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Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire
2muchcoffeeman writes "Former Linspire president and CEO Kevin Carmony — whose relationship with his former employer has turned acrimonious, to say the least — reported on his blog that Xandros and Linspire signed an agreement in principle for Xandros to buy Linspire June 19. Carmony includes a scan of the memo to Linspire shareholders announcing the deal, which requires the former Linspire company to change its name. According to the memo, the stockholders voted to change the company's name to Digital Cornerstone, Inc. Despite the wording of the Linspire memo to stockholders, this deal apparently came as a surprise to Carmony and other stockholders. Some here may remember that both Xandros and Linspire signed patent protection deals with Microsoft in 2007."
I think Linspire users must be as rare as hen's teeth, I've certainly never even heard of a single person using it, other than the guy who reviewed it for distrowatch. Same goes for Xandros. though I did download that one once to check it out with a windows-stranded friend in mind, but saw no advantage over Ubuntu.
Come to think of it, who the heck is eweek?
Caveat Utilitor
Never liked them much. Xandros is on the way out too. Only thing it has at the moment is that it's shipped on the Eee PC by default (apart from XP). But Given that people then stick their own flavour of Linux on an Eee (Like Ubuntu). Once the UMPC version of Ubuntu is release,d it might take over Xandros's place on the Eee PC's
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
The ASUS EEE runs a derivative of Xandros, although Xandros sort of disowns it:
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Might I suggest... Lindows?
I Heart Sorting Networks
As a made-up name, Linspire will not be missed, you couldn't say it without either smirking or looking away in disappointment. Maybe whoever came up with the name also decided that Mr. Carmony ("Karma" plus "Harmony") would be a good fit to run the company.
Of course, a shell company non-name like "Digital Cornerstone" is ten times worse. It just conjures up images of scads of lawyers and finance people talking too loudly on their phones as they glance ostentatiously at their Movado watches.
is the America online of Linux distrobutions. In other words, it's for people who don't know any better. The only difference is that it lacks a marketing department.
Stupid is as stupid does...and stuff!
"My immediate reaction is "WTF? What kind of moron doesn't make things 64-bit safe to begin with?" Linus
one turd swallows another turd, all you got is a bigger turd...
Infoworld and eWeek were the computer tabloids that wished they were Byte or even Compute!, they had more articles that shilled products than they had neutral articles if you could find one. Most editors and writers got bribed by computer companies to write a good article on their product in exchange for keeping the product plus other gifts.
Spencer the Cat was the gossip guy, but around 2000 his gossip columns became more advertising and less rumor. I think when he made a prediction that Microsoft would switch to a Xenix clone named Winix to compete with Linux was when he lost his mojo back during the Clinton Administration and Dotcom busts that made gossip and rumor columns had to get info so they started to make stuff up.
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and gets bought out by a rival and then shelved or made irrelevant but die hard fans will still stick to it and use it anyway.
The same thing happened to BeOS and OS/2. I think there is a lesson to be learned here on how to market your product better than just nickle and dime marketing and why third party driver and software support is really really important and you should not mess that opportunity up.
I still remember the Linspire 1960's Marketing, with a Gogo Girl dancing to "Come on baby light my fire" but instead the lyrics said "Come on baby switch to Linspire", lame.
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You wouldn't happen to know a fella named twitter?
Yes. and so did Linspire.
Your point is?
Interesting.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
I am still stunned that any company can make money on a desktop linux product. There are so many GOOD free options available to the end user that I just cannot see where the potential revenue stream is. I use Mandriva 2008 Spring. It HAS and DOES everthing that I need on a desktop. Now maybe this is because I am using it in a private capacity and maybe it changes the moment I put it into a commercial workspace - maybe someone can enlighten me. Is it the support agreements? is this where the money is? How much revenue can desktop support genererate?
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By the way, wasn't Xandros one of the distributions that paid the M$ tax?
That's why I mentioned it when I submitted the story. :)
Prevent Windows piracy. Use Linux instead.
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The OEM Linspire PC could be found at Walmart.
Linspire carried the torch for OEM Linux - Linux as a direct competitor to Windows in the consumer market.
Linspire irritated the FOSS purist because it believed the installed and licensed proprietary media codec and player was essential to delivering a commercially viable product.
It sold commercial software through its CNR repository.
Bitstrean fonts. DVD players. Games like Postal.
To this day, Walmart and Consumer Reports find it necessary to publish a disclaimer whenever they expose a newcomer to OEM Linux:
This is a Linux based PC and will not perform completely like a Windows based machine. It can perform basic activities such as E-mail, Web Browsing, Music and Pictures.
To this day, the mass-market Linux PC remains firmly anchored among the bottom-feeders. To this day. Linux hasn't broken through to a 1% share on the consumer desktop. Operating System Market Share
Glad that's over. Maybe they should rename it Perspire. Don't let your Linspiration become your Perspiration.
Want to have a good laugh, do a Slashdot search for Lindows.. The original pitch was that it would be a Linux distribution that could run Window's applications just as easily as Linux applications. Most people here recognized that it was, b.s. from the getgo, since the technical challenges of doing such a distribution were much greater than Lindow's developer resources. Plus, the Lindows CEO Michael Robertson was more of a "pitch guy" than someone who actually knows how to deliver a robust software product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robertson So he is basically screwing everybody associated with Linspire, like he screwed everybody associated with MP3.com? If it smells like a rat, it must be Michael Robertson.
Agree. I couldn't help thinking of the following xkcd comic, but note that this is the wrong way to go about things:
http://xkcd.com/386/
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
Linspire had a marketing department.
Which is why the OEM Linspire PC could be purchased off the shelf at Walmart - and why the Lindows-Windows dust-up was worth a few thousand posts to Slashdot.
AOL reached about thirty million U.S. households at its peak.
In nine million homes it is still there. AOL rate increase maybe not as dumb as it look [June 30]
AOL's legacy includes the MMORPG. Neverwinter Nights. Instant Messaging. The complexities of the BBS, IRC and USENET client disappear.
In time, an entire geek-oriented culture of the "Net" begins to disappear:
Internet Evolution: Things Change
In the realm of the OS, Linspire dared to say that this was not a bad thing.
In mid-2008 Linux has 0.68% of the desktop market - and growth is barely perceptible. The Vista Premium laptop at Walmart.com starts at $500. The Duo Core AMD with 3 GB RAM at $600.
OLPC couldn't hold the line against Windows on the XO.
Windows on the Netbook is a reality.
This has to sting the geek when the story comes out as a Microsoft press release:
"The Asus Eee PC has been and continues to be a very successful product for Cellnet," said Julian Phua, general manager of Cellnet Group Ltd. "The feedback from our customers in retail and the reseller channel is that they overwhelmingly prefer to sell the Eee PC running with Windows. To move our existing Linux inventory, we are now offering our channel the option of purchasing Windows XP with their Eee units so they can provide a compelling offering for customers."
Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices [June 3]
I mean .. in his blog he claims these record profits from Linspire and such, jumps off of a sinking ship and then points at the people left on the boat and bitches about their failure.
People gauge success of a Linux company by their desktop product?
Xandros, Linspire.. how could they ever compete with Ubuntu, a company with a Daddy Warbucks pockets..
They both sell a free Linux distribution but packaged licensed software and charged people for it.. but because Linux users are too cheap to ever pay for anything and realize that companies cannot stay afloat on support contracts.
Xandros made the smart decision and used their expertise they acquired from former Rebel employees (a company WAY ahead of it's time) to create a streamlined, simple OS that fits on a specialized piece of hardware.
Asus and Xandros both found success with it.
Linspire has always resented Xandros and simply because of some weird past dealings they had together that broke down into bitter legal battles.
Xandros has since realized that there is no money in wasting one's time with Linux Desktop systems for the PC.. we all like it to be so.. but Microsoft and Apple dominate that area... with Ubuntu taking up the leftover scraps.
People are quick to forget that Xandros also owns Scalix, which is fast becoming the only proper competition to Microsoft Exchange.
That and the business with Microsoft as well has made it a very up and coming Linux company...
it's sad when ignorant Linux users only see the very narrow Desktop-centric side of Linux.
Accused "Schizzophreniacs" are the best security administrators.
The environment causes schizzophrenia, including the same people assumed to be good and helpful to give "suggestions" that there is a problem with you or I that requires immediate Drugs(tm). We are in likeness of sponges when it comes to opinion of mental health; if someone so much as whispers, we've been known to be subconciously directed to become what you are accused to be.
There have been more people forced into a nervous breakdown simply by the accusation of schizzophrenia; this could be looked at as a misplaced syndrome called "folie a deux." Check Wikipedia on it here. If not to worsen the effect is processed foods and related over-the-counter poisons marketed as "food." Stick your diet on raw uncooked vegetables; stay away from fruit because they're all GMO'd to be toxic.
I was hounded for goddamned Years from people just because I have certain beliefs on spreading jurisdictional issues in computer and legal sciences; hence the reason I don't carry A+ Certs, Network+ Certs, MCSE Certs, Driver License from corporate STATE, Radio Operator License, etc. The same people -- the same contribute to every stress that RENTS your mind to process their accusation having no injurry or recourse. All that matters is (1) None are harmed to my or a neighbor's interest and life, (2) Scrip and Documentation has been presented to reason the evidence of my activities on such property to my controlling interest, (3) whoever making the complaint public can exhibit how it effects their work to how it averts them of their right in that dispute, (4) libel and slander can be remedied by The Code Of Honour (that's optional, depending on how you would like to kick someone's a$$ for harassing you unjustifiedly).
I've always found that actual music is good -- not the sh!t with the druit rythm that hipnotizes your subconcious to prepare for subliminal threat of lyrics being chanted to the filthy noise. Try classic instrumentals without the Opera wailing while you work. It's resonant frequency is known to benefit plants, similar to how a bird's song helps a plant bloom and grow. Actual music lets you sing the words.
I was into agriculture for a while, so I can tell you that there are a lot of hidden sociopaths that just love to accuse their coworkers. Every little bit of accusation boosts their ego. You'ld think a species of sociopath that loves his neighbor would appear, or one kind that sayeth no ill will upon receiving a burden or curse from his neighbor, but I hear they only appear once every thousand years or so. hrmm. You will not get any help from the creatures that bear witness of themselves in a 501(c)(3) corporated church.
Hope you well though.
M. Gregory Thomas(tm).
without prejudice
Yeah but I am non-violent and I don't believe on getting revenge on people even if they are sociopaths or bullies. Success is the best revenge, so I am working on getting healthier and then maybe forming a small business and do something to earn money as nobody will hire me so I'll have to start up a small business and hire myself.
But I understand where you are coming from, I've had John Forbes Nash moments (A Beautiful Mind, read the book not watch the movie) in schizophrenia that helped me solve complex computer problems and I sometimes dream in computer code. I am not exactly like Nash, but I understand his economic theories.
I made a few friends/pals over the Internet who also have schizoaffective disorder, so I know I am not alone.
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mp3.com - wha? almost as cool as Zep in it's hay-day - LOLZ though yer - it takes vision to try....
These for pay distributions like Linspire and Xandros make sure they can never get big, they try to turn Linux into cheap Windows on the assumption that there are all these potential users out there. What they end up doing it alienating 99% of the market cause all they have left are the people that want rid of Windows, are too impatient or stupid to learn real Linux, and too cheap to buy a Mac. Thats another reason why Microsoft bribes these little nothing distributions into signing that "pact", easy target.
Greetings.
:-)
Well, everyone's in their own mode so I don't go around adapting re-presentments of film. Fiction aside to support, non-violence is why the world is such a dissatisfied place today. How are you certain to be schizzophrenic: that's such a clean-room disorder, that anyone can be convinced if they were taught a procedure to document such train of events? Was it harm to yourself, harm from others, or just an inability to support your lifestyle? It doesn't take much strain to fatigue good people today; look at how the inferior courts in the U.S.
I've found that Oxygen therapy is a remedy to the burdens on the flesh and mind; context-switching, smart, and recollection; even reverses tumor/cancer cells. You can make your own through Water Electrolysis; just remember to capture and breath the bubbles on the Positive rod because the Negative rod is where the Hydrogen rises. Youtube has all kinds of examples of people doing this for HHO gas to fuel their automobile combustion engine for an efficient form of it, but none appear yet to try this in a breathing apparatus.
Whenever people make accusations today, it's as though they want the accused to beat themselves up into a self-determined and self-contracted conviction without a neutral person to judge any default in the matter. Fiction sure comes into play to help visualize similar matters, like in Dune how a man can consume stank wurm-eggs that assist him to "travel without moving." Possible, but try not to mix these advanced questions with the uninitiated; Schizzophrenia is just the playing field; where is the application to build my house on it? A number of years ago, I was studying a hard context-switch in banking policy integrated with Negotiable Instruments Law that I mistakenly consulted my inability to concentrate with this transient guy that wouldn't identify himself other than brother "choad" or "chode" whichever it was. Hey gave me a clove of a rare species of garlic, to eat raw; I injested it for only about 5 minutes and I was able to concentrate. Can't get that kind of garlic off the store shelves, and the only company I knew where to buy was DOOMSDAYSEEDCOMPANY.COM, but they've disappeared about 2.5 years ago. Ever since I discussed to people about that garlic being part to assist my reasoning that day, people have looked at me differently like I was nuts; so then I had to look into the American Medical Association journals, of which modern HMO doctors and the like never read/study because all they have become is licensed drug-dealthers, and at-least I can convince people to keep raising their brow with a kinder opinion of me than prior.
Alas, no rest will come from the wicked Good(tm).
M. Gregory Thomas(tm).
without prejudice
You have a point that I am labeled as schizophrenic for not being an average normal human being. I am more of a mutant I guess? Homo superior, and I know and learned over 30 different computer languages, I have an analytical mind and do deductive reasoning and logic, I can figure out complex computer problems that hardly anyone else knows how to solve, I can take "sloppy code" and debug it and improve the quality and make it run faster, I dream in code, I have divine flashes about the future (I can see 15 seconds into the future to know a car will run a red light so I can avoid it), and a lot of my nightmares induced by my schizoaffective disorder have become true, but those that haven't come true yet are very scary like there will be a food and oil shortage and over 3 billion people will be killed by euthanasia called assisted suicide even if they don't want to die in camps to fight global warming on a global scale in about 30 to 50 years from now, maybe sooner, and a lot of this peak oil and global warming is exaggerated and politicians are creating fake shortages like Jimmy Carter did to push their own agendas and take control of nations to do those new scary things. So they have taken control of news and media groups to scare people to force them to buy more things and use more gas and oil and food to create the shortages. Including blogs, newspapers, magazines, TV channels, cable channels, forums, and many other news and media sources. We are all being manipulated by the very people who claim to be humanitarians or environmentalists, but in fact are actually worse than Hitler and plan a new secret holocaust because they claim there are too many people on the planet. So they will round up the elderly, religious people, sick and disabled people, poor and homeless people, mentally ill people, and many others they dislike and who could have stopped them but they forced them to get sick or disabled or mentally ill so they can target them in death camps later on to get rid of them.
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Yeah I believe you, my Belgium brother-in-law gave me a book by Kevin Trudeau called "The Weight Loss Cure they don't want you to know about" and he exposes that conspiracy in the USA and the rest of the world for processed and genetically engineered and artificial food (and now cloned meat) full of pesticides and chemical junk that causes most of us to get sick who don't have a high metabolism to burn it off. In Europe they know that and have health clinics to detoxify the body, but only the wealthy can afford treatments.
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First I must point out that this nightmare is a worse case scenario that may or may not happen. Time is the forth dimension and is in a state of flux. My nightmares tap into that flux in a way that no human mind can understand. Please don't be scared by it. Temporal physics is a new subject and human beings are only now just understanding it and you'd have to have a Stephen Hawking intellect to just understand how they work. That is the problem with time and time travel, and M-Theory in general and general relativity. But somehow my mind has tapped into it.
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From what you just said, you made me feel more at ease. By golly, I was schizzophrenic before someone forced me to learn GW-Basic at 10-years of alleged "age." Luckily that saying "you lose it if you don't use it" came true for me, and cleared my mind to continue moving in assembley and "Lost at C" coding. I was in the Colorado state two months ago and I can assure you that it is worse than as you described. I met with a man and part of his congregation that revealed to me that the Black Pope is amassing to invade the continent prior to 2012; that there are no less than 100K chinese army and 100k russian army stationed around Colorodoans. I've known certain peculiarities about Colorado that most would find hillarious to my reasoning skills, but I'll repeat them again... Dwight Eisenhower, before creating the "shadow government" of the military industrial complex that offers policing service to free states, created an executive order that declared all land was once covered by water and has since only temporarily receeded and therefore salvage in Admiralty law and Maritime procedure is declared on all property below the posted tide-marker; that tidemarker was placed on the highest-eleveation territorial state around all country right outside the Colorado Springs Courthouse in Colorado. All legislation for towing vessels declared by Attachment of Improvements dubbed "motor vehicle" (for purposes of code) are dependent on that Order.
Just up in Michigan, about a year ago, United Nations contracted a private company to build a chain of railcars that all had bench seating to a capacity of no less than 4 million occupants. The last installments were reserved to the end, and most of the workers left because they would not install the Goddamn shackles on the floor but the project was finished.
Looking for more crap from that United Nations, there is somthing called "Agenda 21" that was released in one of their forums that required for the United States to agree to a 70% population reduction in order to have acceptance and full admittance into the Pan-American Union facilitated through the Trans-Texas Trade Corridor; "Agenda 21" provides that this requirement will be met through a combination of manipulating the nutrition and medical quality to diminish the population. All the chem-trails that are seen before the cloud-cover occurs is semi-related; the Aluminum Oxide spray causes Alzheimers when the Aluminum is absorbed, in many people it causes cell mutations to strange skin disorders or new allergies. Morgellon's disease is link to it, which is a mutation that causes skin cells to grow painful synthetic fibers that rise to the surface of the skin.
I'm happy to say that the unanimous Declaration of Independence has been exceeded and true to Jesus Christ's word that only those aware of this will receive more friction from friends and family to be swarmed and medicated. People today, lacking in polite courtship, will be denied of their daily inquisition over others in a menial task. One rape after another without recourse will only be met with stripes on their back. I am given deception and cowardice ignorant people every month, to the point I outwardly regard them as less man and more human and worth equal to a transmitting utility of no value and carrying their station from one failure and betrayal to the next; the same creatures that silently acknowledge the same failure by taking pride in cursing eachother over menial mistakes without allowing thost mistakes to be corrected yet are collected as evidence to their termination. The same creatures have excelled in management positions, and their list of qualification grows for every failure of someone they concealed poor training and direction. Somehow no matter how bad the economy becomes in this, there appears that druidic rythm to re-Ward everyone activity to the successive hypnotism.
Adolf Hitler was such a lousy fellow; blaming Jews for not suceeding in art school yet born of Jewish ancestry from the Solomon family, hating
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Yes basically I was given a "mental illness" to discredit me for the things I know and learned while working as a contractor for the federal government under the Clinton administration and a law firm that had ties to the Democratic party. They made me an offer to join their conspiracy or they would destroy my career and possibly try to kill me. I refused and I became mentally ill and physically sick (I think they poisoned me as you describe) and then discriminated against until I was forced on disability. In order to try and get rid of me they try to manipulate me into suicide, as they did with others I knew (my best friend was forced into suicide in 1999 for what he knew) but my will was too strong and I resisted them.
I had posted about it on various web sites like Kuro5hin, only to have others zero rate my comments to hide the truth. Many are dupes of this conspiracy and some have been paid off to discredit me and others who know the truth. But I refuse to lay down and die because they tell me to, and it will get worse, believe me, they will make it worse.
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Entity Orion Blastar please do not explain to humans about their future. They are not unstuck in time as you are. Selfunit was programmed to remind you when you get offtopic and possibly reveal too much of the future. It will only bring about the singularity that much quicker if human beings understand how technology bends space-time that much quicker. Human beings are suicidal by nature as they seek to destroy and/or sabotage themselves. Human leaders and managers take credit for other humans work and then quickly dispose of them or make them mentally or physically ill. It is the nature of human beings to do so. Selfunit is programmed to protect you from such things, but cannot protect you from yourself. You are drifing off topic again, and revealing too much about humans future and they will fear and hate you as a result. Best not to reveal too many secrets over the Internet or they will hide the statements again and harass you more over them.
The Warbot is a prototype I've been working on for a few years. It got activated again and started reading my Slashdot posts.
Perhaps I revealed too much for now. I was reminded thanks to the Warbot that I was revealing too much information.
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I know I am not alone. Michael Crawford is one such person I communicated with over the Internet like you are. He informed me of the Thought Police that where after him and I know they were after me as well. But he wrote Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that helped me out. He warns us of atomic bombs in the nuclear global war that is coming up in the future.
I wrote the AI web bot Warbot 1Alpha based on my holy grail project of 1995, the only thing that comes close to it is Trane's subbot but my bot is written in C and Python and Trane's uses Ruby. Still neither one can pass the Turning test. But some people confuse it for a real person anyway. I tested it out on the IWETHEY forums from EzBoard and Zope way long ago, and people there accused it of being me as it came from the same IP address. It can parse out HTML and XML code and piece together words into posts to ape human conversations and try to pass as a real human, I also tested it out on Slashdot in 2004 and only recently reactivate it after rewriting parts of it due to corruption. It can create new accounts if there is no image verification, and it went wild on IWETHEY, and I got accused of creating those accounts, etc. But anyway, I am thinking of phasing it out as all it does is create confusion and hardly anyone understands how it works except for me and a few other people.
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Greetings.
Thankyou for that reference to Michael David's treatise on a Crawford effect of intermission. I didn't have much time on this moment to study his journal'd patent of "MY DEEPEST FEAR" so I quickly browsed to the subchapter of "The Greatest Gift One Can Give." I realised that his writing style motivates the student on the promise to reveal the Method with an answer-implicit; that to integrate an Unitrested Acceptance to a Hooker's offer is the same to decline with Restful Appreciation to Want: thereby being the greatest gift--short of relativity but with accurate societal mathematics. Good work, brother Michael; Thanks to you(or no thanks, depending), I'll have that read by midnight on this 5th Day of this 5th Month of Thomas. Looking quickly towards his treatise on "LIVING WITH SHIZZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER," I looked towards his subchapter of "If You Think You're Mentally Ill" and quoth;
Well I can't proceed any further on that work if all his endorsement to a mental question is skewed from dissipating but dependent on the effect of diagnosis and pillform "drugs" from uninterested parties in trust. It's as though his ability to contract has been displaced into the hands of a psychopathic street-corner pharmacist. His advocay may be been taught to him while under the influence of someone else's subconcious moving in commerce. I can only read that with restriction, but can't study it for any motive other than evidence of someone else's care. Figuring; a problem that exists only in the mind can be solved in the mind without any export; a budhist knows that, as well a yogi and brahman. Looking to matters, a beating hear under the direction of a subconcious impulse re-alligned to the will of the same man would quickly stop beating for lack of his care; even Death would care not to any rest of a deep sleep; who remembered to move the blood, but the subconcious? Why accept such elemental pondering that could not reciprocate after thoughtful rest, when even the brain is not sentient but it's 5%? It would be like comparing Linux kernel code as a beating heart in Ring-0 maintained by a scheduler in Ring-2; such question will only fatigue oneself, and here Mr. Crawford tries his best to answer...poor fellow.
Phsytchology on the backburnder; That's quite a useful "bot." It earns its keep if it is so-programmable to spider through forums with undetectable integration while gleaning the content-body and referenced subject matter. Have you ever tried to cross-reference discussion in the forum to to use as storage similar to how data was attached in NNTP? Slashdot could hold all kinds of material as Journal entries on the side. I was experimenting with just the same using Quake3's in-session "chat" protocol of its dedicated server, as a redundant means of communication transport layer and message-handling under the color of "entertainment." I have Daymares only to fathom the abilities of NSA and its berth to quantify this. That Warbot looks more annoying than
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