Comment: Re:Bad apps crash. News at 11. (Score 1) 358
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Umm... may be you should uninstall Flash. After all, God decreed that everything bad with Macs and the web was all Flash's fault. There is nothing like that with HTML 5.
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Comment: Re:Who Watches the Coastguard? (Score 1) 71
Which browser do you use? I use Firefox and I block Facebook's scripts (extension: NoScript) and cookies (extension: CookieMonster). And I have set up a separate profile to lurk and see my friends' posts which is the only one I use to check Facebook. I used to be a little permissive of Google, but now I have blocked them too. And run Google inside Chrome for the logged in uses (mail, reader and iGoogle mostly). So, no like or +1 buttons for me.
Google accused of fraud in Kenya
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wannabgeek writes "A Kenyan startup Mocality is accusing Google of fraudulently signing up small businesses for its web hosting service. Apparently Google Kenya employees were looking up businesses on Mocality (which is an online directory for Kenyan businesses), calling them up and telling them that Mokality is an affiliate of Google and making other false claims. Mokality also alleges that when Google Kenya suspected that someone is on to them, they shifted the operation to an Indian call center and the lookups were happening from IP addresses of Google Mountain View, which hints that there is a deeper involvement than one or a few rogue employees."
Comment: Re:Why do IBM employees patent? (Score 1) 47
I must be nude here.
Umm...not unless you're of feminine gender
Comment: Re:20,034 transferred in the same day (Score 1) 356
Even your stat is incomplete. You have to compare it with a typical day - how many domains get transferred in to GoDaddy on a typical day and how many out. Then you have something to draw conclusion on.
Comment: Re:Please no... (Score 1) 264
very interesting you say this. 'cuz in the recent past the spam from Yahoo! accounts (not actual spam accounts, but somehow spam sneaking in from regular user accounts) has become a really major issue. I can recollect at least 10 people in my friends / relatives that I received spam from. But from what I know, very few of them use FF. I suspect most of them use IE (I don't know for sure, but the general tendency).
Comment: Re:Actually, this is good news. (Score 1) 467
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Attached to: Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor
I have said this before - the whole NPT is discriminatory in nature and separates Nuclear haves and have-nots designed to perpetuate the hegemony of nuclear powers. I know that sounds like political bs, but without a solid and legal commitment from the nuclear powers to complete disarmament, that is what NPT is. So equating China which acceeded to the NPT but still supplied Nukes to Pakistan in an open violation of its commitments is stupidity at best.
Comment: Re:Or Does Google Need Firefox (Score 1) 644
It may help to learn the facts surrounding an incident than basing your hate on just one line news items. Asa gave a fairly decent explanation of why he was supporting Bing. It was mainly because he was getting pissed off with Google's privacy and/or data retention policies and he believed that Bing had a better privacy policy. Learn some facts before judging people
Comment: Re:It looks like... (Score 1) 123
If it were slashdot, there would be a Cowboy Neal option:
* I will go commando
Comment: Re:Google! (Score 1) 214
FYI, Zimbra is already sold off to VMWare.