IMO Google's data mining to generate targeted ads isn't too bad.
Consider that if instead of for example assuming that all investors are radical economic actors, Wall Street was able to datamine investor's habits in real-time and automatically adjust it's models accordingly, the chances of an economic disaster like what happened recently would have been reduced at least, but there would be similar concerns about investor privacy.
Consider that in both cases, what it is trying to do is to model human behavior.
Yea, I was suggesting once that Google should open a direct channel to the product team, so bugs can be reported and fixed. It won't be enough for every company, of course.
Yea, it is likely hitting the problems of shareholder value and agency theory yet again, to the point I am seriously thinking of resubmitting my Slashdot submission on this again.
With Microsoft, you have a company that for too long had no real competition, so they got real sloppy, and real lazy, and have trouble keeping up with the latest trends.
MS is actually even worse, as it has also actively tried to crush the competition through illegal tactics. MS isn't called an abusive monopolist for nothing. Thank Bill Gates for being an aggressive businessman which helped.
typically because trying to use a JPEG or PNG image as wallpaper prompted you to turn it on and they just mindlessly clicked yes (as in, "yes, I want to put this picture on my wallpaper") without realizing the consequences.
Nah, I don't think that is probably what happened in this case, but yes, I agree that board of directors of companies should no longer select these types as CEOs. And yes, I know about MS's unethical PR practices that was discussed in Boycott Novell and elsewhere. Nice comparison to the Pentagon, BTW.
In fact, my first inclination is to attach Firefox to the WinDbg debugger and do debugging on Firefox. I have both MS and Mozilla symbol servers in the symbol path to help in debugging.
Because the plug-in vulnerability would likely be still there, it would just be hidden by the fact that the exploit do not target other browsers, like what probably happened in this case.
Yea, it is just ridiculous. Not to mention that the companies are often probably already using open source without realizing it. For example, a school district banned open-source software without realizing that Mac OS X includes Darwin which is open source: http://lowendmac.com/hodges/06/1109.html
Because of problems in ActiveX controls. I still remember manually turning on DEP using IE 7 and seeing and debugging using WinDbg the crashes that result. IE 8 is a multi-process browser that automatically sets DEP appropriately for each process, avoiding these issues.
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IMO Google's data mining to generate targeted ads isn't too bad.
Consider that if instead of for example assuming that all investors are radical economic actors, Wall Street was able to datamine investor's habits in real-time and automatically adjust it's models accordingly, the chances of an economic disaster like what happened recently would have been reduced at least, but there would be similar concerns about investor privacy.
Consider that in both cases, what it is trying to do is to model human behavior.
In particular, being a rational economic actor (Homo economicus) is most likely a part of the problem.
Yea, I was suggesting once that Google should open a direct channel to the product team, so bugs can be reported and fixed. It won't be enough for every company, of course.
Yea, it is likely hitting the problems of shareholder value and agency theory yet again, to the point I am seriously thinking of resubmitting my Slashdot submission on this again.
Yea, the problems of shareholder value and agency theory, another mess altogether. I even had a slashdot submission on this.
In fact, I think Google is nowadays one of the better big companies. It is IMO not perfect, but pretty good.
With Microsoft, you have a company that for too long had no real competition, so they got real sloppy, and real lazy, and have trouble keeping up with the latest trends.
MS is actually even worse, as it has also actively tried to crush the competition through illegal tactics. MS isn't called an abusive monopolist for nothing. Thank Bill Gates for being an aggressive businessman which helped.
It often is a good thing though, look at how Google is different from IBM back in the day, for example.
Yep, sometimes they deliberately keep projects secret, like Google Wave.
typically because trying to use a JPEG or PNG image as wallpaper prompted you to turn it on and they just mindlessly clicked yes (as in, "yes, I want to put this picture on my wallpaper") without realizing the consequences.
BTW, MS finally fixed this in Vista.
Nah, I don't think that is probably what happened in this case, but yes, I agree that board of directors of companies should no longer select these types as CEOs. And yes, I know about MS's unethical PR practices that was discussed in Boycott Novell and elsewhere. Nice comparison to the Pentagon, BTW.
In fact, my first inclination is to attach Firefox to the WinDbg debugger and do debugging on Firefox. I have both MS and Mozilla symbol servers in the symbol path to help in debugging.
Yea, I said before that non-admin isolates but do not eliminate viruses before.
Because the plug-in vulnerability would likely be still there, it would just be hidden by the fact that the exploit do not target other browsers, like what probably happened in this case.
Well, did you try compatibility mode, which basically emulate IE7?
Well, MS's patch model for IE is basically a cumulative update every 2 months as part of a Patch Tuesday.
Yea, it is just ridiculous. Not to mention that the companies are often probably already using open source without realizing it. For example, a school district banned open-source software without realizing that Mac OS X includes Darwin which is open source:
http://lowendmac.com/hodges/06/1109.html
Yep, I submitted an article in the WSJ about this to Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1152272/Googles-decision-about-China-was-very-personal
Yep, the problems of shareholder value and agency theory yet again. I even wrote a slashdot submission on it that was rejected.
Yea, the INC/DEC instructions have the same problem.
Because of problems in ActiveX controls. I still remember manually turning on DEP using IE 7 and seeing and debugging using WinDbg the crashes that result. IE 8 is a multi-process browser that automatically sets DEP appropriately for each process, avoiding these issues.
Operating in china does not bring google profit.
It does, but not that much.
Saying they leave market makes them look weak and stock price would drop.
Indeed it did, only 1% though.
Well, they did state the censorship on the result pages.
Not to mention the naked short selling too.
I know that Google is one of the better big multinationals, but yea I know that there are many horrible ones out there, and yea it is unfortunate.