Tweets for Today

• 09:12 @digitaldownfall Joy of unlocking mate, joy of unlocking #
• 09:14 Rule of the day; speak approvingly in some way about spitting on people, win an unfollow.... #
• 09:27 @digitaldownfall That'd do it.... #
• 09:52 Twittering from KDETwitter... Plasmoids, a great idea on paper... on the screen... nah... #
• 09:55 @seatrout I suspect they are meant to be a grand unified theory of desktop decoration... #
• 09:58 @seatrout When I say desktop decoration, I mean menus, task bars, icons, everything... #
• 10:13 @seatrout: tinyurl.com/2a64pq explains... #
• 10:14 @seatrout: The difference, Dashboard sits over the desktop, Plasmoids are the desktop and under windows #
• 16:37 @p4ula You still get to clean up your Downloads folder... :) #
• 16:41 @p4ula Thats why I kinda like the downloads stack on OSX... not quite so easy to forget... but ignorable #
• 16:48 @p4ula Works with Firefox too tho... #
• 19:21 @glynmoody He's talking about standard licence metadata though, something that is needed... and at some point an app *would* act on it #
• 20:07 @tug Sounds very much like they were well off the platform... pity the pic isn't geotagged :) #
• 20:15 @glynmoody I didn't say act as in to block, act to advise would probably be the easiest system (ethically/legally) #
• 21:38 @glynmoody Except that there's no central control. You can apply the rights you want to your creations without handing over control. #
• 21:41 @tug Worked out where it was on Google Maps. Well off the end of the platform under the bridge... #
• 21:48 @glynmoody There's no device locking, no expiry, nothing to stop the content being used and no encryption mentioned. Not really DRM at all. #
• 21:54 @glynmoody The Reg article isn't bad. It picks out the difference between the scheme and DRM. And the flaws in the idea. #