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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2109067 | Nov 15 01:34 |
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| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #israel learned nothing from #drone backlash; killed to cause more hatred (from the sky), many innocent people dead/hurt. | Nov 15 01:34 |
| schestowitz | "Israel (in relation to it's government, not necessarily it's populace as a whole) is the 21st century way to spell Nazi. Isn't it ironic? #FACT" | Nov 15 01:34 |
| schestowitz | That's just so offensive and nonsense and analogy that the fact hashtag must be sarcasm | Nov 15 01:34 |
| schestowitz | http://darkernet.in/southern-europe-prepares-for-coordinated-general-strikes/ | Nov 15 01:40 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: As Europe prepares for general strikes, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist unions prepare for revolution | Darker Net .::. Size~: 54.42 KB | Nov 15 01:40 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2108000 | Nov 15 01:56 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Gnumeric-Crunches-Numbers-Like-a-Pro-76605.html #linux | Nov 15 01:56 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Linux News: Reviews: Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro .::. Size~: 15.97 KB | Nov 15 01:56 |
| schestowitz | :Excellent, they have improved ods support. It now works with the spreadsheets I have to use for work. Libre Office still prints a little better, but gnumeric is the first thing I want to use if I have to make a spreadsheet.\" | Nov 15 01:56 |
| abeNd-org | so whats better to use these days, openoffice or libreoffice? ive got 5 laptops donated to the library that need an office suite | Nov 15 02:02 |
| schestowitz | I try to use lyx/latex for everything | Nov 15 02:02 |
| schestowitz | one client of ours uses Google Apps, which I thus must sometimes use just for spreadhseets | Nov 15 02:03 |
| abeNd-org | these would just be patron use laptops | Nov 15 02:04 |
| abeNd-org | something that can still read/write msoffice formats since thats what the kids use at school & such | Nov 15 02:05 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2109067 | Nov 15 02:15 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #israel learned nothing from #drone backlash; killed to cause more hatred (from the sky), many innocent people dead/hurt. | Nov 15 02:15 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | Herding people into ghettos, depriving them of resources (fact is there's numerous records of border guards charging additional "unofficial" tarrifs to companies bringing supplies into the Gaza), complicit (with U.S. backing of course) considering deportation of the Palestinan people to completely foreign lands (or killing them) as a workable peace solution...... | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/24/condoleezza-rice-palestinian-refugees-south-america | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | I can't say the Zionist political sect (stress on political sect, as they're just about as religion and ethnicity based as Hamas is to Islam, they're simply a political body that uses a facade of religion and race to excuse terrorist and Nazi behaviorsystem), outside of things non-atrocity based, they basically run with the Nazi's on par. | Nov 15 02:16 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Condoleezza Rice: send Palestinian refugees to South America | World news | The Guardian .::. Size~: 130.1 KB | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | Now, if one tries to say "but they didn't implement a final solution", I'd say they simply didn't implement such as quickly because it wasn't politically viable for them to. So they stop just shy of that as to not have an immediately recognized humanitarian crisis (that would blow up in both U.S.'s and their own face). | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-israel-aimed-to-keep-gaza-economy-on-brink-of-collapse-1.335354 | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | I suppose you can say I agree whole heart with GYBO when they say: | Nov 15 02:16 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper .::. Size~: 225.49 KB | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | "Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA!" | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | http://gybo.counterorder.com/ | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | there simply isn't a single good guy between all of them, just a bunch of psychopaths | Nov 15 02:16 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Manifesto, by Gaza Youth Breaks Out | CounterOrder.com .::. Size~: 25.59 KB | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 15 02:16 |
| schestowitz | The apartheid analogy is acceptable, the Nazi one is not, If it's not clear why, hit the history books. | Nov 15 02:17 |
| schestowitz | d# sure is political... | Nov 15 02:17 |
| schestowitz | "I don't think it's a full flash support which replaces real Flash VM. It only will support SWF vector player, i.e. for example it won't replace Flash video, unless I didn't understand something." | Nov 15 02:18 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2109383 | Nov 15 02:18 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Native Flash Support For Firefox On The Way, The #Shumway Project http://www.muktware.com/4814/native-flash-support-firefox-way-shumway-project #firefox #mozilla | Nov 15 02:18 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Native Flash Support For Firefox On The Way, The Shumway Project - Muktware .::. Size~: 73.9 KB | Nov 15 02:18 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2107421 | Nov 15 02:23 |
| TechrightsSocial | @linux@joindiaspora.com: #Mozilla publicly announces the open-source Flash-renderer Mozilla-sponsored Shumway project http://www.iloveubuntu.net/mozilla-publicly-announces-open-source-flash-renderer-mozilla-sponsored-shumway-project #adobetrash | Nov 15 02:23 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Mozilla publicly announces the open-source Flash-renderer Mozilla-sponsored Shumway project | Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog .::. Size~: 33.38 KB | Nov 15 02:23 |
| schestowitz | "It is impossible to really render flash because Adobe used the DMCA against a free software project but I'm happy that I have some basic function with Gnash. Gnash works with platforms other than x86. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnash " | Nov 15 02:24 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Debian -- Details of package gnash in squeeze .::. Size~: 19.28 KB | Nov 15 02:24 |
| schestowitz | is gnash still maintained at all? | Nov 15 02:24 |
| schestowitz | The guy.. | Nov 15 02:33 |
| qu1j0t3 | @Specimen | Ahahah.. Newt Gingrich actually said something very true on | Nov 15 02:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | | Colbert Report... | Nov 15 02:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | @Specimen | Stephen "We should have a billionaire fight!" | Nov 15 02:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | @Specimen | Newt "We already did, it's called the elections" | Nov 15 02:47 |
| schestowitz | meh | Nov 15 02:50 |
| schestowitz | hypocrite | Nov 15 02:50 |
| qu1j0t3 | yep :) | Nov 15 02:51 |
| qu1j0t3 | qu1j0t3 | i guess he's sore that some rich guy was nominated over him | Nov 15 02:51 |
| qu1j0t3 | qu1j0t3 | "I'm just... not well connected enough to pull this off." | Nov 15 02:51 |
| qu1j0t3 | @Specimen | yeah.. he was talking (before that comment) that he had 1 | Nov 15 02:51 |
| qu1j0t3 | | billionaire on his side and Romney 20-something | Nov 15 02:51 |
| schestowitz | I hope Newt gets cancer and then his wife dumps him | Nov 15 02:51 |
| qu1j0t3 | life has a funny way | Nov 15 03:01 |
| qu1j0t3 | to quote Alanis... | Nov 15 03:01 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/268815892358496256 | Nov 15 03:09 |
| TechrightsSocial | Not a tweet? | Nov 15 03:09 |
| qu1j0t3 | TechrightsSocial: Yes it is! | Nov 15 03:09 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/268815892358496256 | Nov 15 03:09 |
| TechrightsSocial | @RonWyden: Today I placed a hold on the Intel. Auth. Act because its anti-leak provisions inhibit free speech and due process: http://t.co/MTJ7ufo8 | Nov 15 03:09 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Wyden Places Hold on Intelligence Authorization Bill | Press Releases | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden .::. Size~: 62.6 KB | Nov 15 03:09 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/ChangeInLibya/status/268842464482295808 | Nov 15 03:12 |
| TechrightsSocial | @ChangeInLibya: Maybe the stupid Arabs and the backwards ass beardos will care about something that matters (Gaza) this time, instead of a YouTube trailer. | Nov 15 03:12 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/mlake9/status/268846884645400576 | Nov 15 03:13 |
| TechrightsSocial | @mlake9: Everybody in #Gaza just email Jill Kelley a topless picture of yourselves, that's the only way the American media will give a shit about u. | Nov 15 03:13 |
| schestowitz | Rockets shot, so the right-wing ***holes decided to take off the shelves all the plans to attack every target it suspects to be "terrorist" (whatever or whoever deems it so), then hiding behind the "they started it" excuse after it's all done and dusted, literally. How the heck is this promoting calm and security? It does the exact opposite, and they know it. It's like the plan to invade Iraq. | Nov 15 03:42 |
| schestowitz | [03:09] <qu1j0t3> https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/268815892358496256 | Nov 15 03:42 |
| TechrightsSocial | @RonWyden: Today I placed a hold on the Intel. Auth. Act because its anti-leak provisions inhibit free speech and due process: http://t.co/MTJ7ufo8 | Nov 15 03:42 |
| schestowitz | yeah, silently | Nov 15 03:42 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Wyden Places Hold on Intelligence Authorization Bill | Press Releases | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden .::. Size~: 62.6 KB | Nov 15 03:42 |
| schestowitz | anti-wikileaks bill you can call it | Nov 15 03:42 |
| schestowitz | make the threat "illegal" | Nov 15 03:43 |
| schestowitz | job done | Nov 15 03:43 |
| schestowitz | now they work on importing assange | Nov 15 03:43 |
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| schestowitz | gn | Nov 15 03:43 |
| schestowitz | http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/1114/Is-Hamas-responsible-for-Gaza-rocket-fire-Not-exactly | Nov 15 03:45 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Is Hamas responsible for Gaza rocket fire? Not exactly. - CSMonitor.com .::. Size~: 87.88 KB | Nov 15 03:45 |
| schestowitz | "But Hamas has not been the principal one firing the rockets at Israel, at least not lately. Other, smaller militant groups in Gaza like Islamic Jihad and the popular resistance committees in the strip do much of the shooting, though the Al Qassam Brigade that Mr. Jabari headed until his death has taken credit for some attacks in recent weeks." | Nov 15 03:45 |
| schestowitz | Doesn't matter, they just want to spend some rockets, the next boat from the US will bring some new, fresh ones | Nov 15 03:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | :< | Nov 15 03:47 |
| MinceR | http://io9.com/5960510/thousands-of-australian-students-are-taught-that-robots-led-the-russian-revolution | Nov 15 07:09 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Thousands of Australian students are taught that robots led the Russian Revolution .::. Size~: 106.4 KB | Nov 15 07:09 |
| MinceR | http://www.broadside.net/2012/images2012/121001-40intelcolor500.jpg | Nov 15 09:59 |
| TechrightsSocial | Not a web page! Aborting image/jpeg type | Nov 15 09:59 |
| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/97893698 | Nov 15 09:59 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Alexandre Oliva (lxoliva)'s status on Thursday, 15-Nov-12 04:57:23 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz clearly something's wrong with the govt&corps reading of “Freedom of Information” | Nov 15 09:59 |
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| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/97897936 | Nov 15 11:43 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Jose R Rodriguez (metztli)'s status on Thursday, 15-Nov-12 11:03:09 UTC - Identi.ca: If you were 1 of the 1.6million humans in largest open-air prison. Your children would be raised with their human potential destroyed. #Gaza | Nov 15 11:43 |
| schestowitz | I was talking about this one particular conflict (shelling by both sides), not the whole issue. | Nov 15 11:45 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2106553 | Nov 15 11:45 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Strings of words monopolised http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/06/showbiz/movies/faulkner-midnight-paris-allen-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 #copyright | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly - CNN.com .::. Size~: 44.36 KB | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | "Don't quote Faulkner, don't mention his name, certainly not his books. See what good that does the estate of vultures and parasites." | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | Punishing him for the heirs who are greedy | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2106531 | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: A month after download law, consumers spending less on music: survey http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/a-month-after-download-law-consumers-spending-less-on-music-survey?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-11-07_AM #copyright #japan | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: A month after download law, consumers spending less on music: survey ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion .::. Size~: 122.79 KB | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | "Interesting comment." | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2106536 | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: UK Newspaper Licencing Agency Says Musicians Need To Pay To Quote Reviews http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121109/13405920994/uk-newspaper-licencing-agency-says-musicians-need-to-pay-to-quote-reviews.shtml #copyright | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: UK Newspaper Licencing Agency Says Musicians Need To Pay To Quote Reviews | Techdirt .::. Size~: 127.62 KB | Nov 15 11:46 |
| schestowitz | "NLA v.M&S - typography..lol! http://is.gd/3ngtAH " | Nov 15 11:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: House of Lords - Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited v. Marks and Spencer Plc (Original Respondents and Cross-Appellants) .::. Size~: 35.87 KB | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2098798 | Nov 15 11:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #Image #Picture #Comics #Environmental #destruction | Nov 15 11:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | Photo by ii_try@pod.orkz.net: https://pod.orkz.net/uploads/images/thumb_medium_87357e0e5f945deabff1.jpg | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | Ugandans ...... no different ....... OIL .... what part is it playing in everything ? | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20312220 | Nov 15 11:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: BBC News - Ugandans evicted to make way for oil refinery .::. Size~: 84.5 KB | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 15 11:47 |
| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://identi.ca/notice/97898959 | Nov 15 12:03 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Jose R Rodriguez (metztli)'s status on Thursday, 15-Nov-12 11:54:12 UTC - Identi.ca: On Nov 29, 2012, #Palestine's prez #Abbas'll submit #UN bid as an 'observer' State http://bit.ly/UojQyM #Israel threatened to attack anyway | Nov 15 12:03 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: AFP: Israel ministry proposes 'toppling' Abbas over UN bid .::. Size~: 79.29 KB | Nov 15 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, Roy, | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > I looked at robots.txt and see it is kind of empty, should we append | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > the following lines to it? | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > User-agent: bingbot | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > Disallow: / | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > User-agent: msnbot | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > Disallow: / | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > MSN bot is rumored to ignore robots.txt so some rules can be added to | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | > the firewall. | Nov 15 13:34 |
| schestowitz | I never saw a reason to ban Microsoft from sending people to Microsoft-hostile sites. | Nov 15 13:34 |
| qu1j0t3 | lol | Nov 15 13:46 |
| qu1j0t3 | right | Nov 15 13:46 |
| qu1j0t3 | we would be outraged if M$ did it (almost certainly thet do) | Nov 15 13:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | y | Nov 15 13:47 |
| schestowitz | we get a little traffic from there | Nov 15 14:04 |
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| schestowitz | > Ok. PJ at Groklaw bans all search engines even DDG and Google. | Nov 15 14:30 |
| schestowitz | IMHO, that's just utterly stupid. It follows the paywall idealogy that PJ has been criticizing. Why limit her audience's reach? Anyway, I only knew she suppressed comments from reaching spiders. | Nov 15 14:30 |
| schestowitz | > She blocks all of them from all of the site. I had tried to convince | Nov 15 14:43 |
| schestowitz | > her a few years ago to open up the articles and Comes exhibits at | Nov 15 14:43 |
| schestowitz | > least. It's important for those to show up in the search. She's also | Nov 15 14:43 |
| schestowitz | > banning at the same time Archive.org, so there is no historical record | Nov 15 14:43 |
| schestowitz | > of the site either. IMHO such stringent blocking marginalizes the site. | Nov 15 14:43 |
| schestowitz | She bragged about the Library of Congress documenting the site. I really don't understand these contradictions then. PJ does not hate Google or anything... | Nov 15 14:43 |
| qu1j0t3 | weird | Nov 15 14:53 |
| qu1j0t3 | i guess i can see some rationale for blocking misbehaving corporates from profiting from material she curates | Nov 15 14:53 |
| qu1j0t3 | meh, it's a grey area | Nov 15 14:53 |
| qu1j0t3 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/ireland-medieval-abortion-law-savita | Nov 15 17:13 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: I am ashamed that Ireland's medieval abortion law still stands | Emer O'Toole | Comment is free | The Guardian .::. Size~: 312.07 KB | Nov 15 17:13 |
| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/97901620 | Nov 15 18:48 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Glyn Moody (glynmoody)'s status on Thursday, 15-Nov-12 14:56:30 UTC - Identi.ca: #China unveils new #drones aimed at buyers in developing countries - http://bit.ly/ZQwgEC another significant milestone (v @schestowitz) | Nov 15 18:48 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: China seeks drone buyers in developing countries .::. Size~: 82.28 KB | Nov 15 18:48 |
| schestowitz | [14:53] <qu1j0t3> i guess i can see some rationale for blocking misbehaving corporates from profiting from material she curates | Nov 15 18:48 |
| schestowitz | as in, indexing it? | Nov 15 18:49 |
| schestowitz | They give her traffic | Nov 15 18:49 |
| schestowitz | People can still scrape groklaw | Nov 15 18:49 |
| schestowitz | it's not a paywall issue | Nov 15 18:49 |
| qu1j0t3 | i know | Nov 15 18:52 |
| qu1j0t3 | i suspect she has problems with google ethics | Nov 15 18:52 |
| qu1j0t3 | and the equation 'we are the product, google skims' isn't too far off | Nov 15 18:53 |
| qu1j0t3 | Nov 15 18:53 | |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/ralpost/statuses/269084425097203712 | Nov 15 18:57 |
| TechrightsSocial | @ralpost: The relationship between Apple and its users is like that between parents and a 12 year old: http://t.co/w7xl3nt6 (via @schestowitz) | Nov 15 18:57 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Apple under fire from activists for shooting down drone app | Apple - CNET News .::. Size~: 74.32 KB | Nov 15 18:58 |
| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: no, she defends GOogle | Nov 15 18:58 |
| schestowitz | also on the linking matter | Nov 15 18:58 |
| qu1j0t3 | hm | Nov 15 18:58 |
| qu1j0t3 | i 'm sure there have been moments when she's questioned their ethics. | Nov 15 18:59 |
| MinceR | other sites still have the Comes exhibits, right? | Nov 15 18:59 |
| qu1j0t3 | anyway it's worth asking, maybe she should put a notice up explaining why she blocks crawlers. it's an FAQ. | Nov 15 18:59 |
| schestowitz | I'm not sure she blocked it | Nov 15 19:00 |
| schestowitz | but a reader of grokla tells me so | Nov 15 19:00 |
| schestowitz | he also reads TR | Nov 15 19:00 |
| qu1j0t3 | i s t r that groklaw was never googleable | Nov 15 19:32 |
| schestowitz | it improved | Nov 15 19:33 |
| schestowitz | I think this is a k00k: | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > So as I said, I have a situation that should be right up your alley. | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > I started in IT in 1979. In 1992, I started a computer repair | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > business. At that time I had a DOS 3.3 computer. | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > I upgraded that pc to win 3.1 by buying a DOS 5 and a dos 6.22 | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > upgrade. Backed up data, upgraded to a scsi hard drive, formatted | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > with the dos 5, upgraded to dos 6.22 and installed win 3.1. | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > I started spreading a malicious code to my customers via floppy | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > diskette. The malicious code (believe it or not) caused ANY | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > computer (that accessed the floppies I formatted in my pc) to break | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > down. After roughly two weeks of my visits, those pc's started | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > locking up more and more frequently till a piece of hardware | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > required replacement after roughly 3 months. Of course I was | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > unaware of the malicious code but my customers apparently decided | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > that I was a programming genius and had created a code to increase | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > my business. | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:24 |
| schestowitz | > The DOS 5 I bought was represented to me as a MS DOS but it was not | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > and I was not exactly familiar with MS at that time. I had heard of | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > them, but my experience suggested they were just another DOS mfg. | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > This is hard to believe, but MS started harassing me. I know this | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > for many reasons, one of which is Bill Gates' father drove by my | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > home one day and when I went to lunch at my normal restaurant, he | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > was there with his wife staring at me. | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > Well, all hell broke loose. The intel community thought I was a | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > virus writer. After 4 years of my being harassed by so called | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > customers, I found a fix for this issue. This fix is incredible. It | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > still works on XP pc's. I still use it to fix main logic boards, | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > network cards, video boards, laser printer power supplies, even an | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > Apple hard drive in 1998. The problem with this fix is that it | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > communicates to me that I found a fix for intentionally built in | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > failures. The way this fix is performed is controversial to say the | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > least. So I believed that I had discovered proof of consumer fraud | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > in the computer industry and I reported it to the DOJ. | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > It turned into a Clinton scandal. I read a story on the net saying | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > that Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Hillary were in a room | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > somewhere talking about a computer virus. I have been informed that | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > Hillary was involved in harassing my business which was shut down | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > in late 1996. There was some pretty heavy pressure put on me. It | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > was a nightmare. It seems these ladies were involved in my | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > harassment which destroyed my business. | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > Anyway, I'm not a programmer. I have this pc that creates this | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > malicious code....it still works because of my fix. I need someone | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > to determine whether this malicious code is the result of the | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > floppy controller defect. It seems to me that the OS monopolization | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > by MS involved the fcd. I also need a lawyer. I have approached | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > many lawyers in the past, but none of them seem interested in going | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > after MS | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > I am in a very powerful position with all of this. My fix is proof | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > positive of consumer fraud. If I can get a lawyer to represent me, | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > a win is guaranteed. In a perfect world that is. | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > This fix revives dead and otherwise failing hardware. An aspect of | Nov 15 20:25 |
| schestowitz | > it stops pc's from failing and decreases the odds of viral | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > infection. It also will close the ports opened by malware. | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > Any thoughts? Ideas? Possible legal help? I could post my fix as a | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > last resort. I'm hurting financially though. | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for listening. | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > By the way, I have references from people I have used this fix for. | Nov 15 20:26 |
| schestowitz | > It works when EVERYONE else says the hardware can't be repaired. | Nov 15 20:26 |
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| schestowitz | > I guess my information is outdated. The articles show up in Google at | Nov 15 23:12 |
| schestowitz | > least. The robots.txt at Groklaw does allow some indexing now. | Nov 15 23:12 |
| schestowitz | > Either that or I remembered things very incorrectly. Things change I | Nov 15 23:12 |
| schestowitz | > guess. | Nov 15 23:12 |
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