OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready? 191
An anonymous reader writes "Many people love and use open source software. Open source has made an impact in just about every place imaginable; education, hardware, coke, beer, cell phones, pharmaceuticals, search engines and encyclopedias. However, OpenHuman takes it one step further and invites you to open source yourself to experiment with the open human idea. This may sound crazy and rife with privacy concerns but as the author asks, do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Interesting (Score:2)
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Open Source is an advocate of source code visibility in published software.
FSF is an advocate of the public's freedom to published software.
The only one of the above opposed to privacy is MS, who still requires that purchasors of its software not be permitted to make private copies or derivatives of its software - and it demands the right to 'audit' your private premises to assert this.
As far as the GPL is concerned
uh wtf (Score:1)
uh..please no
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Re:uh wtf (Score:5, Insightful)
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Privacy Not Quite Dead. (Score:5, Funny)
"...do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Yes I do. Of course, I make very sparing use of those technologies, and I post AC at Slashdot.
I would consider opensourcing myself, but I'm afraid I'd be immediately forked.
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Uh... (Score:1)
But what in the world does that have to do with a social website that encourages you to post naked photos of yourself?
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deargod if anyone honestly found this informative I would cry for humanity.
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Exactly (n/t) (Score:2)
Re:Uh... encypted flash (Score:2)
use encrypted_brain_firmware;
This is a good idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is a good idea (Score:5, Funny)
Now with my mistress, I have to stick to the LGPL, or Limited GNU Public License, since that's a more discreet relationship and I can't require her to divulge all her private information. The LGPL only requires documentation of who she is, how other guys can get in touch with her, and the details of how I "link" her.
(That was a joke! Hi honey!)
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I plan on open sourcing my daily schedule. In this way, everyone gets to decide what I have for breakfast, what kind of shampoo I use, what kind of clothes to wear, and where I work.
I don't know if you meant to make this point, but I have to say, "good point". If you were really open-sourcing yourself, wouldn't that mean that you'd have to allow others the right to edit you? Not edit your writings or anything else, but edit you?
Until I have access to your source code, and I can alter it how I'd like in
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Forking (Score:2)
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Not quite. It allows you to copy his implementation to whatever degree you feel like in your own implementation. Just because $SOFTWARE is open source doesn't give me the right or ability to modify it upstream.
You're thinking of a wiki.
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Nah, it means that they can copy me (darned biters [urbandictionary.com]) and edit the copies.
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There's Already an OpenHuman... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There's Already an OpenHuman... (Score:4, Funny)
Well (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, i do.
Thats the reason i dont have a blog, dont whore my photographs out to flicker, think myspace it a breeding experiment for retards and never heard of something called "meetup" before.
So i guess i dont really belong to the target demographics...
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exactly (Score:2)
"We will all get more and more open, this is inevitable."
It is? Since when? I am far more protective of my privacy now than I was in '95. Just because a vocal group of jackasses thinks the world wants to view their dirty laundry doesn't mean we all think the same.
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Privacy's on the way out. You might as well get used to the idea. In your lifetime you will have an ID chip implanted in you, or in some other way be completely identifiable no matter where you are.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. But it will happen.
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"It is inevitable," they claim, "let's just leave it at that."
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Instead of accepting these futuristic horror scenarios we should fight it with all the might we have.
Precisely (Score:2)
However even barring that it's pretty easy to maintain a decant level of privacy simply by not posting personal information on sites like that and using a net name. Could someone find out who's behind my
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By the way, the creator of OpenHuman.org admitedly "can't do without Microsoft Frontpage." Traitor I say!
Best. Irony. Ever. (Score:5, Funny)
Fabulous!
If it's GPL (Score:2)
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If you really think so, maybe you should exercise your right to copy everything he does, but wear heels.
What? You thought you could modify the upstream source? That would be a wiki, which is totally different.
Better Stock Up on Antibiotics (Score:1)
Crow T. Trollbot
Unified data (Score:3, Insightful)
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Hmm, actually I think I could make a fortune with that! Now don't go stealing my million dollar worth but evil and despicable idea okay?
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Intellectual property? (Score:2)
Forking (Score:2)
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Reality check (Score:4, Insightful)
of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?""
Uhhh, what? This is like saying "Why not just start murdering people? Come on, look at how full our jails are with murderers!". Granted that's a little extreme, but the justification for uploading a naked photo of myself is basically "everyone else is doing it!". No thanks.
Also, the site looks damn awful. Can anyone say "two-bit idea with even less design time"?
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"# I can't do without Microsoft Frontpage. I know that the next MS Office won't include Frontpage anymore. And this site was planned in Frontpage."
From the Site's Admin's Page [openhuman.org].
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Ok, so you can make a nice looking page using Frontpage, but for some reason it seems to be the source of many bad pages. And, while it would be nice to think that Frontpage is dying a much deserved death, its mostly just getting a name change. Office 2007 has Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007, which is the successor to Frontpage. One can only hope that no one notices it, and the few who do are scared off by the whole "Sharepoint" bit in the name.
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The law (Score:2)
My reason? Clothes help manage my fat, and keeps my fat from rubbing together uncomfortably.
Oh Really... (Score:1)
Is that so? I would have never guessed.
God Forbid... (Score:3, Interesting)
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All it takes is $5 for a four-month subscription.
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Very dangerous for a turkish (Score:2)
Wait until someone in turkey roll up some fake id & papers to use them in applying for $100.000 worth of credits in 3-4 banks. Or register a company in your name and do some fraud with it.
No joke - these things happen.
Might be a good and inventive idea for a scandinavian or a canada citizen, or in turkey, its suicide.
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um, I think you mean New Lira - this isn't star trek.
Moo (Score:2, Funny)
# Put your naked pictures (not pornographic or erotic, just naked)
Guess they just want the bare essentials...
Yay for Fads! (Score:4, Funny)
Let's all share in the love of Richard Stallman and stop this trendy madness!
ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM
a documentary featuring Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Danger Mouse(of Gnarls Barkley), doesone and more!
Trust (Score:2)
I wish I had mod points to mod you up. (Score:1)
Mods, please mod the parent up!
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Wish I could recall the name of the idea, but then psycholog
Do not give your Real name on that page. (Score:3, Informative)
I'm already GPL'd.... I'm married with Kids. (Score:5, Funny)
Been there, done that (Score:5, Funny)
The trouble is that the derivative works are now starting to think about creating next-gen derivatives which has me sort of worried about whether they'll respect the ideals of the community or if they'll become sellouts like Novell...
Oh, well, I suppose we'll just have to wait and see...
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This guy's not serious (Score:3, Funny)
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Already being promoted (Score:2)
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Data about you that you have to sign for in order to obtain should not be posted for everyone to look at. It gives up way too many details about you.
Free Beer (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously. After joining the open source movement, I have encountered more free beer than ever before.
There's no such thing as privacy really... (Score:2, Insightful)
So if you have something you like to keep private - 99.999% of the ti
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You won't look bad if you share:
- your mother's maiden name
- your SSN #
- and your birthdate
So I'm sure you're willing to do that immediately, right?
Perhaps you need to expand your definition of privacy a bit before generalizing about privacy.
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Similarly, if I'm into S&M or something like that - I have no interest in my workplace knowing about these activities. This would potentially stretch into the "looking bad" c
"I was having fun to suck batteries . . ." (Score:2)
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I am to posting picture of my chramm.
Is very nice.
Future International Sex Offender (Score:1)
So when some teen follows that request, I see the FBI adding this guy to the 10 most wanted, even though he's in Turkey. Interpol will want to have "words" with this man someday.
Or worse, a Dateline special. "So when you invited young boys and girls to post their naked pictures, what were you thinking?:
If this is the Open Source route for humans... (Score:2, Funny)
sbout privacy un blogs, innit (Score:1, Interesting)
Well, I don't use MySpace, I've never heard of LinkedIn, the Meetups that I tried to get involved in really sucked ass, and Flickr is one of those things that I've heard other people talking about but never gave a damn about. So, if that's the criteria on which to judge privacy, then, well, yeah, I believe in privacy a whole hell of a lot.
In terms of privacy, I'm more concerned with large corporate databases
In related news.. (Score:4, Funny)
Open source, my ass!
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Open source, my ass!
Why is Steve Ballmer always squirting [businessweek.com] something?
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And later, in a similar comment, he stated, "Open source? When chairs fly out of my ass!"
postsecret++ (Score:1)
Could this crash the system? (Score:4, Interesting)
On the other hand, could personal information be devalued to the point where nobody wants to collect it anymore?
This is "more open" how? (Score:5, Insightful)
It seems fairly obvious that being "entirely open" is a really, really stupid idea. It has been known at least since the 6th Century BCE [librivox.org] that your personal information (history, status, intentions, beliefs, etc.) can and will be used against you by others seeking power and your subjugation. To suceed in a world of conflict and competition at times requires deception: insuring that others cannot pin you down, that if they seek to manipulate you their efforts are based on misinformation. Are you going to include on your resume a link to a page that contains naked pictures of yourself, that cataglogs your personal problems and issues, and that details your secret fantasies? Sometimes it's best to just shut the hell up. If you really need to divulge everything about yourself, for therapeutic reasons or whatever, why not do it anonymously? Unless, of course, attaching this information to your real name is to your advantage somehow.
Clearly the "open" information provided by the site's founder has been prudently selected. To frame its presentation by saying "oh, i'm being 100% open -- this is the real me" is actually quite clever. A page like his might help him make contacts, show off his computer skills, get girls, etc. But it would be of no use to him if he included information about his sexual dysfunction, his absolute hatred for his family and pictures of his hairy ass.
Make love, not war (Score:2)
War will only end when man can trust man, and only insofar as that trust goes.
Choice (Score:2)
Everyone (and no one) can be an action hero online.
open source? (Score:2)
Since when does "open source" mean...just posting random factoids about things? Does some list of facts about Linux, like who created it and when it was created, and for what purpose, mean the same thing as "open source"? Umm, no...it's just a bunch of facts.
Wouldn't "open sourcing" a human mean opening a database of DNA samples?
This site isn't open source, it's just narcissism.
I am already open source (Score:2)
I am a member of the Pirate Ninja party and we are pushing for open source of IP and information. We want to have works created under open source licenses to have an online library of books that can easily be revised as information changes. The Pirate Ninja party is all about change and adapting to change, unlike the other parties out there.
Put up naked pictures? (Score:2)
This guy's been smoking OpenWeed. Your friendly local authorities might not think your privates dangling on your web page for kiddies to see are pornographic even if you don't. Besides if you put up something like this who are you kidding - you're going to w@nk at every opportunity.
You keep using that word (Score:2)
Open sourcing yourself would tend to imply that I give anyone the freedom to use, modify, redistribute and redistribute modifications of ME. That's too much for anyone, obviously - but I could just publish everything ABOUT my life under a CC/GNU license. But that still wouldn't be open sourcing "myself".
Conversely, I could publish
ScuttleMonkey drops the ball again. (Score:2)
Thanks for nothing.
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