Slashdot Mirror


User: hebertrich

hebertrich's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
198
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 198

  1. Missing devices.anyone ? on All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs · · Score: 1

    Key to the old tower is we can add to it.TV tuner card , expansions of all kinds , decent sound cards etc, Expansion and space in the case for other devices ( IDE cards and old drives , drive trays etc There's a lot of things we can do with a tower we can't with all in ones. For the amateur it may be ok , but for the serious computer enthusiast all in ones are too limited to be considered a suitable platform.

  2. Re:GNUpg To The Help on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    We need education : if there's ways that we can do it , perhaps a good thing would be someone or a group starting a site that is dedicated to demistify the workings of encryption for the ordinary joe. because to anyone not technically inclined , and even myself , it's a bit of a mystery. If you got good tips and info on how to make encryption easy for the common folk , like how to use it with gmail or other services i am sure there's a bunch of readers that would go on the bandwagon.
    Perhaps it IS time we grow pointy fur and needles. But we certainly need to make it easy because Auntie Laure can't understand the lingo.

  3. Re:Land of the free? Free what? Snooping? on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was THE most important legal website on the internet covering SCO , Apple/Samsung Microsoft/Novell etc etc
    The level of analysis and documenta on the site made it a unique tool and place to get information on litigation between the tech giants.
    This is where we followed the SCO owns Linux war against Novell et al . This is a terrible loss for all because the truth and documents was out there and we all participated and learned from it. It is a terrible loss for who are curious about their world and the workings of the legal system.
    I am in shock. I went there and spent thousands of hours on the site. I learned and owe the Lady in a Red Dress one hell of a lot.
    Thanks PJ . Forever in your debt.
    Ric

  4. Re:Good riddance on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Never one comment i ever written was ever , and i know of noone that ever was censored. If you were post your writings here for us to judge if she was right. Maybe you're one of them assholes that can't write a phrase without insulting anyone ? Maybe you deserved it for being a ponpous ass and racist and made out of order comments that could get anyone in trouble with the law ? :D

    Before blaming them , and by God did they ever do a fantastic job , give us proof . The balance of integrity and honor weighs highly in the Lady in a Red Dress's favour.

  5. what a bomb ! on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Holy shit ! .. What a totally unexpected ending.
    This is terrible. No words . I been following them since day 1 .. this is truly a shock and a terrible loss.

  6. Milk that cow ! on IPTV Providers To Pay Same Regulatory Fees As Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Do not worry , they will find a way to make all content on the internet including you tube new paid for by subscription services.
    Claiming it's fair return because most of what we find there is copyrighted material being shown illegally , hence lost revenues for the majors bla bla
    Dont worry .. they will milk the internet cow till she's giving powdered milk .

  7. Re:Just comply with the court order on Lavabit.com Owner: 'I Could Be Arrested' For Resisting Surveillance Order · · Score: 2

    and the money to fight it . .that's where justice is one ended : the govt has unlimited funds and know dang well that to fight them is impossible to do on even terms because of financial constraints , the average joe , that we can't match their dollars. Justice is a farce , to have justice you need to have huge loads of cash to throw at getting it which the average american and entrepreneur does not have. There is no justice when you have to buy it and you can't afford it.

  8. Re:Do these take up areas that food crops grow? on Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels · · Score: 1

    We need to stop using food as fuel period. We starve populations by doing this. It's a madness that has to stop.In the long term only electricity can truly save us from disaster. Whether it's coming from nuclear , solar , geothermal , hydro .. all that can be said is that electrics are the practical solution. But eh .. we have corporate whores in Washington that are elected by big oil money , it will never happen unless corporate funding is cut off of politics and lobby groups taken out of the corridors of power. To advance any , we need deep changes that both Dems and Reps will refuse to make because they are in the pockets of big money. A govern,ment of the People by corporations for corporations , modern slavery , is what they represent and work for.
    Get the whores out of Washington and vote for anyone but dems and reps. They do not deserve your trust nor the jobs.

  9. Re:Sugar Beet on Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Totally correct. As long as it's one of the 2 parties that get voted in things will remain the same. They are both corporate whores lying in our faces.
    I am not mincing my words : they are liars , two faced and dishonest from the first to the last. Surveillance on citizens will get worse , Corps will pay less and less taxes , healthcare will stay as unaffordable as it is today if not get worse , in few words : we'll keep getting screwed left and right coming and going .
    So much for nice speeches. They are worth nothing. Politicians have to give their word : of course they have to give their word , no one would ever buy something worthless as a politician's word. LOL Time for a true alternative to the big 2 . Time to elect and give a chance to real patriotic Americans a chance to govern.
    Up to now , Dems and Reps have proven to be just more of the same corporate whores that bend over for a dollar. We need a revolution and throw the bums out of the office.The American People deserve better than be run by corporations and be slaves to big money.

  10. Re:And so it begins on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    Yep , stop using the internet , simple. Go back to your old 56k modems and use them to keep private things private , Alternatively use RTTY , teletype over short wave radio. If you have a problem with a whole class of communications gear , like the internet , use another. Line of sight microwave between peers . Using lasers .. get inventive and have fun hacking something else.

  11. Re:Google should be happy on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Apple refuses stubbornly to pay for the Samsung patents ( offered on FRAND terms ) and uses the technology , We got a serious problem .
    That's the story behind the ban. Apple refuses to pay from the get go to use Samsung's FRAND offered patents in this case.
    On top of it , it tries to ignore the USPTO decision that made void and null ( and they got a final notice of rejection ) the patents it sued Samsung for. ..
    Of that litigation , very little damages if any will remain against Samsung.

    The whole Apple Samsung debacle documents at www.groklaw.net

    Google is right,using FRAND offered patents to sue companies suck .But there's a difference between suing someone because they refuse to pay for the patents they use offered under FRAND terms and using them as an anticompetitive weapon. That is what Apple is doing , they refuse to pay to use the technology.
    That is unacceptable . That is why they got banned. That is why " unbanning " the products is totally inacceptable for ANY company that releases patents under FRAND terms. It means it's OK to steal and use technology,Buy someone in Government if you want an out of jail card. This is a terrible decision.
    There will be repercussions for anyone that thought about or have patents offered under FRAND terms.

  12. Re:Don't care. on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    it's just as disgusting as pink slime .. ill stay far far far away , Plain and simple : it's disgusting , did i mention it's disgusting ? Cause i really think it's totaly disgusting .

  13. Re:Needs New Writer Instead on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Tennant did the best Doctor ever .. and his story with Rose .. wow .
    If that is not the best love story ever this side the galaxy , they were fantastic together. The stories were great. That's what got me hooked on.
    Smith also done a very good job .. but rarely the scenarios were as good and up to par with his talent.
    I guess that the next 50 years will keep us riveted . Long life to the Doctor. ! Cheers .

  14. Re:John Hurt on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Indeed .. At the end of the season i was under the impression he was to become the next Doctor and i was totally enthusiastic to see him . Somehow to know it may be someone else is a BIG disappointment .

  15. Bunch of savages. on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 2

    Enough said. And we feed them our money for petroleum by the boatload . Fu***** disgusting sons of bitches.
    May their crotches be infested by the fleas of a thousand Afghan camels and their arms be too short to scratch .
    .

  16. Nothing to do with safety on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    Taxi cab companies buy contracts at airports ( at least in Canada ) , to be there the cab companies pay for it.
    That is why the airport is teed off . If they get less rides the taxi companies can turn around and say " not worth it " and deal a lower price.
    It's got nothing to do with safety . It's ( yet again ) the almighty dollar talking.

  17. Re:Our of their minds... on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    The sole exporter of ? .. easy :)
    Misery.
    Persecution .
    Drone assasinations.
    The list is endless .. ill update Google

  18. You got to be kidding on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Putting my data on networks accessible to the NSA and other spying agencies ? Letting anyone have my data is out of the question ! How could anyone want someone else to keep his most precious data never knowing if they will loose it , have the company share all it's most private contents with fuc**** spies ?
    You got to be freaking kidding me . Did these guys missed the past 6 weeks with the Snowden story ?
    No way, That one's a dead rooster laying in the road . Not to be mean , but ill drive my car over it to make sure he's dead and stopped suffering .
    And probably back up to make really sure ..

  19. Re:Excellent initiative ! on Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco · · Score: 1

    You had to think when you elected the Governments who brought this upon you .
    Traitors to it's people . Breaking your own laws and the constitution .
    The criminals and traitors are in Washington. Infuriating ? it is , but you can't blame the world and dog
    for the actions of your government that led to this . It's time to pass at the cashier.
    The confidence is broken. Time to face the consequences your Government's gestures are doing and done is now .
    Don't blame anyone else than yourselves as a People ,. You're letting them do this.

  20. Excellent initiative ! on Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco · · Score: 0

    About time they reverse the tables. Can't trust the Americans at all witH anything that's communications related.
    Spies be spies and the USA has let the dogs loose . Their trouble now to try to have trust them again.
    Fool me once , shame on you , fool me twice , shame on me.

  21. What happens next? Nothing changes ! on Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative · · Score: 1

    What happens next?
    See what we have planned ( click link )

    404 — Fancy meeting you here!
    Don't panic, we'll get through this together. Let's explore our options here.

    Nothing changes LOL

  22. Re: war ? maybe .. on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 1

    Not attacking science ? Do you really prefer to let industry take care of the information you and I get ? As a Canadian i need to know a certain number of things , What is the state of stocks , how the resources are being exploited and hundreds more things we Canadian Citizens need to know to make informed choices . We need to know what goes on out there ! The government is not about government in itself ! The government is about each and everyone of us Canadians getting the best and our right to know ,to have fair assessments, clear pictures of situations and justice. It does include the right to know if we are getting screwed , how , and by whom , it's not good policy to say the private sector will now furnish data or rely on them for fair unbiased information. As example If you stop counting fish in the rivers , can you trust a private company to make sure that they do not fish over a certain threshold of population to insure the stocks are renewed and the exploitation sustainable ? No ? Good So you need to count fish . Fish is just an example . You need to have a solid monitoring on the country's resources .Same goes for mines , Same goes for the tar sands that was about to be classified as polluting more than std crude today by the Europeans. What is the status over there in Alberta ? How are they fucking up the environment ? There's a big lake just north of the tar sands, What's the pollutants there ? How is population downstream affected by the pollutants moving north of the tar sands ? These are dumped right in the Indians primary source of water and fish. How do they react to the new pollutants ? That's pretty much important . Think the private industry will give us access to the real numbers for that one ? ROFL there has to be serious assessment work. We need not less but more science and their findings made more easily available and accessible. It's so many different little things that taken separate makes little sense to call a war on science , but as a whole, all those little details , because of the sheer number of them it makes the situation very serious.Shutting off the scientists like they been doing , not incorporating or using their recommendations , ( these guys are hired because they know what they talk about ) adopting policies and positions that go against these recommendations is simply not good government. Furthermore We Canadians need access to fair , unbiased information to help us make good decisions and choices ( and yes those choices may affect the outcome of elections and votes on various matters ). We need a clear picture , a fair assessment and no one trusts the private sector to furnish us with accurate unbiased information. When they stop counting fish in a river it affects our public right to know .There is a price to a good government, science is something we all agree we need to invest massively in for it to perform it's task and bring us all forward as a society and as a People. Relying solely on the private sector is a big obvious mistake. We need also a number of scientific institutions for wartime. Got to keep that reality in mind. Think Atomic Energy Thinking only in terms of tax cuts and balance sheets and how it affects your wallet in the immediate rather than what it does for the common good in the long term is missing the point. We need to have a strong science , vigorous and alive , working for us and one we can trust .We simply cannot leave it up to the private sector We have a right to know and a need to know. We need to have access to fair unbiased appraisals of the state of our Country , it's science and we need that science to be a reference and a strong authority in it's matters ! The private sector is not a viable source of information.They are the wolves we try to protect ourselves and our Canadian resources from .Trust a sheep to a wolf . I mean PUUUHLEASE ! Every time a government ignores the recommendations of it's own scientists , like they do pres

  23. Flip that M 180% on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 2

    In the US , there's this all around " Me " thinking that kills every attempt to progress. If you think about it , it's the reason why nothing is working on a society level. When you consider the real roots of why , for example , the health care is private , when most democratic nations have universal health care , why the public school system is failing , why most democratic institutions have stopped working , it is in very large part due to egocentrism. The " me " without a care for the neighbor. The individualism pushed to extreme which is the root of most societal problems. It holds true of why the schools fail the children . Profit . let to do it's work has proven time and tme again to do nothing good for the humans . They do good for the 1 % of very rich that pocket on your misery. It is deeply set in the ways d America . It is not sustainable in the long run. Very soon , the destruction of all social measures will be complete. You will be the only country in the world where there is no hope of getting help in case of need. You all want to pay 0 taxes , that destroys all hope for a better tomorrow. The rich want to pay nothing in return for the mountains of money they receive , the Corporations want to pay 0 and hide their cash in fiscal paradises .Individualism does not work as a societal system. I hope one day you will start thinking in terms of " We " What can we do as a society , not individuals playing alone , but as a group. What can we acheive , as a group . What can we do with our neighbors , as a neighborhood . Even Cuba takes care of the sick . Very well , Canada , Denmark , most civilised societies. To make the school system work for everyone takes funds , means taxes. If you refuse the equation , to play your part and pay your share of the equation , the whole school system will be gone. Not because it's no good , but because you refuse as taxpayers to contribute to it . It is not all about the individual . It is not all about your personal financial gain , there are things worth a lot more than the dollar and cents in your account. If you could get rid of your medical insurance bills , imagine what that money could do for you , imagine what would happen to the school system if you were to take 1/5th the money it cost you , and everyone in the USA for medical insurance and bills , and put that money in the education system . Repeat the exercise for the medical system .The things " We " could do are incredible. But then again it takes a shift of mentality from " Me " to " We " . While the rest of the free world lives comfortably , healthy and well educated , what has the " Me " given you ?

  24. Good morning read on Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators · · Score: 1

    With a good coffee , reading this is good to the last drop , i mean line. Reading this judgment is a treat.
    If you havent done so yet , make yourself a favor , read the judgment. I never enjoyed reading one as much as this one.
    Better than the SCO court papers and bankruptcy filing that's for sure. Hopefully they will end up disbarred.

    What a treat , thanks for posting !

     

  25. It's not about YOU stupid. on Facebook "Trusted Contacts" Lets You Pester Friends To Recover Account Access · · Score: 1

    Having " friends" instead of having a system saves FB money. Just another scheme .. ok now

    It's all about profit. Now that the ice is broken ,i ask : when will FB users catch on and ask for their share of the money their data makes ?
    Yes YOUR data makes THEM money , you get nothing in return . The Service ? LOL it's the tool they use to get your data that earns them money , it's not a service for you it's their tool to rake in the dough . They make billions with YOUR data . Wake up and send a letter to FB asking your share of the earnings. What they sell is YOU after all. Why not ask for fair return ? You accept to give them data , they need to accept to pay YOU for it.
    All services that say " access to the service " is their way of repaying you are simply exploiting you. They count the smokescreen protects them from you finding out that their " service " is the tool they use to gather data and sell you . Wakee wakee . Cat's out the bag. Ask for your share of the profits everytime they sell your data. Why would anyone accept their lives be scrutinised , analysed then sold for free ? If i put it that way it don't sound good does it ? But that's what each and everyone participating in " social networks " or where the " service " is the reward falls for.

    Ask for your share of what's rightly your's.