shotgun's comments

shotgun | 14 years ago | on: Seeking a cofounder? Help me understand what's important to you

I just giggled over two spelling mistakes. You meant to write compatibility and feasibility.

shotgun | 14 years ago

Corrected link: http://flaash.org/2087/finds-life-tough-check-world-suicide-...

shotgun | 14 years ago | on: Supervisord.js: Node.js Library for Supervisord

Nice release, Craig.

shotgun | 14 years ago | on: The Google Puzzle

I really wish I owned a rubik's cube right now.

shotgun | 14 years ago | on: Fulcrum - Open Source Agile Project Management Tool

In case anyone wants to get fulcrum up and running under ruby 1.9 I've patched a couple issues in my pending pull request: https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum/pull/5

shotgun | 14 years ago | on: Google ChromeBook Review: ChromeBomb?

I received mine on the 8th and I love it. While it is true that the file manager is missing a lot of functionality I think the real problem that Chrome OS brings to the fore is the severe lack of good Chrome apps.

Also, I had no problem getting past the fourth step in the trackpad training tab, unlike the OP who was probably experiencing a PEBKAC exception.

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Theoryville's YC Interview

I think the color is irrelevant. Seriously.

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Theoryville's YC Interview

Wha? Does being aikon3390 make it hard to differentiate yourself from Clay Aiken?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Theoryville's YC Interview

Thanks for sharing. Have you thought about applying to Project Skyway? http://www.projectskyway.com

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: What social bookmarking site has "lists"?

Have you given Diigo.com a try?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Minnesota’s First Tech Accelerator Now Taking Applications

Direct Link: http://www.ProjectSkyway.com

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don’t Always Win)

How does tuple space, as discussed here, compare to something like Redis?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

Good point. Maybe free market forces will help after all...

Edit: Google probably stands the gain more from this initiative than Facebook if it can cleverly integrate it with Google Me.

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

The trouble is who has both ownership over and is able to exercise control over your identity data? I do like your idea of using licensing as a possible mechanism.

It's one thing to say the government will host the ID data for free, for every American. (Or at least every American they deem worthy of a proof-of-online-identity certificate.)

But possession is often viewed as 9/10ths of the law. Calling it "my" data is misleading if they really mean "data about me."

Would I like to have a permanent, personal and authenticated key value store to in conjunction in some interpersonal or person-machine transactions? Absolutely.

But I don't see how having a government issued identity solves the problem of how my browsing data might be misused elsewhere.

It would seem that it only adds more personally-identifiable metadata that could be intercepted, tracked, or stolen along the way.

How would such an ID system enable the creation and enforcement of a do-not-track list? That sounds appealing, but how does my identity being tracked stop me from being tracked?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

Didn't the lesser known founder of Facebook take leave and get in bed with the Obama White House?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet: DJB (video)

Just curious: what troubles you about nym security?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?

Reassuring to know a list of chosen cities hasn't been leaked.

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?

Yes, but all it means is part of SF is getting fiber. Could this just be a new line for added redundancy for their Stanford "beta" project?

I'm not sure what list of cities other people are referring to...in the PDFs? Or the fiberforcommunities.com list of cities that responded to the RFI?

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?

We're all waiting for Google to make their announcement. At least everyone in Duluth is! http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/goog...

If we don't hear by the end of the year as Google promised, the pitchforks and torches will come out of storage.

shotgun | 15 years ago | on: The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet

I worked on the Google Twin Ports initiative in Duluth and am also shocked that Al is on this list. He participated in a the production of a video in support: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2i_piWVXuc

Please let me know what you hear back. If we need to raise hell about this issue I'm in and know a number of others in MN that will help...