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| schestowitz | > I went looking on the internet for law firms that might sue Kappos | Sep 17 01:05 |
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| schestowitz | > and/or the USPTO. | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > The amazing thing about the USPTO is that there are very few negative | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > articles on the internet. My opinion is that, since the USPTO controls | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > the ability to make money on royalties, it is almost like the Federal | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > Reserve (central bank), i.e. sacrosanct. | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:05 |
| schestowitz | > The only really negative press I've seen is a whistleblower scandal, in | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > which the USPTO was lackadaisical - they have so much money - and were | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > paying fraudulent pay claims from work-from-home examiners. And, I | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > remember seeing one article saying that the USPTO's work-from-home | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > program had been praised as a "model" example of "how to do it," hence | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > it came as a shock to people that it wasn't as wonderful as advertised. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.federaltimes.com/management/leadership/2016/08/31/oig-issues-scathing-report-on-uspto-teleworking/ | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.federaltimes.com/management/leadership/2016/08/31/oig-issues-scathing-report-on-uspto-teleworking/> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.federaltimes.com | OIG issues scathing report on USPTO teleworking | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > Beyond this, there is nothing. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > Apparently, if you sue the USPTO, you have to pay their lawyers. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.fitcheven.com/?t=40&an=67156&anc=180&format=xml&p=5486 | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.fitcheven.com/?t=40&an=67156&anc=180&format=xml&p=5486> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fitcheven.com | IP Alert: Sue the USPTO? You're on the Hook for Their Attorneys’ Fees | Intellectual Property Law | Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > https://www.law360.com/articles/1206911/justices-question-uspto-s-bold-pursuit-of-atty-fees | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.law360.com | Justices Question USPTO's Bold Pursuit Of Atty Fees - Law360 | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.law360.com/articles/1206911/justices-question-uspto-s-bold-pursuit-of-atty-fees> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > And, the USPTO retaliates against "political opponents." I guess that | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > might include me. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.law360.com/articles/1202204 | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.law360.com | USPTO Accused Of Retaliating Against 'Political Opponents' - Law360 | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.law360.com/articles/1202204> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > But, I did find one recent lawsuit - 9 August 2021 - against Michelle | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > Lee and others at the USPTO. Of course, I know you've written about | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > people suing Michelle Lee. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/patent-office-ex-chief-judges-face-suit-over-rigged-ip-system | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.bloomberglaw.com | NO TITLE | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/patent-office-ex-chief-judges-face-suit-over-rigged-ip-system> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.ipwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021.08.09_Doc-1_Complaint.pdf | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.ipwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021.08.09_Doc-1_Complaint.pdf> | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > I sent my material to the law firm that is suing Michelle Lee today, on | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > the theory that they might be willing to sue Kappos and others at the | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > USPTO. It would have to be a class-action lawsuit, since I can't pay | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > them, so they would have to figure out where they get their money from, | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > which might be a problem, since it might be difficult to contact | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > inventors, since they are such a small percentage of the population. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > But, they look like a small, dedicated law firm - honest and distinctly | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > non-flashy website - so maybe I might have some luck. | Sep 17 01:06 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.pollockcohen.com/investigations | Sep 17 01:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pollockcohen.com | Class Actions & Investigations — Pollock | Cohen LLP | Sep 17 01:06 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.pollockcohen.com/investigations> | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > If I get a positive response from them, I might suggest to them that | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > they contact you, since you are an expert on the proprietary software | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > and Linux issues, and could maybe help them in some way. Knowing the | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > number of people who might participate in a class action lawsuit, and | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > who they are, would be useful. | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | > I'll let you know what happens. | Sep 17 01:07 |
| schestowitz | Thanks for the update! | Sep 17 01:07 |
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| schestowitz | https://nitter.eu/esdaniel/status/1438028519817293825 | Sep 17 07:53 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.eu | ᴇᴅ ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ (@esdaniel): "This! The economics of parasite niche markets that Microsoft has exploited keeps everyone on the hook; no wonder people use the Blue Pill / Red Pill metaphor when describing this ecosystem. Ignorance is bliss for Microsoft :-( @schestowitz knows this all too well." | nitter | Sep 17 07:53 | |
| schestowitz-TR | I got the latest build of lagrange last night, it's definitely getting better and the most potent client I've seen so far | Sep 17 08:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | I reckon (as with EPO), instead of moaning about "the media" not covering Gemini we can try to play an active role in changing that. Another EPO series coming soon. | Sep 17 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | media vacuums or media blackouts leave a void, and that in turns can mean 'monopoly' on the coverage in these area, which is what EPO for example loathes (most EPO staff reads the site regularly for updates on the workplace) | Sep 17 08:28 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes, the best option is to be publishing about the EPO. However, the EPO is | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | not covered b ythe media because it touches on technology (ICT) and | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | that is in general ignored except for warmed-over press releases | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes the void can be exploited well. | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | Too bad fake sites like Reddit and others (which I won't name) abound and | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | will not pick up discussion of the topics. | Sep 17 08:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | in parallel I work with someone on challenging the USPTO on its subservients to "big business". I try to leavr redacted bits in IRC for transparency. | Sep 17 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | The EPO staff need to remove the management and replace them with | Sep 17 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | competent and ethical people, unlike what's there the last few generations. | Sep 17 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is a HUGE challenge, but we've killed the UPC already (seems unrecoverable), so patience is needed | Sep 17 08:32 |
| Techrights-sec | I'd still like to see some more public acknowledgment about the irrovcable | Sep 17 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | demise of the UPC. It's dead but a handful of noisy lawyers lie about it. | Sep 17 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | What killed the UPC was the assholes piggybacking too many unrelated and | Sep 17 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | undesirable riders onto it, such as software patents. If they had gone | Sep 17 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | with safe and non-problematic baseline, it would have sailed through. | Sep 17 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | The TR Gemini capsule is getting to be quite nice. | Sep 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | it got some recognition in the mailing list, which I was tempted to join. If many people adopt gemini, we'll be ahead of the curve already. | Sep 17 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | each time a high-profile project like gnu joins it helps raise awaren | Sep 17 08:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | ess | Sep 17 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes. Over in the WWW, there is more detail than Apache,Nginx,and Other: | Sep 17 08:50 |
| Techrights-sec | https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2021/08/25/august-2021-web-server-survey.html | Sep 17 08:50 |
| Techrights-sec | but Other is still huge, relatively speaking, and I am getting the idea | Sep 17 08:50 |
| Techrights-sec | that it is javascript frameworks instead of actual WWW stuff. That | Sep 17 08:50 |
| Techrights-sec | makes being able to disseminate material via Gemini that much more important. | Sep 17 08:50 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.netcraft.com | August 2021 Web Server Survey | Netcraft News | Sep 17 08:50 | |
| Techrights-sec | However, a really bad bug is its inability to handle large files. | Sep 17 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | due to severe space contraints on the pi (unless I attach external storage over USB), I would not serve large file over it. b/w at home is another issue | Sep 17 08:53 |
| Techrights-sec | Proprietary junk like LiteSpeed are getting listed at Netcraft, too. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | And who knows what is lurking behind Cloudflare's censorship/surveillance | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | engine. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | ack. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | There might be a Compute Module 4 based board coming out on the market | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | this year, but I've lost the link. The board would, if it goes into | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | production, support SSDs. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | If it becomes reality, I will get one and move many files to a local NAS built | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | from it. THen I can massively down scale any future laptop or desktop hardware. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | But in general it is important that Gemini handles all files properly. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | I hope that solderpunk or whoever is still active are able to do an improvement | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | there. I see it as a bug fix. | Sep 17 09:04 |
| Techrights-sec | Is gemini://gemini.techrights.org/videos/ | Sep 17 09:19 |
| Techrights-sec | in chronological order? | Sep 17 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | I cannot remember the order, but it wasn't anything I sorted | Sep 17 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | some of the atuff there is old but very important because the originals are not possible to find anymore | Sep 17 09:21 |
| Techrights-sec | I'm wondering the age of some of them. | Sep 17 09:21 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/">NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild</a></h5> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-citizenlab.ca | NSO Group / Q Cyber Technologies: Over One Hundred New Abuse Cases - The Citizen Lab | Sep 17 09:24 | |
| schestowitz | <p>The exploit works by exploiting an integer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s image rendering library (CoreGraphics). We are publishing limited technical information about CVE-2021-30860 at this time.</p></blockquote></li> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/">NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild</a></h5> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Sep 17 09:24 |
| schestowitz | <p>The exploit works by exploiting an integer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s image rendering library (CoreGraphics). We are publishing limited technical information about CVE-2021-30860 at this time.</p></blockquote></li> | Sep 17 09:24 |
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| Techrights-sec | Yes, local archives are important because so much disappears from the net | Sep 17 09:39 |
| Techrights-sec | at unpredictable moments. | Sep 17 09:39 |
| Techrights-sec | Refactored gemini-latest-videos.sh | Sep 17 09:42 |
| Techrights-sec | sed isn't the right tool, but it's ok until it breaks | Sep 17 09:42 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | thanks, it was so simple and crude and merely proof of concept | Sep 17 09:42 |
| Techrights-sec | Would it be useful to use XPath instead? It'd be more flexible about | Sep 17 09:45 |
| Techrights-sec | the incoming HTML that way. | Sep 17 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | it would make it harder for me too to maintain and I think there are more important areas for improvement | Sep 17 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | bbiab, gym at home | Sep 17 09:46 |
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