Net Neutrality helps Google and other upstart companies that threaten Microsoft. It looks like they are pretending to be in favor of it for PR reasons while secretly funding "grassroots" efforts against it. Of course, Microsoft is an old hand at these phony grassroots efforts by now, ever since the days of the antitrust trial.
It sucks to be Bob Scheier, saddled with a cheap copy of Bruce Schneier's name and writing about security. Scheier's like the Chery to Scheneier's Chevy.
It wasn't "leaked", a word which gives it an aura of mystery it doesn't deserve. This is basically a press release, people! It's not like it's some big secret. The first time a corporation opens the kimono and shows off the latest new Microsoft ePenis it grew isn't a "leak". Stop it! Just stop abusing this. You're doing their marketing work for them!
Problem: USB drives are widespread, standardized, and allow users of many competing platforms such as Mac and Linux to exchange data freely with Windows boxes.
He writes incredibly stupid things about Apple to get hits. Good job playing into it, Slashdot editor. I'm too disappointed to even look and see who it is. You have just given this useless parasite a new lease on life. Google Gundeep Hora to see more examples of his moronic "insights".
The revelations from that lawsuit, and the private emails and memos that were entered into the record and made available on the web, must have been incredibly damaging for Microsoft to be willing to make the case go away by paying actual cash. Remember, these things usually get settled for worthless coupons. It's possible the lawyers were about to subpoena evidence that Microsoft really isn't willing to expose to the light of day.
Looks like you used cmd-shift-4 to take that, and drew a square with the crosshairs slightly larger than your Safari window. Did you know that if you hit cmd-shift-4, then hit the spacebar when you see the crosshairs, you can take easy snapshots of entire windows without having to draw the boundaries? Try it.
I was going for funny, not insightful. Fake Steve Jobs is humor, with a hint of truth, as all the best humor has. The hint of truth here is about journalistic pliancy: that IBM can declare itself the zillion-ton gorilla of [insert field here], and the press, including Slashdot, will obediently run with the story. Same way they run with Microsoft's payola reports from Gartner for middle-management and treat them as gospel truth.
No matter how crappy their business is they can always find a chunk of fool's gold in the pile of dogshit and then get someone in the media (or everyone in the media) to focus on that. Latest example was this story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about how IBM's software division is just setting the world on fire. According to our spies at Fortune, IBM's flacks have been shopping this story around since January. At last someone bit. Wow, software sales were up 14% in the last quarter and a galloping 7% for the full year, and now Steve Mills is the second coming of Gerstner. Never mind that the way IBM did this was to move some revenue that used to get recognized in other categories over into the "software" division. Never mind that IBM spent $4.8 billion acquiring companies last year, and most of that went to software shops. Never mind that IBM's track record in software has been to buy up companies and ride them into the ground. Total assets at the end of 2006 are lower than at any time since 2002. Liabilities up, working capital down. Oh well. Who cares when that software division is setting the world on fire, baby?
Remember when the IBM story was the services division? Then that crapped out. Then they tried the "second coming of the mainframe" story. Then it was Linux. Then it was "business transformation outsourcing," which our good pals at Fortune swallowed and said here was a $500 billion market, "an ocean of potential revenue" that IBM was going to tap into. They predicted IBM would top $100 billion in revenues by 2005. Ahem.
Well, now it's software. Yup. That red-hot IBM software division. You know, someone ought to profile the one division that really is hot at IBM and which never gets any credit: the publicity department.
There's only been 9 comments on this story at the time of this writing, and yet the following tags are already up: "flamebait, nytfud, troll". These guys work fast, don't they? What's flamebait, trolling, or FUD about this article? Avoiding Microsoft products is a perfectly prudent move, if you can. Is it untrue to say that Mac and Linux users are safer on the internet than Windows users, or that Opera or Firefox users are safer on the internet than Internet Explorer users? Far from it. It's demonstrable fact.
Ask Metafilter kicks the crap out of all of them. Ask Metafilter:these other clowns::Slashdot:Digg. More thoughtful replies, fewer testosterone-driven 15 year old posters.
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Net Neutrality helps Google and other upstart companies that threaten Microsoft. It looks like they are pretending to be in favor of it for PR reasons while secretly funding "grassroots" efforts against it. Of course, Microsoft is an old hand at these phony grassroots efforts by now, ever since the days of the antitrust trial.
Who are the morons who tagged this "republicans" and "bush"?
Thanks for the link! I'll go read that.
Is it still written in a Lisp dialect?
You guys get free access to a nationwide wifi network! We here in the USA wish our iPhone plans included such a bonus.
This is weightist against 1 lb books!
...when you shoot it out of my cold, dead ground.
It sucks to be Bob Scheier, saddled with a cheap copy of Bruce Schneier's name and writing about security. Scheier's like the Chery to Scheneier's Chevy.
It wasn't "leaked", a word which gives it an aura of mystery it doesn't deserve. This is basically a press release, people! It's not like it's some big secret. The first time a corporation opens the kimono and shows off the latest new Microsoft ePenis it grew isn't a "leak". Stop it! Just stop abusing this. You're doing their marketing work for them!
Per the Judge's opinion, she was apparently asking for about $114,000.
The standard of proof is a lot lower in civil cases, such as those the RIAA is filing.
Problem: USB drives are widespread, standardized, and allow users of many competing platforms such as Mac and Linux to exchange data freely with Windows boxes.
Solution: this thing.
The rapists in Second Life are working on an Invisible ePenis to counter this development.
He writes incredibly stupid things about Apple to get hits. Good job playing into it, Slashdot editor. I'm too disappointed to even look and see who it is. You have just given this useless parasite a new lease on life. Google Gundeep Hora to see more examples of his moronic "insights".
Gundeep, kill yourself. Now.
You know, we really should be able to mod comments up to 11. Yours is a prime example of why.
The revelations from that lawsuit, and the private emails and memos that were entered into the record and made available on the web, must have been incredibly damaging for Microsoft to be willing to make the case go away by paying actual cash. Remember, these things usually get settled for worthless coupons. It's possible the lawyers were about to subpoena evidence that Microsoft really isn't willing to expose to the light of day.
Looks like you used cmd-shift-4 to take that, and drew a square with the crosshairs slightly larger than your Safari window. Did you know that if you hit cmd-shift-4, then hit the spacebar when you see the crosshairs, you can take easy snapshots of entire windows without having to draw the boundaries? Try it.
I was going for funny, not insightful. Fake Steve Jobs is humor, with a hint of truth, as all the best humor has. The hint of truth here is about journalistic pliancy: that IBM can declare itself the zillion-ton gorilla of [insert field here], and the press, including Slashdot, will obediently run with the story. Same way they run with Microsoft's payola reports from Gartner for middle-management and treat them as gospel truth.
You gotta hand it to IBM
No matter how crappy their business is they can always find a chunk of fool's gold in the pile of dogshit and then get someone in the media (or everyone in the media) to focus on that. Latest example was this story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about how IBM's software division is just setting the world on fire. According to our spies at Fortune, IBM's flacks have been shopping this story around since January. At last someone bit. Wow, software sales were up 14% in the last quarter and a galloping 7% for the full year, and now Steve Mills is the second coming of Gerstner. Never mind that the way IBM did this was to move some revenue that used to get recognized in other categories over into the "software" division. Never mind that IBM spent $4.8 billion acquiring companies last year, and most of that went to software shops. Never mind that IBM's track record in software has been to buy up companies and ride them into the ground. Total assets at the end of 2006 are lower than at any time since 2002. Liabilities up, working capital down. Oh well. Who cares when that software division is setting the world on fire, baby?
Remember when the IBM story was the services division? Then that crapped out. Then they tried the "second coming of the mainframe" story. Then it was Linux. Then it was "business transformation outsourcing," which our good pals at Fortune swallowed and said here was a $500 billion market, "an ocean of potential revenue" that IBM was going to tap into. They predicted IBM would top $100 billion in revenues by 2005. Ahem.
Well, now it's software. Yup. That red-hot IBM software division. You know, someone ought to profile the one division that really is hot at IBM and which never gets any credit: the publicity department.
Perhaps we can put the patient in some sort of bone-crushing centrifuge to separate out the metabolites.
...and just like that, they're gone.
There's only been 9 comments on this story at the time of this writing, and yet the following tags are already up: "flamebait, nytfud, troll". These guys work fast, don't they? What's flamebait, trolling, or FUD about this article? Avoiding Microsoft products is a perfectly prudent move, if you can. Is it untrue to say that Mac and Linux users are safer on the internet than Windows users, or that Opera or Firefox users are safer on the internet than Internet Explorer users? Far from it. It's demonstrable fact.
Ask Metafilter kicks the crap out of all of them. Ask Metafilter:these other clowns::Slashdot:Digg. More thoughtful replies, fewer testosterone-driven 15 year old posters.
DBAN is crucial. I carry one everywhere to make sure that retired machines and hard drives don't tell their secrets to the world..