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Whats CopyCamp ?

The CARA-ADC (the Canadian Creators Rights Alliance), has assembled a team of people from the art world, the technology world, and the legal world, to create an event designed to build conversations between people in different sectors.  They called this event Copy Camp

What I don't like about this event is that they have jumped onto the bandwagon of bar camp , but without the "unconference notion". I say this because, the participants need to fork out $700/- for the camp. Woot Woot ?? thats a hecka lot of money even for the creative spirit. I remember paying $350/- for the Meshcon in Toronto.  The event creators also indicate this "or applying to have your spot paid for (recommended for artists and other "creators"). " 

Ok, I wanna go...who will pay for me ??  I am --after all a "creator" too -correct ?? Ok, Ok--I want to recommend somebody who is an artist and is pretty poor-- how do I do that ?

Chris sez :"Sounds to me a bit like history repeating — but in the end, I’d love to see both models succeed" and also asks the question: "So, one last thing: I wonder what the license for reuse of the CopyCamp mark is… "

Hey Chris- Remember , transparency and community is what makes the camps thrive - not just copycat camp style theoracy type of event and yes, I agree the foocamp type of aurgements are in the making. Btw , from what I read of the Copymark mark its "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. "

More from Bryce  & Miles

Update :  Misha Glouberman  said  "The idea behind our pricing is to charge the people who can afford to be there, and use the money to fund the people who can’t."

Update : I can't wait to really see the lineup and how many people who apply for a subsidy, really get chosen, this is interesting space to watch.

blog soul answers

Philpp of blogoscoped asked "Can you recognize the blog with all text removed?"

My answers--

1. Boing Boing
2. Daily Kos
3. WTF
4. Steve R
5. Mike. A

Now-- lets see if i am right :)-

Sum of all Zero's !!

Ian Kennedy , sum's up what has been happening over the last couple of days - great little bit of conversations :)-

"What an amazing couple of days it's been! AOL is a little *too* free with its data. Google slaps down a huge commitment of cash to get invited to a party they missed. And now Microsoft lets one of its more creative minds wither on the vine!"

[shamelessly ] Trolled from here  :)-

Grey Goose is wicked !!

Grey Goose is just too wicked for me !!

Current FF vulnerabilities

1. Benjamin Smedberg discovered that chrome URL's could be made to  reference remote files.
2. Developers in the Mozilla community looked for and fixed several crash bugs to improve the stability of Mozilla clients.
3. "shutdown" reports that cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks could be  performed using the construct XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(...),  which created a function that appeared to belong to the window in  question even after it had been navigated to the target site.
4. "shutdown" reports that scripts granting the UniversalBrowserRead  privilege can leverage that into the equivalent of the far more  powerful UniversalXPConnect since they are allowed to "read" into a privileged context.
5. "moz_bug_r_a4" reports that A malicious Proxy AutoConfig (PAC)  server could serve a PAC script that can execute code with elevated  privileges by setting the required FindProxyForURL function to the  eval method on a privileged object that leaked into the PAC sandbox.
6. "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that Named JavaScript functions have a  parent object created using the standard Object() constructor (ECMA-specified behavior) and that this constructor can be redefined  by script (also ECMA-specified behavior).
7. Igor Bukanov and shutdown found additional places where an untimely  garbage collection could delete a temporary object that was in active  use.
8. Georgi Guninski found potential integer overflow issues with long  strings in the toSource() methods of the Object, Array and String  objects as well as string function arguments.
9. H. D. Moore reported a testcase that was able to trigger a race  condition where JavaScript garbage collection deleted a temporary  variable still being used in the creation of a new Function object.
10. A malicious page can hijack native DOM methods on a document object  in another domain, which will run the attacker's script when called  by the victim page.
11. Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability which is caused due  to an memory corruption error within the handling of simultaneously  happening XPCOM events. This leads to use of a deleted timer object.
12. An anonymous researcher for TippingPoint and the Zero Day  Initiative showed that when used in a web page Java would reference  properties of the window.navigator object as it started up.
13. Thilo Girmann discovered that in certain circumstances a JavaScript  reference to a frame or window was not properly cleared when the referenced content went away.

Just shows that even opne source software is buggy , but it quickly identified and risk is mitigated

Hacking RIFD Charter

I just completed the charter for the RFID hack club.

The Pdf version can be found Download hackingrfid.pdf

Who is Better -- Mike or Om ?

This morning I got an email title "Mike A is nuts" and with the in-line comment being  "I definitely delete his feed now!". There was no explanations on the reasons, why the person dropped Mike A's feed. 

However, given the fact that there is a lot of chatter on Mike, his credibility, methods and posts. I had to ask myself this question. Who is better in the tech arena ? Is it going to be Mike or OM ? 

Is Mike losing his foothold and is Om moving into a niche market that nobody has  quite yet really understood or envisioned ?  If you have been following the stories events and chatter, you will certainly have some thoughts on my questions within the emerging patterns in the Silicon Valley !!

Both are good bloggers, but who will win loyalty of their readers  ??

Any comments from my readers ?

BarCamp Earth

I have been tracking the phenomenon with barcamps all over the place. Now , we are getting to close the  one-year anniversary  celebration that will be called BarCampEarth.  It’s scheduled to take place the weekend of August 25-27.

Chris M. has more - Kudo's to Chris for inspiring this grass root level initiative. Chris sez

"Though we’ve already signed up 20 unique locales spanning the globe, we, the members of the worldwide community of BarCamps, hereby invite everyone everywhere to attend and to participate, in whatever way possible"

As I am  in Toronto, I'll be helping and participating within this group. Please feel free to add your name or vist the discussion group for more information.

• Update : Corsin, where the heck did my userpage disappear on the .ch zone eh ?? 
• Update2: Thanks for the pointer Corsin  !!
• Update3: Damien calls for more girls too participate in BarCampIreland

Look whos callin the kettle Black !!

Paul does not like people who spend more then an 1hr -2hrs on the internet.

The  report states that "Heavy users (those who spent more than an hour on the Internet during the day)"

and Paul states this.. "but I dont think I like these people."

Now, that is a one big bigot, taking into consideration the amount of f13 filing that he needs to read, the other blogs he needs to keep up with and all that fun blogging !! Yeah, he has a right to his own opionion and what he likes and does not like.. but then again, look at whose calling the kettle black !!