LOL. Nice to see a developer posting here. VMWare's timing on this is just about normal for me--our office just bought several licenses to address a specific required PC configuration without having to have users dual boot or run separate machines. Of course now it will be quite affordable to expand it beyond the three--thanks!
One annoyance I've had about VMware, though, is having to patch the binary in order to use the Ethernet OUI of my choice (there are situations in which having a telltale VMware OUI is quite undesirable--think honeypots). Why does VMware attempt to tie down its paying customers that way? That should be a user-configurable option.
Again, thanks for a great product, and for the release of this tool--it will no doubt gain tremendous mindshare.
. . . downplayed reports of a test round of balloting in which tabulations resulted in George W. Bush as the winner of the election for Prime Minister of Estonia.
Does Google tell the people behind the Great Firewall when their search results were redacted? And do they link to the specific order from the government that contains (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) enough information to find what the complainants tried to suppress anyway? I rather doubt it.
As far as the idea of fines against American companies who sell software to foreign governments who censor content, this is laughable. The idea is equivalent to stifling free speech where it is a guaranteed right in order to protect free speech where it is not guaranteed.
That's an interesting idea--that trading with regimes in violation of the most basic of human rights is protected under the First Amendment because we're talking about software and not guns or ammo.
I personally think Google's going to make money playing the stock market (imagine the search engine buzz before a merger, for example) and selling dossiers on individuals of interest to the rich and to governments. They've got some people with shady entries (e.g. NSA) on their resumes, and "don't be evil" isn't exactly a binding contract. I do use Google, but through TOR.
I am unable to reach sites in the domain prisonplanet.com and infowars.com via my RoadRunner connection, but am able to reach them via another ISP. This has been reported as an attempt at censorship by AOL/TW. I certainly hope that is not the case and that there is a genuine technical problem causing thee domains to not resolve from RR. If this is censorship, and it continues, I will be changing ISPs. I look forward to your reply. Thank you.
I'll be getting Speakeasy if they DNS games don't stop, contract and increased cost be damned.
I didn't believe you at first, but I can't reach the sites from my RoadRunner connection, yet they work fine through TOR. Welcome to the Great Firewall of Amerika.
They have a point with respect to TV cards, since they already have a tuner. But the tuners can be detected by the mobile monitoring already done to look for unlicensed TVs. They have no basis whatsoever for charging Internet users a licensing fee, espeically given that they haven't really even released the content given that it's encumbered with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
As does Google, as does Microsoft, as does Cisco. Our "freedom loving" plutocracy allows American companies to assist in this crap scot free, while hypocritically decrying the illegitimate Communist government of Red China for things like persecution of Christians and violent repression of free speech such as that in the Tiananmen Square massacre. There are no choices--the plutocracy cares for money, no matter whose rights it tramples or whom it kills.
Which is one more good reason never to carry a balance on a credit card. The government's too busy protecting corporations to pass laws to ensure that "contracts" like these that are mutable by one side are illegal.
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Heh :).
Props for your sig!
. . . to "In space, no one can hear you scream."
One annoyance I've had about VMware, though, is having to patch the binary in order to use the Ethernet OUI of my choice (there are situations in which having a telltale VMware OUI is quite undesirable--think honeypots). Why does VMware attempt to tie down its paying customers that way? That should be a user-configurable option.
Again, thanks for a great product, and for the release of this tool--it will no doubt gain tremendous mindshare.
. . . downplayed reports of a test round of balloting in which tabulations resulted in George W. Bush as the winner of the election for Prime Minister of Estonia.
Does Google tell the people behind the Great Firewall when their search results were redacted? And do they link to the specific order from the government that contains (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) enough information to find what the complainants tried to suppress anyway? I rather doubt it.
That's an interesting idea--that trading with regimes in violation of the most basic of human rights is protected under the First Amendment because we're talking about software and not guns or ammo.
I personally think Google's going to make money playing the stock market (imagine the search engine buzz before a merger, for example) and selling dossiers on individuals of interest to the rich and to governments. They've got some people with shady entries (e.g. NSA) on their resumes, and "don't be evil" isn't exactly a binding contract. I do use Google, but through TOR.
Pays like winning the lottery. Look at all the open source projects and developers who haven't been bought up by Google.
That'll work great, for those who trust Google with the most intimate details of their lives. I'll use a USB stick, thank-you-very-much.
Now we have smart speakers that eventually will only play content digitally signed by an RIAA member, in addition to enforcing DRM. Sign me up!
Does look like there might possibly be a legitimate explanation, though. Some other pretty innocuous sites are dark from RR.
I didn't believe you at first, but I can't reach the sites from my RoadRunner connection, yet they work fine through TOR. Welcome to the Great Firewall of Amerika.
Just keep restarting TOR until you get google.co.uk after you type google.com. Then get the content.
They have a point with respect to TV cards, since they already have a tuner. But the tuners can be detected by the mobile monitoring already done to look for unlicensed TVs. They have no basis whatsoever for charging Internet users a licensing fee, espeically given that they haven't really even released the content given that it's encumbered with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
. . . have no buisiness using DRM on content whilst it is being paid for by taxes. UK subject paid for that content, and own it.
. . . eBay has expressed interest in the technology for as yet unspecified applications.
There's not just the issue of Apple Records; Apple most likely signed a non-compete with the labels in order to get access to their inventory.
As does Google, as does Microsoft, as does Cisco. Our "freedom loving" plutocracy allows American companies to assist in this crap scot free, while hypocritically decrying the illegitimate Communist government of Red China for things like persecution of Christians and violent repression of free speech such as that in the Tiananmen Square massacre. There are no choices--the plutocracy cares for money, no matter whose rights it tramples or whom it kills.
Which is one more good reason never to carry a balance on a credit card. The government's too busy protecting corporations to pass laws to ensure that "contracts" like these that are mutable by one side are illegal.
I'd normally shout "Godwin's Law," but I'm too busy laughing! Up next week, RIAA annexes the Sudetenland.
Shhhhhhh!
I'm sure you would have the same laid back attitude towards evidentiary standards were you accused of a crime.
And the Pacific Rim is a hot employment market, I hear, as well.