August 2011
18 posts
“The Justice Department is blocking AT&T’s $39 billion deal to buy...”
– The deal has faced tough opposition from consumer groups and No. 3 carrier Sprint since it was announced in March. AT&T could challenge the Justice Department’s action in court. A failure of the deal puts T-Mobile in a difficult position. It’s struggling to compete with the larger...
“Candy is dandy, and liquor is efficient.”
– Traber
WatchWow!
The Pentagon’s new China war plan - http://pulse.me/s/19iUm
“We may be late to the party, but we brought a keg.”
– Hacker News | Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers
AeroFS is very intriguing just for the fact that it does Dropbox-style syncing without any servers, regardless of whether it also does cloud storage… This almost should have came first, or maybe it did? It’s like a superfied...
“The right to anonymity is in danger.”
– Germany’s War on Facebook - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
Seems like facebook isn’t on the same page:
Speaking last week on a panel discussion about social media hosted by Marie Claire magazine, Zuckerberg said,
I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot...
“Today it’s cyber warriors that we’re looking for, not rocket...”
– said Richard “Dickie” George, technical director of the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate, the agency’s cyber-defense side.
U.S. government hankers for hackers | Reuters
“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a...”
– Paraprosdokians - 37 Examples A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or re-interpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect. For this...
