I Locked Myself Out Again?

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Locked in the Trunk of a Car.

Locked in the Trunk of a Car. 03/13/2003 06:19 PM
I just put on my headphones and randomized a list of 994 songs and the song that had been in my mind since this morning was the first one to play. It was the Hip.

Also, my keyboard batteries are dead.

Locked IE Toolbars

Locked IE Toolbars 04/06/2005 08:46 PM

I've Locked My Keys In The Car

I've Locked My Keys In The Car 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
Have you set-up an OS X password or Open Firmware password on a now out-of-use computer? Have you found some reason to go back to it, but now realize that you've been locked out because you can't remember what password you've used? Here's a quick round-up of two useful solutions.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

nForce3: A locked PCI bus?

nForce3: A locked PCI bus? 12/13/2003 09:20 AM

600k locked in and counting

600k locked in and counting 05/25/2004 02:50 PM

Investing in Linked In and some explosive growth numbers.

Last week I had another great dinner in San Francisco with Reid Hoffman, founder of Linked In. Reid is one of the most impressive and visionary friends I know.

I am very proud to join its investors list. Reid has secured Series A financing of $4.7 million in November last year. The investment was led by Sequoia Capital, the venture investors behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. A round with business angels that I participated in will be announced within a few weeks.

Here is some information about Linked In's recent growth, if you are interested:

600,000+ users (30,000+ growth per week)
28,000,000+ email addresses sent through Linked In (3,000,000+ growth per week)
12 months old

Within the 600,000+ users:
265,000+ international users
120,000+ senior management-level users
8,000+ entrepreneurs
10,000+ VCs
100% professional users

and 28,000+ in France only.

Congrats, Reid ! [Loic Le Meur Blog]

Oh goodey. 600,000 more locked in people.  Isn't the world a wonderful place to make money?

I wonder if Reid, Joi and Loic will be investing in military industrial complex companies next?

Sure LinkedIn is just a wonderful vehicle for meeting people - but at what price?  And who owns that data?  Who owns those people?  I wonder why Reid doesn't support FOAF or being open - at all?  What does that say?

And why would Loic invest in such a company?  To make money - that's why.  At our expense.

Oh - did I forget to say - Reid is just such a nice guy!

Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't!

Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't! 01/18/2004 01:39 PM

I'm not a fan of OPML, I think it's a truly awful (and unnecessary) format - other people have found < FONT color=#333366>it problematic too - but I did think Dave Winer's Share Your OPML! site looked interesting, especially when there was a little SDK available. But then yesterday I read Eric's post pointing to the floater Dave had left in the pool :
If you wish to use the data for a different kind of application, or convert the data into a format other than OPML, for redistribution, it's likely we'll say yes, but you must ask first.

Anyone that's had dealings with Dave in the past will know what this means. Leigh asked (in comments) but had his request deleted. Basically Dave wants control, and he believes the formats will give him that control (remember the RSS patent application?).

I'm all for republishing, but not with strings attached. I don't want material under my copyright abused in this way. So I politely asked Dave to remove references to sites I maintain from his data. Anyhow, Dave's response was:
Do you want to make a legal case out of this?

Personally I thought that was pretty sad, but that might in part be cultural bias - being English I tend to think of etiquette before litigation. Whatever, unfortunately for Dave, and fortunately for the rest of us, formats aren't such a lever any more because the web will either ignore or work around attempts at lock-in.

I think the most sensible thing is to simply ignore Dave's site, but for purposes of demonstration, here's a workaround. The key obstacle is that Dave insists that you can't republish his data unless it's in OPML format. If it is OPML, you don't even have to ask. Ok, here is another version of the index file that points to all the others at "Share Your OPML!". This is still OPML format. Please do with it what you like. Incidentally, this new file is also valid RDF/XML.

Given that OPML is as thinly specified as it gets, and RDF/XML is designed to make it easy to make XML formats RDF compatible, it wasn't particularly difficult. Here's what RDF-compatible OPML looks like:

<opml opml:version="2.0"
xmlns="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:opml="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
< ;head/>
<body rdf:parseType="Resource">
<outline opml:text="John Blog" opml:ctUpdates="8" opml:type="link" opml:url="http://example.org" opml:whenLastUpdate="Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:28:00 GMT" />
</body>
</opml>


I first had to add some attributes to the <opml> element to give the XML namespace support. That top element becomes a resource in the (stripey) RDF interpretation, with head and body as properties, their contents being other resources. To keep things simple I just ignored the contents of the <head> element, so that gets interpreted as a triple with an empty object (I must check on the semantics of that). The element itself is mandatory in OPML, so that has to stay.
The <body> in effect contains a set of resources of type outline, which is easy to express by adding the rdf:parseType="Resource" attribute on the parent. The attributes of the <outline> elements all slip neatly into being RDF properties with literal values.

Couple of points that probably need explanation - since the spec update there's been no need to include a root <rdf:RDF> element. If the consumer knows it's RDF, that's good enough (the W3C's validator has check box: "RDF is NOT enclosed in <RDF>...</RDF> tags"). Also the use of unqualified attributes has been deprecated, so it should be opml:text="..." rather than just text="...". This makes the code look a bit uglier, but if you're using a lot of namespaces it does make mistakes much less likely.

I made the changes using search and replace, but this could easily be automated using XSLT. But if you are planning on using Userland format data from anywhere else, it's probably a better bet to use something a little less generic than the approach above (stylesheets for OPML to OCS and Userland RSS to RSS 1.0 are linked in the comments here).[Raw]

LSE suitors locked in bid talks

LSE suitors locked in bid talks 12/31/2004 10:44 AM
Talks between the London Stock Exchange and the heads of two European bourses are set to resume next week.

Samsung, LG Locked in MP3 Phone War

Samsung, LG Locked in MP3 Phone War 04/15/2004 03:55 AM
Hankooki Apr 15 2004 8:43AM GMT

Getting Disabled or Locked Out Accounts

Getting Disabled or Locked Out Accounts 08/14/2004 06:04 AM

Suing carriers over locked handsets

Suing carriers over locked handsets 06/09/2004 02:51 AM
A consumer-rights group is bringing suit against US mobile carriers for locking their handsets:

In the lawsuit, the foundation said that because the companies all use the same wireless network standard, called GSM, customers should be able to use the same phone across those carriers' networks just by changing out an easily-replaced unit called a "SIM card" inside the phone.

The carriers may claim that locked handset let them offer cheaper service -- because they keep you from using your subsidized handset with another carrier, but I don't buy it. I got a free T-Mobile handset by promising on pain of an enormous cancellation fee to stick with them for a year. In the meantime, why shouldn't I be able to rent a SIM when I go to Toronto and put it in my phone? Why shouldn't I be able to loan my handset to a friend from out of town so that she can put her SIM in it and log on to her service? Link (via Hack the Planet)

Testing a MSI package in a locked-down
environment

Testing a MSI package in a locked-down
environment 08/18/2004 03:17 AM

Longhorn locked against theft by iPod

Longhorn locked against theft by iPod 09/12/2004 10:01 PM
Techzonez Sep 13 2004 2:11AM GMT

Halifax users locked out of ATMs

Halifax users locked out of ATMs 01/06/2004 08:00 AM
A little less Xtra

Europe Welcomes Locked Out NHL Players
(AP)

Europe Welcomes Locked Out NHL Players
(AP) 09/21/2004 03:07 PM
AP - European hockey has taken on an NHL look. With an NHL lockout in place, more than 150 players have signed to play in European leagues, including Markus Naslund with Modo (Sweden), Jaromir Jagr with Kladmo (Czech Republic) and Ilya Kovalchuk with AK Bars Kazan (Russia).

Security-Enhanced Linux provides a
locked down OS

Security-Enhanced Linux provides a
locked down OS 02/13/2004 07:18 AM

Girl Misses End of Recess, Gets Locked
Out (AP)

Girl Misses End of Recess, Gets Locked
Out (AP) 02/05/2005 09:24 PM
AP - A 6-year-old first grader was locked out of the school after recess and spent an hour walking the streets before she was spotted by a relative.

iPod undermines Microsoft on copy-locked
CDs

iPod undermines Microsoft on copy-locked
CDs 07/12/2004 07:02 AM
Microsoft's WMA format was almost a standard on copy-protected CDs. Then along came Apple.

Paraguay Fire Survivors Say Doors Locked
(AP)

Paraguay Fire Survivors Say Doors Locked
(AP) 08/02/2004 08:36 PM
AP - Locked doors prevented or slowed the escape of supermarket shoppers from a fast-spreading fire that killed well over 300 people and injured hundreds more, survivors said Monday. The market's two owners were detained for questioning.

Microsoft brings locked music downloads
to US

Microsoft brings locked music downloads
to US 11/18/2003 02:27 AM
The Register Nov 18 2003 1:23AM ET

Surfing in land-locked Switzerland
(Reuters)

Surfing in land-locked Switzerland
(Reuters) 08/23/2004 08:41 AM
Reuters - Surfing could come to Switzerland after a sports group said it planned to build a wave machine on a river in Zurich, staid financial hub of the land-locked Alpine country.

Steps to Delete a Locked
Advertisement/Collection

Steps to Delete a Locked
Advertisement/Collection 01/19/2004 12:34 AM

Exits Locked in Deadly Argentina Club
Fire (AP)

Exits Locked in Deadly Argentina Club
Fire (AP) 12/31/2004 08:43 PM
AP - Emergency exits at a nightclub packed with teenagers were padlocked or wired shut when a flare ignited the foam ceiling, sparking a blaze that killed 175 people and injured more than 700 in one of Argentina's worst disasters, survivors and officials said Friday.

Locked phones making number portability
a pain

Locked phones making number portability
a pain 12/04/2003 11:59 AM
Surprise, surprise, some people are finding out the hard way that when you switch carriers, you can take your number with you now, but usually not your phone. Besides the incompatibilites in networks (Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, Nextel, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular use GSM) most carriers lock their phones so that they can't be used with anyone else. It is possible to unlock most phones so they can be used on another carrier, thought it's not always easy, so if being able to take your phone with you is important, you probably should just suck it up and pay extra for a phone that comes unlocked in the first place. Read [Thanks, Mike]...

Fire, Panic and a Locked Main Exit
(washingtonpost.com)

Fire, Panic and a Locked Main Exit
(washingtonpost.com) 01/01/2005 02:20 AM
washingtonpost.com - BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31 -- The last thing Dario Gonzalez saw clearly was three blazing flares that shot toward the ceiling of the crowded nightclub.

CEOs And Boards Are Locked In A Spiral
Of Doom, Says Leadership Expert

CEOs And Boards Are Locked In A Spiral
Of Doom, Says Leadership Expert 03/29/2005 04:37 AM
Company boards are firing CEOs at record rates. Leadership expert, Brent Filson, says the real reasons are being overlooked. Those reasons have to do with the "spiral of doom". [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Locked into top apparel/beauty sites,
eBay won't let go, NetRatings reports

Locked into top apparel/beauty sites,
eBay won't let go, NetRatings reports 07/16/2004 05:17 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jul 16 2004 9:36PM GMT

Aussie golden fleece locked up in bank
vault (Reuters)

Aussie golden fleece locked up in bank
vault (Reuters) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters - Two Australian sheep farmers have produced the world's finest wool, a mere 11.9 microns thick or about one-fifth the diameter of human hair, with a bale of the super fine wool now under armed guard inside a bank vault.

Deploying software and OS updates to
locked down systems (focus: MDAC)

Deploying software and OS updates to
locked down systems (focus: MDAC) 02/17/2004 06:32 PM

Oracle, Locked in Acquisition Struggle,
Reports Good Quarter

Oracle, Locked in Acquisition Struggle,
Reports Good Quarter 06/16/2004 01:54 AM
Oracle, which is in a courtroom battle to defend its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent.

Locked in Abu Ghraib - The prison
scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush
administration. By Fred Kaplan

Locked in Abu Ghraib - The prison
scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush
administration. By Fred Kaplan 05/19/2004 01:31 AM
Locked in Abu Ghraib - The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration. By Fred?Kaplan .. Lid is about to blow off .. straight to the top .. Slate

slate.msn.com/id/2100683
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The cable and phone companies are locked
in a battle royal to provide you with
new high-speed voice, data, and

The cable and phone companies are locked
in a battle royal to provide you with
new high-speed voice, data, and 09/18/2004 08:34 PM
US News Sep 18 2004 11:21PM GMT
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