Historically, Microsoft tried mining the body of the email, but their contextual ads were less effective, which is why they couldn't make much ad revenue. Their newest service mines subject and sender, but not body. You are correct there, but this move doesn't seem to be motivated by Microsoft's concern for your privacy. They do this because they couldn't mine the body of your email effectively when they tried.
Do you have any credible references to back that up or did Larry Page tell you all that inside information from MS?:)
Tired of this constant copy paste Google Ad talking points.
For one last time:
Microsoft, does not, repeat DOES NOT, use the content inside your email to target ads. However they do use the sender(if it's a company like say JCPenny) and the subject line of the email to target ads, as well as other Bing related ads.
Google, on the contrary, looks INSIDE your email body to target ads. That's what the scroogled ads were about.
Now, stop spreading bullshit FUD links with no real meat in them.
Why are your URLs containing account information? Seriously? Example site that uses such info?
Anyway, that has been debunked at multiple places, and people have reported that even HTTP URLs can be scanned. Also, there is no GET request, only a HEAD request to check mimetype etc.
How can you have a general purpose OS with installable programs from the Web, but still prevent malware?
If the user can install Firefox, they can install malware.
The only way past this is to lock down the apps the iOS App Store and Windows Store style with heavy sandboxing and DRM, which keeps system modifications out but is very good at combating malware.
You can install a rootkit on Linux and Android has a huge malware problem, are you implying that they're bad software because of that?
Why should google payoff a company without proof it infringes, or do you believe everything you read and when someone says it is infringed it has to be infringed.
I didn't say it infringed. It's the linked articles that are claiming that Nokia should give up the patents for free and to do otherwise is FUD and that the patents don't infringe because Qualcomm's patent claims didn't work out in the case of Opus.
Nonsense, if Google offered a couple of billion, Nokia would take it yesterday. Nokia had to sell off its headquarters because they were cash strapped.
Everything has a price and this is just posturing to extract the maximum price possible. To add some conspiracy to this is just Groklaw and Slashdot trying to rile up the masses with FUD to score page hits.
Note that Nokia is declaring the patents *during* the standardization process, instead of waiting a couple of years for it to get on a few hundred million devices and then unleash the patents like patent trolls like to do with submarine patents.
Strangely, if you read the comments, and not only the Chris Burn's story, you'd see that the only thing that isn't working is http/https access. But never let the facts get in the way of an anti-google rant, right?
Meanwhile, iOS devices lose their magical ability to sync when iCloud goes down, and Windows Azure loses its ability to do anything when it goes down. Google Drive being down (per Google) or showing "sluggishness" (per your article) isn't any different.
Yes, but Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space and then giving 100GB or 1TB of cloud storage(free only for a few years mind you) to placate that. Google is pretty much the only one that's heavily pushing users towards being slaves of their cloud. And yet the Linux crowd seem to cheer them on. For example see:
If you’re having friends over, and they, too, have Android phones, and they, too, have bought songs from Google’s music store, then they can add their own songs to your Q’s queue.
Sounds interesting in theory. In practice, there’s a lot of spontaneity-killing setup. You have to go into Settings to turn on the feature. Then you have to invite your friend to participate by — get this — sending an e-mail message. Then your friend has to download the Nexus Q app.
If you or the friend then taps the name of a song in your online Google account, it starts playing immediately, rather than being added to the queue as you’d expect. A Google rep explained to me that you’re not supposed to tap a song to add it to the playlist; you have to use a tiny pop-up menu to add it. More bafflement.
In other news Google Drive is down. Most Chromebooks are rendered useless because of paltry local storage and reliance on the Google Cloud for storing important stuff.
And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.
The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.
I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease
And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.
The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.
I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease
This place was always anti-MS but reasonable and informative comments used to get modded up a few years ago, not anymore.There are enough things to bash Microsoft with, why make up lies and spread FUD?
Of course, the real blame is on moderators for modding up these kind of posts and marking others rebutting replies to them as troll and flamebait.
The same would have happened to Nokia if they went with Android like some people wanted them to. Samsung is the only one making any real money followed by ZTE with cheap crap phones. HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola etc. are either in deep losses or just scraping by.
It was hyperglycemia, not hypoglycemia, the exact opposite. Also, the research was helped by Microsoft, while Google is plastered all over the summary with nary a mention of Microsoft.
Mono was a pointless waste of time and De Icaza is a quisling turn coat. Apple deserves that worthless pile of donkey shit.
Lets see:
Miguel's contributions to Linux:
1) Midnight Commander 2) Contributions to Wine 3) He worked with David S. Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc ports to the platform. 4) They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system. 5) With Ingo Molnar he wrote the original software implementation of RAID-1 and RAID-5 drivers of the Linux kernel 6) De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. 7) He also created the GNOME spreadsheet program, Gnumeric.
Your contributions to Slashdot: 1) Silly karmawhoring hatefilled anti-Microsoft rants on Slashdot
Who has made better contributions to the progress of Open Source?
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Historically, Microsoft tried mining the body of the email, but their contextual ads were less effective, which is why they couldn't make much ad revenue. Their newest service mines subject and sender, but not body. You are correct there, but this move doesn't seem to be motivated by Microsoft's concern for your privacy. They do this because they couldn't mine the body of your email effectively when they tried.
Do you have any credible references to back that up or did Larry Page tell you all that inside information from MS? :)
So we're supposed to be cheering that Google tracks people all across their lives better?
Easy way to get Slashdot to agree with something - say Microsoft opposes it.
Headline: Microsoft opposes killing kittens!
Slashdot: KILL THE DAMN PUSSIES!
Tired of this constant copy paste Google Ad talking points.
For one last time:
Microsoft, does not, repeat DOES NOT, use the content inside your email to target ads. However they do use the sender(if it's a company like say JCPenny) and the subject line of the email to target ads, as well as other Bing related ads.
Google, on the contrary, looks INSIDE your email body to target ads. That's what the scroogled ads were about.
Now, stop spreading bullshit FUD links with no real meat in them.
Why are your URLs containing account information? Seriously? Example site that uses such info?
Anyway, that has been debunked at multiple places, and people have reported that even HTTP URLs can be scanned. Also, there is no GET request, only a HEAD request to check mimetype etc.
Better software how?
How can you have a general purpose OS with installable programs from the Web, but still prevent malware?
If the user can install Firefox, they can install malware.
The only way past this is to lock down the apps the iOS App Store and Windows Store style with heavy sandboxing and DRM, which keeps system modifications out but is very good at combating malware.
You can install a rootkit on Linux and Android has a huge malware problem, are you implying that they're bad software because of that?
"New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins"
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/05/new-skype-malware-spreading-at-2000-clicks-per-hour-makes-money-by-using-victims-machines-to-mine-bitcoins/
And they try to prevent it by detecting malware and we get headlines like this. Looks like people are on a witch hunt here.
Meanwhile, in delicious irony, Google Docs and Drive are down and inaccessible.
"Google Drive documents list goes empty for users "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583952-93/google-drive-documents-list-goes-empty-for-users/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=statusnet
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=google%20drive&src=typd
Well, it's atleast doing better than the following:
Nexus Q
Google Wave
Google Buzz
etc.
Not long before it might go the way of the Google Reader and get scrapped.
but either way it's not good news for Microsoft
An employee posting company related information without clearance, especially things like "deal with it", deserved to be reprimanded at the least.
Mac sales are down 20%.
http://www.slashgear.com/apple-says-mac-sales-were-down-20-year-over-year-23266505/
How could 10 people be in 30 countries? The could maybe be in 20 if they were all straddling a border.
They could be in tripoints. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tripoints
Or maybe they need to use the grammar check in Word :)
Why should google payoff a company without proof it infringes, or do you believe everything you read and when someone says it is infringed it has to be infringed.
I didn't say it infringed. It's the linked articles that are claiming that Nokia should give up the patents for free and to do otherwise is FUD and that the patents don't infringe because Qualcomm's patent claims didn't work out in the case of Opus.
This is about FUD, not revenue.
Nonsense, if Google offered a couple of billion, Nokia would take it yesterday. Nokia had to sell off its headquarters because they were cash strapped.
Everything has a price and this is just posturing to extract the maximum price possible. To add some conspiracy to this is just Groklaw and Slashdot trying to rile up the masses with FUD to score page hits.
Note that Nokia is declaring the patents *during* the standardization process, instead of waiting a couple of years for it to get on a few hundred million devices and then unleash the patents like patent trolls like to do with submarine patents.
Strangely, if you read the comments, and not only the Chris Burn's story, you'd see that the only thing that isn't working is http/https access. But never let the facts get in the way of an anti-google rant, right?
I am glad to hear that Gopher service was not impacted.
Meanwhile, iOS devices lose their magical ability to sync when iCloud goes down, and Windows Azure loses its ability to do anything when it goes down. Google Drive being down (per Google) or showing "sluggishness" (per your article) isn't any different.
Yes, but Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space and then giving 100GB or 1TB of cloud storage(free only for a few years mind you) to placate that. Google is pretty much the only one that's heavily pushing users towards being slaves of their cloud. And yet the Linux crowd seem to cheer them on.
For example see:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/five-reasons-why-googles-linux-chromebook-is-a-windows-killer/8887
I don't know why they killed the Nexus Q.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/the-google-nexus-q-is-baffling/
If you’re having friends over, and they, too, have Android phones, and they, too, have bought songs from Google’s music store, then they can add their own songs to your Q’s queue.
Sounds interesting in theory. In practice, there’s a lot of spontaneity-killing setup. You have to go into Settings to turn on the feature. Then you have to invite your friend to participate by — get this — sending an e-mail message. Then your friend has to download the Nexus Q app.
If you or the friend then taps the name of a song in your online Google account, it starts playing immediately, rather than being added to the queue as you’d expect. A Google rep explained to me that you’re not supposed to tap a song to add it to the playlist; you have to use a tiny pop-up menu to add it. More bafflement.
Sounds like a great party addon!
In other news Google Drive is down. Most Chromebooks are rendered useless because of paltry local storage and reliance on the Google Cloud for storing important stuff.
http://www.slashgear.com/google-investigating-google-drive-downtime-18274444/
Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.
Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?
Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.
http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft
And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp
And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:
http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)
Picking up some loyal users who seem to like it :
http://wmpoweruser.com/pcmag-readers-choice-awards-2013-windows-phone-wins-mobile-os-category/
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/01/customer-satisfaction-of-windows-phone-on-the-rise-according-to-survey/
And winning some awards
http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-920-struts-its-stuff-and-takes-prestigious-innovative-handset-award-2013
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-wins-engadget-smartphone-of-2012-user-vote/
And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.
The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.
Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7
Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/
I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease
Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.
Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?
Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.
http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft
And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp
And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:
http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)
And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.
The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.
Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7
Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/
I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease
This place was always anti-MS but reasonable and informative comments used to get modded up a few years ago, not anymore.There are enough things to bash Microsoft with, why make up lies and spread FUD?
Of course, the real blame is on moderators for modding up these kind of posts and marking others rebutting replies to them as troll and flamebait.
Last one out, switch off lights.
The same would have happened to Nokia if they went with Android like some people wanted them to. Samsung is the only one making any real money followed by ZTE with cheap crap phones. HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola etc. are either in deep losses or just scraping by.
It was hyperglycemia, not hypoglycemia, the exact opposite. Also, the research was helped by Microsoft, while Google is plastered all over the summary with nary a mention of Microsoft.
Sorry, but .NET is alive and powers the new tablet apps.
Why should Google and Apple be the only ones that make gobs of money leveraging Open Source? Microsoft wants to join the party.
Mono was a pointless waste of time and De Icaza is a quisling turn coat. Apple deserves that worthless pile of donkey shit.
Lets see:
Miguel's contributions to Linux:
1) Midnight Commander
2) Contributions to Wine
3) He worked with David S. Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc ports to the platform.
4) They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.
5) With Ingo Molnar he wrote the original software implementation of RAID-1 and RAID-5 drivers of the Linux kernel
6) De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
7) He also created the GNOME spreadsheet program, Gnumeric.
Your contributions to Slashdot:
1) Silly karmawhoring hatefilled anti-Microsoft rants on Slashdot
Who has made better contributions to the progress of Open Source?