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Comment on Veoh is Malware by Brentwood962

Brentwood962 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:17:50 +0000

Much appreciated. This post (from now 6 years ago) stopped me from installing this seemingly terrific online video player.

Saved me some troubles and my hat is off to you.

Regards,

Brentwood

Comment on Learn Something; Share Something; Do Something by Interesting website | knitgateme

Interesting website | knitgateme — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:52:02 +0000

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Comment on Fleet Foxes videos on Pitchfork.tv by Kapil

Kapil — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:44:24 +0000

I wish I could see them live! I was alautcly cooking with them today (well not *with* them, but you know what I mean). Such good tunes! Glad you enjoyed the show (and your Mom, too!)

Comment on Veoh is Malware by gergjn

gergjn — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:06:24 +0000

“Low and behold”

The phrase is ‘lo and behold’, with lo being a shortening of the word ‘look’, as in “Look and behold”.

Comment on 45 movies to see before you die by Anthony Chapman

Anthony Chapman — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:17:49 +0000

If you haven’t seen it, check out The Right Stuff. It’s one of the best movies ever made, we get a version of the story of breaking the sound barrier and the mercury space programme, we get their home lives, from their wives perspective. We get the politics behind it – at one point Johnson asks if it was the Soviets German scientists who got them into space first, then a Greman voice from the shadows says “No Senator, it was not. Our Germans are better than their Gremans.” I could go on for ages about this movie, but I won’t because you also have to see The Unbareable Lightness of Being, which is a beautiful movie.

There’s also Hitchcock’s version of The 39 Steps, it’s still the best adaptation, and it’s much better than the book.

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Fri, 27 May 2011 23:40:06 +0000

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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:03:28 +0000

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Comment on Who am I? by Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus » Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus 7 – Fastened To The Accursed Tree

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:08:01 +0000

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Comment on 45 movies to see before you die by Nay

Nay — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:55:22 +0000

Good list, glad to see so many of my own faves there. Recommendation: The Lives of Others. Blew me away, it’s heartrending but strangely affirming.

Comment on Veoh is Malware by pchelp

pchelp — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:33:36 +0000

I bumped into this page when seeking further data on the Veoh Web Player.

In its current incarnation (Aug 2010), it appears not to run a background service. But it does by default make itself a startup process and so will effectively run in the background. It creates hundreds of connections to peers and continuously sends and receives data.

Veoh does not seem to adequately disclose the nature of its client’s behaviors on its website. I was however long since aware of its P2P nature.

What came as a surprise to me was that an update apparently reasserted its startup on windows boot, where I had explicitly disabled it previously.

Annoying at the very least. I was alerted to it when I found massive unexpected traffic through one of my routers.

Veoh Web Player offers no outward indication of its online activity. It is a deceptive practice.

Veoh does offer a genuine service and I will continue to use it, but warily, and I will never fail to advise anyone I know to be using it to disable it as a startup process and to remain vigilant lest it run unasked.