At a guess I'd say Xbox has cost Microsoft somewhere north of 36 billion dollars for development costs, annual losses, and the write-down because of the Red Ring of Death fiasco.
Being able to write off 36 billion dollars and not care is VERY deep pockets.
Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed.
This is as far as you need to read. Geez, Clearly this virus has infected the system and re-written power management subsystems to utilize the CMOS battery to provide enough juice, probably reprogramming an EEPROM on the I2C system to execute code and infect other systems.
Was this article written by a Hollywood screen writer? Who is going to star in this one... Willis? Bullock?
I was a huge supporter of the guy when he was telling people in his country about the NSA violating it's mission statement and turning its guns on the American people. Now, when he went down the Bradley Manning path and just started dumping anything he had in his hands related to our overseas communications and surveillance (that is what the NSA is SUPPOSED to be doing), then THAT became a serious problem.
But... that's exactly what he HASN'T done.
He has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, etc. — and not tossing it up in the air, WikiLeaks style, and echoing the silly mantra “Information wants to be free.”
The Washington Post already owned you so I don't have to.
What are we to make of Edward Snowden? I know what I once made of him. He was no real whistleblower, I wrote, but “ridiculously cinematic” and “narcissistic” as well. As time has proved, my judgments were just plain wrong. Whatever Snowden is, he is curiously modest and has bent over backward to ensure that the information he has divulged has done as little damage as possible. As a “traitor,” he lacks the requisite intent and menace.
But traitor is what Snowden has been roundly called. Harry Reid: “I think Snowden is a traitor.” John Boehner: “He’s a traitor.” Rep. Peter King: “This guy is a traitor; he’s a defector.” And Dick Cheney not only denounced Snowden as a “traitor” but also suggested that he might have shared information with the Chinese. This innuendo, as with Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, is more proof of Cheney’s unerring determination to be cosmically wrong.
The early denunciations of Snowden now seem both over the top and beside the point. If he is a traitor, then which side did he betray and to whom does he now owe allegiance? Benedict Arnold, America’s most famous traitor, sold out to the British during the Revolutionary War and wound up a general in King George III’s army. Snowden seems to have sold out to no one. In fact, a knowledgeable source says that Snowden has not even sold his life story and has rebuffed offers of cash for interviews. Maybe his most un-American act is passing up a chance at easy money. Someone ought to look into this.
If they did, that would be the most masterful bit of trolling ever. Look at us! We got Samsung and others the blow ridiculous sums of cash for a stupid product that no one will ever buy!
Second-most masterful, after the so-called "Apple Television"
Apex predators are an essential part of any ecosystem. When apex predators start failing that means the ecosystem is failing.
So it's basically just another metaphor that doesn't work for business. When a Great White Shark dies, that's bad for the ocean. When a Sumatran Tiger dies, that's bad for the jungle. When a sociopathic CEO fails, I don't give a shit.
Joe and Jane American can't think critically. They can't form arguments. My own experience of trying to discuss politics or world affairs or just about anything with Americans tells me that conversation will inevitably come to a crashing halt at one of these two points:
"Because that's what the Bible says!"
"Go back to Berkeley, communist."
If you disagree, contradict, or attempt to educate an American on anything, the reaction is either "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA JESUS JESUS JESUS" or "FUCK YOU AND YOUR SOCIALISM".
The pathological aversion to any combination of children and alcohol is a Puritan thing that seems unique to the USA.
I live in wine country Australia, and the local high school not only has winemaking as part of the curriculum but the school has a cellar door. Wine sales 9am-3pm Mon-Fri.
My 8-year-old son can pick the difference between Syrah and Grenache.
I'll never forget my first family holiday to the USA, I would have been 15 years old. Sitting at a restaurant in Anaheim recovering from a day pounding the paths of Disneyland, waiter comes up to the table to take our drinks orders; when I got to me I asked "what beers do you have on tap here?" The waiter sputtered a bit in confusion then explained to me that he could not serve alcohol to a 15-year-old no matter what my preference of beer was. My parents just shrugged like "meh, when in Rome," and I had a soda.
Fine, fine. OK start a third party but remember the rules of American politics:
Increased military spending No cuts to Social Security Loving Jesus
So long as you abide by those core principles you can have whatever policies you like. Without those three you're gonna get obliterated, and with those three you're just the same as the Dems and Republicans anyway.
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The whole thing smacks of religious nut jobs who want to regulate your private life.
Welcome to America, you must be new here.
store.apple.com
Democracy.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/364.html
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
At a guess I'd say Xbox has cost Microsoft somewhere north of 36 billion dollars for development costs, annual losses, and the write-down because of the Red Ring of Death fiasco.
Being able to write off 36 billion dollars and not care is VERY deep pockets.
When the current CEO has spent twenty years eliminating potential future rivals.
Seriously, that's the best leadership talent Microsoft has? Microsoft, the company that we all used to be terrified of?
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished.
OP: I don't want to use Crashplan because (incorrect assumption)
Commenters: use Crashplan fool.
oh hai another person who hasn't read the article
Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed.
This is as far as you need to read. Geez, Clearly this virus has infected the system and re-written power management subsystems to utilize the CMOS battery to provide enough juice, probably reprogramming an EEPROM on the I2C system to execute code and infect other systems.
Was this article written by a Hollywood screen writer? Who is going to star in this one... Willis? Bullock?
Or the machines in question were laptops. n00b.
I was a huge supporter of the guy when he was telling people in his country about the NSA violating it's mission statement and turning its guns on the American people. Now, when he went down the Bradley Manning path and just started dumping anything he had in his hands related to our overseas communications and surveillance (that is what the NSA is SUPPOSED to be doing), then THAT became a serious problem.
But... that's exactly what he HASN'T done.
He has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, etc. — and not tossing it up in the air, WikiLeaks style, and echoing the silly mantra “Information wants to be free.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-edward-snowden-is-no-traitor/2013/10/21/f9d2ae5a-3a74-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html
The Washington Post already owned you so I don't have to.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-edward-snowden-is-no-traitor/2013/10/21/f9d2ae5a-3a74-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html
Sorry you love the Federal Government so much, but Snowden is a patriot standing up for the ideals on which the USA was founded. Deal with it.
If they did, that would be the most masterful bit of trolling ever. Look at us! We got Samsung and others the blow ridiculous sums of cash for a stupid product that no one will ever buy!
Second-most masterful, after the so-called "Apple Television"
Is the state of Slashdot in 2013. Posting troll articles for ad impressions and clickbait.
Apex predators are an essential part of any ecosystem. When apex predators start failing that means the ecosystem is failing.
So it's basically just another metaphor that doesn't work for business. When a Great White Shark dies, that's bad for the ocean. When a Sumatran Tiger dies, that's bad for the jungle. When a sociopathic CEO fails, I don't give a shit.
remember that it's effectively "survey of idiots finds that idiocy rates were slightly different between the two groups of idiots".
Newsflash: that ain't a ray of sunshine.
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day yeah!
"Android is more secure than iPhone."
The proclamation was made during a question-and-answer session at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, where it drew laughter from the attending audience.
http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/eric-schmidt-calls-android-more-secure-than-iphone/917208
All I can say is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08RFTI9QR20
Generalisations ahead.
Joe and Jane American can't think critically. They can't form arguments. My own experience of trying to discuss politics or world affairs or just about anything with Americans tells me that conversation will inevitably come to a crashing halt at one of these two points:
"Because that's what the Bible says!"
"Go back to Berkeley, communist."
If you disagree, contradict, or attempt to educate an American on anything, the reaction is either "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA JESUS JESUS JESUS" or "FUCK YOU AND YOUR SOCIALISM".
Haha, nice work!
Yep, America's weird. You can give a kid a loaded gun no worries, but a sip of wine? YER GOIN' TA HELL!
The pathological aversion to any combination of children and alcohol is a Puritan thing that seems unique to the USA.
I live in wine country Australia, and the local high school not only has winemaking as part of the curriculum but the school has a cellar door. Wine sales 9am-3pm Mon-Fri.
My 8-year-old son can pick the difference between Syrah and Grenache.
I'll never forget my first family holiday to the USA, I would have been 15 years old. Sitting at a restaurant in Anaheim recovering from a day pounding the paths of Disneyland, waiter comes up to the table to take our drinks orders; when I got to me I asked "what beers do you have on tap here?" The waiter sputtered a bit in confusion then explained to me that he could not serve alcohol to a 15-year-old no matter what my preference of beer was. My parents just shrugged like "meh, when in Rome," and I had a soda.
Weird.
Fine, fine. OK start a third party but remember the rules of American politics:
Increased military spending
No cuts to Social Security
Loving Jesus
So long as you abide by those core principles you can have whatever policies you like. Without those three you're gonna get obliterated, and with those three you're just the same as the Dems and Republicans anyway.
Hey look, it's religious crazy.
The winners make the rules, so any party that doesn't have a chance of winning is a waste of time and effort.