Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
I can't help thinking that this whole Sidekick disaster was not just a M$ plot to hurt the competition when I read stories like this... Sidekick Disaster Shows Data's Not Safe in the 'Cloud' - ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Business/sidekick-disaster-shows-datas-safe-cloud/Story?id=8840420page=2 As for the rest of us, this little debacle should serve as a warning. Every day we place more and more of our trust in computing Clouds – that is, we shift an ever-greater fraction of our personal information from stand-alone personal devices to unknown servers off in some distant data center. We assume that information is safe – from hackers, from data miners and bad guys, from the government, and from erasure. This is such horse shit. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Way, way off topic. Just the slightest reference about our President and America-hating neocons can't help themselves. Fellow Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains it here... The Politics of Spite http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
I don't know how your neomicrosofticons feel or conservatives, but I felt bad for Obama, the committee made him look like a fool by giving it to him. I suppose they could just keep repeating Ghandi was just a community organizer and hope it sticks. Oh...Ghandi never got one, that's right. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Way, way off topic. Just the slightest reference about our President and America-hating neocons can't help themselves. Fellow Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains it here... The Politics of Spite http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:53 AM, mike wrote: I don't know how your neomicrosofticons feel or conservatives, but I felt bad for Obama, the committee made him look like a fool by giving it to him. Can you read the subject line? This thread is about a big M$ fail caused by not backing up critical data. This is not a forum for America bashing. Latest news on the Danger front is that M$ is digging itself even deeper there... Microsoft's Pink phone project may be on the verge of falling apart even before its first product ships, according to a controversial set of leaks supposedly confirmed today. Microsoft has poorly managed the project and squandered the acquisition of Sidekick creator Danger from 2008. Rather than implement Danger's advice, the larger company has watched the majority of the team either fired or leave in frustration as the majority of their advice is ignored. Among the errors, Microsoft is said to have been too ambitious and tried to develop both CDMA/EVDO and UMTS/HSPA of the Pure and Turtle designs alike, not realizing that each needed different chipsets and antennas that would dictate fundamental changes to each; it had also tried to simply ask the key hardware partner, Sharp, to build based on the renderings rather than realistic goals http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/09/ms.pink.and.danger.team.at.risk/ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
Can you not read the topic, this is not about America bashing. Try to stay focused. Sent from my iPod On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Way, way off topic. Just the slightest reference about our President and America-hating neocons can't help themselves. Fellow Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains it here... The Politics of Spite http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html *** ** ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** *** ** * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
I don't say you are picking on MS, clearly a good story to post. I'm amazed after seeing those sidekicks that they are so popular, but they are. I think there was some nervousness when MS bought them because of crap like this. BTW, if those comedians were actually funny guys, they could make fun of any President. After all, Obama did try to exit one room after an interview through a window On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Our WFBs will claim that I'm picking on M$, but really I'm not. Ask any late-night comedian about how easy it was to make President jokes last year vs this year. I really would have nothing to say if M$ were not fouling up again and again and again. Contacts, calendar entries, photographs and other personal information of Sidekick users has almost certainly been lost for good following a service disruption at Sidekick provider Danger, the Microsoft subsidiary said on Saturday. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173457/microsoft_loses_sidekick_users_personal_data.html it appears from initial speculation that the data was lost because they attempted to upgrade a storage array without backing it up first. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101100109.html Note that M$ did not lose *some* of *some* user's data, they lost *all* of *every* user's data. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Stewart At 07:36 PM 10/11/2009, you wrote: I don't say you are picking on MS, clearly a good story to post. I'm amazed after seeing those sidekicks that they are so popular, but they are. I think there was some nervousness when MS bought them because of crap like this. BTW, if those comedians were actually funny guys, they could make fun of any President. After all, Obama did try to exit one room after an interview through a window * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye
Hence the prize being a useless measure, it's a popularity contest. Accomplishments mean little, looking at a recent list of recipients it's fairly obvious. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Stewart At 07:36 PM 10/11/2009, you wrote: I don't say you are picking on MS, clearly a good story to post. I'm amazed after seeing those sidekicks that they are so popular, but they are. I think there was some nervousness when MS bought them because of crap like this. BTW, if those comedians were actually funny guys, they could make fun of any President. After all, Obama did try to exit one room after an interview through a window * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
