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| schestowitz | Just got some nice feedback. :-) | May 26 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | > See attached letter… (pdf). | May 26 09:32 |
| schestowitz | Wow! This is a nice presentation and a bunch of good ideas. Would you mind if I shared this with readers/collagues to gather their opinions on redoing the site? | May 26 09:32 |
| schestowitz | Will have more to say soon... | May 26 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | http://mrpogson.com/2011/05/25/departure-of-canadas-auditor-general/ | May 26 09:50 |
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| schestowitz | > Dear Doctor Roy, | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > This is an important article so I want to do it the most accurate way | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > possible. Since I'm not a programmer on your field (just a little Perl | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > player) please can you email me a list of acronyms like FRGC && NIST | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > you use on: | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/2011/05/24/software-is-maths/ | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > This paper will make history and will go from hand to hand everywhere. | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | > Please I would really appreciate your reply. | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | Hi, my friend, | May 26 14:19 |
| schestowitz | FRGC is the Face Recognition Grand Challenge, a US government-funded project which is associated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology < http://www.nist.gov/index.html > | May 26 14:19 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php?page=2 | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | " | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | * Apple's MacBooks sweep Consumer Reports laptop rankings | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | * 12:24PM May 05/25/11, 2011 | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | * According to the report, the 11-inch MacBook Air scored a 62 out of a 100, besting Gateway's second-place score of 52. HP came in third in the small laptop category with a score of 49. | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | [PJ: Remember the Microsoft ads showing shoppers turning down Apple laptops and buying laptops with Windows instead, implying that you could get the best deals by avoiding "overpaying" for Apple products? Remember Psystar fans asserting that Apple's products were no better than any other hardware? It seems none of that was true.] - AppleInsider | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | " | May 26 20:03 |
| schestowitz | WHat about Linux laptops? | May 26 20:03 |
| MinceR | what about the truth? | May 26 20:05 |
| MinceR | hm, appledefects is down | May 26 20:05 |
| Ender_nothome | people were overpaying for apple products | May 26 20:05 |
| Ender_nothome | same oem hardware, thrown into a fancy and shiney shell | May 26 20:06 |
| MinceR | with extra gimmicks that fail | May 26 20:07 |
| MinceR | like the MagUnsafe connector that burns itself | May 26 20:07 |
| Ender_nothome | there used to actually be a difference | May 26 20:07 |
| Ender_nothome | powerpc | May 26 20:07 |
| MinceR | someone said their ppcs sucked less | May 26 20:07 |
| Ender_nothome | they did suck less | May 26 20:08 |
| MinceR | i wasn't exposed to those | May 26 20:08 |
| Ender_nothome | ppc was fantastic | May 26 20:08 |
| Ender_nothome | Linus used to run ppc | May 26 20:08 |
| MinceR | well, it isn't hard to suck less than current crApple pcs | May 26 20:08 |
| Ender_nothome | he liked the look of the computer but hated the software | May 26 20:08 |
| Ender_nothome | lol | May 26 20:08 |
| MinceR | i thought he ran ppc because he wanted to encourage support of that platform in linux | May 26 20:09 |
| Ender_nothome | just like Mike Rowe, got a free xbox for PR and threw Linux on it | May 26 20:09 |
| MinceR | of Mike Rowe Soft? | May 26 20:09 |
| Ender_nothome | yeah | May 26 20:09 |
| Ender_nothome | I read he got it for free and liked the look of it | May 26 20:09 |
| MinceR | :> | May 26 20:09 |
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| Ender_nothome | http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-switches-to-Apple/2100-1003_3-5606030.html | May 26 20:13 |
| Ender_nothome | Torvald's response came quickly and succinctly. "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970)--it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more ;)" he wrote. | May 26 20:13 |
| Ender_nothome | "As to the why...Part of it is simply that I wanted to try something else, and I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn't need me. Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main architectures out there: Power and x86-64 are what _I_ think are the two most relevant ones, and I decided that I had to at least check the other side of it out seriously if I really believed | May 26 20:14 |
| Ender_nothome | "Oh, and part of it is that I got the machine for free," said Torvalds. "I'm really a technology whore." | May 26 20:14 |
| MinceR | :> | May 26 20:23 |
| schestowitz | got it for free | May 26 20:23 |
| schestowitz | I wonder how *that* works | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | $140 foxxconn machine | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | And now he's advertising Apple | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | "I'm really a technology whore." | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | !google andre da costa techrights | May 26 20:24 |
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| TechrightsBot | Hello World! I'm TechrightsBot running phIRCe v0.53 | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | !google andre da costa techrights | May 26 20:24 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Main Page - Techrights .::. Size~: 38.84 KB | May 26 20:24 |
| schestowitz | !google andre da costa techrights | May 26 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | [1] - Andre Da Costa: Profile of a Microsoft Shill | Techrights | http://techrights.org/2009/02/01/andre-da-costa-schwag/ | May 26 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | [2] - When Microsoft MVPs Throw in the Towel and Bash Microsoft | Techrights | http://techrights.org/2011/02/03/microsoft-failed-technology/ | May 26 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | [3] - Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges ... - Techrights | http://techrights.org/2008/12/27/microsoft-shills-aka-te-secrets/ | May 26 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | [4] - Apple Lies About “Open Source” (and More on Apple ... - Techrights | http://techrights.org/2010/05/15/john-sullivan-on-apple/ | May 26 20:25 |
| Ender_nothome | I don't think hes running it anymore | May 26 20:29 |
| schestowitz | me neither | May 26 20:29 |
| schestowitz | but he uses fedora | May 26 20:29 |
| schestowitz | with gnome unless he silently moved to kde4 again | May 26 20:29 |
| schestowitz | he uses pine with terminal | May 26 20:30 |
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| schestowitz | and emacs to code IIRC | May 26 20:30 |
| Ender_nothome | ping timeout | May 26 20:30 |
| Ender_nothome | wth? | May 26 20:30 |
| Ender_nothome | lol | May 26 20:30 |
| schestowitz | yeah | May 26 20:30 |
| Ender_nothome | pine is cool | May 26 20:30 |
| schestowitz | not maintained anymore | May 26 20:31 |
| schestowitz | u of wash iirc | May 26 20:31 |
| Ender_nothome | yeah it was replaced with alpine and pico | May 26 20:32 |
| schestowitz | he mailed me several times | May 26 20:34 |
| schestowitz | Even a while back it was still pine | May 26 20:34 |
| schestowitz | classic pine | May 26 20:34 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: how about a book called "the Apple delusion"? :> | May 26 20:51 |
| schestowitz | "By the time you put the book down, you'll cease to be a cultist and actually understand technology" | May 26 20:52 |
| MinceR | :) | May 26 20:53 |
| MinceR | that would be nice | May 26 20:53 |
| schestowitz | will you be its author? | May 26 20:54 |
| MinceR | unlikely | May 26 20:57 |
| MinceR | i'm no writer | May 26 20:57 |
| MinceR | i can't write long stuff | May 26 20:57 |
| schestowitz | I got addicted to reddit/funny | May 26 20:58 |
| MinceR | :> | May 26 21:00 |
| schestowitz | http://sharerimg.com/p/14580.html | May 26 21:01 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed stock photos images .::. Size~: 1.05 KB | May 26 21:01 |
| schestowitz | Esp. the short ones | May 26 21:01 |
| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/74648325 | May 26 21:02 |
| TechrightsBot | @Claudio (claudiom)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-11 19:51:47 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz The moment I saw the name "Ed Bott" I stopped reading. :-p | May 26 21:02 |
| schestowitz | http://osdir.com/Article10826.phtml "as long as you’re logged in as an Administrator." | May 26 21:13 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Mac Malware No Longer Needs Passwords? :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software .::. Size~: 25.39 KB | May 26 21:13 |
| schestowitz | I.e. as long as you're stupid | May 26 21:13 |
| MinceR | unless their apps are like winblows apps and fail hard if you don't have admin rights | May 26 21:24 |
| schestowitz | yes, that too... | May 26 21:25 |
| schestowitz | or google-earth installer | May 26 21:25 |
| MinceR | :> | May 26 21:28 |
| MinceR | if only it was only the installer... | May 26 21:28 |
| schestowitz | I think they have fixed it | May 26 21:37 |
| schestowitz | But I won't bother checking | May 26 21:37 |
| schestowitz | Got burned once, now it's treated like malware that attached itself to kwin | May 26 21:37 |
| schestowitz | kdecrators in kde3 | May 26 21:37 |
| Ender_nothome | http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/ | May 26 22:30 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com .::. Size~: 58.65 KB | May 26 22:30 |
| schestowitz | I switch off ads | May 26 22:32 |
| schestowitz | Youtube usually has a skip ads button | May 26 22:33 |
| schestowitz | If now, I close the tab | May 26 22:33 |
| schestowitz | thunderbird and firefox have adblock plus | May 26 22:33 |
| schestowitz | so I suck at absorbing ads, except billboards | May 26 22:33 |
| Ender_nothome | glad you don't watch television | May 26 22:34 |
| schestowitz | it doesn't offer me much | May 26 22:37 |
| schestowitz | or anything | May 26 22:37 |
| schestowitz | not even control | May 26 22:37 |
| schestowitz | The control I have is channel swapping | May 26 22:37 |
| schestowitz | Choosing what's least undesirable at a point in time | May 26 22:37 |
| schestowitz | most channels here are owned by the same corporations | May 26 22:38 |
| schestowitz | and TV is arcane anyway | May 26 22:38 |
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