"I haven’t talked about it here much, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last year and a half working with people in the IETF to get RFC2616 — the HTTP specification — revised. [...] it looks like Roy’s partitioned drafts will become the basis of the new work, and Roy, Julian and Yves will work together as editors on the new documents...."
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ArsGeek reviews the Zonbu Notebook
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A little over a week ago I received my Zonbu Notebook. Since reviewing their tiny, silent desktop replacement computer I’ve been interested in Zonbu and their business model. Could they really pull of the subscription model with inexpensive computers? I’ve long held that in the next ten to fifteen years the majority of computers will be inexpensive blocks handed out to anyone who wants one in exchange for subscribing to some sort of service – be it connectivity, online storage or even gaming.
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What if nVidia had an open source driver?
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The Free Software and Open Source community is always asking for hardware manufacturers to write free and open source software (from now on called FOSS) drivers. So, let's try to guess what would happen if nVidia decided to release the graphics drivers as FOSS.
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How to Jump on the Open Access Bandwagon By Doing Absolutely Nothing
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Earlier this morning, the interweb was aflutter with various reports that AT&T had, in the words of a USA Today article, "flung open its network" to any and all devices. Problem was, this revelation was based solely on the aforementioned article, and the assumption many had (and still seem to have) was that AT&T had in fact changed its network policy in some way. As many have noticed, nothing in fact has changed, other than the fact that AT&T got a healthy dose of positive press out of the misrepresentation.
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The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java
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"We are happy to be working with Microsoft on a license for the Java technology and look forward to working with them on optimizing the Java technology for Windows," Sun said in an official release.
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A Supercomputer For Africa
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Nigerian schoolchildren no doubt appreciate the innovative little machines that are trickling into Africa via Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child program. But IBM thinks the developing world needs a little more processing power to cross the digital divide--about 14,000 times more, by the company's estimation.
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Chasing their tails
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"So. This week it seems to be about privacy. Not so much me, but the fabulous workings of my government's leadership, who by the way, I did not vote for. [...] Finally, this week is the likely the week that the Canadian version of the DMCA, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is to be tabled..."
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ISPs Spying On and Modifying Web Traffic -- With Patent Application
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"Greetings. Over on the NNSquad (Network Neutrality Squad) mailing list, the topic has arisen of ISPs spying on Web traffic and using the derived data to insert their own ads into the user data stream. In my view, such behaviors by any conventional general purpose ISP with their paid subscribers is unacceptable..."
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Interview with Rob Myers by Matt Lee
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"Rob Myers is an artist, hacker and free culture activist who has been remixing images and coding up art for more than fifteen years. He held the first solo all-copyleft-licensed art show, has been involved with community projects such as Free Culture UK and Remix Reading, and has advised on corporate projects such as 'Where Are The Joneses?' and '4Laughs.'..."
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Fall 2007 Bulletin
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"The Free Software Foundation Bulletin from November 2007, presented here for viewing online, or for download..."
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Victory: New York Times Drops Facebook!
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"Another one bites the dust. The New York Times has announced that it will no longer participate in Facebook's unethical privacy-invading beacon program..."
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Baidu, Mozilla Sign Browser Deal
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"In a move that makes it look even more like the Chinese version of Google, Baidu has signed a deal with Mozilla; as a result, all of Baidu’s search functions will be embedded in Chinese versions of Firefox..."
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Decoding Liberation: On the political implications of free software
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"Decoding Liberation is a new book that is creating a lot of buzz in different mailing lists. It is written by Samir Chopra and Scott D. Dexter, both of the City University of New York. Because of the obligatory huge price tag on academic books, it has generated a huge discussion about the need to ‘open source’ the book itself..."
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Python 3.0a2, new tasks in GHOP
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"Guido just released Python 3.0 alpha 2, to be downloaded at the usual locations -- get it and check it out! ..."
Python 3.0a2 Release: December 7th, 2007
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Who is browsing the web? More Mac and Linux, less Windows
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NetApplications tracks market share numbers on the Internet, surveying 160 million site visitors each month, among other means, to determine "who" is browsing the Internet.
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