Can someone explain to me his rationale for having websites mailed to himself?
RMS lifestyle
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#42If you're curious to know more about RMS for some reason this is fun to browse through: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer... "I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up." I really want to know what horrific experience RMS had with breakfast in the past such that you can't even mention it to him!!
RMS is legendary for not getting up before the crack of noon. "Breakfast" is for "mornings". he has neither.
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#43Is this page a substitute for a facebook profile? :-)
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#44God bless RMS!
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#45Stallman's honors and awards for just some of the great work he's done (like launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs): 1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the Chalmers University of Technology Computer Society 1990: Exceptional merit award MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant") 1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray…
Your first sentence is deeply meaningful.
The rest is all gunk -- it's basically his equivalent of his Facebook friends list.
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#46Dude is so strange. I mean seriously, who knows that much about that many kinds of esoteric music? It's like he wants to be contrary to the rest of the population on purpose.
Edit: Fuck you HN. RMS is an extremist. I should hope that most of you have the critical thinking skills to realize that his extremism is just as dangerous as Timothy McVeigh's. Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN? I've come to realize (sadly) how many hours I've wasted on this bullshit. PG, please ban this account.
> Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN?
In your profile settings, you will find two boxes marked "maxvisit" and "minaway". If you set those to a small value (like 1) and a large value (like say 602430), and then ALSO set "noprocrast" to "yes", you'll basically be unable to use your account.
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#47I think he makes a good point about ties.
I disagree with him on ties. I think a lot of people enjoy wearing ties because they think they look good. It's mens style. Just like how he likes plain t-shirts. This from someone who almost never wears them, but thinks they look good in general.
Aside from fashion, I think a tie generally reminds people of their own posture. I'm prone to some heavy slouching day in and day out but a tie quite literally keeps me straight (a bent tie feels... displeasing).
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
For phones to function they have to talk to cellular towers continuously. You can triangulate a location based on the chatter. Phone companies also keep detailed logs.
What about being made into listening devices? That would require turning on the microphone and transmitting the signal without the user noticing. Is that possible?
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#49I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices. I find this hard to believe. Wouldn't the extra battery usage make it obvious, especially on Android devices that can track this as well as network usage at a very low level? Or is there some kind of h…
Dunno about listening devices, but certainly tracking devices: Remember this from a few years back - http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten - a guy retrieved all information his telco had on him under some kind of freedom of information laws, and he threw it all up online. Someone then took the data, mashed it up with his public tweets/posts and made this cool interactive map/visualisation showing exactly what he'd been up to.
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#50It annoys me how willing he is to push the externalities of his decisions onto other people. ("I won't carry a cell phone, but fortunately everyone else does and I can just mooch off of them"). It's like that friend who won't own a car but sure as hell will mooch a ride. This reminds me of a story my friend told me. Back in the early 90's(?) my friend had his lunch eaten by RMS, several times. I don't think it was ma…
Huh. I thought he had a free-libre cell phone at some point.
Anyway, one can buy a throwaway cell phone in cash, and power it down when not in use, I thought. Like drug dealers do.
Still surveillable, but no more than any borrowed phone.