Trusted Computing. Yeah Right.
It will be not so late when you will be prompted “a new version of Firefox is available”. Firefox 3.1. And then the mysterious, queer sounding audio format Ogg Vorbis can be played on FF. Until that happens, you have to download this and play it in VLC.
post scriptum, 1st July 2009
I was listening to “Wednesday Morning, 3 AM” on Wednesday morning 4 AM, another fortuitous musical coincidence; as I was updating to Firefox 3.5 And there it was :: Firefox 3.5 is the first browser to support open video formats! Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. Cool! So it took 10 months and 7 days to fulfill my prophecy! :-) But I was having no Prophet’s Fear! Below is the Treacherous Computing video, in all its Ogg glory!
This film talks about trusted computing, a.k.a treacherous computing.
Also thought it may be appropriate to quote the filksong composed by Richard Stallman:
Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.Hoarders may get piles of money,
That is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That’s not good, hackers, that’s not good.When we have enough free software
At our call, hackers, at our call,
We’ll throw out those dirty licenses
Ever more, hackers, ever more.Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.
I also had no idea that Guantanamo is a city in southeastern Cuba; a site of a United States naval base. I always loved the Joan Baez rendition of Guantanamera (“girl from Guantánamo”). Richard Stallman recorded Guantanamero {“of Guantanamo (male)”}. The English translation of the Spanish lyric goes like this:
My cousin hated me;
He was jealous of my career.
They arrested him and he said
I was a terrorist.Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.
Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.The empire has decided
To keep me in prison forever.
The question is whether to do it
With or without a fake trial.Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.
Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.When they injure my body
They say they are not torturing me.
They cause me grave wounds
Such as never heal.Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.
Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.They don’t let me sleep:
My end is no mystery.
I will get out when I die
Or the great empire falls.Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.
Guantanaman, I’m a Guantanaman prisoner.
The Free Software Song
Guantanamero, a protest song written in Spanish.
Copyleft
I decided to use copyleft.
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The copyleft image is from Niccu. I used it as an included .svg file! Wooooohoooooo!
The copy-left-commonist-party was taken from dA.
A brief history of copyright can be found here.
Independence Day
This has been a nice Independence Day so far. Changed my muse’s name from noname.c. Appended the line “the condition of failure is known as the boundary condition” by an uttering of Lord Byron.
wget
The purpose of this post is to toast to wget. Also to test footnote. Should work.
The magic of wget
Burn the book
Tuesday, 5th August 2008. Time: After midnight.
Place: A Bengali TV channel, name not worth remembering.
Scene: A woman burning pages of a school book. And a representative of the social welfare committee was unable to understand why the woman was burning the pages, and she pledged that she will look into the matter. There was also the suggestion of penalties for book burning.
Fat chance that the social welfare lady will ever read this post. If she does, here is the reason why book pages turn to ash: The kerosine costs 32 INR per liter. The average income in a Bengal village is 30-40 INR (less than $1) per day. I got to know this from the website that this lady representative’s government published.
