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| schestowitz | Bah | Aug 20 00:41 |
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| schestowitz | "After only 2 incorrect password attempts (SFTP) my IP got banned from my own site. Is it possible to unban and hopefully increase the number of permitted attempts? This is a recurring issue." | Aug 20 00:41 |
| schestowitz | I really hare this.. | Aug 20 00:41 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/kdedude/statuses/104485089362198528 | Aug 20 00:42 |
| TechrightsSocial | @kdedude: #wtf ad from google on slashdot "Get Out In Front of Your Infringers Patent Insurance to Enforce Your Rights" #swpats | Aug 20 00:43 |
| schestowitz | gogole just puts the ads up | Aug 20 00:43 |
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| schestowitz | KDE4 is getting absolutely marvellous | Aug 20 09:41 |
| schestowitz | I found some more nice folderview features | Aug 20 09:42 |
| schestowitz | And I set the desktop background to generally put to use a pile of many thousands of photos that I have in my storage space, maybe 10,000 photos in general. Every 5 minutes they change independently in each monitor of mine, bringing back memories at random. | Aug 20 09:42 |
| schestowitz | Blech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfrPu5c93s&feature=player_embedded | Aug 20 10:08 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Trough Stlye Urinal Slip n Slide - YouTube .::. Size~: 98.21 KB | Aug 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz | Finally cleared the ban... | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | > Hi Roy, | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | > Did you get my last reply? | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | I did, thanks. But only after I had phoned the 0800 number to get this done by phone... cause I was blacklisted from blueberry. Couldn't even read mail :-) | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | The problem is now resolved. I don't think it was SFTP, but | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | xxx now works (through KDE). :-) | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | The number of allowed login attempts (and the conseuence of IP ban) seems like it's too sensitive. I only mistyped my password twice IIRC. This is like the 3rd or 4th time this happens. ;-) | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | *consequence | Aug 20 12:00 |
| schestowitz | Good news... | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | I've convinced someone to donate 15 patents to the FOSS community, I think | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | Correspondence as follows: | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | > Hi Roy...I am only confessing this to you because you have written extensively about the harm that the patent system inflicts on the process of invention...so | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | having said that, in that email I sent keith bergelt yesterday...which I forwarded a copy of to you...in the last paragraph...where I mentioned that there was a | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:16 |
| schestowitz | lot more in the way of new things that could hopefully be used to help linux tablets and open source mobile os's take back market share stolen from it by | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | Apple and others...while that was the truth...it is also the truth that I would rather be scrubbing public toilets at the bus station, midnight shift or | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | whichever time slot is the least desirable...rather than inventing anything ever again!!! | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | A lot of people equate invention with patenting. but this is a lawyer's and businessman's propaganda. Edison is a good example of this. He didn't invent things, he just patented other people's ideas that worked. Eventually he created GE, so I guess he was "successful". Today I upload 5 short papers I wrote this year about my research. Later this year I will upload a ~300 pages of a more extensive documentation of my work. It | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | goes into my site and attracts readers, unlike patent applications. If attribution is what it's all about, then the Internet facilitates this wonderfully. It's what Tim Berners-Lee had in mine when he made the WWW to share his physics papers in CERN. | Aug 20 12:17 |
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| schestowitz | > So whereas I would want to reciprocate your sincerity and that of your friends by doing everything possible to advance your causes...which personally | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | I see as the right ones...I really hate inventing things at this point and for the past few years already whenever new things come into my head....and | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | you of all people know how that works | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | Or doesn't work. I mean, the patent system does not work. Sadly, people like Keith and Mark are part of the patent system, but they are proggessives/reformists, who are IMHO a tad too conformist. But they help in their own way. I personally advocate for abolishment of software patents. | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > --- no one actually ever "invents" anything...they just sort of "be receptive" to solutions... | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | People who 'invent' things are good liars sometimes, or BS artists. They are good at hiding their source of inspiration and have no qualm about it. | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > to hold certain "questions" of one sort or another in your mind and then the solutions, or so-called "inventions" kind of "show themselves" to you. Its not | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | like in schizophrenia or anything but it is sort of as if the inventions exist on their own and they tap on your shoulder while you're sitting there | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | at the bus stop and say "I'm here, look at what I can do, look at me, let me show you"...and then if you are in the mood to be receptive you let | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | the invention show itself to you. But thanks to the way the system destroys people, why on earth would anybody who isn't a masochist let | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | themselves be host to those ideas when they come tapping you for attention??? Why??? How could anybody "be in the mood" ??? | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | I had a chat about exactly that last night. A friend of mine were talking about people whom we know (here in Manchester) as posers. To me, these are the problem and they safly become our politicians, too. | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > So you just try to ignore the inventions when they come looking for you. | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > Thus I have been actively trying to ignore them (those wandering "inventions") when they come calling for attention... | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | for several years already. Some of them are especially attractive so they manage to catch my mind's eye. But still I tell them to | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | leave me alone and just go away. | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:17 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | This reminds me of another debate I had last night. It was about the notion of "property" (of people, cars, ideas, etc.) and why people need this perceptual concern for their ego. Patents are a bit like that. | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > So on the one hand while what I said to keith bergelt was the truth... | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | there is indeed more in the way of new matter which the open source community would be welcome to ... | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | the time is really past...thanks to all that's come to pass...to be going around whistling a happy | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | tune because "oh gee wiz inventions are just the most wonderful thing". | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | It's biz speak. The scarcity is human skill and determination to produce (for those who do not pretend to be too smart for it and eventually do 'paper-pushing' jobs. Companies that cannot retain their staff have made up patents as artificial monopolies with which to brag an ownership of ideas, not people (workforce/HR). Remember what R in HR stands for... | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > So if you excuse me, I suppose I should go clean some public toilets then take | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | a nap right next to one after I am done with that. But that also doesn't mean I | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | wouldn't do what I can for the open source community, given that privilege. So, life..... :---( | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | Physical jobs like construction and farming are most vital to the civilisation's survival. Just because paper-pushers stereotyped and demoted those associated with them will never change this. Look at the world's next superpower. It's a top producer, not a paper-pushing bubbling | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | > I hope you have a good weekend roy. You are a good soul !!!! | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | Thank you. You are too. I am very heart-warmed to hear this. It's something money can't buy. | Aug 20 12:19 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 12:19 |
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| schestowitz | Preview of my research | Aug 20 12:58 |
| schestowitz | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/08/20/gmds-notes/ | Aug 20 12:58 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » GMDS Notes Now Online .::. Size~: 34.44 KB | Aug 20 12:59 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/swapnilbhartiya/status/104886832575152131 | Aug 20 13:29 |
| TechrightsSocial | @swapnilbhartiya: @schestowitz its getting harder. what's your opinion about my counter view section, are we doing wrong? | Aug 20 13:29 |
| schestowitz | It's quite a nice addition, however the RSS feed of that site moved or is broken | Aug 20 13:29 |
| schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuqCMHe4kxQ&feature=digest | Aug 20 14:09 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: The Amazing Universe (through the eyes of a scientist) - YouTube .::. Size~: 114.44 KB | Aug 20 14:09 |
| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/81192481 | Aug 20 16:12 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Schestowitz (schestowitz)'s status on Saturday, 20-Aug-11 15:08:05 UTC - Identi.ca: The Era of Software Patents May be Ending Gradually. It Was Terrible Whilst It Lasted, Agree ‘Mainstream’ Sources. http://is.gd/Ctyph8 | Aug 20 16:12 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: The Era of Software Patents May be Ending Gradually. It Was Terrible Whilst It Lasted, Agree ‘Mainstream’ Sources. | Techrights .::. Size~: 92.25 KB | Aug 20 16:12 |
| schestowitz | we're winning again | Aug 20 16:12 |
| schestowitz | I think | Aug 20 16:12 |
| schestowitz | ender_33: | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | > Questions: | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | > At present, do we not have existing technology in security use that does | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | > facial recognition and is close to 100% accurate? | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | No, and it depends on modality too. I don't deal with facial recognition but with comparisons of surfaces, which is an apprroach better applied to volumetric data such as the heart. Faces are like "toy" data. | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | Aug 20 16:51 | |
| schestowitz | > How accurate is facial recognition? | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | 99.9%, some groups allege. But it depends on the data. | Aug 20 16:51 |
| schestowitz | > Has any of your research been put to practical use? | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | In the area that I did my Ph.D. on, I am not aware of any... but I still try to advance PCA as a statistical tool that tracks change. | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | Aug 20 16:52 | |
| schestowitz | > Are there several systems of facial recognition or is it all based on the | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | > same platform? | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | The systems for faces are entirely different. This one deals with surfaces and it doesn't deal with particular topologies (e.g. nose, eyes). | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | Aug 20 16:52 | |
| schestowitz | > P.S. Thanks for sending Scott's Desktop and your Screenshots message. Lot's | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | > stuff I enjoyed watching. | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | I have lots more. I keep them for memory of how we all used to work. | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | People wrongly associate the work with faces | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | It's not just you who thought tha | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | *that | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | The mono boosters tried that to smear me too | Aug 20 16:52 |
| schestowitz | I live in Manchester and I work on this project which will hopefully involve collaboration with some hospitals soon. It is funded by the European Union. | Aug 20 16:54 |
| schestowitz | Not for facial recognition at all | Aug 20 16:54 |
| schestowitz | Even my cousin thought it was just a face thing.. :/ | Aug 20 17:29 |
| schestowitz | But he supports me in general. Sent some minutes ago: | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > To me you are like my favorite sports team, as I am always cheering and | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > applauding your successes. To carry the analogy a little further, you may | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > even say I get a vicarious satisfaction from your wins. I like the United | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > Schestowitz Tiger, the Miami Dolphins and the Florida Marlins, in that | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > order. | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > Anything connected to the Wall Street Journal impresses the hell out of me, | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > although I guess you have been quoted and placed article in many equally | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > prestigious media sites. | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 20 17:30 |
| schestowitz | > Keep me informed of all the good news. | Aug 20 17:30 |
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| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/2/28/4760731.html | Aug 20 18:03 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: Flimsy article in Discover on the Gates Foundation .::. Size~: 23.09 KB | Aug 20 18:03 |
| schestowitz | http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/1/4761019.html | Aug 20 18:04 |
| schestowitz | "When did the chair of the Gates Foundation become an international expert on fundraising?" | Aug 20 18:04 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: The Gates Foundation and fundraising .::. Size~: 20.19 KB | Aug 20 18:04 |
| schestowitz | Covered by the Gates-funded The Guardian | Aug 20 18:04 |
| schestowitz | No conflict there :-) | Aug 20 18:05 |
| qu1j0t3 | :| | Aug 20 18:05 |
| schestowitz | '"Better-known for its battles against global disease," the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "has also become a force in journalism," ' | Aug 20 18:06 |
| schestowitz | When did the chair of the Gates Foundation become an international expert on fundraising? | Aug 20 18:06 |
| schestowitz | http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/2/4761726.html | Aug 20 18:06 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: Kaiser Family Foundation does its best to try to be objective .::. Size~: 18.96 KB | Aug 20 18:06 |
| schestowitz | Rich defending the rich | Aug 20 18:07 |
| schestowitz | whitewash alike | Aug 20 18:07 |
| schestowitz | They can't just do what they do an let journalists do their thing | Aug 20 18:07 |
| schestowitz | They need to buy the journalaists | Aug 20 18:07 |
| schestowitz | And tell them what to think and write | Aug 20 18:08 |
| schestowitz | Now think Murdoch | Aug 20 18:08 |
| qu1j0t3 | :) | Aug 20 18:09 |
| qu1j0t3 | we don't sound quite so radical now, do we? | Aug 20 18:09 |
| *qu1j0t3 sighs | Aug 20 18:09 | |
| schestowitz | who's "We"? | Aug 20 18:20 |
| qu1j0t3 | me. you. | Aug 20 18:20 |
| qu1j0t3 | talking about the plutocracy | Aug 20 18:20 |
| qu1j0t3 | everything we suspected has been proven in the past decade | Aug 20 18:21 |
| schestowitz | yes | Aug 20 18:26 |
| schestowitz | I will post about these issue more later | Aug 20 18:26 |
| schestowitz | And if you care about these, you ought to follow my posts because I'm back to tracking these issue | Aug 20 18:26 |
| schestowitz | *issues | Aug 20 18:26 |
| schestowitz | http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/4/4763313.html | Aug 20 18:29 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: The Gates Foundation is not continuing any conversations .::. Size~: 18.55 KB | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | Bill Gates' annual letter has a section on continuing the conversation. | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | 1) Twitter is not a conversation. It is not a dialogue. And you have 140 characters to make your point. | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | 2) TED is not a conversation. It is a speech. With video | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | Both participants are part of a conversation, not just one. | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | LOL | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | It's like the "feel like I'm in control" buttom | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | "Mummy, I spoke to Gates!!!!" | Aug 20 18:29 |
| schestowitz | "I wrote to him something in Twitter [but he never read or replied" | Aug 20 18:30 |
| schestowitz | LOL | Aug 20 18:30 |
| schestowitz | Some companies do the same thing | Aug 20 18:30 |
| schestowitz | Just like the "Gates" Brand{tm{ | Aug 20 18:30 |
| schestowitz | http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2011/08/pc-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary-does.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AllAboutLinux+%28All+about+Linux%29 | Aug 20 18:59 |
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| qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: likely agents provocateurs in ukriots http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/officers-came-under-fire-from-masked-gunmen-during-riots-uk-police-say/article2136208/ | Aug 20 20:03 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Officers came under fire from masked gunmen during riots, U.K. police say - The Globe and Mail .::. Size~: 93.48 KB | Aug 20 20:03 |
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