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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.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:00 PM EDT |
Kind of a heart warming
story. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 05:42 PM EDT |
They're going after vowels!
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.
--- Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for it makes
them soggy and hard to light. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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