While I'm not an expert on security or privacy, it seems to me like "publicly available" should mean that they didn't gather any data that citizens weren't openly broadcasting anyway. From an ethical perspective, it's shaky at best, but it's probably a huge difference legally.
I'm not endorsing Google's collection, but aren't people who openly broadcast their data be at least *a little* at fault here?
TFA doesn't seem to have any information on how General Alexander might be qualified for this position, and what his command will involve.
Here's hoping the guy actually knows something about cyber security, and isn't simply the management figure for actual security experts, or he could easily f*ck this up hard.
90% or more of internet video (99.999% if you count porn) would be unusable without Adobe on board. The entire point of the project is to combine internet and television content into the same package. Without Adobe, Google TV is little more than a glorified DVR.
I've always hated everyone harping on this comment. He was 19. He had no idea that Facebook was going to become the culture-altering phenomenon, or even that almost everyone in his country would know who he is.
I make comments like this. All the time. And I'm older than 19. I made a system this spring that controls a distributed computing environment. I had control over every single machine on a major university campus. I said something like "Wow, the Computer Science department is full of morons for letting me do this."
Zuckerberg may be an ass, but an informal conversation he had when he had no clue what the implications of his work would be is not a valid point for proving it.
FTFA:
" The latest unwelcome gift: accusations of securities fraud from former Harvard schoolmates"
He's being accused by people, not by the SEC, but it's pretty clear that article suggests he was accused.
Given that actively managed funds often outperform the market at large, I would actually expect you to do decently with this strategy, even if Google only gives you random stocks.
While it's true that Google supports more file types, it shouldn't be unreasonable to assume that Hotmail's integration with MS Office will be substantially more seamless.
Google Docs is still pretty atrocious at handling any formatting quirks of Office file types, and given that MS Office is still the most popular suite to format things in (for better or worse), Hotmail could have a strong selling point above Google in this regard.
*Disclosure* I use Google Docs almost exclusively for my academic and personal needs.
I would demand money. I sincerely doubt that VirnetX could possibly make more than $200M from the patents in question.
They also get free news advertising anyway. I'd never heard of them before today.
It may be worth nothing that 200M is not *in addition to* the 100M from an earlier lawsuit:
From TFA:
"In a joint statement Monday, VirnetX and Microsoft announced that both lawsuits would be dismissed as part of the $200 million settlement. Microsoft will also license the VirnetX patents, the companies said."
The summary doesn't seem intentionally misleading, but I did not gather this to be the case.
In my limited, anecdotal, experience, people tend to get extra excited when they think they having something rare. It makes them feel extra "special".
It's probably a similar phenomenon to someone who instincively calls any moderately painful headache a migraine: they feel more impressive using a term that doesn't actually apply.
This is the probably the first statement I've ever read on the internet that actually made me mad. Congratulations on the troll, if that was your intention.
I am from the South. I am college educated, intellectual, and liberal. I feel real pride to have been raised here, despite the fact that, yes, there are many idiots.
Please sir, go fuck yourself.
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While I'm not an expert on security or privacy, it seems to me like "publicly available" should mean that they didn't gather any data that citizens weren't openly broadcasting anyway. From an ethical perspective, it's shaky at best, but it's probably a huge difference legally.
I'm not endorsing Google's collection, but aren't people who openly broadcast their data be at least *a little* at fault here?
TFA doesn't seem to have any information on how General Alexander might be qualified for this position, and what his command will involve.
Here's hoping the guy actually knows something about cyber security, and isn't simply the management figure for actual security experts, or he could easily f*ck this up hard.
Please mod up. This was extremely informative, thank you for the link. If it wasn't on /. it should have been.
Holy Shit! I live less than 30 miles from the place where Duct Tape was invented!
I feel like there should be a statue in town dedicated to the only useful thing to come from South Carolina ever!
90% or more of internet video (99.999% if you count porn) would be unusable without Adobe on board. The entire point of the project is to combine internet and television content into the same package. Without Adobe, Google TV is little more than a glorified DVR.
I've always hated everyone harping on this comment. He was 19. He had no idea that Facebook was going to become the culture-altering phenomenon, or even that almost everyone in his country would know who he is.
I make comments like this. All the time. And I'm older than 19. I made a system this spring that controls a distributed computing environment. I had control over every single machine on a major university campus. I said something like "Wow, the Computer Science department is full of morons for letting me do this."
Zuckerberg may be an ass, but an informal conversation he had when he had no clue what the implications of his work would be is not a valid point for proving it.
FTFA: " The latest unwelcome gift: accusations of securities fraud from former Harvard schoolmates" He's being accused by people, not by the SEC, but it's pretty clear that article suggests he was accused.
What an awful mis-type there. Managed funds UNDERperform the market.
Given that actively managed funds often outperform the market at large, I would actually expect you to do decently with this strategy, even if Google only gives you random stocks.
"Netbook" probably means exactly what you think. "Notebook," however, which is what TFA is about, is a different term.
If anyone from Foldit ever even met a lawyer, or uses money to pay for food, then you sign away any rights to any IP you *might* create while playing.
While it's true that Google supports more file types, it shouldn't be unreasonable to assume that Hotmail's integration with MS Office will be substantially more seamless.
Google Docs is still pretty atrocious at handling any formatting quirks of Office file types, and given that MS Office is still the most popular suite to format things in (for better or worse), Hotmail could have a strong selling point above Google in this regard.
*Disclosure* I use Google Docs almost exclusively for my academic and personal needs.
I would demand money. I sincerely doubt that VirnetX could possibly make more than $200M from the patents in question. They also get free news advertising anyway. I'd never heard of them before today.
It may be worth nothing that 200M is not *in addition to* the 100M from an earlier lawsuit: From TFA: "In a joint statement Monday, VirnetX and Microsoft announced that both lawsuits would be dismissed as part of the $200 million settlement. Microsoft will also license the VirnetX patents, the companies said." The summary doesn't seem intentionally misleading, but I did not gather this to be the case.
In my limited, anecdotal, experience, people tend to get extra excited when they think they having something rare. It makes them feel extra "special". It's probably a similar phenomenon to someone who instincively calls any moderately painful headache a migraine: they feel more impressive using a term that doesn't actually apply.
This is the probably the first statement I've ever read on the internet that actually made me mad. Congratulations on the troll, if that was your intention. I am from the South. I am college educated, intellectual, and liberal. I feel real pride to have been raised here, despite the fact that, yes, there are many idiots. Please sir, go fuck yourself.