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Does this take into account recent (?) phenomenon such as the Mafia Wars game on Facebook?

Part of the object in this game is to gather a bigger 'mafia' with which your 'attack' and 'defense' is based. Each Mafia member needs to first be a 'friend' in facebook. Attempting this type of analysis in this situation couldn't possibly return useful results - unless you are looking to reason why someone added specific people to their mafia? :)

Perhaps they could just add a rule saying 'anyone with over 300 friends should not be evaluated in this manner'?

Full text of the JUSTICE Act at http://www.eff.org/files/HEN09874.pdf or http://www.juliansanchez.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/JUSTICEAct.pdf

EFF's) blog post on the bill http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/eff-supports-justice

Feingold's press release http://feingold.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=317927

My Dailykos diary http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/17/19226/5990

Facebook "Pass the JUSTICE ACT" group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134538932549

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Thats why they have also a twitter/hyves/youtube account :-)

http://vprobeagle.hyves.nl/
http://twitter.com/beagleproject
http://www.youtube.com/user/VPROBeagle

And a fan-site:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57984394055

Python, Erlang, PHP and more: http://es-la.facebook.com/Engineering?v=info&viewas=0&ref=share

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Microsoft has said it may ditch Vista the moment Windows 7 comes out! They've since backtracked - but we need to make sure they know our feelings.

Windows 7 is CASTRATED APPEASEMENT to soy latte-sipping girly-men who wish they owned a Mac. We want a REAL operating system. An operating system that PERSONIFIES America's INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. That makes you feel AWE at the MAJESTY of the progress of its operation. VISTA is a monument to everything that makes us the country we are!

Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.

Just Say "No" To Seven -

SAVE VISTA!

Original blog post.

"I fully support this initiative. My computer business employs 200 people; the best possible thing for it is to make sure Vista continues and goes forward." - M. Shuttleworth, London

"I can't tell you how much Vista has done for my business. So many people depend on it." - S. Jobs, Cupertino

"Vista is the one thing that will keep people seeking out and using systems that are at the forefront of technology. It's been the best thing for all of us." - L. Torvalds, Portland.

"I'm ... I'm touched. *sob* I didn't think anyone cared. You guys. Developers! *sob*" - S. Ballmer, Seattle.

Facebook group .

Hell, if it did that much, it's worth it, considering everyone's got one of those people on their friend list.

That would be where this bank of settings comes in.

What kind of company is this? Their website is a wreck, the login system to the support site doesn't even work, by that I mean you can provide any credentials and it'll let you in. Once inside, there's nothing there!

A google for SchoolMax returns:
SchoolMax Sucks Facebook Group (Students): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66046055790
(Year 2009-2010 Week 1: 3392 Members)

First comment:
"Every year,our scheduling coordinator at Roosevelt Mr. Horn starts working on entering schedules into the system from February to July. He enters the schedules into a computer program called "The Scheduler." Every year, The Scheduler is only able to automatically enter the schedules of about 75% of the students; the other 25%, which is about 600-700 students, have scheduling issues that the program can't fix on its own. When this happens, the program leaves the schedule in the system incomplete and moves on to the next one. This is where Mr. Horn comes in. Mr. Horn, from July to August, sits with The Scheduler and works out the remaining 25% of the students' schedules. By the time school starts back up, he has most of the students' schedules worked out. The remaining students go to the auditorium and wait for their schedules to be finished; the average student's schedule takes 5-10 minutes to be entered into the system.

Now, this year, the county wanted him to use SchoolMax for Eleanor Roosevelt's scheduling. The program, which he was only able to start using in May, was able to get 77% of the student's schedules in. However, SchoolMax, not being able to work out the remaining 33% of the schedules, removed them completely from the system instead of leaving them incomplete. Because of this, Mr. Horn had to enter and work out the missing schedules from scratch. They didn't want him doing this over the summer, however, because they were working on the program, which apparently required it to be down the entire time. Now, instead of Mr. Horn getting to work in late June/early July, they allowed him into the program on August 7th. This left him with 17 days to attempt to do what usually takes him more than two months. In addition, SchoolMax's scheduling program is incredibly slow compared to The Scheduler. Instead of 5-10 minutes for a schedule to be registered in the system, it now can take up to 45 minutes.

In conclusion, the No Child Left Behind Act left behind about 631 students yesterday at Roosevelt."

http://www1.pgcps.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=98146

LOL..

Who would give this company 4 million dollars?

and anything the other FB users saved, and anything their ISPs recorded, and on and on...

Of course, storing data received from the Facebook API for extended periods is a violation of their TOS. As are all the forms of redistribution people are paranoid about. And the applications *still* can't get more data than they could be having the installing users run a real application which spiders the FB pages.

So, *shrug*

and anything the other FB users saved, and anything their ISPs recorded, and on and on...

Of course, storing data received from the Facebook API for extended periods is a violation of their TOS. As are all the forms of redistribution people are paranoid about. And the applications *still* can't get more data than they could be having the installing users run a real application which spiders the FB pages.

So, *shrug*

Actually you can:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/privacy/?view=platform&tab=other

Simply untick all the boxes there.

Why are people getting so worked up about this? It's not like the information applications can access has been posted here for years or anything...

And when a breach does occur, do you honestly believe this will waive any liability to Facebook, in this particular case? The only way it does is if someone has to go to extraordinary measures to obtain any lost data; it's more likely to be lax security on their part that would lead to something like that happening.

Secondly, the remainder of the Privacy Policy does give information on how and when your information, whether Personally Identifying or not, is disseminated, and what controls the end user has to limit such dissemination within certain bounds--which really gets outside the persistent backup that they seem to insist on, and has become a point of contention, as deleted accounts/information is generally be available to members of Facebook (@ Section Changing or Removing Information) .

I was pleased once I found how to copy tweets to FB status updates, and deliriously happy once I found how to incorporate FB's chat feature into Pidgin. Everyone else can burn their CPU cycles all they want, so long as I don't have to (a) burn mine or (b) try to fight a metric buttload of network effect.

You just have your customer open Firefox's new "Death Panel" which lets you on the other end decide, based on your subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society", whether or not they are worthy of tech support.

A Marine friend informed me that this network access policy announcement completely conflicts with a new order for Marine recruiters that came out a few weeks prior to this message informing the recruiters to begin using social networking sites as a medium to tell the story of the Corps. In addition, Marine Corps News and Public Affairs have fully embraced social networking sites, and they have instructed their units to begin utilizing these sites as well. So if these commands have been instructed to utilize social networking sites, how are they going to be able to follow these orders if they will not be able to access those sites from their own office? Seems like there has been a breakdown in internal communication when it comes to creating policy within the Corps...

Roee Hay's blog and a movie to demonstrate it : Movie on youtube showing successful attack

GG WP!!

"Actually, facebook modified their terms recently, such that their rights to materials you upload expire if you choose to terminate your facebook account. I agree that it's still not good to grant them that right at all, even if it's not forever though."

Not exactly:

"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account (except to the extent your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it)."

Of whom does "others" consist? I don't know.

Okay, first off, the article has a follow-up posted at the top of it saying they made a mistake and were corrected. But for the interest of people who would rather read comments than articles, here's what I've been telling everyone on Facebook who keeps passing around this foolishness:

First off, the claim that Facebook is allowing 3rd party advertisers to use people's photos isn't quite the case. In fact, Facebook Terms of Service (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) state (section 10.2) "We do not give your content to advertisers."

Yes, Facebook may pair up your name and profile photo with an ad that gets sent to your friends, and yes, that can be blocked with the option mentioned in the message going around (Settings->Privacy->"News Feed and Wall"->"Facebook Ads" and select "No One" - or this link might work to get you there faster, since I'm feeling useful http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds&tab=ads )

This is not, however, 3rd party advertisers using your photo. Section 15 of the advertising guidelines for Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php) state that an ad won't even be accepted if the advertiser is using photos for which they don't own copyright.

Now for the useful: A Facebook application that has not been authorized by you or a friend cannot access any information about you other than what's in your public search listing. This means, though, that if you have a public search listing displaying your photo, an unscrupulous advertiser could get your profile photo.

Any application you have authorized will be able to access information it requires to work. Definition of "requires to work" may vary. If you play a lot of 3rd party Facebook games, or do a lot of those quizzes going around, remember to check the Privacy Policies and Terms of Use for the application if your worried (or if you're really worried, don't do them).

Any application your friends have authorized may be able to access any information about you (on behalf of your friend) that your friend can access. To limit what the applications can see, go to Settings->Privacy->Applications and go to the Settings tab (or have another link http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=platform&tab=other ).

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/07/downloadsquad-and-facebook-users-get-confused-about-facebooks-advertising-policy/ pointed out what more likely happened and downloadsquad corrected their position.

And apparently, as jdigital noted already, even the official facebook blog says that's what happened. So yeah, if you've posted stuff online, somebody may take it and abuse it.. but no, it wasn't Facebook's doing in this case. RTF....Retraction?

Okay, first off, the article has a follow-up posted at the top of it saying they made a mistake and were corrected. But for the interest of people who would rather read comments than articles, here's what I've been telling everyone on Facebook who keeps passing around this foolishness:

First off, the claim that Facebook is allowing 3rd party advertisers to use people's photos isn't quite the case. In fact, Facebook Terms of Service (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) state (section 10.2) "We do not give your content to advertisers."

Yes, Facebook may pair up your name and profile photo with an ad that gets sent to your friends, and yes, that can be blocked with the option mentioned in the message going around (Settings->Privacy->"News Feed and Wall"->"Facebook Ads" and select "No One" - or this link might work to get you there faster, since I'm feeling useful http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds&tab=ads )

This is not, however, 3rd party advertisers using your photo. Section 15 of the advertising guidelines for Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php) state that an ad won't even be accepted if the advertiser is using photos for which they don't own copyright.

Now for the useful: A Facebook application that has not been authorized by you or a friend cannot access any information about you other than what's in your public search listing. This means, though, that if you have a public search listing displaying your photo, an unscrupulous advertiser could get your profile photo.

Any application you have authorized will be able to access information it requires to work. Definition of "requires to work" may vary. If you play a lot of 3rd party Facebook games, or do a lot of those quizzes going around, remember to check the Privacy Policies and Terms of Use for the application if your worried (or if you're really worried, don't do them).

Any application your friends have authorized may be able to access any information about you (on behalf of your friend) that your friend can access. To limit what the applications can see, go to Settings->Privacy->Applications and go to the Settings tab (or have another link http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=platform&tab=other ).

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/07/downloadsquad-and-facebook-users-get-confused-about-facebooks-advertising-policy/ pointed out what more likely happened and downloadsquad corrected their position.

And apparently, as jdigital noted already, even the official facebook blog says that's what happened. So yeah, if you've posted stuff online, somebody may take it and abuse it.. but no, it wasn't Facebook's doing in this case. RTF....Retraction?

Read the terms of service.

When you sign up you agree to the terms of service, which clearly says you grant Facebook an unlimited, worldwide licence to use anything you post on Facebook. Unfortunately, no reads it!

In the past couple of days, a rumor has begun spreading that claims we have changed our policies for third-party advertisers and the use of your photos. These rumors are false, and we have made no such change in our advertising policies. If you see a Wall post or receive a message with the following language or something similar, it is this false rumor:

FACEBOOK has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures WITHOUT your permission.

The advertisements that started these rumors were not from Facebook but placed within applications by third parties. Those ads violated our policies by misusing profile photos, and we already required the removal of those deceptive ads from third-party applications before this rumor began spreading. We are as concerned as many of you are about any potential threat to your experience on Facebook and the protection of your privacy. That's why we prohibit ads on Facebook Platform that cause a bad user experience, are misleading, or otherwise violate our policies. Along with removing ads, we've recently prohibited two entire advertising networks from providing services to applications on Facebook Platform because they were not compliant with our policies and failed to correct their practices.

Microsoft has said it may ditch Vista the moment Windows 7 comes out! They've since backtracked - but we need to make sure they know our feelings.

Windows 7 is CASTRATED APPEASEMENT to soy latte-sipping girly-men who wish they owned a Mac. We want a REAL operating system. An operating system that PERSONIFIES America's INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. That makes you feel AWE at the MAJESTY of the progress of its operation. VISTA is a monument to everything that makes us the country we are!

Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.

Just Say "No" To Seven -

SAVE VISTA!

Original blog post - Facebook group

"I fully support this initiative. My computer business employs 200 people; the best possible thing for it is to make sure Vista continues and goes forward." - M. Shuttleworth, London

"I can't tell you how much Vista has done for my business. So many people depend on it." - S. Jobs, Cupertino

"Vista is the one thing that will keep people seeking out and using systems that are at the forefront of technology. It's been the best thing for all of us." - L. Torvalds, Portland.

"I'm ... I'm touched. *sob* I didn't think anyone cared. You guys. Developers! *sob*" - S. Ballmer, Seattle.

Yes, it is that trivial.

Most have a search feature to find people by email/account/etc. Also if you have your albums hosted somewhere sites like picasa can upload them directly to whatever account you have.

My first thought was has there been a breach of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 which restricts the sort of information the police can access without a warrant. If the people had just advertised the party to their friends on facebook then I suspect it become the sort of info the police would need a warrant to access. I seem to recal that the police can't just get warrents to speculative crawl for this information unless they have details of a specific crime that may be committed.

I took a few minuites for my parinoia to subdue when I realised that they had probably listed it as a public all night party event. Which the whole world, its mother and the police can happily look through.

funny story, when facebook changed their TOS, it made all the major news channels in the UK and the anti-new-tos group quickly racked up ~150k people and got an official response and a TOS change

funny story, when facebook changed their TOS, it made all the major news channels in the UK and the anti-new-tos group quickly racked up ~150k people and got an official response and a TOS change

They try...

http://developers.facebook.com/verification.php

Facebook's Application Verification Program is an optional program designed to provide applications with a way to stand out and reassure users that they will provide a good experience. Users of verified applications can feel confident that these applications strive to be transparent about how they work and respect social expectations between friends. Verified applications will prominently appear in the Application Directory where a green check mark will signal to users that an application has been verified.

Since most of the apps' functionality is hosted on the developers servers, at most this verification is about a moment in time, as opposed to what happens with the app or the data presently.

It reminds me of the Nintendo Seal, originally of quality, but later of no feature in particular...

Facebook is already letting ads use your face in them. See this blog post. I certainly don't qualify as hot or as single, thus I don't want my face showing up in these - especially without remuneration.

The short form of how to turn this off is to go to this page, and change the entry to "No one".

That was my old policy, however check this out it does allow much greater control over apps than previously available. At a minimum i have to give the app maker "my name, networks, and list of friends", which is much better than the old choice of everything/nothing, and IIRC the defaults are fairly tight too mine only gave away basic info ("Your basic info consists of your birthday, gender, hometown, political views and when you last updated your profile.") & my profile pic.

Is this, what your looking for?

Because of the obvious abuses that can be committed with those credentials under your name. And you are responsible if you release those credentials.

It's not even allowed to release, it's a specific violation of the contract that you have agreed to when you signup for an account on facebook.

• 4. You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
• 5. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
• 6. You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
• 7. You will not transfer your account to anyone without first getting our written permission.

From what I understand, the court flip-flopped on it. It had some discretion to allow recordings, or maybe not, depending on how you read the law. It chose to bar them from putting those up. They did it anyway. Now the judge is asking why.

I don't know what to make of this tactic. Doing something you can get sanctioned for is dangerous. VERY dangerous. They could just say that you should have appealed the order somehow and so the sanctions will stand, even if the ruling was wrong. Judges don't like being ignored. I think there had to be a better way to do this, but IANAL.

Like someone else said, I don't know if he's crazy like a fox or just plain crazy. I don't honestly think this will taint the jury pool. And if it was, sanctions are a backwards way to go about it due to the Streisand Effect. People are listening to these now just because of the order... If they want to taint the jury pool, there are better ways to do it. I don't think that letting people interested in a case hear the recordings should be that big a deal. It's public information, after all! I know the courts have lots of crazy rules, but barring people from putting up copies of a recording is just silly.

Then again, I might be the wrong person to ask, because I also think that's still the case when it infringes upon various imaginary rights, because I don't believe in imaginary property.

Here's the Facebook group too. Sorry for the double post, there's no edit button...

Except for, that GMO are altered in ways unnatural to breeding, such as using viruses to inject not only cross species but cross kingdom genes into their genes. This is a radical departure from selective breeding and natural selection.

see:
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=94728813969&h=p0i5C&u=Xnrbb

That's not not what this says:

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=94728813969&h=p0i5C&u=Xnrbb

The seed contaminated *his* fields first. Monsato's product ruined his livilihood. If you create something, the onous should be on you to prevent it from causing harm.

Indeed, what makes these networks attracting to game developers are:
- massive user bases
- few ressources required, social network users are not necessarily looking for fancy looking games - they just want to spend time online with their friends
- a great potential for attracting new players using these networks invitation system
- easy monetisation through ads, but more importantly through Special Offers platforms (Offerpal, etc..)

Latest Facebook game just launched yesterday and applied these simple steps:
Gangs Unleashed

Furthermore, while the front-end is PHP, there's all kinds of custom (non-PHP) stuff running in the back. Here's a neat post about the PHP though: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130

Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets?

Niche market? Considering over 100 million people are logging into Facebook every day and Amazon is massive online retail entity I would hardly call them niche.

Some info on Facebook:
- More than 200 million active users
- More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.alexa.com/topsites

Facebook is the fourth most popular website according to Alexa and Amazon is at 34. Niche? Really?

> From TFS : all new computers ship with the 'Green Damn' Internet censoring program. Is that a typo or the reaction of Chinese men, when they discover, that they can't surf porn anymore?

I'd say that it's both, but the typo isn't quite accidental. Maybe I shouldn't have used it there, but what can I say? I guess I'm a bit prone to abusing language as a form of protest. The Chinese do it too. I suggest looking up the issue with the "grass mud horse" or "river crab" (harmonious) society. Both of those terms have been used to evade censorship, too, incidentally.

For whatever it's worth, the correct name of the censorship software is "Green Dam" though I have no idea if we'll have to start calling it something else due to censorship. Incidentally, the Chinese net censorship initiative is called "Operation Golden Shield," so they like use colour adjectives for some reason. I'm not really sure why.

- I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

P.S. In the unlikely event that people are wondering if I'm the same guy as before, given that I sometimes use the Facebook link as well as the EFF donate link, I am. I didn't start it, but I do endorse the Facebook group, which I believe was started by the fine folks at Against Monopoly. I'm not, personally, a Libertarian, mind you, though I find a lot of common ground with that group. My personal views don't mesh well with any particular political group, save perhaps the Pirate Party, which has a rather limited party platform.

Most of those sites (if not all of them) probably state in the TOS that you are not to share your login information. So... they're asking people to violate their agreements, and won't hire people who refuse. For example, Facebook's Terms section 4 item 6 states "You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."

Brilliant. If you want to bribe a city official, go to Bozeman, because they only hire people who violate policy.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208738307&ref=ts

"Hive/Hadoop cluster at Facebook stores more than 2PB of uncompressed data and routinely loads 15 TB of data daily."

It's actually 25TB of photos per week. He was only out by a factor of 4. Of course, this data isn't indexed, so he had no point.

I've generally been an apple fan for the past few years. OS X is very simply a much better operating system than anything Microsoft's produced since Win2000 (XP eventually became acceptable with 2 1/2 service packs and Firefox), and Apple's laptops are frankly top-notch.

However, I've kept a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot machine around for situations when those operating systems are more appropriate to the task at hand. Windows for gaming, Ubuntu for intense coding sessions or anything scientific.

I recently installed Windows 7. Although Microsoft have done their (predictable) fair share of copying from Apple, they actually got it right for a change. The new taskbar plays off of the strengths of Apple's dock, and the 'classic' Win95-style taskbar.

It runs well on old hardware, which for me is a huge indicator of the quality of an operating system. The fancy graphical effects don't seem to drain on the CPU too much, and degrade gracefully if your graphics card isn't up to the task. I tried it a few nights ago on an old 1.6GHz Celron machine I had lying around, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was perfectly usable on that machine.

There are also a few other cool bits of technology snuck in, including wireless virtualization.

Apple do have a worthy competitor with Win7. Hopefully Snow Leopard will be a big step up from Leopard, which I've been increasingly frustrated with.

I think voting in the US is like the taxcode, deliberately fluid and hackable.
All slashdotters know that any online bank or Pricewaterhouse could implement a convenient, accountable online voting system. Here I just created a group to see if anyone agrees.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84902568935
I think I am going to boycott voting until this Diabold or NorthDakota voting crap ceases.
-jim

Facebook's new brokenness in Opera has been driving me insane. You can join the discussion on it and bug report here: http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=34783

It's fairly absurd, really. The push that broke things did not seem to introduce any visible changes to the site, only internal changes that don't work in Opera. The errors also affect Facebook Connect, so every site on the Internet using Facebook connect suddenly no longer works in Opera.

No CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER OS for OUR boys! They know the MILITARY MIGHT of VISTA is what the world needs! FREEDOM ISN'T FREE and VISTA IS FREEDOOM!

Join SAVE VISTA on Facebook! (Original blog post.) We want ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE to tell Microsoft to abandon their Windows 7 foolishness and go back to Vista! We have 89 so far. Only 99,911 to go!

Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.

Just Say "No" To Seven -

SAVE VISTA!

Original blog post - Facebook group

Microsoft has said it may ditch Vista the moment Windows 7 comes out. They've since backtracked - but we need to make sure they know our feelings.

Windows 7 is CASTRATED APPEASEMENT to soy latte-sipping girly-men who wish they owned a Mac. We want a REAL operating system. An operating system that PERSONIFIES America's INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. That makes you feel AWE at the MAJESTY of the progress of its operation. VISTA is a monument to everything that makes us the country we are!

Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.

Just Say "No" To Seven -

SAVE VISTA!

We want ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE to join the Facebook group. So far we have about 80. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

"I fully support this initiative. My computer business employs 200 people; the best possible thing for it is to make sure Vista continues and goes forward." - M. Shuttleworth, London

"I can't tell you how much Vista has done for my business. So many people depend on it." - S. Jobs, Cupertino

"Vista is the one thing that will keep people seeking out and using systems that are at the forefront of technology. It's been the best thing for all of us." - L. Torvalds, Portland

"I'm ... I'm touched. *sob* I didn't think anyone cared. You guys. Developers! *sob*" - S. Ballmer, Seattle