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["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

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Subject:	Robert L. Bass tries to screw Dave Houston

Subject: re Bass
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx  (Dave Houston)
Date: 7/3/2004 8:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <40e83121.11319269@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm sure this will do little good but when such an abominable lie is
repeatedly spread by such an abominable liar as Bass, I think it
requires a
response. He knows I keep him in my killfile so I guess he figures he
can
take these shots with impunity.

When he posts, "Not too long ago when he was begging for help I tried
to put aside our differences; privately offered to assist him and got
publicly slammed for it." he is lying! Anybody who wishes can check
Google
for this group back in May/June of 2003 just after I got out of the
hospital. You will find no post from me asking for help. You will
certainly
find no post from me "begging" for help. But being the bottom feeding
dishonest bit of sub-human slime he is, Bass has repeated this lie
several
times.

I turned down offers from a few people who offered help when I said
that I
would probably have to move and stop posting here. I have since managed
to
get into the VA healthcare system which gets me my cardiac medications
at $7
per prescription per month - a savings of a few hundred dollars each
month.
That has allowed me to stay in the apartment I've been in for the past
7-8
years.

I did ask if anyone with the appropriate skills was interested in
taking
over an application I wrote several years ago that gave those without
the
ability to speak (from brain injury, ALS, CP, stroke, etc.) a way to
control
their environment and use text-to-speech to "speak", even originating
and
answering phone calls. I offered the sourcecode for free. Bass, being
the
slime-ball, con-artist, hypocrite he is, sent an e-mail trying to
wheedle me
into giving him the sourcecode. I guess he thought he could then sell
it to
someone else - he certainly has demonstrated no programming skills nor
even
a beginners understanding of computer related security issues although
he
ridiculed my warnings about active scripting. (CERT and other computer
security experts this week recommended abandoning IE because of severe
security holes related to active scripting.) If Bass would like to
settle
this in an appropriate venue, I can prove eveything I've said and
disprove
everything he has said. Bass would be the last person on earth that I
would
consider to take over the sourcecode.

I _gave_ that sourcecode to someone else who did have world-class
programming skills. I'm not sure if he did anything with it. I wrote it
back
before the government would subsidize similar software so he may have
decided there was no longer a market. Or he may have been unimpressed
with it.

My diagnosis was severe congestive heart failure. My cardiologist has
steadily increased my dosage of the two main medications and I'm
functioning
nearly as well, although with decreased mobility, as before. I'm trying
to
finish off several DIY HA related projects in whatever time I have
remaining. Many are nearing completion.

The X-10 RF input module for the Ocelot/Leopard will probably be of
interest
to the greatest number but I'm also working on porting Commander-X to
an
embedded, networkable, under $100 system.


Continued ::::::::

Subject: Re: re Bass
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx  (Dave Houston)
Date: 7/6/2004 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <40ecc4ac.154854418@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When Bass sees his lies refuted, he responds with another.

>> Mr. Houston placed a page on his website and many from this newsgroup saw
>> it.  In that page he stated that due to his declining health and financial
>> issues related to his health he would not be able to continue his work.  He
>> asked if anyone wanted to maintain a site and offered to provide his code
>> for that purpose.

There was NEVER any such page on my website.

There was a notice that due to my health I could no longer maintain the
site
nor respond to emails it generated.

There was a link to a page which gave a brief detail of my health
problems
and which offered to give the sourcecode for SpeakOUT! (the
text-to-speech
application program for the disabled) to any qualified person who would
update it and make it available (whether for free or as a commercial
app)
for those who could use it. The person I really wanted to take it over
was
an Air Force pilot who expressed strong interest but then got
transferred
and found himself with little free time to devote to it.

There was no plea for assistance. There was no request that anybody
provide
web space for ANY purpose. The page was already hosted on donated
server
space that did not cost me one cent so there was no reason to request
that
someone maintain a site.

When the emails actually increased, I shut the web page down.

When an individual with suspect motives posted a message here that it
was
still available in the WayBack archives, there was another spurt of
email so
I had it removed from the archive. (They understand copyright law.)

The page was hosted by a company that has an international IT business.
They
have servers in Europe, North America and Asia. All mirrored my pages;
all
were archived religiously on a daily basis.

There were dozens of people who emailed me offering free server space.
Most
said they had made personal archives of the pages and would publish
them
with no work on my part. Since that defeated the purpose of shutting
down
the pages, I declined all such offers telling them I would edit the
pages
and republish them at a later date. So, there are many, many archives
of the
pages held by independent parties which will prove that Bass is once
again
resorting to slander and libel.

To those complaining about my posts, I can only say that I did not
initiate
this exchange but I am not going to allow anybody to slander and libel
me
without responding. If you do not like that, use your killfile. If you
do
not want to use your killfile but still wish to complain, I can only
suggest
you follow the advice the Vice President gave to Sen. Leahy. ALL of
those
complaining made my killfile long, long ago.

Bass is a thoroughly dishonest slime artist who, lacking in technical
ability, resorts to personal slander and libel when someone posts
technical
data that he cannot refute.

His "FAQ" linked to each of my web pages (without permission) for
several
years. Most of his "FAQ" is composed of work done by others and used
without
permission.

It amazes me that nobody has turned Bass into gator kibble