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Comment Re:German's listening to pop music (Score 5, Interesting) 143

My Neice ended up going to a high school in Germany. She spoke English but quickly picked up German. One of the friends she made asked her one day what it was like actually understanding the lyrics of the songs they listened to. To them it was just a bunch of pleasant-sounding gibberish. So you can enjoy the songs without knowing the words.

Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.

Comment They are literally the last company (Score 4, Insightful) 30

The last company I would want having access to my span port is google. Sure they know everything about me already, but heck if I'm wrapping it up in a gift box for them. I use a VPN for ad blocking, not increasing google's stranglehold over me. It's like their VPN is exactly the opposite, a worst case scenario, of what I would ever consider.

Comment Re:I'll say it again... (Score 1) 34

You're right. When VPNs first came out, it was adding encryption when there was none. So, if someone had a span port on you, they could read your HTTP traffic. Now, even P2P traffic on the web is mostly SSL, so there's almost nothing added and you're probably suffering a traffic bottleneck at the VPN. Not to mention that VPN is a veritable span port for anything you're running that isn't over TLS.

Comment Re:Horrible License Terms (Score 1) 60

Its license runs for a year, after which you will get a fresh copy. This means you won't be able to configure your own system and keep it alive -- you'll have to recreate it, from scratch, annually.

Annual license that is a complete pain-in-the-A$$

In other words How To Make Something Seriously Restricted Without Actually Saying So

Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

Comment I wouldn't get too excited yet (Score 1) 143

Remember Munich, with much fanfare, adopted Linux in 2003 only to abandon it for Windows 10:

The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches. According to Mayor Dieter Reiter, having two operating systems on municipal PCs is "completely uneconomic" -- it'd make more financial sense to simplify. And unfortunately for Linux advocates, Windows was more likely to win out in this case. Munich's council has had to keep a minority of Windows PCs around for apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay.

Reiter also pointed to complaints about IT performance, although there are disputes as to whether or not reverting to Windows is the solution.

In addition to politics and cost, the issue of having to work in a Microsoft-centric world are likely to kill this.

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