Slashdot Mirror


User: Bonzoli

Bonzoli's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
152
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 152

  1. Re:What are the practical results of this? on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    Repubs fear her for sure. I heard from one friend of mine that they want her to run so they can chase the "why did you check American Indian on your college forms?!" Which in the late 70's meant college discount and not illegal I believe.
    I'm waiting for someone to look under the rug on farm subsidies, but that's probably a pipe dream also.
    Or actually tax repatriated money at a reasonable rate, no loopholes.
    Or at least someone put back in the laws that stop multiple news agencies being owned by the same company/person in the same area. :(

  2. Re:This doesn't sound... sound on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me a politician lied, stood on a podium and actually lied, to get that job? Noooo..... Perhaps he was just too ignorant to understand the problem?

  3. 2 External HDs and Blue Ray disks. on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    2 External HDs and Blue Ray/dvd disks.
    You keep one HD, you get other HD to your mom/bro/close friend to store for you.
    Encrypt all data as files, not hd encrypt.
    Put tool used to encrypt data on disk with data blobs.
    Remember your own password/keys, don't put those on the drives.
    Things that don't change like pictures also go on Blue ray or DVD in case grandma wants to see them.
    I also have close family friends we exchange family picture backups.
    Update at least twice a year if possible.

    1 house fire and you lose everything so keep that in mind. Fireproof safe would be nice but I do not think the heat would leave much working either way.
    Cloud services only work as long as you pay for them and someone knows where to find them if your hit by the plane that crashed into your house.

  4. Re:Lest we Forget.. on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Amazing Modded to 0 right away with no response, very nice!!!

  5. Lest we Forget.. on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://news.firedoglake.com/20...
    The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks and has thus been dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” by activists who oppose the biotech giant. President Barack Obama signed the spending bill, including the provision, into law on Tuesday
    Since the act’s passing, more than 250,000 people have signed a petition opposing the provision and a rally, consisting largely of farmers organized by the Food Democracy Now network, protested outside the White House Wednesday. Not only has anger been directed at the Monsanto Protection Act’s content, but the way in which the provision was passed through Congress without appropriate review by the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees. The biotech rider instead was introduced anonymously as the larger bill progressed — little wonder food activists are accusing lobbyists and Congress members of backroom dealings.

  6. Quick someone on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 2

    Quick someone send it the command to roll over!!

  7. Re:Gotta love Valve on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    I've recently seen this same mistake at much larger company. Generally having checks and accept prompts in scripts when deleting anything, but especially when deleting recursively, is a good thing. Its one of the first things I expect a level 1 Admin to make a mistake on, and later never do again.
    Its also a good plan to make sure your backup drives unmount after the backups. Leaving them mounted is asking for trouble. Actually online backups are a bad idea anyway but its cheap so we do it.

  8. Re:Hmm, how about teaching encryption techniques? on Washington DC's Public Library Will Teach People How To Avoid the NSA · · Score: 1

    What? I didn't say that at all(troll bait?). Odd perhaps you should reread the post. The whole point is, why would I care what you encrypt your data with if I can just get the private part (key, csr, crt,pem,Password,whatever you want to call it today) your using to encrypt the conversation with? I would even encourage the use of said product because I am guaranteed a way to read it?

  9. 40k Geeks and no answers? on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone here could come up with an automate methodology to put these folks on the ropes? How about multiple answers, approach it from many directions. Crowd fund, kickstart, background checking, fact checking, and other things? There is this strange aversion to unions after decades of paid for ad campaigns against them, but you all act like helpless children vs. the technology geniuses you are!@! Find a solution, implement the solution, solve the problem. These half baked "can't hold a job doing anything else" politicians are on the offensive, how about you all get offensive instead of whining like you are still in elementary school.

  10. Hmm, how about teaching encryption techniques? on Washington DC's Public Library Will Teach People How To Avoid the NSA · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering what happens if my SSL key signer received a FISA gag order and request for my private keys, how would I know?
    Do you know?

    I'm suggesting they also teach how to selfsign their certificates and understand how this whole process works.
    If I were trying to monitor the internet's HTTPS/SSL traffic i'd go after those private keys soon as possible, especially since there is this belief that your safe if you have a signed pem key for your host/https/tls/etc..

  11. Re:How many times done anything helpful? on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 2

    Oracle's sales teams do this all the time to business. Selling crap to people they really don't need has made many a company rich beyond reason. The cure for this is public college education, everyone would be smarter then. Preferably in hard sciences.

    How about instead of tearing things down and whining, you love your country enough to help make something work.

    "The ACA gathers money from those like myself who never get sick."
    You should understand at some point you will be sick, at that point in your life you won't care about anything else other than getting better or dieing.

    Believing you will never get sick is something that should be pondered.

  12. Re:Amazon is waiting for a competitor on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    Or you could say based on the actual court monopoly findings that MS put out libraries that were intentionally made or left broken so their primary competitors would fail to make a good product that requires them to work on windows 3.1. Please re-read the MS monopoly findings. You might learn more about why some products died.
    Or read Amiga magazines article from the 90's where a Phd Amiga Dev found 2 loops, in the OS that MS was paid to create, that did nothing but slow the whole thing down by about 50%.
    Or about DR DOS
    Or about many other things that made it impossible to compete when the fox had the keys to the hen house gates.

    Amazon pissed off a lot of retailers, or you could say ALL of the retailers. They have now pissed off all of the mobile manufacturers.
    You might want to look at what happened when Pepsi went from a vendor to Fast food restaurants to direct competitor, and how those chains promptly stopped supplying Pepsi for their customers.
    Amazon has now pissed off all the makers of everything really and now have enemies on every front. Not sure what they were thinking.

  13. Reasons between smoke and mirrors. on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 2

    My guess is they are more afraid of what is in those emails that hasn't been released yet. Especially if it has something the feds might be interested in or might wreck someone's marriage. Losing 20mil on a movie isn't much compared to that, for an exec that makes millions a year.
    If Sony really wanted to make a statement they could release it on dvd or free with ads on any of the many streaming services.
    If they bow to hacker pressure now, they just painted a larger target on themselves for future hacker groups.

  14. Freedom! on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 2

    Passing laws to take away freedom is not the answer. Educate people and present solid non-biased analysis. Do you think those parents really understood the problems that could happen. Michigan has had poisoning(ddt), failed fluoride water, Nuke plants that disappeared(north of detroit), a new invasive species every week killing everything, massive poisoning of the water, Canadian Trash/medical waste that can't be stopped from coming in, self insured insurance laws(lobbies), and all other types of fun crazy things going on. In the mean time the state isn't exactly great when it comes to funding schools.

    I'm from Michigan and education in real analytical thinking for everyone is the big problem. Religions do not want it(what), certain political parties do not want it(guess), manufacturers do not want it(cheap labor), and many sellers of goods don't want it(profits).

    Teach them how to think and make their own choices based on facts and rational thinking. Right now you should all be saying where is the real education and why are we not informing them? Not new laws to take away more freedom.

  15. Curiously. on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1

    I've worked at a lot of companies over the last 25 years and the ones that went the H1B visa is better route, are all now tail spinning into the toilet, at best they are struggling to stay relevant. There is always room for a good employee, but replacing good ones with unknowns to save short term doesn't appear to work.
    It takes about 10 years of promoting H1B yes men and putting them in the food chain in various places. But everywhere I know that did it, is now struggling hard if they survived those 10 years. Just my own observations, but I'd love to see a long term study on the effects to a company when this is the case. Perhaps its an actually a symptom to the problem with management to begin with?

  16. Re:Tetris is based on a Russian board game on The Man Who Made Tetris · · Score: 1

    Albert Einstein — 'Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources'

  17. This explains the lack of dlna services on Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue · · Score: 1

    Sad because that one feature would have upped their sales quite a bit.

  18. Woot Now I can play landmark in firefox! on Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' · · Score: 1

    Oh wait.

  19. Putting your local Brick buildings out of business on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Don't worry I'm sure we can trickle down enough to pay for your schools. Well if we don't skip town or create a new think tank slogan to make you think those damn unions are the reason your schools suck so much. Because certainly you want to very lowest payable person teaching your children and our future how to think.
    Wonderful.
    Remember there are not enough smart people in America for Programming, what could possibly go wrong.

  20. After Diebold in Ohio in 2004 on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio.html
    After seeing Ohio in 2004, I do not trust these are all or if any are glitches. This is serious and people need to start being investigated and prosecuted.

  21. Think of the lawsuits if they keep this data? on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    All those poor companies that profited from this H1B effort and the US government that helped for various reasons to make it more profitable for those poor companies, could be at risk.
    Especially once you consider they were on the backside they going after unions and organizers as politicians with a position.
    Think of the Children and the kittens that would be at risk if we keep this 1G of data. We need that disk space for my 7G landmark EQ beta install!

  22. Re:Thanks Obama! on Hackers Breach White House Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    Weaponized powerpoint. Someone should copyright that.

  23. Next year it should be less than 40M on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    As people learn the location of the camera's and just stop speeding because of them, the revenue will go down. I expect many people that do speed will take alternate routes. It might be more dangerous in other area's because of the new traffic patterns.

    Perhaps someone could have done some actual analysis vs. relying on the company that is selling the equipment?

    They have their camera's and the company has its money, time to raise taxes to make payments on the bonds.

  24. Retirement Heist - Ellen E. Schultz on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 2

    Its a great book, you should read it and the light will go on. It features IBM a lot, right next to GM.

  25. Re:misleading on Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger · · Score: 1

    That changes if your kids have school computers and need it to do 2-3 hours of homework every night, much of it before you get home at 6pm.