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Google is dropping open standards - Evil
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 02:33 PM EDT
FROM: http://eschnou.com/entry/whats-next-google--dropping-smtp-
support--62-24930.html

QUOTE:

What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?

A company that was the cheerleader of the open web is rapidly turning its
back on every single open standard they once championned. Their latest
move, announced yesterday at Google I/O, appears to be closing XMPP
server-to-server federation.

It is only a natural next step in a process started a while ago. Here is a
quick,
and probably not exhaustive recap:

* Google+ has no open RSS output, hence no PuSH support, no write API, in
fact it has absolutely nothing open

* Google Reader is scrapped, along with RSS support within Chrome

* WebDav for Google Calendar is dropped in favor of their proprietary API
XMPP is dropped, while 3 years ago it was at the core of their Wave efforts

If they continue with this trend, then why not drop support for SMTP (and thus
email federation)?

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If Google drops SMTP in favor of its own proprietary standard, it may force
you to use Gmail just to communicate with people on Gmail.

This is evil and hypocritical of Google.

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Flesh-eating bacteria victim Aimee Copeland shows off her new $200,000 bionic hands
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:00 PM EDT

Kind of a heart warming story.

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Open Source Is Not A Warzone
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:09 PM EDT
We prefer taste, professionalism and behavior being created by living a culture of taste, fun, substance and standards and not by writing a long list of forbidden unpleasant things.

We prefer to stand up against dickish behavior when it happens.

But we also see Open Source gatherings as a social event and we're going to actually say it in public: At a social event *gasp* sexuality, friendship, teasing or flirting might happen. This is part of humans living with each other. We consider the sexual liberation of the 70ies as progress which gave us women new liberties to live as we choose. We will not give up on that.

We see ourselves in the tradition of empowering feminism, of emancipation by having learned to say No, by being able to defend ourselves and we do not want to be indirectly victimized by overarching acts of protection by condemning basically every social behavior between men and women.

We are women of Perl and we're actually quite happy with our community.

http://sushee.no-ip.org/opensourceisnotawarzone.txt

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Broadband down - Android to the rescue - it just works :-)
Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 04:22 PM EDT
so Virgin BB has been down 21 hours and counting...

Started the day using my Note to create a Wifi hot spot and
did my browsing and searching from my Nexus 10.

Came back in later and BB still off Hmmmm...

My PC doesn't do WiFi ... but USB tethering .... help for
setting up XP ... none for Xubuntu...

None needed :-) Just plug the USB into the PC and Phone -
Disable Wired connection 1 and....

It just works ;-)

Happily browsing on my Dual Screens as God intended.


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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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  • Er where? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 10:56 AM EDT
On the topic of Web Patents
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 05:42 PM EDT

They're going after vowels!

RAS

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Laughs at the Supreme Court: a study
Authored by: xtifr on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 03:35 AM EDT

This is thoroughly off-topic and rather silly, but I figured some folks here might be entertained.

The Journal of Improbable Research just posted an article about a Professor at Buffalo University, who has been researching...laughter at the Supreme Court. In particular, which Justices get the most laughter (something he calls the ‘Laughter Episodes Instigated Per Argument Average’ or LEIPAA). No, seriously. You can't make this stuff up.

Justice Scalia won the competition by a landslide, instigating 77 laughing episodes, while Justice Thomas instigated zero laughing episodes, putting him all alone in last place among the Justices.
More info here.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to light.

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Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 03:42 PM EDT
The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.

A reader informed heise Security that he had observed some unusual network traffic following a Skype instant messaging conversation. The server indicated a potential replay attack. It turned out that an IP address which traced back to Microsoft had accessed the HTTPS URLs previously transmitted over Skype.

Heise Security then reproduced the events by sending two test HTTPS URLs, one containing login information and one pointing to a private cloud-based file-sharing service.

The H

and this too...

Skype's ominous link checking: facts and speculation
Jürgen Schmidt, The H

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Help - undeletable AV
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 10:17 PM EDT
I've got a Windows box (yeah, I know). I'm running Avast antivirus on it.
(Recommended, by the way.)

However, this particular box got messed up, apparently by a bad Microsoft
update. The Avast AV is now somewhat corrupted. So I want to delete it and
re-install. But...

- I can't uninstall it because the corruption trashed a file it needs to
uninstall.
- I can't make it stop running.
- I can't delete the files while it is running.

All suggestions are welcome...

MSS2

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30 Years Ago Today - May 19, 1983 - Catalyst for Russian perestroika
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT
At the end of that tour, the Whelans hosted a farewell reception for Gorbachev at their Amherstburg home on the evening of 19 May 1983, but Whelan himself was delayed in arriving. In what has since been called "the walk that changed the world", Yakovlev and Gorbachev took a walk in a nearby orchard, strolled among saplings and then past fields of corn, soy and wheat, had an earnest discussion, and resolved that the old ways in the USSR had to end.

According to Yakovlev's own words, this was where perestroika was born, with 80% of its features covered in that brief time in Whelan's back yard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Whelan#Catalyst_for_Russian_perestroika

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Google Glass? I can't bear to look
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 06:45 PM EDT
Because I am not strong enough for Google Glass. I am weak-willed. I am distractible. I wander off. It used to be called daydreaming, but with added technology it's more like paranoia. I can get lost in the thicket of a Google trail, leapfrogging from some snippet of information to a YouTube video, to...

And most people aren't on Twitter. It's still an elitist club, a technological divide that separates those inside the echo chamber from those outside it. And I've never been sure I want to be an insider. Waitressing at the Groucho club years ago cured me of that.
Guardian

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