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| schestowitz | It's funny | Sep 04 00:10 |
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| schestowitz | search for it | Sep 04 00:10 |
| schestowitz | Creationist straw man | Sep 04 00:10 |
| schestowitz | It's too much lunacy | Sep 04 00:11 |
| schestowitz | So I reckon celebs who play with this nonsense made a career out of fooling ignorant masses telling them what they want to believe | Sep 04 00:11 |
| schestowitz | Preying on ignorant ill people -- always a market for that and crooks willing to exploit that | Sep 04 00:11 |
| schestowitz | Search on Popoff | Sep 04 00:12 |
| cubevector | Popoff is still going | Sep 04 00:17 |
| cubevector | saw him on late night tv recently | Sep 04 00:17 |
| schestowitz | Yeah | Sep 04 00:17 |
| schestowitz | new scams | Sep 04 00:17 |
| schestowitz | Where is the ftc? | Sep 04 00:17 |
| schestowitz | Busy doin' nothing | Sep 04 00:17 |
| schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fmPXsk6oQ | Sep 04 00:18 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: YouTube- "Busy Doin' Nothing" (Beach Boys) - The Laptop Sessions .::. Size~: 102.15 KB | Sep 04 00:18 |
| cubevector | "Miracle Manna" is one new one | Sep 04 00:23 |
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| schestowitz | Many people in the comments here link to us: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/03/177246/Anti-Google-Video-Runs-In-Times-Square?from=rss | Sep 04 07:36 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square .::. Size~: 152.66 KB | Sep 04 07:36 |
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| schestowitz | Mac Asay being defended by the folks now | Sep 04 10:05 |
| schestowitz | And their wallpapers/looks too | Sep 04 10:05 |
| schestowitz | "@alanbelltolc they should use your background picture in Twitter as wallpaper" http://twitter.com/alanbelltolc/statuses/22960974077 | Sep 04 10:05 |
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| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/conversation/48445768#notice-48840495 "heh, *Mac* Asay :-D" | Sep 04 10:08 |
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| schestowitz | "@homembit, read more on Gates Foundation's philanthroprofiteering" | Sep 04 10:17 |
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| schestowitz | http://timothyblee.com/2010/08/30/liberalism-in-europe/ | Sep 04 14:58 |
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| schestowitz | Hi, twitter | Sep 04 15:24 |
| hello | Sep 04 15:25 | |
| schestowitz | We're mostly in #techrights now, unless it's focused on Novell | Sep 04 15:25 |
| I've been busy but have a little time for fun now | Sep 04 15:25 | |
| ah | Sep 04 15:25 | |
| I'll have to figure that out. | Sep 04 15:25 | |
| schestowitz | There's another oil rig blast | Sep 04 15:25 |
| ahhhhh! | Sep 04 15:25 | |
| did you see Todd Bishop's speculation that Microsoft is out of Bing bribe money? | Sep 04 15:26 | |
| schestowitz | Ages ago? | Sep 04 15:26 |
| schestowitz | They have a new one | Sep 04 15:26 |
| schestowitz | Fake donation | Sep 04 15:26 |
| schestowitz | One of those bribes you can't mock | Sep 04 15:26 |
| schestowitz | Unless you "f* hate hungry children" or something | Sep 04 15:27 |
| http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/09/aol_renews_google_search_deal_has_microsoft_finally_reached_its_limit.html | Sep 04 15:27 | |
| TechrightsBot | Title: AOL renews Google search deal: Has Microsoft hit spending limit? .::. Size~: 55.09 KB | Sep 04 15:27 |
| got it from groklaw | Sep 04 15:27 | |
| schestowitz | AOL stuff I covered | Sep 04 15:27 |
| schestowitz | Groklaw and Microsoft I read tomorrow | Sep 04 15:27 |
| cool | Sep 04 15:27 | |
| schestowitz | Today I read some environment news | Sep 04 15:27 |
| thanks | Sep 04 15:28 | |
| have you seen the Florida Oil Spill Law blog? They do an excellent job of collecting stories. | Sep 04 15:28 | |
| schestowitz | Identi.ca has been ahum recently about the cynical 'foundation' thing | Sep 04 15:28 |
| schestowitz | twitter: I haven't,no | Sep 04 15:29 |
| schestowitz | How the economy in Florida? | Sep 04 15:29 |
| schestowitz | It was a mess last I checked | Sep 04 15:29 |
| schestowitz | Morgage bubble blew hard on them | Sep 04 15:29 |
| http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/feed | Sep 04 15:29 | |
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| http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ | Sep 04 15:29 | |
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| schestowitz | http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/08/crowdsourcing-for-pakistan-flood-relief/ | Sep 04 15:30 |
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| schestowitz | That's the greater issue | Sep 04 15:30 |
| schestowitz | But it's called "brown people", unless it's a kin people subs one of them with "terrorist" | Sep 04 15:30 |
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| schestowitz | That's how Western media views it | Sep 04 15:31 |
| schestowitz | The moment there's a cm of water in some condo in Florida you'll see the news SHOUTING | Sep 04 15:31 |
| schestowitz | "the carpets!!" | Sep 04 15:31 |
| schestowitz | Not "think about the children" | Sep 04 15:32 |
| schestowitz | A lot in the West still don't understand cynicism elsewhere :-/ | Sep 04 15:32 |
| The same cynicism exists here. I'm back on the US gulf coast now. People here know all too well that the spill won't matter as much until it gets to the US East coast. | Sep 04 15:34 | |
| No one cares about what they call the "Redneck Riviera" | Sep 04 15:35 | |
| schestowitz | "AOL renews Google search deal: Has Microsoft hit spending limit?" | Sep 04 15:35 |
| schestowitz | What's that about? | Sep 04 15:35 |
| schestowitz | Let's see.. | Sep 04 15:35 |
| schestowitz | "Microsoft also has its hands full with the Yahoo search and advertising integration, and its engineers may not have had the bandwidth to add AOL to their plates, as well, at this point." | Sep 04 15:36 |
| schestowitz | Ah, I see the spin | Sep 04 15:36 |
| schestowitz | "too busy" excuse | Sep 04 15:36 |
| Todd says that Microsoft would have won the AOL deal if they had the money. | Sep 04 15:36 | |
| schestowitz | Of course *rolls eyes* | Sep 04 15:36 |
| The point that is interesting is that Microsoft is out of money. | Sep 04 15:36 | |
| schestowitz | When Microsoft loses it's because it chooses to :-) | Sep 04 15:36 |
| schestowitz | twitter: they blew half a billion on Verizon | Sep 04 15:37 |
| schestowitz | It gave them nothing | Sep 04 15:37 |
| right | Sep 04 15:37 | |
| schestowitz | [15:36] <twitter> The point that is interesting is that Microsoft is out of money. | Sep 04 15:37 |
| schestowitz | Maybe Microsoft | Sep 04 15:37 |
| schestowitz | Not its workers | Sep 04 15:37 |
| schestowitz | Gates, Troll Allen, SweatyB (Ballmer)... | Sep 04 15:37 |
| schestowitz | http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/tocs-wednesday-devices-and-gad-1.html | Sep 04 15:38 |
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| schestowitz | All Linux | Sep 04 15:38 |
| schestowitz | Game over | Sep 04 15:38 |
| schestowitz | it's only a matter of time | Sep 04 15:38 |
| schestowitz | This is the last desktop I'm buying | Sep 04 15:39 |
| schestowitz | Heh. http://xkcd.com/787/ | Sep 04 15:39 |
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| I agree, desktops will be limited to power users who have numbers to crunch. The academic mini computer crowd of the 1970s. | Sep 04 15:40 | |
| Others will be happier with mobile computers and entertainment systems. | Sep 04 15:40 | |
| It is those two areas where freedom must be guarded. | Sep 04 15:40 | |
| I'm happy that Microsoft is running out of resources to harm software freedom. | Sep 04 15:41 | |
| Gates, Allen and friends have moved on to other frauds and will increasingly see the futility of propping up Microsoft. | Sep 04 15:42 | |
| Microsoft's revenue, however, was once much greater than their own and they were able to do a lot of harm with it. | Sep 04 15:43 | |
| The rest of us are better off now that they are deprived of that resource. | Sep 04 15:43 | |
| schestowitz | brb | Sep 04 15:44 |
| schestowitz | guest here | Sep 04 15:44 |
| The other spin about the Microsoft loss of AOL is that no one cares about AOL. | Sep 04 15:44 | |
| have fun! | Sep 04 15:44 | |
| I'll check in later. | Sep 04 15:44 | |
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| MinceR | whoa, twitter was here | Sep 04 17:51 |
| schestowitz | Now the Bang of Monkeys will accuse me of nymshifting or something | Sep 04 18:18 |
| schestowitz | "FBI says 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers is largest human-trafficking case in US" | Sep 04 19:08 |
| schestowitz | Doesn't "forced labor" need to be called slavery? | Sep 04 19:08 |
| schestowitz | Or is slavery a banned word in the West, for PR reasons? | Sep 04 19:09 |
| schestowitz | Heh. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/359469/microsoft_silverlight_capabilities_exceed_those_html5?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1 | Sep 04 19:22 |
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| schestowitz | Very rare to hard about SIlver Lie now | Sep 04 19:22 |
| schestowitz | v | Sep 04 19:27 |
| schestowitz | Skype leaves Linux/BSD further in the dark: http://www.pcworld.com/article/204653/6_Useful_WiFi_Tools_for_Windows.html?tk=rss_news | Sep 04 19:27 |
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| MinceR | i don't mind being left in the dark by skype | Sep 04 19:28 |
| schestowitz | you got SIP? | Sep 04 19:28 |
| schestowitz | Google Talk might harm Skype | Sep 04 19:28 |
| MinceR | i can have SIP if i want it | Sep 04 19:28 |
| schestowitz | Skype->FIACISCO Systems | Sep 04 19:29 |
| MinceR | Fascisco Systems? | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | I bet you don't ever answer the phone | Sep 04 19:29 |
| MinceR | i have GSM and UMTS but i rarely use them for voice :> | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | It's always humans calling you | Sep 04 19:29 |
| MinceR | i'm rarely called | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | Good | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | Don't spread the numbers | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | You keep theirs | Sep 04 19:29 |
| schestowitz | You can control when you talk/not | Sep 04 19:30 |
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| schestowitz | > Subject: On the so-called "Consumer Watchdog" | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > Hello | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > I've came across your website as I | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > was investigating the so-called "Consumer Watchdog", I always suspected | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > that they were a crazed anti-Google club that was financed by Microsoft, | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > but I see that you seem to suspect that they are an astroturfer outfit | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > hired by MSFT. | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > I was wondering about their latest stunt with the Times Square video | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > running on a loop depicting Eric Schmidt as a child molester, and the | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > words of CW chairman echoed by almost every online outfit, it's | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > basically gone mainstream and it might hurt Google, so I | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > was wondering how would someone go about proving the nature of this | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > group to one of these publication (Wired for example) and get them to | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > write about it? | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > Also does this astroturfing campaign include Gawker media and all it's | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > blogs? Fast-company? and the Huffington post? since they have | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | > been exhibiting a highly anti-Google sentiment. | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | Gawker have recently been promoting Microsoft's patent troll IV and rubbed some members of our community the wrong way. CW is very crass (calling Google "Criminals!") and trying to split the company. They need to be named and shamed like Zuck who wrote letters 'for dead people' in support of Microsoft, which hired him. | Sep 04 20:12 |
| schestowitz | ======= | Sep 04 20:21 |
| schestowitz | > I'm back from an absolutely amazing OOcon 2010 in Budapest. About 3/4 | Sep 04 20:21 |
| schestowitz | > dead. | Sep 04 20:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > Microshit sent its people there to be the fly in the ointment, so taht | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > the tweets and articles would be about them and not ODF or OOo. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > Novell people have something very wrong with them, most of them, I can | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > say after meeting them. That I saw even before the 'softers showed up. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > Once they did, the Novell people flocked around them like highschool | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > kids would crowd a sports star. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > Security theater and a thousand other problems popped up both going to | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > and from the conference. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > IMPORTANT: | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > There was some amazingly good news regarding interoperability ODF-using | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > applications. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > a. There was ability for three different Open Source applications (OOo, | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > KOffice, and FreOffice) to exchange word processing files (and IIRC | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > spreadsheets) | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > b. There was the ability for applications to extract and use RDF | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > metadata from ODF files created by other applications!!!!!!!! | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > c. The final session of the last day of the week had a real break | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > through in mobile support using a server to pre-process and deliver | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > fragments of and ODF file for rendering on mobile devices. That method | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > and the researcher got praise but should have been done a day or two | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > earlier so that the full impact could be discussed. Among other things | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > it means that the way is open for weak mobile devices and that anyone | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | > that wants to can work with ODF. | Sep 04 20:22 |
| schestowitz | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/why-hps-decision-to-oust-hurd-was-the-best-one/?cs=43013 wasn't the replacement intended to be named by now? | Sep 04 20:59 |
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| schestowitz | Andrew Orlowski serves anything that's malicious and controversial: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/iap_on_ipcc/ | Sep 04 21:03 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.pcworld.com/article/204747/Meet_the_Galaxy_Tab.html?tk=rss_news | Sep 04 21:52 |
| schestowitz | If only it were not Ballnux | Sep 04 21:52 |
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