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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/hgfernan/status/350680087353507842 | Jun 29 14:53 |
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| TechrightsBot | Not a tweet? | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | > On 06/29/2013 03:54 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> Articles like these can take thousands of hours of work, including | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> meticulous fact-finding and ghost-reading. To let all this down | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> the drain because some company values nothing but money is to let | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> the Bad People triumph over science and progress. Oracle did that | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> to code. I hope you succeed in restoring all the material, which | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> can be indexed by Google over time and found by the article title | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> or article slug/unique URL identifier. I know this would help my | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> future research; Google Cache expires fast and Web Archive is | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | >> incomplete. | Jun 29 14:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > I hope that the archive can be restored. IIRC there might have been | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > some material for one of the sites at Linux.com, but buried a little. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | Linux.com kept old article. I'm not sure about NewsForge. Even if it's hidden deep inside, the important thing is that URL structure is preserved, hence no "404 history purged". | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > The shutdown may not have been as much about money as it might have | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > been about ideology. The site was making some money as it was however | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > it was publishing *good* *practical* material about FOSS. M$ | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > ideologues can't handle that. At work and in private life all the | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > softers I've run across operate about like this, either more or less: | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/no-facts-allowed-discussions-about-it-strategy-are-sissies-221466 | Jun 29 14:54 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: No facts allowed: Discussions about IT strategy are for sissies | It jobs - InfoWorld .::. Size~: 100.58 KB | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | I already have it in my drafts for today. We don't know what city it's from. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > The common thread I find is that facts and data are to be shunned and | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > everything is to be shoehorned into a Microsoft "solution" no matter | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > how badly it fails or how much effort and ongoing maintenance is needed. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > Regards, | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | > PS. The message was signed but not encrypted. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | That's OK, I don't think Rick uses PGP. I had corresponded with him since 2006. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Prezbyter/status/350974392227991552 | Jun 29 14:54 |
| TechrightsBot | Not a tweet? | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | "The promotion of home 'ownership' & family begins our economic slavery as we scramble to stay above a rising tide of debt." | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | 'Home ownership', as I keep telling friends is peer-induced bollox. The bank owns the home for many years. Illusions. | Jun 29 14:54 |
| schestowitz | My wife's father wise enough not to be pressured into this trap. He bought his nice house when his siblings got theirs from bank | Jun 29 14:56 |
| schestowitz | One of his siblings could not even keep up with payments, and was forced to sell the house (not sure about details) | Jun 29 14:56 |
| schestowitz | "I know they have a special place picked out for me. Subversion, Stalin's imagined problem, escalated to paranoia, our problem." | Jun 29 14:57 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Prezbyter/status/350975148356145153 | Jun 29 14:57 |
| TechrightsBot | Not a tweet? | Jun 29 14:57 |
| schestowitz | It all starts with rejection of employment (against you), the roller coaster starts there... Germany, 1938 | Jun 29 14:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | >> Linux.com kept old article. I'm not sure about NewsForge. Even if it's | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | >> hidden deep inside, the important thing is that URL structure is | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | >> preserved, hence no "404 history purged". | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > About 10 years ago we used to talk about this kind of thing in grad | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > school. With printed matter, microfilm and other hard copies, the | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > recipient can hang on to copies as long as they can preserve the | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > physical medium. It is distributed that way and there is some | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > redundancy in that it might be possible to scare up a replacement copy | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > from the free market, though that option gets harder over time. What we | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > have now is centralization of both all access and all preservation. All | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > access for all users depends on a single chain of custody or | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > stewardship. All it takes is one bad steward and the chain ends. No | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > chance to pull in extra copies or backups. Then rights over the domain | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > name and the servers bring in additional single points of failure. Thus | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > it is that all published material can, over time, vanish in much the | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > same way. | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > Regards, | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | That's why Techrights preserves Patent Troll Tracker. I think it's a complete copy, but the author asked me to remove 4 pages that caused him to be SLAPPed. | Jun 29 15:09 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Prezbyter/status/350978904477020163 | Jun 29 15:10 |
| TechrightsBot | Not a tweet? | Jun 29 15:10 |
| schestowitz | "The entirety of Bush/Cheney admin described 9/11 as an 'opportunity', not a crime, disaster or tragedy. Their words reveal them" | Jun 29 15:10 |
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