While at first blush that change seemed strange, Twitter's rationale does make sense. Maybe it could offer this as an option: Block and hide, or avoid letting the blockee know about the action.
In reply to: Rock, meet hard place
Wyatt, Why has Microsoft dispatched Smith on this barnstorming tour? What's its big stake in establishing greater uniformity in how cloud computing companies are regulated? Yes, it will help with international contracts,...
In reply to: MS' stake?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I, too was very entrepreneurial as a younger person. I don't think it is something specific to Gen Y but to the age group in general. At a young (and inexperienced) age, many of us...
In reply to: Are they ignoring youth in general?
If anyone believes this is anything but a PR move for Oracle, Larry has a nice island to sell you ... oh, wait, he does have an island. And he didn't get it by embracing open source.
In reply to: Prime swampland
spam is gone from my gmail account but still in my outlook account you can sign in to gmail with just your user name with outlook you have to use full email address with hotmail if you...
In reply to: outlook is not that good
As an aside, just now I opened my Gmail and saw a column of ads tailored to 'buying gifts for Mom.' Why? Because here, in my initial post, Gmail somehow KNEW that I had just mentioned my mom. If that doesn't bother you,...
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You should try it, Kristin. Gmail is a clusterf*ck compared to Outlook: Gmail has ads to add to the clutter. Outlook doesn't. Gmail has integrated chat. Outlook has integrated Skype. Gmail is a one window pane deal. Outlook...
In reply to: Really.
Well I got 2 tablets that morning. But here in Puerto Rico not many people knew about the promotion. Still, the line was huge 2 hours before the store opened. I got there so early i was #13 in the line.
In reply to: Re: Dell Venue 8 Pro Tablet (32 GB)
I have both Gmail and Hotmail accounts and I very much prefer the former. Outlook.com still, after all these years, has much more spam than Gmail. With Gmail I may get a spam or phishing mail about once every...
In reply to: Spam in Outlook.com
I wonder if the notion of "moving up the ranks" even rings true with Millennials. Gen X'ers were taught to believe in working up the ranks as a path to success, in IT and in other fields. But millennials watched as their...
In reply to: Moving Up the IT Ranks
This sounds like a pretty fair move. I like the promotions tab a lot so there's certainly much less of a risk now than there was before that. The proxy shoudl cover the rest of the bases.
In reply to: Sounds good
Quite a few elements are coming together to paint Google in quite a poor light at the moment. Gone are the days when it was seen as the non-corporate alternative to Microsoft. Today it seems more like a data hoarder and...
In reply to: Google policies
Oracle's corporate culture and the open source movement's culture present a stark contrast. Is Oracle starting a relationship with OpenStack that will be meaningful to customers, or is it just a means to avoid sales disaster?...
In reply to: Oracle, Open Source Culture Clash?
I agree that "The notion that data must be stored domestically to ensure that it remains secure and private is false". It is actually easy to store data outside the domestic borders and at the same time be compliant to...
In reply to: How to store data outside the domestic borders and at the same time be compliant to regulations
So, Dell customers, what do you think of the cloud vision? Has Dell partnered with the right people? The Dropbox offering may go over well? Does Dell have a shot a mobile relevance anymore? Weigh in please.
In reply to: Your thoughts on the new Dell?
Robert, thanks for the low-down on 11ac. Will businesses actually be able to decrease the amount of APs they are using with the new standard? Or will that never be the case, because demand for Wi-fi is growing at such a...
In reply to: Straight talk about ac
Completely agree with the complexity created by country & state specific regulations mandating that PII be stored and proccesed in defined jurisdictons. Cloud Data Control Gateways, part of a framwork taht Gartner...
In reply to: Making Public Clouds Private
David, great ideas here -- thanks for sharing them with us. Do you really think the networking profession will come "under attack" and in what way? Networking pros have been tasked with learning about virtualization, storage,...
In reply to: Networking in danger?
High tech or not... shouldn't the reader be on the *other* side of the chimney?
In reply to: Name That Toon, Win a Prize
As a former senior officer of a health care company and an old-time tech User, I could not agree more with the opinion that IT is generally used as the scape goat department by incompetent Users who generally ill define...
In reply to: Agree that IT is generally the "scape goat" department
2014 Private Cloud Survey
Respondents are on a roll: 53% brought their private clouds from concept to production in less than one year, and 60% extend their clouds across multiple datacenters. But expertise is scarce, with 51% saying acquiring skilled employees is a roadblock.
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