Re: Stuttgart 21 protests

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] Alex, this article in Stern was only about S21. If the best that can be said about this disaster in the making is that alternatives are also bad, then it's best shut down right away. Hopefully, this is what Deutsche Bahn is considering doing.

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 April 2011: NYLUG HackFest, and Lisp NYC, with remote Michael Bohn and near Heow Goodman

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=two official announcements first=NYLUG HackFest, see first announcement for more information second=Lisp NYC with remote Michael Bohn on Acheron, Common Lisp's [Google Web Toolkit]-like Thing, and after, eating and drinking

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread RJack
SFC and Erik Andersen's motion to join Westinghouse Digital Electronics, LLC (WDE) as a defendant has been DENIED. Judge Scheindlin: Because plaintiffs have failed to prove the crucial factor of inadequate consideration, their de facto merger and mere continuation theories of successor

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
RJack wrote: SFC and Erik Andersen's motion to join Westinghouse Digital Electronics, LLC (WDE) as a defendant has been DENIED. Judge Scheindlin: Because plaintiffs have failed to prove the crucial factor of inadequate consideration, their de facto merger and mere continuation

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread John Hasler
Haines Brown writes: And yet a skype application is part of debian... I can't find it: thumper/~ 19 apt-cache search skype earcandy - Sound level manager for PulseAudio bitlbee-plugin-skype - Skype plugin for BitlBee skyped - Daemon to control Skype remotely pidgin-skype - Skype plugin for

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 20 April 2011 NYLUG: Erik Kastner and John Goulah of Etsy on Deployment Management

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official NYLUG announcement edits= From: NYLUG Announcements i...@nylug.org To: NYLUG Announcements nylug-annou...@nylug.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG Presents: 4/20 @ 6:30PM Erik Kastner and John Goulah on

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 26 April 2011 NYLUG Hack Workshop

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official NYLUG announcement edits= From: NYLUG Announcements i...@nylug.org To: NYLUG Announcements nylug-annou...@nylug.org Message-Id: 20110426000733.28c71e5...@mail.nylug.org Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:07:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] UPDATED: Workshop /

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a motion to strike Plaintiffs'

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Michael M
Haines Brown hai...@historicalmaterialism.info writes: Skype is the principle way that I communicate with my distant wife, and so is of great personal interest. However, its acquisition by MS raises concerns. Will advertising for MS or third parties be embedded? Will MS mine data for my skype

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a motion to strike Plaintiffs' claim for actual damages and any additional

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: David Kastrup wrote: Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 3 May 2011 NYTECH: Panel on The Pervasive Network; Wednesday 4 May 2011 NYCBUG: William Baxter on The Unix Way

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=two official announcements first=NYTECH General Meeting on The Pervasive Network; I have not dissected out from the adhering syntactic markers the list of speakers, but this is a Serious Public Face Meeting, and includes a speaker from Verizon

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miles Bader: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: One very convenient thing about Skype is the skype in and skype out services -- they let you use skype for calling from a normal phone, or calling somebody on a normal phone. Are there any companies that offer this service using a

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: David Kastrup wrote: Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant Best Buy Co., writes to

Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

2011-05-24 Thread RJack
On 4/27/2011 5:28 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: Just in: 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a motion to strike Plaintiffs'

NYC LOCAL: Saturday 7 May 2011 Courant Institute: Clay Shirky, Paul Horn, Raia Hadsell, Nava Rubin, Chris Bregler on Robots, Threat or Menace

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official Courant Gathering announcement, via Evan Korth note=early hour of this meeting edits=some odd characters suppressed, white space rearranged Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:50:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Korth ko...@cs.nyu.edu To:

Re: RMS rewriting history (rewriting book about himself)

2011-05-24 Thread chrisv
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de wrote news:4dc9823f.c91f6...@web.de... Original: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html Mark Fischer, a Boston attorney specializing in intellectual-property law, recalls discussing the license with Stallman during this period. Richard had very strong

RMS rewriting history (rewriting book about himself)

2011-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Original: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html Mark Fischer, a Boston attorney specializing in intellectual-property law, recalls discussing the license with Stallman during this period. Richard had very strong views about how it should work, Fischer says, He had two principles. The

NYC LOCAL: Thursday 19 May 2011 UNIGROUP: Perry Metzger on Deploying IPv6

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official UNIGROUP announcement rsvp=registration requested, see below entrance-fee=yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html; location=The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below info=http://www.unigroup.org; personal=Perry Metzger always speaks to the

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 10 May 2011 NYLUG Hack Workshop and Lisp NYC Eating and Drinking

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=two official announcements first=NYLUG Hack Workshop second=Lisp NYC Eating and Drinking edits= announcements-separator=* * From: NYLUG Announcements i...@nylug.org To: NYLUG Announcements nylug-annou...@nylug.org Message-Id:

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 18 May 2011 NYLUG: Cameron L. Fadjo on the Scratch Programing System

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official NYLUG announcement note=location is not IBM building at 57th and Madison, see below license=The license for the Scratch Programming System is at http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/1.4License As far as I can see, it is a BSD style

The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Haines Brown
Skype is the principle way that I communicate with my distant wife, and so is of great personal interest. However, its acquisition by MS raises concerns. Will advertising for MS or third parties be embedded? Will MS mine data for my skype name or other information and sell it to a third party?

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Haines Brown
John, I stand corrected. Debian aptitude reports: Package: skype New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.1.0.81-1 Priority: extra Section: non-free/net Maintainer: Skype Technologies i...@skype.net So it is open but not free.

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miles Bader: One very convenient thing about Skype is the skype in and skype out services -- they let you use skype for calling from a normal phone, or calling somebody on a normal phone. Are there any companies that offer this service using a free protocol...? Uhm, there are many, many

Personalised Pens, Pencils, Crayons, Highlighters and Markers

2011-05-24 Thread seema sikka
Promotional pens suppliers and can organise every aspect for you from design and artwork to fulfillment and logistics. http://www.promotionalpensstore.co.uk/ ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Miles Bader
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: One very convenient thing about Skype is the skype in and skype out services -- they let you use skype for calling from a normal phone, or calling somebody on a normal phone. Are there any companies that offer this service using a free protocol...?

Re: The future of Skype for Linux

2011-05-24 Thread Miles Bader
Michael M n...@ingtotell.you writes: As far as the future of Skype on GNU/Linux is concerned, there isn't one. I think people need to start looking at the free alternatives that are available now rather than locking themeselves in even more with Skype. One very convenient thing about

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 24 May 2011 NYLUG Hack Workshop

2011-05-24 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official NYLUG announcement note=A short introduction to trees may be presented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_%28graph_theory%29 [page was last modified on 19 May 2011 at 11:41] edits= From: NYLUG Announcements i...@nylug.org To: NYLUG