Re: Iran vs Adelson, hm..
Vote none of the above.
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>Endace is a different story. Bought a couple of years ago as part of an attempt to rekindle growth, Emulex had hoped it would contribute $40m/year to its revenue, but it is doing a tenth of that.
Looks like they paid 130 million for it as well. Granted not anywhere near the scale of Autonomy but looks like just as bad a purchase and lack of due diligence from management.
>It may come as a surprise to you but some people on the planet have different ... tastes COMPARED TO YOU....
Yeah you don't see the BB folks taking shots at the Symbian or even the Amiga folks do you? Birds of a feather ...
Wow too late. Can't make this stuff up.
"But Superfish, founded and led by former Intel employee and ex-surveillance boffin Adi Pinhas, has been criticised by users the world over since its inception in 2006. In one Apple Mac forum started in 2012 and continuing into the following year was full of complaints about a technology called Window Shopper, built by Superfish. It appears to have found its way onto people’s machines by being bundled with other software, in one case alongside an Oracle Java download, in another via an “Awesome Screenshot” extension. "
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/19/superfish-history-of-malware-and-surveillance/
These Superfish guys many of which are from Israel are exactly the type of amoral people supposedly the British intelligence services were supposed to be more like. Based on the news the last few days its safe to say they are.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/26/idf_unit_820_gchq_tech_incubator_analysis/
Lenovo will take all the heat (most of it rightfully) especially being a Chinese company but honestly those Superfish folks are the ones that belong in jail. I believe they are an American company so we can go after them. They are like the American version of Phorm (but far worse) and will try and get their malware installed (java update perhaps?) some other way now if left unchecked.
>Or are you suggesting that you would load Linux on a Lenovo laptop
No probably PC-BSD (would check the laptop is supported before I bought the laptop) and I would not have been affected by the mal/bloatware in the first place regardless, (Linux is quickly becoming Windows (ie. shit) due to RH and systemd). As for a web server (on a blade server more than likely) if it was a internet facing with fairly mild load I would probably run it on OpenBSD actually.
If I was some corporate IT drone buying for the company I would probably purchase Lenovo windows laptops (perhaps not any more though) from some trusted vendor but would then image them like almost every shop I have been in does because as you say for the corporate desktop (Microsoft's last bastion) in 2015 there isn't much choice for any decent size outfit. May not be true forever though.
>Your free homemade hobby operating system is only good for home use.
Nice trolling but you do realize that hobby OS is running on the computer (web server) that you posted this garbage on for us all to read right?
>I could go on, but until you achieve serious corporate responsibility you won't understand any of this.
And being an obvious desktop jockey at best you obviously know quite little about enterprise yourself. An awful lot of business critical workloads these days are on or moving to Linux (often from proprietary Unix which is actually makes me sad but neither here nor there).
> if you can write complex Excel macros you can command six-figure salaries.
Same with being a good enough man whore I guess. Would rather command the six figure salary (which isn't that hard if you can code in any technology in demand) and not have to tell people I use VBA. That way you can be well paid and happy with your work as well.
> Corporate PCs have these sorts of MITM certs installed in them by the IT departments so they can monitor user traffic, so why should we be surprised that consumer PCs come with something similar?
Umm because unlike the corporate PC the customer PC is mine (not some corporation's including Lenovo). Damn going to have to download a good antivirus CD now and check the missus Lenovo. As for me never kept a factory install OS on any of my gear more than the first month including my phone and tablets.
>While people are still buying they won't.
Except for that part where you can't legally get thousands of shows and movies (some even worth watching) instantly for about 8 bucks a month without a mother ship connection. I agree though when buying individual movies/shows.
>Google's share price (and the balance of your pension fund) diving:
Sarcasm aside unlike Apple, Google doesn't actually have a very noticeable weight percentage of the total SP500. Even Apple if valued at a trillion dollars (probably coming) would be not much more than %5 of the total. Here's to pretty much being able to ignore the performance of individual companies in a pension and still benefit from the long term return of securities.
Always amazing to see a multibillion dollar science project not mostly focused on finding a better way to kill the bad guys (as far I can tell). A rare thing these days. I guess the Euros (especially outside the UK) don't have quite the intense pressure from the defense contractors and their pet politicians to outsource the public science dollars to them.
>I don't know who Taylor Swift is and bewilderingly that has not caused my world to collapse into quantum vacuum.
And here the Brits on this site tore into me for not knowing or caring about Gangnam Style or whatever two weeks after the thing was released. I am with you though. I couldn't name one of her songs. One thing that has stayed pretty consistent in my not so short lifetime is that pop music is garbage.
>captain project and community, bringing together interests of more than 39 of the industry’s biggest players.
>Cloud Foundry Foundation’s members span EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel SAP and Canonical.
Wow I would almost rather try to sell how much Microsoft loves open source than be responsible for getting those companies to produce something collaboratively that is not a total charlie foxtrot. The key is to only take inputs from engineers and not management or marketing of those companies (other than giving their due lip service to make them feel important).
>producing far better films than anything to come out of Hollywood.
Way to set the bar pretty low. As Kevin Spacey said if you wanted to do top rate drama (not saying he can btw) you could do that in film in the 1990s but now they only way to do that is on TV. A lot of best content on internet TV is not Hollywood movies. And my guess is there is not a whole lot out of France that is of the quality of say a Breaking Bad.
The difference is as you mention you can actually turn off (not open) the Amazon store unlike Google's always on services/frameworks. I don't have any purchased apps on that phone so DRM is not a problem (and you are going to open the app occasionally anyway to check for app updates). You can also easily control the data the app collects because unlike Google's stuff its just another non root non system app. Not saying Amazon is not evil just their app is not allowed to bury itself any near as deep into the OS and can be controlled with existing tools much easier.