Source: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2299
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Monday, 19 September 2011
New content has moved to eddology.com
This blog is now archived. If you want to get new content from me, head over to eddology.com
GreenWorldApps: Easier ways to Clear Up Your Carbon
I still think lots about how to make obvious the obvious responsibility we all have to clean up your carbon. GreenWorldApps is developing a suite of web apps to make that easier.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/greenworldapps_easier_ways_to.html
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Why Identi.ca is important
Identi.ca's a new microblogging service. It rocks, and here's why
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/07/03-identica
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 3 - January 2001
Projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme: SCHEMAs, COVAX, RENAISSANCE, and EVA. Other feature article subjects include Netting Local History in Norway, Developing Russian Museums Online and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
Source: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/
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Sunday, 18 September 2011
Web 2.0 Excellent
Celebrating the successful use of Expectnation at Web 2.0 Expo
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2009/04/07-web2expo
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 3 - January 2001
Projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme: SCHEMAs, COVAX, RENAISSANCE, and EVA. Other feature article subjects include Netting Local History in Norway, Developing Russian Museums Online and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
Source: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 2 - October 2000
Projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme: BRAVA, CULTIVATE,
TOURBOT and VAKHUM. Other feature article subjects include Perseus Digital Library, the HEREIN project and the Renaissance Library Calendar.
TOURBOT and VAKHUM. Other feature article subjects include Perseus Digital Library, the HEREIN project and the Renaissance Library Calendar.
The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist. The piece caused something of a digital riot. As we learn now from his book, Digital Barbarism (HarperCollins 2009) (note: if you buy from that link, Creative Commons gets the referral fee), Mark Helprin was at the time completely ignorant about the hornet's nest he was about to kick. For him, the op-ed was a professional rapprochement with the New York Times, a chance to make things right once again (though why they were then wrong is a story left mysteriously (and thankfully)...
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/the_solipsist_and_the_internet.html
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RIP! in Minneapolis -- May 28.
From the latest RIP!: A Remix Manifesto screening:
Sound Unseen in Minneapolis screens RIP!
Date May 28, 2009
Time 8:00 PM
Venue The TRYLON screening room
Location 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Event Type Open to the Public
Ticket Price $5
Venue Capacity 60 (Small venue, buying tix in advance recommended!)
Event Website http://soundunseen.com
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy?"About as edgy and fascinating a glimpse you'll get of one of the more pressing issues of our Internet Age." .....Montreal Gazette.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/rip_in_minneapolis_-_may_28.html
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Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers
The current gatekeepers of the web and tech industry are publications such as TechCrunch and TechMeme. I barely ever read these, and here's why.
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/07/06-gatekeepers
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On "socialism": round II
There's an interesting resistance (see the comments) to my resistance to Kevin Kelly's description of (what others call) Web 2.0 as "socialism." That resistance (to my resistance) convinces me my point hasn't been made.
Confidence about my "ignorance" about political philosophy notwithstanding (and don't tell my political philosophy tutor from Cambridge where I spent three years studying the stuff), my point is not that it is impossible to understand "socialism" as Kelly describes it. (Obviously, if a missile can be a "peacekeeper," anything can be anything). It is not even that never in the history of "socialism" have people so understood it (there have of course been plenty of voluntary communities that have called themselves "socialist"). Instead, my argument against Kelly was about responsibility in language: How would the words, or label, he used be understood. Not after, as I said, reading "a 3,500 word essay that redefines the term." Rather, how would it be understood by a culture that increasingly has the attention span of 140 characters?
In my view, the answer to that question is absolutely clear: "Socialist" would be associated with the dominant, modern vision of "socialism" which has, at its core, coercion. And as the Internet that Kelly and I celebrate doesn't have "coercion" at its core, I maintain, it is not "socialist."
In reading the reactions to my argument, however, I realize that in using the term "coercion" I was committing the same error that I was accusing Kelly of making. People associate the word "coercion" with Abu Ghraib or Stalin. And certainly, the "coercion" of socialism isn't necessarily (or even often) that.
That's fair. By "coercion" I meant simply law -- that "socialism" is a system enforced by law, and enforced contrary to the way individuals would freely choose autonomously to associate. Again, I'm for that kind of coercion in lots of contexts. I'm for income redistribution (to some degree); I want better public schools, I want to force you to vaccinate your childeren, etc. So I didn't mean anything necessarily negative by the term "coercion." I meant something analytical: That Wikipedia, if it coerces, coerces differently from how 95% (of Americans) at least understand the term "socialism."
Again, if you doubt that, think about American critics of "socialism": None of them are complaining about people voluntarily choosing to associate however they choose to associate (except of course if they are gay). They are complaining about people being forced to associate in ways they don't choose to associate. There's nothing inconsistent with someone being a Right Wing (and anti-socialist) Republican yet working at a church soup kitchen every other Saturday. Those spheres are separate in the American mind. Because they are separate, one can choose to be a Wikipedian and see no inconsistency in voting for Ronald Reagan.
(But aren't the "freely chosen obligations" often enforced (i.e., in my terms, "coerced") by the state? Of course they are -- as the Legal Realists and most recently Critical Legal Studies Movement worked very hard to remind us. But they had to work so hard because they were working against a very solid assumption about the sense of the term "coercion." They wanted to change it. But they at least acknowledged there was something there to change.)
So my argument against Kelly is that it is wrong to use a term (in the context of a Wired essay at least; a philosophy seminar would invoke a completely different set of ethics) that would be so completely misunderstood. We choose our words. We don't choose our meaning.
But if you're still not convinced, then here's a hypothetical that makes the same point. (And note, I'm being REALLY careful here -- this is ONLY a hypothetical):
Imagine someone said Barack Obama's economic policies were "fascist." But by that the person didn't mean the Fascism of the later German Nazi Party. He didn't mean, that is, the racism that came to define the term. Instead, he meant the Fascism of the early National Socialist Party, or of their equivalent in Italy, or England, or the earliest of FDR's administration.
My point is that however accurate it would be to describe the current "Czar" filled administrations with the centralizing and corporatist politics of the early 1930s, it would be unethical to call it "fascist." The term has been marked, just as the name "Adolf" has been marked, and in mixed, attention deprived contexts, it is wrong to ignore that marking.
Secondly, and finally: Even if it weren't, Kelly's description would be wrong. Even if there were a useable concept (as opposed to a possible concept) of "voluntary socialism," it would be wrong to describe what most think of as Web 2.0 as "socialist." That again because of the part Kelly ignores. Sure, there's a "sharing economy" as I describe in REMIX. That economy fits well with the Kibbutz or Wikipedia. And if you want to call that "socialist," fine. But the "hybrid" economy is not that economy. The Facebooks and Twitters and Flickrs and Yelps! are not entities engaged in a global urge to hug. They are companies that promise investors a huge return from their very risky investment. To do that, of course, they need to behave differently from the dominant mode of, say, Hollywood lawyers. But if they behave like Gandhi, they're not going to succeed at their mission -- which is (however much "change the world" or "don't be evil" is in the plan) to make money. Those people are not "socialists" (except in the corrupted sense that defines the term in many places today). Those people are members of a hybrid economy. What Tim calls "Web 2.0." And while I can well understand that someone would feel "torture," as Kelly puts it, using that term (I don't feel it, but who am I dictate to Kelly), the fear of that torture doesn't justify this violation of the ethics of language. The freedom of Wikipedia et al., is threatened enough. We don't need to throw the baggage of "socialism" into the bargain.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/on_socialism_round_ii.html
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Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department)
So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 entries later, I'm letting the blog rest. This will be the last post in this frame. Who knows what the future will bring, but in the near term, it won't bring more in lessig.org/blog.
The reasons are many.
First, as I peer over the abyss of child number 3 (expected in a couple weeks), I can't begin to imagine how I would be able to allocate the time to give this space the attention it needs. I've already fretted about my failure to give this community the time it deserves in REMIX. Things will only get worse.
Second, even if I could, I'm entering a stage of my work when the ratio of speaking to reading/listening/thinking is changing significantly. I've just taken up my role as director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. As announced, this means the launch of a 5 year research project on institutional corruption. While I expect that project will have a critical cyber-presence, I don't want its life to be framed by this blog. The mission, the understanding, the community is different.
Third, even if I could, and even if the work I was doing meant I should, there's an increasingly technical burden to maintaining a blog that I don't have the cycles to support. Some very good friends -- Theo Armour and M. David Peterson -- have been volunteering time to do the mechanics of site maintenance. That has gotten overwhelming. Theo estimates that 1/3 of the 30,000 comments that were posted to the blog over these 7 years were fraudsters. He's been working endlessly to remove them. At one point late last year, Google kicked me off their index because too many illegal casino sites were linking from the bowels of my server. I know some will respond with the equivalent of "you should have put bars on your windows and double bolted locks on your front door." Maybe. Or maybe had legislatures devoted 1/10th the energy devoted to the copyright wars to addressing this muck, it might be easier for free speech to be free.
This isn't an announcement of my disappearance. I'm still trying to understand twitter. My channel at blip.tv will remain. As will the podcast, updated as I speak. I will continue to guest blog at Huffington Post. And as Change-Congress.org enters a new stage, I hope to be doing more there. But this community, this space, this board will now rest.
Thank you to the endless list of people who have helped make this place as it is, or was. Theo and M. David especially. Marc Perkel for his free hosting at ctyme.com for so many years. And thank you especially to the inhabitants of this space, especially the fantastic commentators and loyal backbenchers (Three Blind Mice, you have to reveal yourself now and let me buy you a beer). I have enjoyed this wildly more than I have not (again, I whine in REMIX about the not). And I have been very proud to be responsible for certain bits of content -- especially the guest blogging by the interesting and famous (Howard Dean was a favorite, and I will always be proud that I got Judge Posner to experiment with blogging, leading to his wonderful blog with Gary Becker).
Comments on this post will remain open for a week. And then comments on all posts will be locked.
Thank you to everyone, again.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/08/announcing_the_hibernation_of.html
Thursday, 11 August 2011
DSA-2284 opensaml2
implementation error
Source: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2284
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RFC 6321: xCal: The XML Format for iCalendar, C. Daboo, M. Douglass, S. Lees
This specification defines "xCal", an XML format for iCalendar data. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Source: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6321.txt
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Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 beta available
Altsoft s.r.o. has released Xml2PDF 2009 beta with complete HTML and DOC support, improved SVG and DocX support, digital signatures in PDF and XPS, and many other improvements.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139085
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published
The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139136
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The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist. The piece caused something of a digital riot. As we learn now from his book, Digital Barbarism (HarperCollins 2009) (note: if you buy from that link, Creative Commons gets the referral fee), Mark Helprin was at the time completely ignorant about the hornet's nest he was about to kick. For him, the op-ed was a professional rapprochement with the New York Times, a chance to make things right once again (though why they were then wrong is a story left mysteriously (and thankfully)...
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/the_solipsist_and_the_internet.html
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fabulously cool: iFixit's teardown platform
This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to build a teardown ("the act or process of disassembling") spec for any product. The site offers the structure and advice for building great teardowns. It then hosts and supports feedback. It is a fantastic example of a "hybrid," as REMIX defines the term -- and all submissions are CC-BY-NC-SA.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/06/fabulously_cool_ifixits_teardo.html
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Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 beta available
Altsoft s.r.o. has released Xml2PDF 2009 beta with complete HTML and DOC support, improved SVG and DocX support, digital signatures in PDF and XPS, and many other improvements.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139085
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XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published
The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features.
Why Identi.ca is important
Identi.ca's a new microblogging service. It rocks, and here's why
New content has moved to eddology.com
This blog is now archived. If you want to get new content from me, head over to eddology.com
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2011/06/moved
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GSC: Senator Ben Nelson is angry (second in a series)
Change Congress launched its second "good souls corruption" attack today, this time against Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. (Two Dems in a row; we'll be more balanced next time.) The attack has excited an hysterical response from the Senator's office. Read about the charge (here) and the response (below), and then please sign our petition to Senator Nelson.
At the beginning of May, Senator Nelson was reported to have said that including a "public option" (giving Americans a choice to opt into a public system) in a national health care proposal was a "deal breaker," and that he would "form a coalition of like-minded centrists opposed to the creation of a public plan, as a counterweight to Democrats pushing for it."
On May 7, our friends at Public Campaign produced a report that showed that Senator Nelson has received more than "$2 million from insurance and health care interests in his three campaigns for federal office."
These two facts together expose Senator Nelson to the charge of "Good Souls corruption" -- legal, even ethical acts that reasonably lead the public to wonder whether it is the merits or the money that is driving this Senator's decision.
Senator Nelson responded immediately to the attack by issuing the following press release. [Bracketed annotations are courtesy of me, not the Senator's staff.]
May 28, 2009 - The office of Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson today warned Nebraskans not to fall for a misleading fundraising gimmick by a special interest group called Change Congress. The group has issued a press release concerning Senator Nelson and said it was sending mailers to Nebraskans. NELSON: NEBRASKANS BEWARE OF MISLEADING FUNDRAISING GIMMICK
Senator Nelson's spokesman Jake Thompson issued this statement:
"There's no doubt Senator Nelson understands the insurance industry's important role providing health care for millions of Americans. After all, he's been an insurance executive [The ever effective, "I'm a former insurance exec!" defense], an insurance industry regulator, a governor who created a children's health insurance program, and today he represents Nebraska, arguably the insurance capital of the world. [And no doubt the insurance industry fundraising capital of the world.]But let's look at this group closely. They claim, 'Ben Nelson said he may not support Obama's plan.' Can they send us a copy of the plan? [Maybe not, but we can certainly send you again to the report indicating he opposed a key element of the President's plan] No, because President Obama hasn't offered a specific plan yet. Next, they ask if people are ready to change Congress and 'take on special interests' and 'only donate to politicians who prove they are willing to do that.' Then, they promote an election law proposal they're lobbying for.
So, let's get this straight: These people are endorsing something they haven't seen [No idea what this means: We're endorsing a bill introduced by Senators Durbin and Specter. We've seen this bill.], criticizing Senator Nelson for something he hasn't done [Interesting. Where is the press release denying the reports from the beginning of May?] and using health care as a fundraising gimmick [A "fundraising gimmick"? If he means we're fundraising around this issue, that's false. If he means our strike is a "gimmick," then what's he so upset about?] --to lobby for unrelated special interest legislation. ["UNRELATED"!?!! Are you kidding me? One can define corruption as unrelated to the objects corrupted, but that doesn't make it so.] These people have a political agenda that has nothing remotely [We have an agenda. It is to create a Congress where legislation is on the merits -- not, as it is today, guided by the implicit threat of large campaign contributors.] to do with helping Nebraskans get and keep affordable, high quality health care. Their effort is silly, sad and sophomoric. [Unlike this sort of name calling.]
Nebraskans are far too smart to fall for just another special interest group grabbing a hot issue and misrepresenting both the president [Um, where did we misrepresent the President?] and Senator Nelson [And where was Senator Nelson's letter to Ryan Grimm complaining he had misrepresented him -- before we raised this issue?] to raise money to lobby Congress [And where is our effort to raise money to lobby Congress -- we've asked people to STOP giving money to Congress.]"
Here are some facts about Senator Nelson and health care:
- During his presidential campaign and recently President Obama has said Americans who like their private insurance will get to keep it, or have the option to join another plan.
- Ben Nelson agrees and he's eager to see more details from the president, and he wants to make sure that the 85 percent of Nebraskans who have insurance today will continue to have the option of staying with their existing plans.
- Senator Nelson believes that all Americans should receive health insurance and agrees with President Obama that those who currently have health insurance should be assured that it won't be taken away from them.
- Senator Nelson is spending much of the congressional break in Nebraska this week meeting with Nebraskans, listening to them discuss health care and reform ideas. He's listening to patients, providers, employers and others. He looks forward to hearing from many more Nebraskans on ways to strengthen, broaden and provide stability in America's health care system."
- [But please notice, Senator Nelson has not indicated that he supports a central idea in Obama's plan -- that Nebraskans will also have the freedom to choose a public option if (and imagine this) the private options are too costly.]
As I said, this is only the second in a series. (The first was Representative Conyers.) We will continue to call out members of both parties -- and again, I promise, a Republican is coming soon -- who make it too easy for Americans to believe (as 88% in my district believe) that money buys results in Congress.
Congress could change this problem tomorrow -- by enacting the Trustworthy Government Now Act (aka, the "Fair Elections Now Act"). And of course Members can avoid the charge of "good souls corruption" by co-sponsoring that bill now.
But meanwhile, we'll be working hard to make more enemies, by making the status quo very uncomfortable. Nice was for the 90s. CHANGE was the promise for today.
Tell Ben Nelson to (be)come clean.
Join our Donor Strike -- promising not to support any candidate who doesn't co-sponsor the Trustworthy Government Now Act.
And finally, celebrate this good news just in: Senator Nelson now indicates that he has changed his view, and is now "open" to the public option.
Bravo, Senator. Now about the system of funding that makes people wonder?
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/gsc_senator_ben_nelson_is_angr.html
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MarkLogic Server 4.2 includes XSLT 2.0
MarkLogic Server 4.2 includes a C++ implementation of XSLT 2.0 that runs directly against documents stored in the database.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139025
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LIBX adds sequences and functions to libxml
LIBX* is a project to implement XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 based on the libxml2 and libxslt Gnome C libraries.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139010
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Learning Rails
I'm pleased to announce the release of Learning Rails, and its companion web site, Excursions on Rails
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/11/21-learning-rails
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 8 - Nov 2002
The eighth issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
ARTISTE, COINE, COVAX, KALLIOPE, PRESTO, PULMAN, SciX, TOURBOT and VALHALLA.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
ARTISTE, COINE, COVAX, KALLIOPE, PRESTO, PULMAN, SciX, TOURBOT and VALHALLA.
Source: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue8/
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Cultivate Interactive Issue 1 - July 2000
Projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme: ARCHEOGUIDE, DELOS, ASH,
ARTISTE, ECHO, ETB and RENARDUS. Other feature article subjects include SCRAN, Intellectual Property Rights and
Museumland.com.
ARTISTE, ECHO, ETB and RENARDUS. Other feature article subjects include SCRAN, Intellectual Property Rights and
Museumland.com.
XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published
The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139136
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 6 - Feb 2002
The sixth issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
CULTIVATE, REGNET, BIONET and COLLATE. A number of other articles in this issue
look specifically at activities in Eastern Europe.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
CULTIVATE, REGNET, BIONET and COLLATE. A number of other articles in this issue
look specifically at activities in Eastern Europe.
RFC 6333: Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion, A. Durand, R. Droms, J. Woodyatt, Y. Lee
This document revisits the dual-stack model and introduces the Dual- Stack Lite technology aimed at better aligning the costs and benefits of deploying IPv6 in service provider networks. Dual-Stack Lite enables a broadband service provider to share IPv4 addresses among customers by combining two well-known technologies: IP in IP (IPv4- in-IPv6) and Network Address Translation (NAT). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
The struggle to improve PACER
So you're likely not to recognize the term -- in all caps, PACER -- but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this essential service radically improved. You can help here....
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/08/the_struggle_to_improve_pacer.html
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Why Identi.ca is important
Identi.ca's a new microblogging service. It rocks, and here's why
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/07/03-identica
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Web 2.0 Excellent
Celebrating the successful use of Expectnation at Web 2.0 Expo
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2009/04/07-web2expo
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The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist. The piece caused something of a digital riot. As we learn now from his book, Digital Barbarism (HarperCollins 2009) (note: if you buy from that link, Creative Commons gets the referral fee), Mark Helprin was at the time completely ignorant about the hornet's nest he was about to kick. For him, the op-ed was a professional rapprochement with the New York Times, a chance to make things right once again (though why they were then wrong is a story left mysteriously (and thankfully)...
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/the_solipsist_and_the_internet.html
RFC 6321: xCal: The XML Format for iCalendar, C. Daboo, M. Douglass, S. Lees
This specification defines "xCal", an XML format for iCalendar data. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Source: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6321.txt
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XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published
The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139136
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 6 - Feb 2002
The sixth issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
CULTIVATE, REGNET, BIONET and COLLATE. A number of other articles in this issue
look specifically at activities in Eastern Europe.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
CULTIVATE, REGNET, BIONET and COLLATE. A number of other articles in this issue
look specifically at activities in Eastern Europe.
DSA-2277 xml-security-c
stack-based buffer overflow
Source: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2277
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German documents available
data2type has made a range of documents available in German relating to XML, XSLT, XSL-FO and XPath.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139070
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RFC 6340: Textual Conventions for the Representation of Floating-Point Numbers, R. Presuhn
This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module containing textual conventions (TCs) to represent floating-point numbers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Cultivate Interactive Issue 5 - Oct 2001
The fifth issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
3D-Murale, CELIP, CULTIVATE, OpenHeritage and TEL. Other feature articles include
an introduction to bibliotek.dk and consideration of the role of creativity with
regard to multimedia and visualisation.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
3D-Murale, CELIP, CULTIVATE, OpenHeritage and TEL. Other feature articles include
an introduction to bibliotek.dk and consideration of the role of creativity with
regard to multimedia and visualisation.
Monday, 8 August 2011
RIP! in Minneapolis -- May 28.
From the latest RIP!: A Remix Manifesto screening:
Sound Unseen in Minneapolis screens RIP!
Date May 28, 2009
Time 8:00 PM
Venue The TRYLON screening room
Location 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Event Type Open to the Public
Ticket Price $5
Venue Capacity 60 (Small venue, buying tix in advance recommended!)
Event Website http://soundunseen.com
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy?"About as edgy and fascinating a glimpse you'll get of one of the more pressing issues of our Internet Age." .....Montreal Gazette.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/rip_in_minneapolis_-_may_28.html
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MarkLogic Server 4.2 includes XSLT 2.0
MarkLogic Server 4.2 includes a C++ implementation of XSLT 2.0 that runs directly against documents stored in the database.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139025
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Learning Rails
I'm pleased to announce the release of Learning Rails, and its companion web site, Excursions on Rails
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/11/21-learning-rails
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DSA-2277 xml-security-c
stack-based buffer overflow
Source: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2277
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fabulously cool: iFixit's teardown platform
This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to build a teardown ("the act or process of disassembling") spec for any product. The site offers the structure and advice for building great teardowns. It then hosts and supports feedback. It is a fantastic example of a "hybrid," as REMIX defines the term -- and all submissions are CC-BY-NC-SA.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/06/fabulously_cool_ifixits_teardo.html
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 7 - Jul 2002
The seventh issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
ARTISTE, COINE, COVAX, KALLIOPE, PRESTO, PULMAN, SciX, TOURBOT and VALHALLA.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
ARTISTE, COINE, COVAX, KALLIOPE, PRESTO, PULMAN, SciX, TOURBOT and VALHALLA.
Source: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 5 - Oct 2001
The fifth issue of Cultivate Interactive includes feature articles on
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
3D-Murale, CELIP, CULTIVATE, OpenHeritage and TEL. Other feature articles include
an introduction to bibliotek.dk and consideration of the role of creativity with
regard to multimedia and visualisation.
projects and articles from the European Commission's DIGICULT programme:
3D-Murale, CELIP, CULTIVATE, OpenHeritage and TEL. Other feature articles include
an introduction to bibliotek.dk and consideration of the role of creativity with
regard to multimedia and visualisation.
RFC 6342: Mobile Networks Considerations for IPv6 Deployment, R. Koodli
Mobile Internet access from smartphones and other mobile devices is accelerating the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is widely seen as crucial for the continued operation and growth of the Internet, and in particular, it is critical in mobile networks. This document discusses the issues that arise when deploying IPv6 in mobile networks. Hence, this document can be a useful reference for service providers and network designers. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
On "socialism": round II
There's an interesting resistance (see the comments) to my resistance to Kevin Kelly's description of (what others call) Web 2.0 as "socialism." That resistance (to my resistance) convinces me my point hasn't been made.
Confidence about my "ignorance" about political philosophy notwithstanding (and don't tell my political philosophy tutor from Cambridge where I spent three years studying the stuff), my point is not that it is impossible to understand "socialism" as Kelly describes it. (Obviously, if a missile can be a "peacekeeper," anything can be anything). It is not even that never in the history of "socialism" have people so understood it (there have of course been plenty of voluntary communities that have called themselves "socialist"). Instead, my argument against Kelly was about responsibility in language: How would the words, or label, he used be understood. Not after, as I said, reading "a 3,500 word essay that redefines the term." Rather, how would it be understood by a culture that increasingly has the attention span of 140 characters?
In my view, the answer to that question is absolutely clear: "Socialist" would be associated with the dominant, modern vision of "socialism" which has, at its core, coercion. And as the Internet that Kelly and I celebrate doesn't have "coercion" at its core, I maintain, it is not "socialist."
In reading the reactions to my argument, however, I realize that in using the term "coercion" I was committing the same error that I was accusing Kelly of making. People associate the word "coercion" with Abu Ghraib or Stalin. And certainly, the "coercion" of socialism isn't necessarily (or even often) that.
That's fair. By "coercion" I meant simply law -- that "socialism" is a system enforced by law, and enforced contrary to the way individuals would freely choose autonomously to associate. Again, I'm for that kind of coercion in lots of contexts. I'm for income redistribution (to some degree); I want better public schools, I want to force you to vaccinate your childeren, etc. So I didn't mean anything necessarily negative by the term "coercion." I meant something analytical: That Wikipedia, if it coerces, coerces differently from how 95% (of Americans) at least understand the term "socialism."
Again, if you doubt that, think about American critics of "socialism": None of them are complaining about people voluntarily choosing to associate however they choose to associate (except of course if they are gay). They are complaining about people being forced to associate in ways they don't choose to associate. There's nothing inconsistent with someone being a Right Wing (and anti-socialist) Republican yet working at a church soup kitchen every other Saturday. Those spheres are separate in the American mind. Because they are separate, one can choose to be a Wikipedian and see no inconsistency in voting for Ronald Reagan.
(But aren't the "freely chosen obligations" often enforced (i.e., in my terms, "coerced") by the state? Of course they are -- as the Legal Realists and most recently Critical Legal Studies Movement worked very hard to remind us. But they had to work so hard because they were working against a very solid assumption about the sense of the term "coercion." They wanted to change it. But they at least acknowledged there was something there to change.)
So my argument against Kelly is that it is wrong to use a term (in the context of a Wired essay at least; a philosophy seminar would invoke a completely different set of ethics) that would be so completely misunderstood. We choose our words. We don't choose our meaning.
But if you're still not convinced, then here's a hypothetical that makes the same point. (And note, I'm being REALLY careful here -- this is ONLY a hypothetical):
Imagine someone said Barack Obama's economic policies were "fascist." But by that the person didn't mean the Fascism of the later German Nazi Party. He didn't mean, that is, the racism that came to define the term. Instead, he meant the Fascism of the early National Socialist Party, or of their equivalent in Italy, or England, or the earliest of FDR's administration.
My point is that however accurate it would be to describe the current "Czar" filled administrations with the centralizing and corporatist politics of the early 1930s, it would be unethical to call it "fascist." The term has been marked, just as the name "Adolf" has been marked, and in mixed, attention deprived contexts, it is wrong to ignore that marking.
Secondly, and finally: Even if it weren't, Kelly's description would be wrong. Even if there were a useable concept (as opposed to a possible concept) of "voluntary socialism," it would be wrong to describe what most think of as Web 2.0 as "socialist." That again because of the part Kelly ignores. Sure, there's a "sharing economy" as I describe in REMIX. That economy fits well with the Kibbutz or Wikipedia. And if you want to call that "socialist," fine. But the "hybrid" economy is not that economy. The Facebooks and Twitters and Flickrs and Yelps! are not entities engaged in a global urge to hug. They are companies that promise investors a huge return from their very risky investment. To do that, of course, they need to behave differently from the dominant mode of, say, Hollywood lawyers. But if they behave like Gandhi, they're not going to succeed at their mission -- which is (however much "change the world" or "don't be evil" is in the plan) to make money. Those people are not "socialists" (except in the corrupted sense that defines the term in many places today). Those people are members of a hybrid economy. What Tim calls "Web 2.0." And while I can well understand that someone would feel "torture," as Kelly puts it, using that term (I don't feel it, but who am I dictate to Kelly), the fear of that torture doesn't justify this violation of the ethics of language. The freedom of Wikipedia et al., is threatened enough. We don't need to throw the baggage of "socialism" into the bargain.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/on_socialism_round_ii.html
RFC 6342: Mobile Networks Considerations for IPv6 Deployment, R. Koodli
Mobile Internet access from smartphones and other mobile devices is accelerating the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is widely seen as crucial for the continued operation and growth of the Internet, and in particular, it is critical in mobile networks. This document discusses the issues that arise when deploying IPv6 in mobile networks. Hence, this document can be a useful reference for service providers and network designers. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
Why Identi.ca is important
Identi.ca's a new microblogging service. It rocks, and here's why
DSA-2285 mapserver
several vulnerabilities
Source: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2285
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oXygen XML Editor verson 11 released
oXygen XML Editor version 11 now lets you generate documentation for XSLT stylesheet components in XHTML, including comprehensive annotations and cross references.
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Web 2.0 Excellent
Celebrating the successful use of Expectnation at Web 2.0 Expo
Speak Out on (Canadian) Copyright
The wonderful Michael Geist has a site to facilitate organizing and thought around "the first Canadian public consultation on copyright policy since 2001."...
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/08/speak_out_on_canadian_copyrigh.html
REMIX unmixed
Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo's BOSS, he reassociates every three words to another text on the web. Give it a look. (I think I'd call it re-remixing)....
Remix Culture: (They say) Fair Use is Your Friend
The great folks at American University have a great video about "fair use" and remix.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/remix_culture_they_say_fair_us.html
OSCON: what are your must-see talks?
We've switched on personal schedule sharing on the OSCON web site.
Source: http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/07/01-oscon-sked
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RenderX blogpaper
blogpaper, a Web-based interface for making PDF or PostScript from blogs, wiki pages, Web pages and more, uses RenderX.
Source: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Overview.html#id139116
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fabulously cool: iFixit's teardown platform
This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to build a teardown ("the act or process of disassembling") spec for any product. The site offers the structure and advice for building great teardowns. It then hosts and supports feedback. It is a fantastic example of a "hybrid," as REMIX defines the term -- and all submissions are CC-BY-NC-SA.
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/06/fabulously_cool_ifixits_teardo.html
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New content has moved to eddology.com
This blog is now archived. If you want to get new content from me, head over to eddology.com
The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist. The piece caused something of a digital riot. As we learn now from his book, Digital Barbarism (HarperCollins 2009) (note: if you buy from that link, Creative Commons gets the referral fee), Mark Helprin was at the time completely ignorant about the hornet's nest he was about to kick. For him, the op-ed was a professional rapprochement with the New York Times, a chance to make things right once again (though why they were then wrong is a story left mysteriously (and thankfully)...
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/the_solipsist_and_the_internet.html
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GSC: Senator Ben Nelson is angry (second in a series)
Change Congress launched its second "good souls corruption" attack today, this time against Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. (Two Dems in a row; we'll be more balanced next time.) The attack has excited an hysterical response from the Senator's office. Read about the charge (here) and the response (below), and then please sign our petition to Senator Nelson.
At the beginning of May, Senator Nelson was reported to have said that including a "public option" (giving Americans a choice to opt into a public system) in a national health care proposal was a "deal breaker," and that he would "form a coalition of like-minded centrists opposed to the creation of a public plan, as a counterweight to Democrats pushing for it."
On May 7, our friends at Public Campaign produced a report that showed that Senator Nelson has received more than "$2 million from insurance and health care interests in his three campaigns for federal office."
These two facts together expose Senator Nelson to the charge of "Good Souls corruption" -- legal, even ethical acts that reasonably lead the public to wonder whether it is the merits or the money that is driving this Senator's decision.
Senator Nelson responded immediately to the attack by issuing the following press release. [Bracketed annotations are courtesy of me, not the Senator's staff.]
May 28, 2009 - The office of Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson today warned Nebraskans not to fall for a misleading fundraising gimmick by a special interest group called Change Congress. The group has issued a press release concerning Senator Nelson and said it was sending mailers to Nebraskans. NELSON: NEBRASKANS BEWARE OF MISLEADING FUNDRAISING GIMMICK
Senator Nelson's spokesman Jake Thompson issued this statement:
"There's no doubt Senator Nelson understands the insurance industry's important role providing health care for millions of Americans. After all, he's been an insurance executive [The ever effective, "I'm a former insurance exec!" defense], an insurance industry regulator, a governor who created a children's health insurance program, and today he represents Nebraska, arguably the insurance capital of the world. [And no doubt the insurance industry fundraising capital of the world.]But let's look at this group closely. They claim, 'Ben Nelson said he may not support Obama's plan.' Can they send us a copy of the plan? [Maybe not, but we can certainly send you again to the report indicating he opposed a key element of the President's plan] No, because President Obama hasn't offered a specific plan yet. Next, they ask if people are ready to change Congress and 'take on special interests' and 'only donate to politicians who prove they are willing to do that.' Then, they promote an election law proposal they're lobbying for.
So, let's get this straight: These people are endorsing something they haven't seen [No idea what this means: We're endorsing a bill introduced by Senators Durbin and Specter. We've seen this bill.], criticizing Senator Nelson for something he hasn't done [Interesting. Where is the press release denying the reports from the beginning of May?] and using health care as a fundraising gimmick [A "fundraising gimmick"? If he means we're fundraising around this issue, that's false. If he means our strike is a "gimmick," then what's he so upset about?] --to lobby for unrelated special interest legislation. ["UNRELATED"!?!! Are you kidding me? One can define corruption as unrelated to the objects corrupted, but that doesn't make it so.] These people have a political agenda that has nothing remotely [We have an agenda. It is to create a Congress where legislation is on the merits -- not, as it is today, guided by the implicit threat of large campaign contributors.] to do with helping Nebraskans get and keep affordable, high quality health care. Their effort is silly, sad and sophomoric. [Unlike this sort of name calling.]
Nebraskans are far too smart to fall for just another special interest group grabbing a hot issue and misrepresenting both the president [Um, where did we misrepresent the President?] and Senator Nelson [And where was Senator Nelson's letter to Ryan Grimm complaining he had misrepresented him -- before we raised this issue?] to raise money to lobby Congress [And where is our effort to raise money to lobby Congress -- we've asked people to STOP giving money to Congress.]"
Here are some facts about Senator Nelson and health care:
- During his presidential campaign and recently President Obama has said Americans who like their private insurance will get to keep it, or have the option to join another plan.
- Ben Nelson agrees and he's eager to see more details from the president, and he wants to make sure that the 85 percent of Nebraskans who have insurance today will continue to have the option of staying with their existing plans.
- Senator Nelson believes that all Americans should receive health insurance and agrees with President Obama that those who currently have health insurance should be assured that it won't be taken away from them.
- Senator Nelson is spending much of the congressional break in Nebraska this week meeting with Nebraskans, listening to them discuss health care and reform ideas. He's listening to patients, providers, employers and others. He looks forward to hearing from many more Nebraskans on ways to strengthen, broaden and provide stability in America's health care system."
- [But please notice, Senator Nelson has not indicated that he supports a central idea in Obama's plan -- that Nebraskans will also have the freedom to choose a public option if (and imagine this) the private options are too costly.]
As I said, this is only the second in a series. (The first was Representative Conyers.) We will continue to call out members of both parties -- and again, I promise, a Republican is coming soon -- who make it too easy for Americans to believe (as 88% in my district believe) that money buys results in Congress.
Congress could change this problem tomorrow -- by enacting the Trustworthy Government Now Act (aka, the "Fair Elections Now Act"). And of course Members can avoid the charge of "good souls corruption" by co-sponsoring that bill now.
But meanwhile, we'll be working hard to make more enemies, by making the status quo very uncomfortable. Nice was for the 90s. CHANGE was the promise for today.
Tell Ben Nelson to (be)come clean.
Join our Donor Strike -- promising not to support any candidate who doesn't co-sponsor the Trustworthy Government Now Act.
And finally, celebrate this good news just in: Senator Nelson now indicates that he has changed his view, and is now "open" to the public option.
Bravo, Senator. Now about the system of funding that makes people wonder?
Source: http://lessig.org/blog/2009/05/gsc_senator_ben_nelson_is_angr.html
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