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Comment: Re:Won't do any good. (Score 1) 237

by rtb61 (#46490305) Attached to: Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You

The idea that the police can simply delete what they don't like or switch of the device when ever they feel like it, is a very false premise in terms of the law. Lost evidence immediately creates doubts about the veracity of statements against those who lost or purposefully failed to gather evidence. As the public and hence juries becomes more aware of the requirement of police officer to record all their policing interactions with the public they will demand that evidence, when police fail to submit it for what ever reason, it will place great suspicion on their actions and create the doubt necessary to break their prosecutions.

Not that bringing up these questions is not important, it is very important in the creation of successful secure devices that will protect the public whilst providing evidence of crimes. It will also help with the recording of crime scenes ie multiple view points. Storage of data should reflect statute of limitations for the crimes applicable, keeping in mind it does not need to be 28 frames a second, lower speed higher resolution images would be preferable.

Comment: Re:Forget the customer (Score 1) 131

Both are working to target the same concept, tying the operating system to the device. They both hate the idea of the consumer believing the operating system that came with the device is disposable and can be readily replaced with the OS of your choice, say a flavour of Linux. Two OS's on a device, hmm why not three or more specifically why not replace those two with a third alternate OS. So basically both companies are using the size and predatory power to try to keep other Operating systems out of the market, either as pre-installs of post installs.

Comment: Re:Nobody cares (Score 1) 193

by rtb61 (#46461267) Attached to: Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update

The point I was trying to make is they are two completely different market bases and they require different interfaces, simple and dumb for the phone, smart, interactive and fully functional for the desktop. For myself the interface I prefer for the phone is 'voice' and the desktop the customisability of KDE.

Comment: Re:for the record (Score 2) 396

by rtb61 (#46460157) Attached to: Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents

It is not the Patent System per se it is the USPTO. They have been blatantly corrupted to accept virtually anything as a patent. This in a mad money grab by US corporations and by the lawyers that run lobbyists firms. Junk patents are the virtual equivalent of beads, just another insane plot to buy the world just the same as the junk imaginary currency. The really bad ones are designed to trigger patent fights in US courts and as such enrich the lawyer pals of lobbyists in trial, after trial, after trial. It is the US administration that is totally corrupt and their political appointees who in turn corrupt each and every US government agency.

Comment: Re:Nobody cares (Score 1) 193

by rtb61 (#46454759) Attached to: Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update

The worst of it all, it completely utterly fucking ignores the history of the iPhone taking over when the majority of users were accustomed to and relatively content with the windows XP interface. Two completely different pieces of kit with two majority user bases and it's hardly surprising two different interfaces (one simple for the stupid) and the other complex (for the power user). You have to this day whole families with one desktop computer and that includes the children who have left home, still one desktop but they all have smart phones.

Comment: Re:I've heard that government moves slowly... (Score 1) 299

The true measure of job performance of political appointees of course being
(a) The ability to take credit for all your underlings efforts.
(b) The ability to shift blame for all mistakes to underlings.
(c) The ability to unashamedly lie in public.
(d) Never miss an opportunity to make your party look good and the opposition look bad.
(e) Routinely fuck everything up as proof private industry can do better, not necessarily proving they actually would do any better.

Basically behave in the exact same manner as corporate executives, with minor substitutions ie corporate clique for party and of course contracting out as substitute for private industry (pyramid contracting). They are not in those position because they are good at the job, they are in those positions because they are good at manipulating their way into those positions.

Comment: Re:The root of the problem lies with ... the peopl (Score 1, Troll) 273

by rtb61 (#46443497) Attached to: Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA

Sensitive to opinion polls. Seriously after the Ukraine crap and the "Fuck the EU" statement, when the truth has been exposed, the US government just stands right up and waffles the bullshit they planned regardless of the truth of a conspiracy to overthrow a foreign government already having being exposed and US mainstream media carries the exact same bullshit as if it was the truth (even when the last few remaining US politicians question it and have a government official spout more bullshit right in their faces).

The US government doesn't care about anything other than campaign dollars, the NSA keeping politicians own personal dark secrets so they can get elected and their offshore bank accounts in tax havens. Opinion polls only have meaning when you have a political landscape of truth and lies will stand out, when you have a political landscape of complete and utter bullshit lies are the norm and the truth stands out for rarity. Obama, Kerry and crew just blatantly and hypocritically standing up and shamelessly publicly lying when the truth was all out there to see, the only measure of truth in their statements being all those 'er's and 'um's in the public statements as their minds had extreme difficulty reconciling what was coming out of their mouths at the direction of totally corrupt US three letter agencies with the truth hidden in their own minds.

It has become pointless for people like Snowden and Manning to challenge their government with the truth because it is well and truly apparent everything coming out of the US government is bullshit, mass marketed corporate inspired public relations bullshit and is becoming universally accepted as such. The only saving grace is they have been such a bunch of fuckups they screw up the results of all their wild schemes, plots and conspiracies. The only real problem for the rest of the world is how to create some distance between themselves and the US, as the US slowly but inexorably self destructs under all that corporate driven bullshit, pulled in too many directions at once and torn apart, psychopathic capitalism at it's finest.

Comment: Re:digital utopianism (Score 1) 33

by rtb61 (#46437493) Attached to: Amplify Education's New Intel Tablet Begs For Abuse

It has nothing at all to do with teaching. It is all about sucking every cent out of teachers pay and turning it into tech and publishing profits. Selling closed tech devices that will only accept corporate approved information at inflated costs and absent of keyboard to ensure students exchanging information is kept to a minimum, like idiot twitters. So no real interest in education just how much profit can be squeezed out of the system until it all collapses and then they blame the government that they bought and controlled.

Comment: Re:Liar (Score 1) 155

by rtb61 (#46437477) Attached to: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying

Not so much a lie as leaving out a bit of the truth, "Google data now protected from 'FREE' government spying", see just one word accidental left out and really even when the word is left out it is accurate, as it is only 'SPYING' when they don't pay for access. When Google sell you data, the means by which they make their profit, the government is just buying like any other marketing agency. The government just wants to send government marketing representatives to your door to provide you with offers if you are the right targeted group. Something to hide and willing to spy on your fiends and neighbours or just perhaps that you need some friendly advice to know how to speak right or to vote right. Just looking after you and your families interests, wouldn't want to them or yourself to come to any harm.

Now that is exactly what mass spying has always been about, control.

Comment: Re:Nobody cares (Score 1, Informative) 193

by rtb61 (#46437447) Attached to: Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update

So your argument is M$ is going for the computer dummies and quite basically fuck the power users. Why be fucking asshats, why not a second interface, seriously fuck M$ and their desire to force a 'PHONE' interface on the desktop in some crazy fuckarse scheme to force people to become accustomed to windows phones and the buy them like mindless idiots.

Comment: Re:Grooming propaganda for Google's Robot Tank (Score 2) 79

by rtb61 (#46437413) Attached to: The Brief Rise and Long Fall of Russia's Robot Tank


Robots eliminate the emotion on the battlefield, problem is it now takes much fewer personal and selecting those most willing to send those robots out to slaughter human beings means you are far more likely to end up with narcissists and psychopaths at the controls. Who when they start seeking to feed their ego and lusts, will cause a hell of a lot more carnage, especially when they are safe from the battlefield and believe they can blame everything on the robot.

Then of course that might be exactly what those who are willing to deploy robots to slaughter people are after, massive population reduction in targeted zones with no witnesses, either those idiots who want to brag about their slaughter activities or those soldiers with honour and integrity who oppose. I would never ever trust a country willing to deploy robots in the battlefield to slaughter people, whether it be airborne drones that fire at mobile phones with missiles or ground based killing devices. Their measure of contempt for human life pretty much equals my contempt for them as individuals, not as human beings of course, I would never ever condone their and their families random execution.

Comment: Re:Ask her if she will accept any little change (Score 1) 286

by rtb61 (#46432615) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma?

So realistically, it is never really about operating system for Grandma it is all about, graphical user interface and configured layout as well as applications for Grandma. So how to do all of that reliably, cost efficiently and quietly. Not be hounded by demands for upgrades, in your face security fixes and be secure and protected from limited knowledge user errors. So more of a complete package, Gradma's computer software suite. Things people forget like a good simple photo album and editor for a start.

Comment: Re:hmmm (Score 1) 104

by rtb61 (#46432575) Attached to: BPAS Appeals &pound;200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website

Still it is a charity as such the judge should take that into account. It is not fining the charity it is fining those who get assisted by the charity by denying them services and it is fining those who contribute to the charity by asking them to handover money to the government instead of the charity and the people that charity assists.

So the judge needs to step back and consider what he is doing in reality. Hmm, this really does stink of an anti-abortion judge doing their bit.
