Posts by Hanin Elias

Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail

10 years?

It took them 10 years to stop this guy?

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

Does it require a cloud account?

The worst part of any of these systems is you have to pay for them on top of them spying on you. You should assume that if they require activation of licensing, they are watching and logging everything they can. I'll continue to use my free alternatives, that do require more work to get set up initially, but do not come with subscription payments or data disclosure.

If your media server software requires a constant internet connection to even use the thing, it is worthless, in my eyes. 99% of my media viewing is from within my LAN, so it does not REQUIRE internet access.

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North Korea readies third attempt at 'spy satellite' launch

UN! Huh! Yeah!

At this point, I am not sure why the UN still exists as hardly anyone listens to them, and certainly not those that need the guidance the most. What are they good for?

China relents: Broadcom-VMware merger approved at last

Ends Become New!

A new era at VMWare?

Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue

db madness?

I've been at a couple of shops that considered going with Oracle and SAP systems, and where brought back from the precipice when overall pricing could never be a set, hard value.

I'm not sure any of these companies can deliver a reasonable product and can't understand how they continue to stay solvent. I suppose all the suckers and a lack of regulation is the key to success!

1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year

No! There's no escaping here!

There are no other choices with the support structure and reliability of VMWare, right now. As others have stated, the others will charge just as much, if not more, for a product stack that does not compare. With a competent IT team, things can be made to work with alternatives, but the cost of that team will easily go beyond what you would pay VMWare. They know this.

I really don't want to go back to a non-VM world.

'Mass exploitation' of Citrix Bleed underway as ransomware crews pile in

Re: Does Citrix still have an engineering group?

They seem to have changed their focus to their Xen product lineup and relegated Citrix remote desktop to an afterthought. Pretty much they switched to a Virtual Machine and SaaS model like the rest of the industry seem to be doing and raking in that sweet licensing loot.

Fears China could trash Broadcom's VMware nuptials as revenge for sanctions

It appears, that if your company makes a significant profit in a given area/country, you will be forced to abide by the area/country's regulations. I am not sure what the threshold is for accountability, but profits in the billions make politicians take notice. Either way, neither party in this venture want to be excluded from billions, even millions, in profit and will do what it takes to ensure that.

Futurama back from dead again

stop the madness!

the movies speak volumes about the class the new series will run at... stale and boring is putting it lightly...

as for the firefly whiners... that show should never have been put on the air. the movie was like sitting through every movie ewe boll ever made back to back... all in 90 minutes... i feel humanity is far worse off for ever knowing of it's existence...

David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

RIP

great actor... sad to hear he took the easy way out. you'll be missed!

Thai court jails 'swirly-face' paedophile

@Druggies - Jason Clery

why do you insist on pointing out the effects of issues rather than to tackle the root of the issues? first it was blaming drugs for things and now it's blaming 'chavs' for crime. why not blame bad parenting for the existence of chavs... or materialistic advertising schemes for making 'chavs' think that certain insanely priced crap is worth stabbing someone for? why does it always have to be anything but the real problem? guess it's just easier for you to blame something than to fix it.

Paris... because atleast she's ok with reality.. even tho she doesn't understand it...

French high court thumps Google Video

bah!

performance artists need to stop asking us to pay for every rendition of some crap they've done. if you don't like people sharing the "fruits" of your labor.. get into a different career! why do we have to support the careers and lifestyles of others? there's no law saying you must be paid for doing anything. so... if you're not getting what you expected... stop doing it and find something else! most healthy businesses thrive through diversity of product/service and innovation. if you can't produce/provide a product/service that people are actually willing to pay for because they believe it's worth buying, then find something else to make/market. it seems that since so many appear to be cashing in on the gullibility of the masses, others believe it to be their right to reward for their abilities to make people pay for junk!

Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked

Desktop sets in question don't use BlueTooth?

the 2 desktop sets, Optical Wireless Desktop 1000 & 2000, don't use BlueTooth... and having used both sets and a bluetooth set... and being the owner of various mobile fones and other bluetooth and 802.11 kit, i can tell you that if someone wanted to listen.. and was able to pick out just 1 particular keyboard signal stream out of all that mess... then... well.. that person is... something else. i have a hard time keeping each device from interfering with the other that i couldn't imagine that any signal getting out would be of much use. i don't know much about signal targeting and the abilities of equipment to filter out everything else except just 1 targeted range... but i can't see this as being practical at all unless theres nothing else in between the target and snooper.

Giuliani: Eye-O-Sauron™ border scan-towers are top idea

Racism at any cost?

why do people like to pretend this is about anything other than racist motives? they like to throw out ideas like 'this will stop crime' or 'it will stem the tide of drugs flowing over the border'... how so? when it appears the majority of drugs are being smuggled in bulk by semis and ocean container ships... what about canada? what about all the meth being made within the border? crime? stopped by a border fence that only extends a few hundred miles.. if that? all of this makes no sense. the only thing they could possibly hope to achieve by any of this is to try to limit or demonize southern immigrants (mostly latinos). do people actually still believe that social benefits are still only consumed by minorities? did these racists actually think they could keep this country to themselves? surely you can find a reason to hate people that actually makes more logical sense than simply hating the color of their skin. this is the only logical conclusion anyone with half a brain could make, since there are no plans to make our northern border secure. i'm a 4th generation US Citizen about 10 miles from the border in the Rio Grande Valley working for local government... none of what appears on TV or said to be happening in the news actually happens with any more regularity than it happens anywhere else. RACISM IS NOT WORTH THIS MUCH TROUBLE!

Daily Telegraph rattles legal sabre at Google

Me too! Me Too!

this is yet another case of attention-wh0reism. i don't agree with the idea that anyone has a "right" to be the only one to report on a story. but that's neither here nor there. i don't know how popular that news site is, but i'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be half as successful without google and the other search engines. if it's not google, it'll be another search provider. these guys just can't come to terms with the reality of the service news aggregation provides them... and for free! the greater majority of "their" stories wouldn't even get read nor would they get any advertising revenue if these search providers did not get the word out for them. i work in several different offices and while shoulder-surfing, i see that all of the bored office slaves use google news and other news filters, that use varying levels of advertisment, rather than be locked into just 1 news source. this even for the utterly boring local news from this remote sliver of land! it seems like people believe they should profit from absolutely any use of anything they "produce". these days will soon come to an end, i just wonder wot they'll be charging you for then......