Just how useless is Yahoo! ?

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If you thought I am the only one frustrated, look at all the questions on the bottom of the page.

Here is how you release an upgrade to a product that is being used..

1. Create dummy email addys and test them.
2. Release Design and Documentation to QA
3. Fix problems and other things that emerge
4. FRIKKING TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING!
5. LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS
6. SELL OUT AFTER 8 QUARTERS OF LOSSES AND TOTAL INABILITY TO DO ANYTHING A 5 YEAR OLD CAN DO.

And, they won't let you ask a direct question to their Help site. Talk about service!!! (Definitely, the lack thereof)

Then, I thought I should shame this useless sham of a company publicly in their own forum.

Mind you, their annual GM is today/tomorrow.

Why is that significant?

Because this useless company prevented Microsoft from buying it based on Holier-Than-Thou Yang decided that Silicon Valley was tres cool and MS was so passe.

Yeah, right!

Really, really tired of this nonsense. Will someone fire him and his board of ineptness already?



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Kamala Harris: The new village i*iot?

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Okay, hate Childs as much as you want. And yes, also worry about the fact that he broke federal laws. No one is disagreeing with any of all this.

I also agree that he did not plan his "endgame" well and looks quite the idiot.

But his whole complaint was that the city was unable to protect itself, or act mature. He lamented that his superiors were ill-equipped to understand the sensitivity of network security. Thus he refused to give them the password.

Was he right?

Yes he was!

Let's take a look. Why wasn't this handled better? What is San Francisco winning out of this?

Setting an example?

An example for what?

Childs himself never put the network in jeopardy.

However, the moment you hand over the passwords to the DA's office, look what they did?

They printed them on a list and sent it into public records!

To prove that Childs might have been able to login as a legitimate user and wreak havoc.

Irony, thy name is "District Attorney, City of San Francisco".

I mean, come on. Childs is going to go to prison - for being more intelligent than the collective Government of the City of San Francisco which prints out passwords for the world to see and harbors felons paying for them with city taxes.

God. If I had known what the bottom level of IQ to work for the City of San Francisco was going to be, I would have applied there....

I am almost certain, I would make a better District Attorney, or Network Security Supervisor.

Ugh!

Talk about people (read the sex neutrality carefully!) giving away passwords for a toffee bar:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/password_security/

Also remember, this is the same city which claimed a guy managed to stab himself as a fun way to commit suicide. Later, he also managed to wipe out the knife so that people could use the knife for other purposes after he was gone, without feeling icky! :

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/01/hugues_de_la_plazas_autopsy_un.html



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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... made my day!

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So, you know, its Saturday morning. I am sitting in front of my laptop with my uptight-a** Starbucks "Latte" going..s*** man, this morning's boring.

You know, its Obama this and Obama that everywhere, and he is really not doing anything actually interesting....

And then this article pops up - for your own good, click on the link and read it.

Ha ha ha, I think this guy will need a therapist for many years to come. He needs to start sending christmas (no obnoxious Firefox spell-check thingy, I refuse to capitalize the C in christmas) cards to the Oakland police for NOT charging him with solicitation.

He he, otherwise he would have to pay more, and more and more for what he wanted to pay for....

The only person I am sorry for, in this whole story is the poor child!

Anyway, hope your Saturday brightens too, and you put that money into a 401(k) rather than elsewhere....

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What is Paul Harapin smoking? I want some of it...

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Okay, who can predict the future? Not even the world's richest (or second, or third or fourth or wherever he is now) man.

He once said, One MB of RAM is all computers would ever need.

Of course, Bill Gates went on to become the world's richest (or second or third..you get the idea) man.

Where is Paul Harapin going to go?

With this kind of talk...probably not far.

Alright, alright, we get it, you are getting paid some kind of a salary by VMWare so you have to run around hockeying us with tales of how only your company and an unsupported, non-commercial, hithero highly unsuccessful, Operating System with no future...I mean "Open Source Linux" are the only ones left.

So, imagine, it's the end of time. The world has burned down, and only VMWare and Ubuntu are walking around holding hand in hand....

hmm. the landfill fire in Palo Alto, did get to me!

Silliness seems to pervade VMWare.

Silicon Valley is a nag on its own backside. After way too much fanfare for the IPO in 2007, VMWare, the next "Windows Killer" (not the "secret" OS that 13 year olds with ADD are building in Google) got nowhere. So, they have dropped a CEO and are now continuing to struggle.

Has it hurt their pride (or inane-ity)?

No!

First off, the death of Windows is like the Loch Ness monster, Area 51, "Campaign of Hope", "Change in Washington" (not change for a Dollar, mind you) and so on.

Alright, let's assume by some twist of fate, all these "nextgen" virtual devices come to exist. How is it possible to replace them within the next 10 years?

Just from that simple logic alone, we can assess that VMWare has more trouble ahead if continues to employ the likes of Paul Heparin, Harparin, what?

Why do engineers not like marketing guys so much?

We engineers have no imagination (or mushroom gardens...)!



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To stave off a Microsoft buy, Yahoo! embraces idiocy...!

Alternative Titles Include:

The Yahoo! Math

Yang Can't Count!

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This is what it has come down to. Yang walked down the corridors of Yahoo! triumphantly after sending an email to his employees,

"Dear All,

Do anything, just please, anything so that I don't have to leave the company.

Pleae, pretty please.

After typing this email, I am going to Washington to talk to Mommy about big, bad, bad Microsoft..boo hoo.

If you don't do this, and Microsoft will steal your lunch money...every day.

Oh, and I am attaching an FAQ (Farts and Quirks) on our latest efforts to prevent Microsoft from stealing my lunch money (read billions in stock - which, actually they cannot steal).

Y!ours,

Y!ang"

And look what the loyal Yahoo! Mail folks gave us.

The images speak for themselves.

Y!ours truly!



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Liar, liar, your drugs are on fire...

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And, just when I thought I was done for the day...here is a gift from the License Raj attitude for those of you who understand it!

Fake data.

Viva "get it done no matter what"

Well, the rest is easy. The company just lost 10.5% of their stock....just 10.5%! That's what surprises me the most...

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Is Obama running a campaign without sense or humor..I mean sense of humor?

Ah, the pleasures of not being rich and famous like the New Yorker.

Why is the cover offensive? After all, we live in a world of "Ugly is Art". Following that logic, the magazine employed some hapless artist to cull all the wrong things that have been said about Obama and his wife and put together, what I think is a pretty (well, maybe not pretty) hilarious cartoon.

It would have served as a great tool for the Obamans to prove that the Right was being downright nuts.

Of course, how can we let commonsense take over? So, the silly campaign went overboard yelling from rooftops.

Does it remind you of the nonsense kicked up the Islamic people about the cartoons?

Oh my Gosh, did I just mention Obama and Islam in the same blog!!!

I think the Obama campaign needs to come down from this "holier than thou" attitude. They are telling people how to run families, comedians how to do shows and now magazines what to put on covers.

Uh, free world, remember?

All the arrogance seems to stem from this notion that people have nowhere else to go but to vote for them. Well, it didn't work in 2004....

Or is it that, having found no satisfactory congregation, the Obama campaign is trying to create a church for him, giving out instructions to the rest of the world on how to live its life?

Having said all this, I am proud that I am not as famous as the New Yorker. You see, not many people read my blog. Nor do most people apply commonsense in their lives....

Oh, what the future beholds (No hope, just a mirror of our current existence)...



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In Romania: The Free Speech (or screech?) rights for bad news

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Damn the Romanian government. They were just about to yank a whole lot of biz-ness for the anti-depressants market! Thank God justice prevailed.

Now, if the Romanian government is overthrown for unparalleled stupidity (and someone in a certain white colored house sighs in relief, that he is not the one as was commonly expected to bear this title), would that be good or bad news?

See, they have Reporters without Borders, Doctors without Borders and so on...

Romania (not unlike many other places) has a Government without Brains....

Enjoy!!!!


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