The inmates doing time for theft and fraud related offences might just be the same ones who are stealing the computers at your office.

The very nature of OpenStack is pretty clear. If you have any questions about "clarity", go download the source code and set it up for yourself and setup your own VPDC.

The problem with Google Glass is not the hardware itself, it is the privacy implications of using the device, which sends everything to an untrusted third party. It would be different if they offered the option of never communicating with their network, but they don't offer that as an option. So, essentially anyone who has an agreement with google (NSA, FBI, other governments, other companies, etc) will get copies of your location, pictures coming off the camera, video, microphone data, etc. Those issues alone are the reasons why I would never actually use one. Until Google is serious about separating the umbilical cord from devices like this from talking to their servers, it remains a serious problem about ever using it for anything long term. It's bad enough you might be already using an Android or iPhone device which does almost the same thing, minus the video and audio stream.

It starts out protecting the children, then it moves to protecting content authors. Then it moves to protecting government officials from negative political speech. Then it moves to protecting criminals from journalists reporting about their actions. Where does it end? You might as well just take down the internet and block everything.

Is why does LexisNexis, which has been around since at least the 1970's, trust the use of Microsoft Windows to their server infrastructure. Sounds like they really dropped the ball here. Hopefully heads will roll on this one.

I think when Nginx first came on the scene (a little bit after libevent was released), Apache had known about the scalability problems associated with using fork() versus epoll(). This was almost a decade ago. Apache has yet to provide a scalable implementation using epoll similar to what Nginx provides. Its at least a 10x speed improvement on the same hardware.

All that I can say is that all new installations over the past I'd say about 5 years, I've been doing using Nginx only because Apache just can't scale well with their fork() implementation compared to Nginx. I'd say this has something to do with people leaving Apache, at least all the people I know.

Looks like the NSA is up to their old dirty tricks: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/researchers-say-tor-targeted-malware-phoned-home-to-nsa/ ... And yes, I second the motion to stop using Windows -- its full of zero day bugs like this. Not a day goes by where you don't hear about a new zero day attack focused on Windows, and its been that way for decades.

This is the slippery slope that I mentioned earlier in a post about the UK censorship of websites deemed to have "adult" content. First, it starts with websites that have "adult" content, then the censorship goes into many other types including bad words, anti-government or subversive content, anti-semitism content, political opponents speech, etc. Then it gets to a point where it will serach and replace on bad content and change it to good content or remove just the posts themselves so no one can see them. Once you have a content filter in place, its extremely easy to make it turn into the Great Firewall of China within a few months or years. This is why these things are just so damaging to the citizens of any country, especially ones that are founded on democratic principles. It doesn't make you more free, it takes away freedom. The bottom line is that when you pay for a pipe, you should get that pipe, not a pipe that has been changed or restricted in any way. To do so is censorship.

its called ssh, it was written in 1990.

All the idiots who think that "Terms of Service" "agreements" -- which for the most part have been proven to be unenforceable in a court of law, trump state or federal law are wrong. An illegal contract is still illegal. For example, craigslist.org has some pretty nefarious nonsense all over thier terms of use web page, and about 90% of it is unenforceable illegal contract nonsense that and they would get, and have gotten laughed out of every court they every attempted to show it to. TOS agreements are no more than a scare tactic used by corporations to make people think its illegal to do something. If your feeble minded enough to believe it, thats you're low IQ that you need to examine. I personally hope that Skype and Microsoft get sued into oblivion for their misdeeds against the millions of people who have paid to use that Skype program over the years and now after Micro$oft bought it, have since become bamboozled into various levels of fraud by Micor$oft.

For over 50 years the propaganda war machine has been putting out highly inflamed offensive speech declaring war on various entities, so really at this point until they actually fire that first missile, I wouldn't worry about it. And when they do actually fire that missile, they will be wiped off the map.

The only reason Time Warner Cable does not see many customers requesting gigabit ethernet connections is because it is too cost prohibitive. If you called BrightHouse (Time Warner Cable) and asked them for pricing on 1000 megabit internet connections, it is on the order of thousands of dollars per month. No normal residential customer is going to be able to afford such ridiculous pricing schemes. If they offered gigabit speeds at an affordable (less than 1000 dollars per month), I'm *sure* a large portion of their customer base would be ordering it. The reality is that they can't do it because the infrastructure isn't there to do it. It has nothing to do with the argument of their customers don't want it.

The policy makes no distinction between outside the US versus inside the US. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before we see drone strikes inside US borders against US citizens becoming commonplace.

When I tried XBMC about a year ago, there were numerous problems. There was problems with the packages not working with the most recent version of Ubuntu. After the install, there was random seg faults throughout the UI, involving everything from playing video to navigating the UI to indexing video files. There was also the huge issue of it not recognizing more than 75% of my library, and then the 25% of the library that it did "recognize", it mislabeled about 75% of that as well. So then there is the issue of the content that it did correctly identify (about 10% of my library) alot of that content would not render using their playing tool. After about a day of playing with it, I uninstalled it. I tried another solution called "Boxee" and found the same class of problems exist with it too.

I will say that in the span of two days I wrote an indexer to scan my 20TB library, put the files into a mysql database, and then wrote a front end for it (all in PHP), which then I can use to one-click pop mplayer fullscreen (in -slave mode), and it also does the same with Youtube videos (using Chrome with fullscreen options, and youtube-dl to queue / download the video files and add them to my library). It has a lot of other features, but I will say that is a lot faster to find my actual content, and does not attempt to mislabel anything, and in the end I have a pretty scalable solution.

They all will claim that paying millions of dollars on Microsoft royalties and licensing fees is always better than paying zero dollars for a Linux deployment. They will always state that Microsoft products somehow have a lower TCO than Linux. The claim they make is that it costs more to hire Linux engineers than Windows engineers, which is a bunch of nonsense.