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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?
Stallman'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…
Stallman'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…
But why compile a list of things that basically says, "I generally don't like people, the things most people do or have, or the silly rituals most people enjoy."
I can respect his opinions, but he comes across as very condescending...
That said, I do admire how much of a diehard he is about his beliefs. Not many people actually "walk the walk" when it comes to not owning a cell phone in today's age...
It's Stallman's own title, but a much more accurate title would be "RMS Opinions" I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. For instance: > As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie. Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people. If he wanted to be more descriptive of his lifestyle, he co…
He's not a "minimalist", he is a freedom activist. He believes ties impinge on freedom.
The passenger does not run the train software. The train owner can choose what kind of software they want to use. RMS's trains (of which he has none) do not run non-free software.
RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decades, you aren't going to discredit him with 5 minutes of snark.
> he seems to have a very negative view of almost all other people.
And yet he dedicates his life to improving theirs, even though he could easily accumulate a few million dollars and retire. I'll take enemies like him over friends to make an effort to personally attack strangers for having a principled lifestlye, any day.
Stallman'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.
I get the impression that this lifestyle is a very solitary one although it does seem to be by choice. Which is fine but he seems to make quite a few assumptions about the way other people live their life and why. For example: "However, there is an absurd social pressure on men to wear ties. They do this as a form of sucking up to the boss." Perhaps they just like the way they look in tie? ---------------------------…
Can someone explain to me his rationale for having websites mailed to himself?
Source: http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Maybe because he's just interested in the textual content.
It's Stallman's own title, but a much more accurate title would be "RMS Opinions" I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. For instance: > As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie. Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people. If he wanted to be more descriptive of his lifestyle, he co…
"I refuse to own a tie" is a fact, not an opinion. Much of the following discussion is an opinion. He's not a "minimalist", he is a freedom activist. He believes ties impinge on freedom. The passenger does not run the train software. The train owner can choose what kind of software they want to use. RMS's trains (of which he has none) do not run non-free software. RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decad…
But he has weird personal hygiene. Certainly that invalidates one or two of his moral/philosophical points!
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It's Stallman's own title, but a much more accurate title would be "RMS Opinions" I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. For instance: > As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie. Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people. If he wanted to be more descriptive of his lifestyle, he co…
does RMS actually use a checking account?
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets compensated with briefcases filled with bills...