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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101600817.html

"" Microsoft Corp. is preparing to release privacy guidelines based on its
own internal practices in hopes of getting companies to adopt more
cohesive standards for safeguarding people's personal information. ""

Does ANYBODY think that a company that is on record as having lied to its
staff can reasonably expect others to follow that company's internal
practises? Anybody at all?


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:09:25 +1300, MaHogany wrote:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101600817.html
>
> "" Microsoft Corp. is preparing to release privacy guidelines based on its
> own internal practices in hopes of getting companies to adopt more
> cohesive standards for safeguarding people's personal information. ""
>
> Does ANYBODY think that a company that is on record as having lied to its
> staff can reasonably expect others to follow that company's internal
> practises? Anybody at all?
>
We might bitch about the Privacy Act, which is not perfect, but it is
certainly better than MS trying to be leader.

"MaHogany" <> wrote in message
news...
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101600817.html
>
> "" Microsoft Corp. is preparing to release privacy guidelines based on its
> own internal practices in hopes of getting companies to adopt more
> cohesive standards for safeguarding people's personal information. ""
>
> Does ANYBODY think that a company that is on record as having lied to its
> staff can reasonably expect others to follow that company's internal
> practises? Anybody at all?
>
>
> Ma Hogany
>
> --
> "The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
> fries with that, if prompted."
>


Lied to their staff? Link?

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Mauricio Freitas
www.geekzone.co.nz, www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:26:29 +1300, Mauricio Freitas wrote:

>> Does ANYBODY think that a company that is on record as having lied to its
>> staff can reasonably expect others to follow that company's internal
>> practises? Anybody at all?
>
> Lied to their staff? Link?

That fact came to the surface during the DOJ trial in the USA.

I don't have a link immediately to hand.

If you're very interested in that point I suggest that "Google is your
friend".


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

"MaHogany" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:26:29 +1300, Mauricio Freitas wrote:
>> Lied to their staff? Link?
>
> That fact came to the surface during the DOJ trial in the USA.
>
> I don't have a link immediately to hand.
>
> If you're very interested in that point I suggest that "Google is
> your
> friend".
>
>

In other words, you've made this up. Btw, heard the one about how how
Linus Torvalds lied to the DOJ? I don't have a link immediately to
hand, but ...Isn't gossip fun?

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:29:06 -0400, impossible wrote:

>> If you're very interested in that point I suggest that "Google is
>> your
>> friend".
>>
>>
>
> In other words, you've made this up.

Incorrect.

I didn't make it up. I did read about it on the WWW, but it was quite some
time ago, and I can't recall exactly where it was tha tI read it.


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

T'was the Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:41:02 +1300 when I remembered MaHogany
<> saying something like this:

>I didn't make it up. I did read about it on the WWW, but it was quite some
>time ago, and I can't recall exactly where it was tha tI read it.

Sorry, I had to interject here. You read about something on that
wonderfully factual domain of knowledge known as the World Wide Web,
have no references to said article so we can at least decide whether
or not the article you're quoting comes from a (relatively) reliable
source, and instead we're to just go on a random string of thoughts
you've put together that have some sound of "truthiness"?

Nice.
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.

MaHogany wrote, On 23/10/06 7.17 p:
> If you're very interested in that point I suggest that "Google is your
> friend".

It's *your* job to find the sources that back up *your* claims, why
should other people waste their time looking for nothing?

-Phil

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:17:34 +1300, Phil wrote:

> It's *your* job to find the sources that back up *your* claims, why
> should other people waste their time looking for nothing?

Sorry, mate. It's not my "job" to do that at all.


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

"MaHogany" <> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:17:34 +1300, Phil wrote:
>
>> It's *your* job to find the sources that back up *your* claims, why
>> should other people waste their time looking for nothing?
>
> Sorry, mate. It's not my "job" to do that at all.
>

Last refuge of a scoundrel.