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Re: Alcides Fonseca: Religion Flowchart

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:36:12 -0000

It fails quickly :-) You can believe in god(s) and not worship anyone, the same way you can believe in no gods and still have a religion...

Re: It’s not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:12:47 -0000

Do you know about NoiseRiver? It sits on top of Friendfeed and applies some filters...

Re: Dr Yesha: virtual worlds should take standardization serious

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:21:21 -0000

Prokofy: We have 30 years of virtual worlds, and you think it's still too early for standardization? What will we have to wait for? To let the walled garden model prove its failure also in the virtual worlds field, and to fail and fail and fail again until users start demanding standards and openness? No, we *should* try to avoid the mistakes before users demand us to fix them.

Regarding LL, Dr. Yesha, or the other four or five attempts in creating "VW standards", I agree with you that something "global" should be created, but unfortunately there isn't nothing (we don't have a VWs W3C), so we'll be better sticking with what we have. But I agree that instead of criticizing LL, Yesha should instead invite them to become a member of his Meraverse1 project.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: OpenSource is not read for the Telco Industry

Mind Booster Noori — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:12:00 -0000

I would surely like to point out that "if Nokia wants to have a major support of Open Source advocates they have to start accepting how the community works". That interview shows that they don't know as they claim either Open Source nor telcos.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: After all, Internet is all read/write

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:33:20 -0000

Who cares about that when you have GreaseMonkey? There you can edit and changes *are* saved!

Re: Alcides Fonseca: After all, Internet is all read/write

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:42:38 -0000

With GreaseMonkey you can do the changes you want and make them a plugin for others to use...

Re: Alcides Fonseca: The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:49:09 -0000

If CSI-like needs to identify who downloaded something, that's not a security issue, it is a privacy issue. And you're messing up security with anonymity: IPETEE isn't anonymous, you know who uploaded and who downloaded it.

IPETEE is funny, but it is only talked about because it comes from Pirate Bay folks. What I don't understand is why are they beting on such a system instead of contributing for a really secure, anonymous and censorship-resistent alternative like GNUnet.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: comparação entre isps

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:59:23 -0000

12Mbps chega para seres cliente SmarTV, mas tudo depende de quantas boxes queres...

Re: Alcides Fonseca: comparação entre isps

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:10:54 -0000

Não.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: comparação entre isps

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:12:38 -0000

Clix SmarTV dá 50% de desconto nas primeiras mensalidades:
http://friendfeed.com/e/f2757818-08e4-4431-9a11...

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Stupid Stallman

Mind Booster Noori — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:59:51 -0000

This is why I don’t believe in the Free Software as in “All software should be opensourced and free to change, distribute and so.”.

If you don't believe in Free Software as in "all software should be bla bla bla", then you don't believe in free software, because that's its definition. You just need to admit to yourself that you believe not in Free Software but in Open Source.

This is one of the things I’m not happy with GPL. They claim it’s totally free, but it isn’t. If you want to make any change to it, you have to make those changes available to everybody.

That's what makes it free: I explain why in Paula's blog and I don't think I should repeat myself (why there and not here explained in the end of this comment).

A friend of mine, who really supports OpenSource model, justifies that he doesn’t contribute because that doesn’t pay the bills at the end of the day, and he doesn’t want to do any more development outside of his working day.

This was already partially rebutted in earlier comments. Let me just add some things:
1) He can be a supporter of Open Source and not of Free Software, since they are different things. So I don't understand this affirmation in your blog post after talking about Free Software.
2) Contributing to open source is as easy as using Open Source, recommending Open Source, giving suggestions or bug reports... Any of those are already contributions. More, he doesn't *have* to contribute with Open Source at all: most people that like Open Source end up contributing because they *fell* they should - that's all.
3) Open Source *pays* bills. It might not pay his, but that's just because he's not working on Open Source. Many people have their bills excusively payed by Open Source.

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Now, offtopic: I wanted to read the comments and comment this blog post for a long time, but I couldn't. Something is preventing me to do so in both my mobile browsers (Opera Mini and the BlackBerry one). You should fix that, and that's the reason why the GPL thing ended up commented in Paula's post about this issue.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Devolver o dinheiro aos donos

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:53:05 -0000

Das duas uma: ou os títulos existem (e valem quase nada - azar), ou não existem - o que é crime - e nesse caso cabeças devem rolar.

Alcides: aconselho-te a ires ler outra vez o artigo...

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Devolver o dinheiro aos donos

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:26:01 -0000

Então, Alcides, não vejo onde é que não defendes exactamente o mesmo que o Francisco Louçã defende. Talvez este artigo te esclareça melhor quanto à sua posição.

Podes, paralamente, achar errado os 450 milhões com o aval do estado no ano passado (eu, pessoalmente, também acho). Mas isso *agora* é irrelevante - já foi feito e não pode ser desfeito. Relembro-te - para efeitos históricos - que já na altura também o Louçã foi contra a "operação de salvamento".

Afinal, em que aspeto discordas tu do Louçã?

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Devolver o dinheiro aos donos

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:06:49 -0000

Eu também não acho que o Governo se tinha de meter nesse assunto - mas meteu-se. Podes ler sobre as deliberações do ano passado aqui. Para todos os efeitos o Governo fez um "investimento" (argh, apesar de saber que ia perder), pelo que cabe ao governo liquidá-lo. Não estamos a falar de intervenção do governo a interferir com os "mecanismos normais das finanças" (isso já foi feito no ano passado), estamos agora a falar do "Governo enquanto cliente"...

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Devolver o dinheiro aos donos

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:08:26 -0000

Em suma: aquilo que o BE quer fazer agora é tentar "desfazer" a intervenção do ano passado - intervenção essa com a qual tu não concordas, mas que já foi feita de qualquer forma. Vês melhor forma de o fazer? Tens uma proposta melhor que a do BE?

Re: Notes: FriendFeed

Mind Booster Noori — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:21:39 -0000

Hi there,

Hiding twitter messages for all your contacts is easy: just choose a random twitter item in the friendfeed web interface, click "hide", then "hide other items like this one" and there you can choose how do you want to hide them (all twitts, all twitts unless they have comments, all twitts from some users...)

Welcome to Friendfeed! :-)

Re: Notes: Other uses for Rasputine

Mind Booster Noori — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:30:59 -0000

which in fact makes a good feature request for Rasputine: add telnet-ssl support! ;-)

Re: Notes: Codebits 2008

Mind Booster Noori — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:32:47 -0000

Well, you can always talk about rasputine... and maybe even implement that idea of charlotte + rasputine, to create a web interface for telnet services ;-)

Re: Notes: Rasputine

Mind Booster Noori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:21:21 -0000

Hey, I want that in Selva's Rasputine too! O:-) Oh, and case-insensitiveness in the "connect" string :-)

Re: Private: Floppy Disc CD Sleeves

Mind Booster Noori — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:55:25 -0000

Old news, my 5th album "A Viagem" was released this way! :-) You can see the pictures here :-)

Re: Cory Doctorow: Europe’s Copyright Wars - Do We Have to Repeat the American Mistake? (Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin)

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:27:25 -0000

I wrote a couple of notes about the talk here... Not extensive as yourse, so thanks for working on it :-)

Re: 2006/09/06/faketown-20-the-next-habbo-hotel/

Mind Booster Noori — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:29:26 -0000

Too bad it has so many usability problems... Specialy if you're not using IE. IN SeaKonkey the system is just broken.

Re: 2007/05/22/web2-spelling/

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:54:45 -0000

Hey, the only change I want for talker.com is from a comercial site on talkers to an informative site on talkers! ;-)

Re: 2007/08/21/wevent/

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:54:52 -0000

As a matter of fact, the comment where you say that you're "aiming at the North American audience" is one of things you should change in Wevent. Like many other services out there, you just ignore that your service can be used globably. In Wevent's case, as a matter of fact we users can specify our country (so it's not for North America only), but we're allways forced to choose a two-letters string to identify our "state", which is quite ridiculous for every person or event not based in North America.

Re: 2008/06/26/globme/

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:05:50 -0000

Curious to see that their links of "Terms of Service" and "Privacy Policy" lead to nowhere. This means that I didn't have to agree on nothing... Weird!

Re: Uma nova cara para o Remixtures

Mind Booster Noori — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:03:39 -0000

O site está mais bonito - parabéns! - mas infelizmente não se porta muito bem com resoluções de 1024 de largura ou inferior... :-(

Re: Could we be edging closer to a Europe-wide ‘iPod tax’?

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:18:02 -0000

"Private Copy" is defined as the concept introduced in 9.2 of the BERN convention ( http://law-ref.org/BERN/article9.html ):

"It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction of such works in certain special cases, provided that such reproduction does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author."

From this the various countries defined private copy as being "reproduction of copyrighted works in the cases where such reproduction does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author."

The most used case of an example is "if I buy a CD I have the private right to make copies of it, if they're to be used privately and there's no commercial exploitation of those copies". Oh, and if you look carefully, most of the entities that replied to EU's questionaire are more or less explicitly advocating the end of that right.

Re: Collecting records

Mind Booster Noori — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:09:20 -0000

Put them on sale... there's always someone looking out for that record you have just getting dust! ;-)