* Posts by henrydddd

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Samsung says Apple lifted iPad from Kubrick's 2001

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Unhappy

gettin stupid

Patient laws are getting stupid. They need to be changed.

Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip?

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FAIL

Down with patents

These patent wars are getting so ridiculous that it is time to rethink the whole patent system.

Brit CompSci student faces extradition to US over link site

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Unhappy

AMerica

At this time, the conservatives run America. They exist only for the big corporations and the super rich. This type of active will only get worse until America wakes up and gives the boot to the conservatives.

Pirate-bothering ACS:Law lawyer goes bankrupt

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Black Helicopters

MLK

Unjust laws were meant to be broken!

Pentagon: Hack attacks can be act of war

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war monging

Modern day Sparta (the United States) seems to be looking for any excuse to start a war with any nation over any reason. The Military Industrial complex must be fed. Even though the US Military budget is greater than the sum of the next 10 highest spending nations (not including our never ending war against Afghanistan) and the US debt is going through the roof; the US must find new meat to destroy

Read-only nation: can Open Source change the British way?

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Flame

Truth

In today's "Windows" mentality, people can control a technology that they don't understand. With a click of a mouse, they can start a process in which they can see a result, but have no idea how that result was obtained. That is very dangerous for our society today. Almost daily, I read in the Register about people who have had their checking/saving accounts compromised, viruses, Trojans, phishing scams, cars being hacked via the internet, and the such. Perhaps, the emphasis should be on requiring schools to teach more about computer technology. A high school graduation requirement would be that a student must learn, minimally, one programming language, how a computer works, and how the internet and networking work. That would help people understand a little about the technology that they have. Open Source would get the programming support that it deserves, and society would be made generally better.

Apple to support reps: Don't confirm Mac infections

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Linux

I see

This article has nothing to do with Microsoft, Apple or other wise; it is about a company covering up the fact that their machines are infected.

New PlayStation Network hack hijacks user accounts

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GH

Maybe next time they will be less tempted to go after an individual who puts linux on their ps. Considering their level of competence, I doubt it.

Mentally ill file-sharer had 'low self-esteem'

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FAIL

sad

Anyone getting caught downloading copyrighted works is extremely unlucky.

Windows 7 takes PC upgrade for a cycle

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Linux

Maybe

Wintel again?

Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict

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Linux

hummm

Me wonders if they copy righted every thing that Knuth wrote.

DARPA: Send limbless troops back to war with robo-arms

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Linux

yeaaaaaah

This article has changed my life. Before reading this article, I thought that the "Mad Max" movies accurately described the future of the world. Now I think that the "Terminator" movies will do a better job of showing our future.

Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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Linux is dead on the desktop, so who cares?

Not on my desktops.

Digital player maker 'incited consumers to break the law', says ASA

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Jobs Horns

Copyright laws need to go

What a person does with a cd or tape that he purchases is his business. I used to copy records to tape to preserve fidelity in the 60''s. Copyright and patent laws are becoming so draconian that they are totally stifling creativity and invention.

Canonical's Dell and Lenovo love lets Ubuntu down

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Linux

no._

I agree with you 100 percent. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on my main computer (home brew). My Ubuntu computer also serves as a file server for 9 computers on my lan. I have found Ubuntu to be far simpler and more stable than any Windows product. The computers/devices on my lan use a variety of operating systems. Everything runs perfectly. I have an Iphone, Ipod touch, several computers with various Windows and Linux products. To me,Ubuntu is the best thing invented since sex.

RSA breach leaks data for hacking SecurID tokens

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Linux

What do you think?

When the top security firms cannot stop hacking/virus attempts, how can the little guy stop this kind of activity from happening? Likewise, with future Iphone being cloud based and HP going to a cloud based operating system, do you really thing that organizations going toward a cloud based computing system can assure security? Even on my personal pc, I have at least 3 antivirus/anti-adware packages and I don't feel safe.

Apple bans iPhone 3G patch omission talk from forum

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Jobs Horns

Wondering

I am wondering about a few thing. First I read that Apple is thinking about putting the next generation of iphone on a cloud. I am curious, if I have one of these cloud based I phones, will Apple turn my Iphone into a brick because they stop supporting my Iphone? So will my phone be cut off of cloud support two years after I buy it? Just thinking.

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Linux

Must be nice

It must be nice to be rich enough to throw an incredible amount of money at Apple for an Iphone and it becomes obsolete two years later.

Sony wins subpoenas revealing visitors to PS3 jailbreaker site

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Linux

Love

I would love to visit that site. Also I hope that tens of millions of others would do the same. That would give those blood sucking attorneys a bit to do. I would never purchase a Sony product.

Cloudy iTunes rumors juiced by music mogul talks

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Linux

Dream come true

Using a cloud based environment for the new apple Iwhatever is a software company's and the entertainment industry's dream come true. No more pirated movies or songs as they will totally control what you have on your machine. Also, jailbreaking will be a thing of the past. Apple will control everything that you can do with your produce (for a fee of course). When Apple decides that your model is obsolete, you will be cut off and all that you will have is a brick. Microsoft has proposed this idea for years to stop illegal copies of Windows and shut down obsolete computers and Windows products (for the user's protection). Welcome to the world where two companies will totally control the computer industry

New charge against alleged WikiLeaker carries death penalty

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Bad US Government

These crimes we designed to prosecute people who gave intelligence information to an enemy of the US that would allow them to obtain a strategic advantage in a war against the US. Most of the info in the Wikileaks documents the enemy already knows about. They know about the school children and innocent civilians that were innocently butchered. The government wants to keep what is really happening in Afghanistan and what happened in Iraq a secret from the US population! IF they win this one, you can bet that the US will be in Afghanistan for a long long time showing them our version of democracy.

Apple: iTunes ascends to the heavens this spring

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Linux

I wonder

I wonder if Apple's attempt to go to cloud based services is at least motivated by a desire to stop all "jail breaking" activities and have total control over the various Apple products.

Malware endemic even on protected PCs

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Linux

av produce

In reality, cloud based architectures are not really a solution. The problem with viruses is the Internet. I have a neighbor who has a 15 year old computer and does not use the net and does not put many new products on his machine. He does not get viruses. With Active x, Java, security will be almost impossible. Only a totally black holed machine will be secure. With people who do not educate themselves, a virus prone Windows product, browsers that have almost every attachment that allows defective Active x controls, viruses will remain. With hackers, criminals, and governments producing viruses for various reasons, the problem will only get worse. I am writing this text from my server. I use virtual machines and have antivirus products. I have my own DNS server and an Fence for the net. I try to keep up to date on everything I can. And guess what, I still don't feel secure against viruses. Several people on my lan have gotten viruses by stupid web use over the years.

Sony tweets 'secret' key at heart of PS3 jailbreak case

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Linux

disgusting

I hope that Sony goes bankrupt. I will never purchase another Sony product. I hope that 20,000,000 people view the video on hacking ps3, that should keep da lawyers busy for a few decades.

Overzealous anti-paedo scheme not dead yet

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Jobs Halo

sad

It is sad that people are trying to predict who might commit an offense against children. I can imagine a future that all parents must be licensed to have children. Perhaps being interested in soap operas would disqualify you as a parent. With all this over protection of children, world wide child abuse grows at an alarming rate in spite of this over zealous approach to prevention. I just got through watching a downloaded wiki-leak about some soldiers "lighting up" a child in Iraq. If you really want to stop child abuse, stop all the senseless wars that are going on. Then you can go one step further by sending aid to countries where children are starving to death. That would do a lot to prevent child abuse

Sony PS3 rootkit rumours rubbished

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Linux

sony

You could not give any Sony product to me. After all that I have read about their antics, I have had enough of Sony.

No Jobs, Schmidt deleted: Microsoft can't fail, can it?

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Linux

hummmm!

With Microsoft copying Apple, me wonders if there will be any copyright law suites coming down the pike.

Court orders seizure of PS3 hacker's computers

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Linux

war

This is a war against private property and creativity. I sincerely hope that Sony loses. If Sony wins, everyone in the world loses as the concept of private property If Sony wins, I will never buy another Sony product again!

Apple tightens rules for iPad news delivery

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Who knows?

Who knows? With Apple's intense desire to control their customers, a few of us might chuck our smart I-whatever for the good old fashioned pc.

UK.gov relaxes patent application process

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I wonder

Considering the number of patent trolls that exist now, I wonder if I can now get breathing patented?

Bloated US patent holder sues 9 tech companies

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FAIL

change patent laws

The sad thing is that Intellectual Ventures probably hasn't invented anything. The company is probably top heavy with lawyers. The patent laws need to be changed so that someone has to

have a working model of what they are trying to patent before a patent can be granted. The law should be changed so that a group of people who sit down and patent everything they can think of cannot get patents.

Missing piece completes Stuxnet jigsaw

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Happy

The future

I can just see the future. A message is displayed at some nuclear power plant "We have just

found 384 viruses on your computer" and they make you go to their page to pay $50 to get rid

of those viruses.

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Linux

WIndoz

Windows 98?

XP? Thanks for the memories

henrydddd

Chicken or the egg

Reading about all the nice people who are having a great experience with Windows 7. I wonder if it is a chicken or the egg argument. I see people who buy computers with Window 7 and the computers have a large increase in processor power over their old computers. For most users, the people with Win 7 run the same programs as they did with Windows 98. So is it that Windows 7 is a step up for the user or another step in the Wintel cycle? Is the eventual goal of this never ending cycle of software-hardware upgrades every 2 to 4 years going to give people more things that they can do with their computer,,,,,, or will we have computers with the power of the computer on the Star Ship Enterprise running Windows 666 taking over a minute to bring up a Word document? Only the future knows for sure.

Keep your PC clean - or we'll shut you down

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Linux

Why?

How can anyone expect the average home computer user to keep him/herself clean when major corporations and government entities with trained security specialists are helpless in this area?

Spanish entertainment industry feels wrath of Anonymous

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Proud

Personally, I am proud of those hackers. Keep up the good work!

Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

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hummmmm!

Funny that Apple is part of this. Am I mistaken or is Apple trying to create its own patent pool

against OGG Theora?

I guess its where the bucks are.

Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'

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Linux

Why is there even a debate about this ?

However, the word "pod" is in the dictionary and apple thinks it can copyright that!

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Linux

why not?

Perhaps he should try to copyright every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" in it while he is at it.

Software re-sale restricted by US Court of Appeals

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Linux

Sorry, Beak, What I buy, I own

I have over 15 year experience as a computer specialist (programming, systems design, electrical engineering applications, and as a manager). Back in the early days of computer, software could not be copyright protected because a computer program (like C o Cobol) was view as nothing but instructions to a compiler (or assembler). Many corporations freely distributed the software that they developed. Now we have come full circle to where the owner of the software(in my book, the purchaser) has no rights and the software writer has dictatorial rights

Holiday snaps? Er, no - criminal porn

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Intepretation

In the US, child pornography laws were expanded to include sexually provocative shots (no sex acts involved). The people pushing for this law change reassured parents that they would not be prosecuted for having bath tub shots and the like. The interpretation of this laws now includes all frontal nudity. In the US people have been sent to prison and classified as sex offenders for having bath tub shots of themselves! Children are being classified as sex offenders for sending nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves to each other. In this case the victim is being punished. Laws are needed to protect children from predators, but somehow things have gone too far the other way in some cases.

PA school district avoids charges over webcam spy scandal

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FAIL

How?

I wonder how the parents or students in that school district can ever trust the school administrators again?

Why we love to hate Microsoft

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Linux

I don't care if MS windoze goes bad

Actually errors and blue screens don't bother me at all. I run Windows products as virtual machines using Linux as the host. If Windows gets too uppidy or viride, I just copy over the VM from my back up folder.

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Linux

Why we arn't fans

My beef against Microsoft has a total monopoly on computer operating systems. Monopolies promote inefficiency (Vista) and waste (corporations and individuals having to completely upgrade their systems evertry 2 to 4 years). People are forced to upgrade their computers at a cost of 400 to 600 dollars every 2 to 4 years. I live in a town that has a high poverty rate. I often buy p4's at e-cycling centers and fix them and put Ubuntu on them for people who can't afford computers for their children. The only fault with these p4 (and p3) computers is that they have been artificially made technologically obsolete by Microsoft. IF there were competing computer os's and office software, Microsoft would be hesitant to pull support for the older machines because Microsoft's loss would be someone else's gain.

To see the truth, imagine a monopoly like MS+Intel running the HDTV industry. You would have to replace your HDTV every 2 to 4 years because the digital standard would change forcing you to get a new tv! Or having a automobile that has to be replaced because parts would be unavailable after 2 to 4 years. This mentality is ok for those with money, but it is the shaft for the rest of us

Wikileaks US Army mole Manning charged

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I wonder

I wonder how many other innocent women and children have been butchered and the evidence of the crime was buried by secrecy?

AT&T iPad 'hacker' breaks gag order to rant at cops

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FAIL

Maybe?

Perhaps the message is for hackers and security people is that they should not publish their hacks, but use them and distribute them to other hackers.

US authorities shutdown websites accused of movie piracy

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Freetards

You are never going to eliminate piracy until the motion picture industry compromises too. The Sonny Bono copyright extension act extends the copyright of movies to 120 years. That allows the motion picture industry to have almost infinite copyright protection. That is not right folks. If this were applies to the entire patent industry, generic drugs would be eliminated instantly! The copyright laws were passed to protect works of art. But with the infinite copyright laws as they stand, most less than popular movies will be buried forever as the motion picture industry views them as not worth the effort to re-release.

As far as software is concerned, copyrights have been only recently created. When I started as a computer programmer/ analyst in the 60's, code was thought to be un-copyrightable. Through efforts by monopoly software development firms, that was changed. Indeed, you, in theory, don't even own the copy of Windows that you are using, but you only have a license..

Google geek slammed over XP exploit

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Linux

incompetent development methodology

The real problem is that MS has the only commercially available operating system in the world, they hold a total monopoly. OPen source is their only competition. With no other software companies commercially producing operating systems, there is little incentive for MS to produce a quality produce.

Penguin chief: Linux must 'out fabulous' Apple's iPhone

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Megaphone

Apple is fated to go away

What is going to make the Apple products (indeed all smart phones and ipad lookalikes) is that these products have a tiny weeny screen and cheap transistor radio speakers. Sure you can dock them, but the real future is having a 50 inch plasma screen tv, a good sound system with the pc as the center of the home entertainment system (like I have). I have over a terabyte of storage, internet access, and my content is not controlled by Apple.I know people with Iphones who are using them less and less because it is not much fun watching a movie on a tiny screen. Smart phones are here to stay, but so is the pc.

South African Bill to block all porn

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Unhappy

South Africa

Ii might be easier for the government to give out Net Nanny to everyone rather that blocking the port. And give long prison terms to people without Net Nanny on their putters.

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