"Microsoft's secret plan was to plunder the small company of its proprietary information, technical expertise, market knowledge, customers and prospective customers," the filing said. "Microsoft gained Sendo's trust and confidence through false promises that Sendo would be its 'go-to-market-partner'."
This information was passed onto low-cost manufacturers in Asia, Sendo alleges. The first Microsoft Smartphone launched in Europe was the Orange SUV, built by Taiwanese firm HTC. It will be interesting to see if this deal is dragged into the case.
The CEO? Surely not! I bet he's very confident he'll get his old Microsoft job back plus bonuses in much the same way that Rick Belluzzo was given a President+COO job at Microsoft to thank him for killing PA-RISC and HPUX in favor of NT-on-Itanium (when we was EVP at HP) and killing IRIX and MIPS in favor of NT-on-Itanium when he was CEO of SGI.
The other shareholders? Sure, they got screwed; but they were probably so enamored with how awesome it was to be a microsoft partner that they never noticed.
The employees? They've been wishing that all along.
I suspect he'd secretly wish that the copyright-police were near-all-powerful and could crush anyone who illegally copied some work that was released under a less friendly license.
That way the demand for CC licensed music would go way up.
It's far more impressive to be the guy that certifies people than the guy who gets a cert.
And that way you can give yourself all the coolest sounding ones.
And if you can convince a few people to buy your cert, it'll not only make you money, but give your certification body even more prestige; because everyone who buys your cert will be hyping it as "really valuable" on/., etc.
When I'm hiring, we often look for developers of the software we use.
Contributors to PostgreSQL, Solr, and Rails are especially welcome.
Perhaps if we used DB2 or SQLServer, developers who worked on those might be of interest. But not too much because even with their knowledge, it'd be pretty hard for them to license the source to make use of their knowledge; and we couldn't code-review their contributions anyway to see if they really know what they're talking about.
Bullshit. They broke into a computer network, stole and released username/password combos, and mocked the system admins as they tried to regain control of the site. They have shown a pattern of criminal behavior.
Still, far better that they revealed it, than keeping the username/password combos secret and using them to crack bank accounts of people who stupidly re-use passwords.
And better that they deface the site causing the sysadmins to fix the problems, rather than just ignoring it or sending an email to support@pbs.org where the message will probably never make it to the person who needs to hear it.
If it were one of my websites, I'd much prefer someone defaced the home page and informed my users that their passwords may have been compromised (and that if they used the same combination elsewhere they should change it); rather than ignoring the problem (which you seem to suggest would be a better solution) leaving me and my users vulnerable.
If they want to communicate "this release has more big changes and is worth more people checking out" - increasing the first number is an effective way of doing so.
If they want to communicate "there's some bleeding edge stuff in here, and we think it works but if you're really conservative wait a bit" - making it end in ".0" is one way of doing so.
What Microsoft had that Digital Research didn't was a mom who was friends with IBM's CEO. (Akers and BillG's mom were both on the board of United Way).
> See why most stuff on the internet and cloud run Linux yet?
Because it's more stable and secure; and because unixes has a longer history doing large-scale networking stuff; and it's easier to develop for; etc.
The guys running serious servers could afford whatever they wanted if it actually were a better technology; so whatever you're hinting at probably isn't the main reason.
So what you are saying is that the 9/11 truth movement and moon landing hoax conspiracies were really started by the government so they could get away with real conspiracies without anybody noticing?;)
Well, mkultra (cia hiring prostitutes to slip their clients LSD while they were watched by agents through one-way-mirrors) might be easiest to explain that way.
As well as those alien-autopsy conspiracies of odd-shaped bodies that happened around the time of human radiation experiments.
The basic premises of the Matrix is fundamentally flawed. Why the ^%$^ would you grow humans when you can grow, you know, YEAST, for much more benefit at a fraction of a hassle?
+1. I much better excuse for that plot would be if they wanted our brains as compute-engines for their beowulf cluster.
They merely hired them to help educate the public about Google's anti-privacy practices that may violate the Consumer Protection Act.
Personally I *LIKE* it when Facebook or anyone else calls out another companies questionable privacy policies; even if it comes from one of the biggest offenders themselves. I hope this inspires Google to help call out questionable privacy policies of Facebook too.
It's just like when China and the US point fingers at each other or Human Rights violations. I vehemently disagree with those who say the US shouldn't criticize China until it looks at it's own abuses or vice-versa. IMHO it's good any time such violations are pointed out.
And who better to educate us on privacy than Facebook, after all--a company well-known for its respect for user privacy?
Indeed! You said it jokingly, but no doubt they've given quite a bit of thought to how sleazily they can approach the legal grey areas around privacy; and if they see someone cross a line that even squicked them out, I hope they warn people about it.
But my ex-boss told me that I can and should hire 9 highly educated (we'll, highly degree'd) software engineers in China for every guy I laid in the US.
Do we really have to show that they individually accomplished something? Or is some piece of paper with pHd written on it enough?
Seems every personality trait (inability to pay attention to boring teachers; enjoying math more than people; shyness; risk-taking extroverts; etc) are being labeled with some mental condition that shrinks like to charge a lot for.
Can SELinux do much/most of what you're asking? The SELinux "sandbox" utility has some examples of restricting network access on an application-by-application manner.
For example, this firefox can access the internet:
sandbox -X -t sandbox_web_t firefox
and this one can't:
sandbox firefox
If you set up selinux policies that restrict most applications by default, it should cover that "cover art" use case you mentioned.
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I thought the magnets induce currents which drains (a little) energy.
Same happened to their first cell phone partner
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/07/sendo_sues_microsoft_over_secret/
"Microsoft's secret plan was to plunder the small company of its proprietary information, technical expertise, market knowledge, customers and prospective customers," the filing said. "Microsoft gained Sendo's trust and confidence through false promises that Sendo would be its 'go-to-market-partner'."
This information was passed onto low-cost manufacturers in Asia, Sendo alleges. The first Microsoft Smartphone launched in Europe was the Orange SUV, built by Taiwanese firm HTC. It will be interesting to see if this deal is dragged into the case.
The CEO? Surely not! I bet he's very confident he'll get his old Microsoft job back plus bonuses in much the same way that Rick Belluzzo was given a President+COO job at Microsoft to thank him for killing PA-RISC and HPUX in favor of NT-on-Itanium (when we was EVP at HP) and killing IRIX and MIPS in favor of NT-on-Itanium when he was CEO of SGI.
The other shareholders? Sure, they got screwed; but they were probably so enamored with how awesome it was to be a microsoft partner that they never noticed.
The employees? They've been wishing that all along.
I suspect he'd secretly wish that the copyright-police were near-all-powerful and could crush anyone who illegally copied some work that was released under a less friendly license.
That way the demand for CC licensed music would go way up.
It's far more impressive to be the guy that certifies people than the guy who gets a cert.
And that way you can give yourself all the coolest sounding ones.
And if you can convince a few people to buy your cert, it'll not only make you money, but give your certification body even more prestige; because everyone who buys your cert will be hyping it as "really valuable" on /., etc.
When I'm hiring, we often look for developers of the software we use.
Contributors to PostgreSQL, Solr, and Rails are especially welcome.
Perhaps if we used DB2 or SQLServer, developers who worked on those might be of interest. But not too much because even with their knowledge, it'd be pretty hard for them to license the source to make use of their knowledge; and we couldn't code-review their contributions anyway to see if they really know what they're talking about.
Bullshit. They broke into a computer network, stole and released username/password combos, and mocked the system admins as they tried to regain control of the site. They have shown a pattern of criminal behavior.
Still, far better that they revealed it, than keeping the username/password combos secret and using them to crack bank accounts of people who stupidly re-use passwords.
And better that they deface the site causing the sysadmins to fix the problems, rather than just ignoring it or sending an email to support@pbs.org where the message will probably never make it to the person who needs to hear it.
If it were one of my websites, I'd much prefer someone defaced the home page and informed my users that their passwords may have been compromised (and that if they used the same combination elsewhere they should change it); rather than ignoring the problem (which you seem to suggest would be a better solution) leaving me and my users vulnerable.
In defense of Religions, they seem like an effective structure to stand up to governments and corporations.
Leads to a nice balance-of-power.
Not Marketing only - communication.
If they want to communicate "this release has more big changes and is worth more people checking out" - increasing the first number is an effective way of doing so.
If they want to communicate "there's some bleeding edge stuff in here, and we think it works but if you're really conservative wait a bit" - making it end in ".0" is one way of doing so.
Duh - copy&paste error. Opel.
Thanks for the correction.
What Microsoft had that Digital Research didn't was a mom who was friends with IBM's CEO. (Akers and BillG's mom were both on the board of United Way).
IBM created Microsoft because their CEO John Akers (on the board of United Way) was friends with Bill Gates's mom (chairwoman of United Way).
That's the year before Microsoft was even incorporated as a company called microsoft with Bill G as CEO.
> See why most stuff on the internet and cloud run Linux yet?
Because it's more stable and secure;
and because unixes has a longer history doing large-scale networking stuff;
and it's easier to develop for;
etc.
The guys running serious servers could afford whatever they wanted if it actually were a better technology; so whatever you're hinting at probably isn't the main reason.
So what you are saying is that the 9/11 truth movement and moon landing hoax conspiracies were really started by the government so they could get away with real conspiracies without anybody noticing? ;)
Well, mkultra (cia hiring prostitutes to slip their clients LSD while they were watched by agents through one-way-mirrors) might be easiest to explain that way.
As well as those alien-autopsy conspiracies of odd-shaped bodies that happened around the time of human radiation experiments.
> I find it quite fun to write a small C program, compile, and run it, all inside a javascript emulation.
Finally we get a nicer language to write our client-side apps :)
Yep... this is why I don't work for the NSA, despite being fully qualified and in need of a job.
Wouldn't it be more constructive to rise through the ranks of the NSA until you reached a position where you could help influence policy?
The basic premises of the Matrix is fundamentally flawed.
Why the ^%$^ would you grow humans when you can grow, you know, YEAST, for much more benefit at a fraction of a hassle?
+1. I much better excuse for that plot would be if they wanted our brains as compute-engines for their beowulf cluster.
Yep... this is why I don't work for the NSA, despite being fully qualified and in need of a job.
Wouldn't working your way up through the NSA to rise into a position where you can help guide policy be more constructive?
So all the stability and security of Microsoft running on the bare metal; combined with the user-friendliness and ease of use of Linux. :)
It is interesting what people like to watch and why.
It always intrigued me that a whole bunch of people who don't play football or baseball watch those things on TV.
Yet not many people watch live chess matches, etc.
They merely hired them to help educate the public about Google's anti-privacy practices that may violate the Consumer Protection Act.
Personally I *LIKE* it when Facebook or anyone else calls out another companies questionable privacy policies; even if it comes from one of the biggest offenders themselves. I hope this inspires Google to help call out questionable privacy policies of Facebook too.
It's just like when China and the US point fingers at each other or Human Rights violations. I vehemently disagree with those who say the US shouldn't criticize China until it looks at it's own abuses or vice-versa. IMHO it's good any time such violations are pointed out.
And who better to educate us on privacy than Facebook, after all--a company well-known for its respect for user privacy?
Indeed! You said it jokingly, but no doubt they've given quite a bit of thought to how sleazily they can approach the legal grey areas around privacy; and if they see someone cross a line that even squicked them out, I hope they warn people about it.
I just hope others do the same to them as well.
I bet this'll take over half a decade; not unlike the transition of Hotmail off of BSD:
Recall that they bought HotMail in 1997 and was still hiring Solaris admins to work on the port in 2002:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1019450/microsoft-uses-solaris-servers-for-hotmail-shock
They bought DATAllegro back in 2008, and AFAICT haven't ported that off of Linux to Windows yet either.
And however long ago they bought the PowerSet guys for Bing, last I heard they were still using Hadoop/Java too.
But my ex-boss told me that I can and should hire 9 highly educated (we'll, highly degree'd) software engineers in China for every guy I laid in the US.
Do we really have to show that they individually accomplished something? Or is some piece of paper with pHd written on it enough?
Seems every personality trait (inability to pay attention to boring teachers; enjoying math more than people; shyness; risk-taking extroverts; etc) are being labeled with some mental condition that shrinks like to charge a lot for.
Can SELinux do much/most of what you're asking? The SELinux "sandbox" utility has some examples of restricting network access on an application-by-application manner.
For example, this firefox can access the internet:
sandbox -X -t sandbox_web_t firefox
and this one can't:
sandbox firefox
If you set up selinux policies that restrict most applications by default, it should cover that "cover art" use case you mentioned.