them to improve it or
adopt an existing license. That never happened.
- I wanted to figure out
how to encourage github to require a license for new projects, but got no
traction.
I hope that this sounds like a pretty good year- it
isn’t perfect but it felt like a good start to me, giving us some things we can
build on for future years.
That said, it shouldn’t be up to just me – if
you think this kind of thing sounds useful for the broader open source
community, you can help :)
- Join l
icense-discuss, or, if you’re more sensitive to mail traffic, but still want
to help with the committee’s most important work, join li
cense-review, which focuses on approving/rejecting proposed new
licenses.
- Become a
member! Easier than joining license-discuss ;) and provides both
fiscal and moral support to the organization.
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
In the article the Wall Street Journal denies it did what it was accused of and
further states the DoJ may have closed the investigation.
I also wonder why there is a US law governing activities in another country.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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