Posts by Matt Bryant

'Net Neut' activists: Are you just POSEURS, or do you want to Get Something Done?

Re: Charles 9, Aedile and chums.

Going by your whin- I mean, posts, it would seem am excellent time to invest in Frito-Lays shares (they make Doritos).

Brussels' transport chief demands a single European sky to end 'air traffic gridlock'

Re: Thoughtless Re: Chauvinism

".....It probably doesn't help that we privatised ours, so can't tell them to share their duties with the rest of Europe, and UKIP and their like minded colleagues in the Tory party are hardly likely to agree to Johnny Foreigner controlling our airspace....." Yes, because UK airspace is right in the centre of Europe and every flight has to pass through it to get anywhere, right? Oh, no it doesn't, we're actually geographically on the periphery of Europe, which makes your Leftie whining about privatisation completely irrelevant. It also ignores that the British MoD does co-operate with NATO for control of military airspace across the UK and Europe. You need to go look to Brussels for the cause of the problem, not the British political Right.

Bloke, 26, accused of running drug souk Silk Road 2.0 cuffed by Feds

Re: RcR

can I suggest a chill pill? Not one illegally sourced from SR2.0, obviously.

Re: AC Re: Mmm...

".....because dicks like you insist that drugs should be banned." That would be the majority of voters. Deal with it. If you want to change the minds of the majority I would suggest you try something more intelligent than calling us 'dicks'.

Re Mark 85 Re: Moral?

"Would one of the lessons learned here be to NOT name your trafficking site "Silk Road"?....." Well, remember, you'd be dealing with junkies, you need to keep it really simple to attract that kind. Chances are the majority of their 'customers' really were so thick they never thought the FBI would make the connection.

TORpedo'd dev dumps Doxbin files after police raids

Re: Fibbles

"So why was it seized?....." Not sure exactly what material was cited as evidence but Doxbin was a dumping-ground/bragging site for hackers, so I expect there was a lot of incriminating evidenc of other e-crime, especially as an in-duh-vidual going by the handle 'Intangir', who also claims to be an admin/owner of Doxbin, seems to have 'security-checked'/hacked the Hidden Wiki site (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-hacker-scrubbed-child-porn-links-from-the-dark-webs-most-popular-site). Hoisted by his/her own petard, it seems.

Ex-NSA lawyer warns Google, Apple: IMPENETRABLE RIM ruined BlackBerry

Re: WTF?

<Sigh> Why is it some people are always going with the tinfoil first? Blackberry's business was strong in commercial, weak in the consumer market. They took their eye off the ball in the commercial market chasing after the consumer one (especially with the silly tablet effort). That started their problems, but what killed them was the problems in the commercial sector not with encryption but the refusal to open up the Blackberry backend servers to governments other than the U.S. and Europeans.

Certain countries wanted the same access to the centralized Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) and backend Enterprise Service (BES) servers that the U.S. And Europe had (there are centralized Blackberry servers that control and provide services to individual BES and BIS systems). This was reported on here at El Reg - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/indian_blackberry_crackdown/ - and stymied Blackberry's attempts to grow into the booming Indian, Middle Eastern, Eurasian and Asian markets and outside of the saturated US and European markets. In short, Blackberry were penalized in their crucial commercial market by their dedication to security and customer privacy, not encryption.

Got a STRAP-ON? Remember to TAKE IT OFF at WORK

Re: Aliatair Dabbs Re: Try looking at the real world ...

"I also used to break my watches easily....." I'm sure it's a techie thing. I always have two watches - my 'dress' watch, which is for use when suited-and-booted in the office and when out and about with SWMBO, and my 'work' watch which is for crawling around under the cars, swimming, training and poking around in cabling cabinets and racks. The 'dress' watch is usually a gift from SWMBO, which means it is slim and 'presentable' and therefore has no protection for the glass, meaning I manage to break them about once a year. The 'work' watch is always a G-Shock and always outlives the 'dress' ones despite the G-Shock regularly takes a beating. My best G-Shock lasted five-and-a-half years.

Brit cops nab six in Silk Road 2.0 drugs sting

"All your TOR nodes are belong to us!"

Can we have a "Toldyaso" icon, plz?

HP gives StoreServ a speed boost with flashy cachey spit'n'polish

Re: AC Re: Avoid at all costs

The idea of complaining about chunklets implies to me that you haven't a clue as to what your are talking about. I would suggest the majority of your PEBKAS issues could be solved by your boss paying out for the right training:

http://www.hp.com/education/courses/hk902s.html

http://www.hp.com/education/courses/hk904s.html

Brazil greenlights $200m internet cable to Europe in bid to outfox NSA

Hmmmm.

After the endemic corruption revealed by the Petrobas scandal, I can only wonder if one of Dimmy Rousseff's friends and/or family has just bought an undesea cabling company.....

Schneier, Diffie, ex-MI5 bod, privacy advocates team up on Code Red

Re: AC Re: BROWN....

"...Code BROWN, surely?" Yeah, unfortunately any name with 'Code <colour>' is going to be associated with ditzy wannabes like Code Pink. And sticking 'Red' in the name is just going to be a red flag to 'Patriots' who will accuse it of being 'the usual lot of pinkos and commies'. Much better if they had called their group something like Net Privacy Defenders.

Caterham Seven 160 review: The Raspberry Pi of motoring

Re: Super Fast Jellyfish Re: Max height?

Well, Jeremy Clarkson used to own a bog-standard Classic Seven with the 1.4 K-series, and he wasn't exactly small then. If width rather than height is the issue there are wider cockpit models and competitors, the Westfield actually being the better wide-cockpit option (presumably because of the Northern deep-fried Mars bar diet).

BEWARE! Expensively addictive!

It all starts out OK, you get a 'small-engined' Seven, like the K-series 1.4, and before you know it, you've paid out for an Appleyard conversion or are working out which one of the kids you could sell to buy yourself an R500!

Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes

"the Camel, best all-round fighter of the First World War"

Er, no. The Camel was very effective in 1917, but in 1918 it was too slow and had too low a ceiling for the newer German fighters like the Fokker D.VII(F). The Germans largely abandoned the old form of turning dogfight in 1918, at which the Camel excelled, and concentrated on dive-and-zoom attacks. This change in tactics left the slower Camel at a disadvantage and it was surpassed by Allied designs with inline engines like the SE5A. Probably the ultimate fighters of the Great War were the few Bristol M.1 monoplane fighters, but they were held back by the RAC's (and later the RAF's) bias against monoplane designs.

Unchanging Unicorn: Don't be disappointed with Ubuntu 14.10, be happy

Re:AnonFairBinary Re: Roughest Beta release I've seen but was able to get it useable

"real men and women use vim, and LIKE IT!" No, real men and a few women use vi. And possibly emacs. But none of them actually like it.

Citizenfour: Poitras' doco is about NSA and GCHQ – not Snowden

Re: AC Re: There is no such thing as AQ

"....the AQ moniker was adopted by OBL post-9/11 once he realised the extent to which the west had become afraid of the name....." Very easily debunkable male bovine manure. Osama bin Ladin was using the name Al Quaeda in 1988, long before 9/11:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Formation_and_structuring_of_al-Qaeda

When Bill Clinton finally got up the gumption to hit at Al Quaeda he used cruise missiles fired at their Afghan bases, and the press releases of the time mention Al Quaeda. Again, long before 9/11 (Clinton had long since been replaced as POTUS by Bush Jnr by 9/11).

Re: Boring Bernie Re: RE: AC Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

"I note that you haven't refuted this yet, MB. Why not?...." El Mod seems to be having an issue accepting my laughing at your hypocritical use of the 'think of the children' argument you so habitually slate when used by 'The Man'. I assume it's just backlog, no bias. Strange that others' posts don't seem so affected....

Re; boring Bernie Re: RE: AC Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

"Do you really think the CIA has no relationship with the NSA?...." Nope, but the original poster tried to claim that the NSA and GCHQ had directly killed thousands with drones, which is obviously wrong. Try again!

"....Naïve." Yes, you are.

RE: AC Re: Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

".....when the CIA led a coup d'etat in Chile...." Fail! The CIA is a completely separate organization to the NSA, and SFA to do with the GCHQ.

Re: antiRev RE: AC Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

".....Does that mean you do have a problem with the real innocents being killed?...." Firstly, what 'innocents'? By the laws of The Hague Covention, civilian buildings used for a military purpose become legitimate military targets, including mosques and other normally protected buildings. Similarly, civilians giving aid or other support to armed fighters, be they uniformed soldiers or 'militants', also lose the protection of their civilian status whilst they are giving such support. A civilian worker in an factory that supplies military items or a military building is a legitimate target, and the definition of 'factory' is so lose legally it can cover an unarmed woman cooking food (a 'military supply') for 'militants' in a mud-brick compound (the 'factory'). Whilst she may have been forced by 'tradition' to do the cooking, it is highly unlikely she does not know what her 'guests' have done and intend to do in the future, and that her giving them shelter and sustenance enables the 'militants' to carry on their murderous tasks. Maybe you want to look at the real innocents killed daily by such 'militants' who expressly target civilians, with the approval of their supporters - http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2014.htm

".....I can't believe you are naive enough to believe innocent civilians aren't killed in drone strikes....." If civilians are killed by drone strikes then it is unintentional. That is the difference - the West and allies seek to minimize such 'collateral damage', whereas the terrorists seek it as their primary aim. Please do list the number of non-'innocents' killed on 9/11, or the London Tube bombing, or any number of other terrorist attacks. As far as I can ascertain, not one single serving member of the armed forces of any Western country was killed out of the 2753 people killed on 9/11 alone, which is more than HuffPo's inflated figure for 2400 'civilians' killed in five years of drone strikes under Obama. Oh, sorry, did your definition of 'innocent' not extend to non-'militant-friendly people?

RE: SolidSquid Re: RE: AC Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

"Considering some of their targets have been in civilian housing blocks....." AQ (and the Taleban and IS and other Islamist terror groups) doesn't have any defined military installations because they do not have any conventional military force, therefore ALL their 'fighters' and support infrastrucure are in civilian buildings! Duh! Indeed, AQ (and similar Islamist terror groups) deliberately hide amongst civilians in an attempt to avoid being hit, relying on Western values when AQ and co have no compunction about massacring civilians. And military strikes against 'terrorists/guerrillas/freedom-fighters' and their 'support systems', including Auntie Mila making them brihani whilst sheltering them in civilian buildings, is legal under UN law. Even the UN Special Rapporteur for Dictators- sorry, I mean the UN Human Rights Council - was unable to show breaches of law, his best whine being to question whether 'self-defence' could be used to justify drone strikes on 'militants' setting roadside bombs (the roadside bomb represents a threat, therefore killing the 'militants' setting the bomb before they can detonate it is self-defence under US and UK rules of engagement).

The British MoD actually prohibits strikes, drone or otherwise, if it is clear beforehand that it will result in any civilian casualties, a zero-acceptance policy. The big difference is the West seeks to limit collateral damage and civilian deaths, even amongst those that openly support and assist Islamist terror groups, whereas the Islamist terror groups primary targets are civilians and they seek to maximize the number of civilian deaths they cause. If you want to pretend otherwise then please do go ahead and compare the number of civilians killed daily by Islamist suicide- and car- bombs against those killed by infrequent Western drone strikes. You can start here - http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2014.htm - and then get the shrieking, 'liberal' figure for 'five years of drone strikes under Obama' here - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/obama-drone-program-anniversary_n_4654825.html. Please try to note that even the inflated figures used by HuffPo are about 10% of the people killed by Islamist terror groups in just 2014 so far alone.

RE: AC Re: Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

".....they just use drones to do the dirty work....." Wrong! Neither the GCHQ nor NSA operate armed drones. The people that do are the respective armed forces of Britain and the U.S., and - allegedly - the CIA.

"......I guess that makes it more palatable for some people." When those drones are used they are striking at real terrorists and I have zero problem with killing them or the 'innocent bystanders' they are being assisted by. The drones are used when it is impractical or too risky to send special forces in to do the job. The virtual elimination of Al Quaeda has shown just how effective they are, which is probably what makes them unpalatable for some people.

Re: Marsbarbran Re: @Matt Bryant - Suckerdog Looking forward to seeing this

"Of course *you* have never been personally affected by Ebola or the beheading of hostages....." Actually, I have travelled to parts of the a World where both occur. Avoiding Ebola was simpler and considered less of a risk (going by the insurance premiums).

"......so from *your* perspective you have nothing to worry about, do you?" The difference is I not only did my research but made a reasoned assessment of the risks based on real facts. You are simply still insisting that there are monsters under your bed because she celebutard told you so.

Re: Suckerdog Re: Looking forward to seeing this

LOL at the paranoia!

".....far more horrifying and far-reaching than such things as ebola or IS....." So the NSA and/or GCHQ have killed thousands like the Ebola virus? Did I miss the reports of the NSA making vids of their operatives beheading hostages and burying executed Shias, Kurds and Christians in mass graves? Please do try to develop a sense of perspective.

Whisper. Explain this 'questionable' behavior – senior US senator

Re: Shadow Systems Re: I bet the "tracked & never know it" guy heard the story.

".....but to have just openly admitted to Unauthorized Surveilence of a Government Employee....." Lobbyists, by definition, work for private parties, not the Government, and are not 'Government Employees'.

Whisper tracks its users. So we tracked down its LA office. This is what happened next

Congratulations, you are now a market segment!

And that's the ironic crux of this issue - the tinfoil-attired have created such a storm of hot air that they have succeeded in growing their group size to the point where they are now actively being targeted by people selling products, services and conjobs tailored to them as a market segment. It's so amusing that their very paranoia about being 'exploited' and 'having their privacy invaded' is driving them into the arms of exploitative companies that are selling such services and products that they claim will 'protect' the paranoid. How many anti-capitalists blindly forked out cash for these proprietary, capitalist-driven services? It's all too funny for words!

RE: Marsbarbrain Re: razorfishsl

".....No, the reflexive response of Matt is to miss the irony..." Wow, Marsbarbrain's backpedalling has become so reflexive he now automatically does it even for others! Or maybe he just missed the bit where people have been mocking the tinfoil-attired for months over their conspiracy theories claiming this or that social media tool/site "is a CIA front!"

Re: Destroyed all Braincell's Re: razorfishsl

"....Yet another one who falls for CIA decoys hook, line and sinker." My point proven, right on cue.

Re: razorfishsl

"Might be a CIA front…." There really are none so blind as those that do not want to see! Seriously, it seems obvious that the whole caper is a very amateur con job being run to exploit the paranoid, and the reflexive response of the paranoid is to blame the CIA?!?!?

Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit

Re: DryBones

".....You need to be thinking like an end-user about this....." So, thinking like an end-luser, when the USB device stops working (which may not be noticed until an USB device is plugged in days after the update), the luser does one of three things.

In the first case, they just assume their cheap, eBay-sourced USB device has blown up because it is a cheap, eBay-sourced device, and they go order another. Should that not work out-of-the-box (because it has a one of the fake chips) then they may come to the conclusion that buying cheap, eBay-sourced devices is not a good idea, and then purchase a more expensive part which has a warranty and hopefully an FDTI part included. At some point the supply of fakes will dry up as they will not be able to sell them as 'Windows ready' without falling foul of Trading Standards.

Secondly, in the case they think they have a warranty they will reach out to the warranty-supplier's support, at which point it is up to the supplier to explain they have used a knock-off chip and need to supply a working replacement (ie, one with a proper FDTI part). Since the device is not 'broken' it could be rejected as a warranty replacement case, but that depends on whether they described it as 'Windows compatible' at the time of sale as it no longer is post-update. Supplying a replacement part that they know is not going to work after the update as 'Windows compatible', either as a warranty replacement or as a chargeable replacement, would be an illegal act in the UK, probably all EU countries, and most likely in the US too.

In the third case, the luser takes his unit to someone who actually has the skills to diagnose the problem. In the case it is someone really skilled then they will get the explanation and probably the offer of a replacement device with an FDTI part. If they go to a less skilled repairer, such as a PC chain store, then they will probably get an offer of a replacement part with the diagnosis of "dis part be broke, we sell new one, only $59.99", but it highly likely someone in the chain store's organization will know about the issue and will have made sure their stock of replacements are genuine FDTI-containing parts.

As it is FDTI has not irreversibly broken the 'fake' device, simply ensured they will not work with FDTI's Windows driver. FDTI is under no legal obligation to supply a driver that works with non-FDTI devices and could argue that, since it has no means of qualifying the design of 'fake' devices it cannot guarantee they will work safely and is therefore protecting the user. This is the Apple argument used to stop people using non-Apple PSUs and connectors.

'Dancing Jesus' file-sharer found guilty

Re: Marsbarbrain Re: Homeland security

"Don't you know? Copyright Theft funds Terrorism!...." I assume you were too riven by paranoid terror (self-terrorism?) to go and read the US DHS website and understand that they also cover such matters (along with immigration, customs, and natural disasters). In all, the DHS is an amalgamation of 22 previous US Gov agencies and departments and so has a pretty wide remit.

IBM storage revenues sink: 'We are disappointed,' says CEO

IBM sell their storage arm? Nah.

I suspect IBM will be lining up sacrificial scapegoats for the bad performance but I suspect they would hold off on ditching storage even if it was just breaking even. Storage is needed for IBM to claim they are a rounded enterprise player - no storage offering makes IBM vulnerable to competitors that can offer combined server and storage deals such as hp, Fujitsu or Lenovo. We might see a reduction in IBM's internal storage designs and an increase in badging of OEM products instead as that pushes a lot of the costs onto the OEM and allows the axe to be swung freely in IBM's internal storage teams.

Want a more fuel efficient car? Then redesign it – here's how

Re: Mr ChriZ Re: Advanced Motoring

".....If you're not careful you'll have someone to close behind you running into you!" Why the down votes? This is exactly what happened to me - I used engine-braking and the Buy My Wares driver behind me, despite a good gap, hit my car hard enough to do £3k of damage and give my passenger and me whiplash, his excuse being "But I didn't see you brake."

Edward Snowden documentary premieres across the UK

Re: Rich 11 Re: Local films for local people

"....Obviously there's a conspiracy." Or just a lack of interest. This effort doesn't even have Cumberbatch to save it.

Re: Vociferous Re: Whitewash.

Oh, some politically-sympathetic critics will laud it, it will be announced with much fanfare at 'cultural events' like Sundance, then sink to oblivion with a straight-to-bargain-bin-video release. Poitras has at least learned from the appeal (or lack of) of her earlier efforts and skipped further embarrassment at the boxoffice (The Oath staggered to a bad-even-by-political-documentary-standards U.S. total gross of $42,117). The good news is that means there is little likely chance of actually having your eyeballs assaulted by any of Poitras's trilogy.

Want a customer's call records Mr Plod? No probs

Re: dan1980 Re: dan1980 dan1980

"Because the way someone feels is irrelevant to their way of life, right?...." If someone cripples their own 'way of life' through unreasoning paranoia then that is their fault. Please do tell me why you think anyone, let alone the spooks or 'The Man', would have the slightest interest in you?

"....By that logic, verbal and psychological bullying and abuse cannot be considered a legitimate cause for grievance...." The only bullying is being done to you by yourself! You're like a child that insists there are monsters under your bed, only when you are told 'take a look to see there are none there' you insist you are what monsters consider really, really tasty, and the very idea that a monster wouldn't want to eat you is just bullying, and besides - ALL your friends insist they have monsters under their beds....

Your attempt to justify your paranoia by claiming anyone that doesn't think like you (i.e., have paranoid delusions) is just an uncaring monster is too funny for words! Seriously, get over yourself!

Re: dan1980 Re: dan1980

"....It's the freedoms you have and the mental and emotional state that you have as well as the worries and concerns that afflict you....." So no real and actual affects other than the ones you create yourself with your paranoia.

Re: dan1980 Re: dan1980

"To draw a parallel, think of someone who is subject to a 'peeping tom'....." The difference is your 'peeping Tom' is imaginary. All you have have demonstrated is that you have convinced yourself you have something to fear, not that there is anything that you yourself need to actually fear, and shown no actual affect other than the one you are creating yourself by your paranoia.

".....That is doesn't bother you, personally is utterly irrelevant." The fact you cannot show how it affects you through anything other than your self-induced fears is totally relevant. You cannot show a reason why you even need to be afraid, you just want to think someone would be 'watching you'.

Re: Arnaut the Clueless Re: Backslash, Backlash!

".......when we're told there is no money for education or health....." Once again, you are talking complete male bovine manure, and I expect you will try excusing your failure with more desperate "I was trolling" whining. Both health and education get massively more of the budget than either defence or the tiny percentage of the budget spent on spying. Next time, please try at least the smallest bit of research before posting more of your groundless anti-'The Man' rubbish.

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/breakdown

Re: AC What Regulation of Powers?

"....More like not looking for him. A bit different." No. A few months after he went 'walkabout' his sister reported him as a missing person, even though he had told his family not to bother, and so the police and local rescue went out into the forest to look for him. Five weeks later he walked into a village pub and used their pay phone to call the police and tell them he was fine and did not need finding. After just over two years he decided he was able to deal with people again and returned to society. During his time in the woods, apart from the trip to the pub, he managed to avoid all human contact.

Kill off SSL 3.0 NOW: HTTPS savaged by vicious POODLE

Re: Fatman Re: Aw, c'mon!

"....PS: Mr Nadela wants to see both you and Loverock Davidson in his office first thing tomorrow. Something about a new assignment." Does he want us to develop you a sense of humour?

Aw, c'mon!

I can't believe no-one has commented on how SSL is continually dogged by security issues....

/ Baddum-dum-tush! Yeah, suck it up, I'm here all week!

Re: AC Re: Destroyed all braincells Misleading Language

I believe the Porsche quote is from the Kernighan & Richie definitive textbooks (for C and UNIX gurus, also known as 'the White Bible'), IIRC. Anyone wishing to disagree will probably find that Mr Kernighan is famous for a biting sarcasm that would make moi look positively retiring.

Re: Destroyed all braincells Re: Misleading Language

".....There are a couple of "languages" named according to the third letter of the alphabet, for starters....." The famous description of C is 'driving a Porsche along a mountain road with no safety barriers' - fine, fun and with great performance, if you know what you're doing, I take it you're just a bad 'driver'.

City council thinks what we're all thinking: 'Comcast is terrible – and NOT welcome here'

Re: Matt Piechota

"Just goes to show that the Brits that came over were wholly unimaginative when it comes to naming stuff...." Yeah, not at all like those wildly inventive American souls who renamed Vickery Creek in Gerogia as Big Creek.... They were in good company - there appear to be at least seven other Big Creeks in the States.

Sway: Microsoft's new Office app doesn't have an Undo function

Re: The Indomitable Gall Re: it's an beta release

".....if you don't code them in from the ground up, they're unlikely to work...." Or, it could be the bones of the 'undo' routines are in the beta but not active because it's not yet ready for production. What, you've never released an alpha/beta with a feature commented out? So, how long have you worked with code....?

Re: Terry 6

"....It sounds fun, and interesting...." Hmmmm, I think the intended market is the real "99%", as in the 99% of smartphone, tablet and PC users that aren't power-users, that don't want or know how to use PowerPoint or Photoshop, but want to quickly be able to put a 'slideset' together for a limited audience. I'm thinking the guy with his holiday snaps, the kids that that took a video with their phone of their mates falling off their skateboards, that kind of user. They just want to take some media items and quickly create a polished-looking article, using someone else's clever templates, that they can then stick on Facebook or the like, and have it look good on different types of devices without having to do any intelligent work up front. For that 99%, this is social media WYSIWYG-on-steroids, requiring minimal learning yet giving a quite pleasing output. It won't appeal to those photo-editor snobs that can spend half-an-hour discussing RGB values but they are the 1% that will pay out for a full Photoshop license. All in all it seems a quite interesting idea.

Is HP riding the EVO: RAILs to oblivion?

"....In the Vulture storage desk's view StoreVirtual competes with VMware's VSAN...."

Agreed (but then the VMware salesgrunts will tell you VSAN competes with all multi-node or clustered storage, even top-end arrays). Plus you can potentially bundle all your VMware licenses together and get one discount across them all! Yippee! But does the performance of VSAN compare to a proper array, let alone a clustered storage node solution like StoreVirtual....?

Where StoreVirtual will probably still be chosen over VSAN is anywhere not getting a 60% VMware discount ('cos VMware is still fscking expensive, IMHO), where the customers need more nodes (up to 32 with StoreVirtual, IIRC), and where customers have decided to build their own stack using Hyper-V or KVM instead of V(ery-expensive)Mware. That and the fact you don't need to throw bones to understand StoreVirtual licensing compared to the mess of VMware's licensing/gouging system. Do expect your vCenter admins to push VSAN as they see it as adding to their V-empire and HP will happily sell either option, so just make sure you get the option that is right for you (hint - competitive proof-of-concept using your stack and data in your environment).

Judge nukes Ulbricht's complaint about WARRANTLESS FBI Silk Road server raid

Re: Insufferable Pothead Re: sisk

"Innocent unless proven guilty...." I'm sure the FBI are laughing their asses off at just how willing they would be to help Ulbricht prove his 'innocence', just as soon as he admits the server in question is his. The fact is so desperate to deny admitting his ownership just rules how unlikely his innocence is. But you go on trying to baaaaaahlieve otherwise if it helps you cope with the 'unfairness' of it all.

".....I know you and the law enforcement agencies want to see that basic maxim of the Rule of Law become a thing of the past....." It is very clear the only thing you know is hatred of 'The Man', the rest is just your paranoid fantasies.