Posts by Gordon 10

Re: US patriot act still applies to all information hosted by US companies

The difference is that MS have a history of fighting overreach of the Patriot act - at least for PR purposes and maybe genuinely as well - remember the whole bun fight over data stored in Azure Ireland?

MS for all their faults grew out of enterprise services - its in their DnA.

Google on the other hand has ad-broking in their DnA, ie whoring your personal data for profit.

I know who I'd "trust but verify" in the enterprise use case.

In this scenario MS are to some degree the lesser of two evils.

Re: report demolishes Lynch's defence ... not sure.

Im not convinced. Yes Autonomy are responsible for their financial practises but having passed multiple audits they have a strong argument to say they had no reason to suspect that their financial practises were dodgy or that the auditor was not doing his job properly.

I haven't read the criticism of the Deloitte auditor - I would say the validity of it as evidence depends whether it addresses any key points around how Autonomy recognised revenue. If the auditor was just struck off for being a bit slapdash its a lot weaker than being struck off for fundamentally giving bad audit advice on Autonomy's revenue recognition.

Appears so - rather meaningless statement that one. Interesting to see how any judgement could be enforced on Qualcomm, since a ban on their chippery would be vigourously contested by Samsung and Apple.

We shall never know about any crimes that may have been committed in Sweden, however its fairly clear that Uncle Sam already considers him guilty for embarrassing the US hegemony. See also Lynch, Love and others.

Hell what they are still doing to Chelsea Manning even after a Presidential commutation shows just how vengeful the US Govt can be.

Re: 2B pencil

I agreed. The piece we dont have enough data on - assuming reports of a MITM are true - is on what process the attack happened. If we also assume the RAM scraping is true it seems unlikely to be a MiTM against the main transmission service and more likely an update service or similar.

Re: "Received a computer" "He also installed Dropbox"

You obviously haven't been hired by a big corporate.

Whilst I dont know if the standard background checks would pick up aliases I would expect them to pick up inconsistencies in his main identity - lack of or false exam certs for example.

Re: Why 'science'?

Make-believe Blood testing Machine is Science Fiction, not engineering :D

Re: What an arse

Their payoff is proportional to the amount of dirt they have on the company at time of firing...

Re: There is no such thing as magic

Not bad but you miss a point. Lower level of admin needed compared both to Legacy on-prem and Cloudy databases like Hadoop - all wrapped up in a decent UI. A Productised Database if you will.

They have succeeded in masking the Swans feet thrashing better than most other contenders.

Re: Hmm

Dont forget that Boots has form in this area. I seem to remember some celebrity getting dobbed in for a picture of themselves in the bath with the kids.

Re: irrelevant

The fact that context matters perhaps makes it entire relevant? Lets not get into the right to arm bears clause. (should be claws)

Re: They forgot...

They add that as part of the final appeal.

Re: Adobe

I think that there was a phrase in the article that was the perfect summary.

"Adobe, historically known for being out of step with <$insert_anything_here> "

Re: Bureaucracy

I’m with AC on this one. The levels of (in)competence are broadly similar, just the consequences play out in different ways.

Are 3 any worse that the other big 3-4 telco's?

Re: More to be told?

Video dogging. Geez thanks for that! Another example of Rule 42.