Eric M. Hopper wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 09:27 -0700, Lucas Gonze wrote: >> Using economics rather than comp sci as the rationale makes a lot more >> sense to me. There are a lot of economic scenarios where the actors >> have to be truly independent. >> >> One flavor of this situation is when the actors are already independent >> and are going to stay that way, yet the comp sci needs to find a way to >> knit them together. Consolidating your identity across multiple social >> networks is an example problem, and OpenID is an example solution. > > A minor nit here. OpenID is also dependent on DNS. That doesn't really > detract from your point, but I would still like to note that OpenID is > subject to centralized control via DNS.
Eric, that is so the least of our problems. Y'know what's really a problem? The users could care less about self-determination. Their only goal is to make the pain of understanding how to use the computer go away. They not only don't care about whether they are empowered or fucked over by a technology provider, they don't even have the concept of empowerment. You can bring it up if you want, but you might as well be revealing yourself to be a Raelian for all the communication you will accomplish. -Lucas _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
