Ted Smith tedks@identi.ca
Washington, United States
Uncompromising in the pursuit and defence of knowledge and freedom.
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2012-12-13T01:19:42+00:00
#Microsoft once called my work "Unamerican cancer". !Canonical calls it "McCarthyism" ur1.ca/byl1i Wealthy people sure do like name-calling!Stav Prodromou, Eternal Tyro, Bauer Crowley, Inc., Rob Myers and 6 others likes this.
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I can't help thinking this is an example of what this article describes: http://ur1.ca/c2v37[struggling with threading here, apologies for all the attempts if you saw them]
"#Microsoft once called my work 'Unamerican cancer'… !Ubuntu's !Canonical calls it 'McCarthyism…ranting & being a dick'" http://ur1.ca/byl1i
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2012-02-15T19:59:52+00:00
#ELC2012: I'm troubled that #pfefferz is proposing that !Linux "create official binary box interfaces"; that seems like giving up. :-/Ted Smith likes this.
Gustav Hartvigsson at 2011-10-08T22:55:41+00:00
@rajitsingh Well I have to agree with RMS, Jobs was just creating more and more canser (iPad,iPhone,iPod).Ted Smith likes this.
System76 at 2011-10-13T15:08:38+00:00
System76 - now shipping Ubuntu 11.10! Congrats to the Ubuntu developers and community for pulling off another great release!Ted Smith, Mike Linksvayer likes this.
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Bradley M. Kuhn at 2011-08-19T22:46:17+00:00
@fontana, you are forgiven. May I recommend a phone that can do tethering for such situations. It's changed my life, in many ways.Ted Smith likes this.
John Sullivan at 2011-08-09T01:52:19+00:00
AC unit overheated. Oh the irony.Ted Smith likes this.
@johnsu01 ouch, hope it's cooler up there than down here :/
Alexandre Oliva at 2011-07-23T19:54:40+00:00
extra! amy winehouse killed at US fed debt meeting on jekyll island off norway. or something like that. busy news dayTed Smith likes this.
Marcio B. Jr. at 2011-05-23T19:02:28+00:00
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John Sullivan at 2011-04-21T16:28:46+00:00
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@johnsu01 I don't think that link goes where you think it does?Bradley M. Kuhn at 2010-10-31T02:15:31+00:00
@otter, my gut says ∃ a proof in Computability Theory showing that question is undecidable. ∃ plenty of approximation algorithms, though.Ted Smith likes this.
Rob Myers at 2010-10-30T21:41:24+00:00
Corporations cannot use software any more than they can go on a date, so it's a category error to say they should be prevented from doing soTed Smith likes this.
@robmyers yes, but not quite. we humans manage to play some strange legal games. then you get to goose and gander thinking.
David Sugar at 2009-12-12T02:08:03+00:00
GNOME without a GNU is really as far as I am concerned GNOME without an M, and that means it's GONETed Smith likes this.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz at 2010-10-06T13:24:59+00:00
“Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.” --Bruce SchneierTed Smith likes this.
♻ @schestowitz “Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.” ~Schneier
Idle Revolutionary at 2010-08-25T21:42:03+00:00
To weigh in on the debate, capitalism is completely incompatible with !anarchism by any definition but a recently right-co-opted one.Ted Smith, a(n) person likes this.
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@idlerevolutionary Recently i have bug open on this one — it's going to scream
@idlerevolutionary It seems @dpic is the only one throwing "capitalism" around. No debate, just people arguing at cross-purposes !anarchismChristopher Allan Webber at 2010-08-20T15:11:46+00:00
Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones http://ur1.ca/16vy7 How much evil can you condense into a single action?Ted Smith likes this.
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chromatic at 2010-07-23T18:49:11+00:00
Unlike other languages, !Perl assumes that novices will eventually learn how to read code.Ted Smith likes this.
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2010-07-15T23:29:46+00:00
If you must give name & contact info to get a copy of software, it's not in spirit of software freedom,even if what they give you is #GPL 'dRichard Fontana, Ted Smith likes this.
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2010-07-02T01:49:40+00:00
#IPv4 exhaustion now slated for 2012. Maybe that's why Mayan calendar runs out then. Maybe last IPv4 addr block'll be assigned on 2012-12-21Osama Khalid, Tobias Diekershoff, Kimme Utsi, David Nelson and 1 others likes this.
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Rob Myers at 2010-06-29T12:08:52+00:00
Open Source was named as an ideology. That it's an ideology of economic exploitation rather than individual liberty doesn't change this.Ted Smith likes this.
