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visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: Confirmed: Samsung is not shipping keyloggers

From the original post which started all this:http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2....

"After an in-depth analysis of the laptop, my conclusion was that this software was installed by the manufacturer, Samsung. I removed the keylogger software, cleaned up the laptop, and continued using the computer."

So, the author, Mohamed Hassan was able to uninstall a software which was never installed? I think he would have deleted the folder in question and called that un-installing!!

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)

A question to all: When the nominees for this year's Academy Awards were released, one film was missing out. Even, it was missing out from all major film awards.

The Shutter Island.

It was a wonderful psych-thriller by master Scorcese, had some power packed performance by Leo, but didn't make it to any movie awards. Any takes?

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)

I disagree!

The Departed was based on the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. It has a prequel as well as a sequel too. I don't understand Chinese and had to rely on subs.

But, I had watched Infernal Affairs before Departed came. Martin Scorcese was awesome, Walhberg and Damon are my favs, but still, I liked the original more than the Hollywood adaptation.

I think you watched Departed first and then the original, which would have caused the original to look inferior with the Hollywood one.

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)

I happen to search around for some marketing info about Inception and found this: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/13/business/la-fi-ct-in...

From LA Times, Warner gambles on an unproven commodity. Quoting the first line:

"The studio and its partner have invested $160 million in 'Inception,' a film that is not a sequel, adapted from a comic book or inspired by a toy. They're hoping it follows the path of 'Matrix.'"

I have a couple of points to make.

1) Inception is a great idea .i.e. similar to Matrix, for which the entire world fell at its feet.

2) But unlike Matrix, it's difficult to make a series out of Inception.

3) And last, Inception production cost was $160 million and Warner Bros spend the equivalent amount in marketing ($100+)

So, even good films, those which are born out of new ideas, needs a good marketing plan. The only thing is that the studios should believe in the film!!

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: Joyent: 54+ hours of downtime

Digging Techcrunch got me this story: Twitter and Joyent splits (Circa Jan 31, 2008)

http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-split-am...

Twitter moved to Verio and here's Biz Stone's reply to Techcrunch:

We’re still very much engaged in our efforts to bring solid reliability to Twitter. Achieving our goals is a sustained effort, not an overnight fix. Performance is our most important measure of success and we appreciate both the patience and frustration folks are sharing with us.

With regard to discussing technical specifics about last night’s efforts, we’ll be more keen to do that once we have a chance to come up for air and cover it with some perspective.

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world

Lots of local brands have suddenly gained some traction in Indian market. Mostly because of their cheap prices (Micromaxx brought out an Android one for $130!).

Also, if you look at the PR of these new mobile companies, they are mostly targeted at the people living in rural areas. So, they are in fact eating a part of Nokia's pie, but a final verdict can be said only a couple of years later. Micromaxx is going public soon, so, lets wait and see how many of them make it.

visakhcr | 15 years ago | on: Revealed: The guy behind IMDb

There was no Google Adsense before 1998.

(Other ad players were there, but nothing as efficient and accessible to any website owner/publisher)

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