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p2p news / p2pnet: It’s almost the end of 2005. And you know what that means. Endless streams of ‘best of’ and ‘worst of’ reviews.
Some of them are, however, worth a look, one such being Wired New 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards ; )
"Tech execs say the darndest things," says Evan Hansen. "And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers."
Below are a few examples »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
"I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google." - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in statements attributed to him in court documents by former Microsoft engineer and recent Google hire Mark Lucovsky
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"Most people don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" - Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG’s global digital business division. (Hesse also described the issue with Sony BMG’s on-going problems with DRM rootkit spyware secretly stashed on the computers of people who’d bought Sony music CDs as "only a slight one".
At his $11 billion telco fraud trial, Ebbers tries to pin the debacle on ex-WorldCom CFO and state’s witness Scott Sullivan. The jury is not convinced, and Ebbers is convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud and false regulatory filings on all counts. An appeal is pending.
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"It was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong." - Fake Wikipedia poster Brian Chase
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"Mr. Negroponte has called it a $100 laptop - I think a more realistic title should be ‘the $100 gadget‘." - Chipzilla chairman Craig Barrett.
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