Signs of Stupidity

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Pop Up Stupidity

Pop Up Stupidity 06/04/2004 11:05 AM
Marketing gets a bad name because too many people in the field of marketing don't understand what it really means. The point of marketing is not just to sell what you have on hand, but to find out what customers want or need, and to then provide it to them. However, instead of focusing on the customer's real needs, too many lazy marketers just focus on trying to convince customers that they need whatever the marketer is selling. This leads to annoying and intrusive advertising practices that may work in the short term, but do a great deal of damage in the long term. What's amazing, though, is that as lazy as these marketers are in terms of actually trying to give the customer what they want, they seem to spend an awful lot of effort trying to give them exactly what they don't want: ever more annoying and intrusive advertising. Now that pop-up blockers are almost everywhere, instead of realizing that people don't want (or need) pop-up blockers, stupid marketers are working on more ways to get around the blockers. We've already written about systems that try to recognize a pop-up blocker and convert pop-ups to floating ads, but now many sites are figuring out ways to use pop-ups even when users clearly have pop-up blockers. This is going beyond lazy marketing into pure stupid marketing. You have someone who has made it clear they don't want what you're pushing, and you deliberately defy them and keep pushing it.

stupidity show itself

stupidity show itself 12/25/2003 05:34 AM
Howard Dean Tattoo" .. apathetic .. Badass!

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In Search of Stupidity

In Search of Stupidity 12/02/2003 01:27 AM

"it all adds up to stupidity"

"it all adds up to stupidity" 08/10/2004 09:24 PM

More RIAA stupidity

More RIAA stupidity 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
Recording companies file suit against 754 computer file swappers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry’s effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online. Among the named defendants were 20 computer users suspected of swapping songs over university networks, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group for the largest music companies. Among the college…

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Next - A patch for stupidity ?

Next - A patch for stupidity ? 06/13/2004 12:02 PM
Testosterone patch 'boosts women's sex drive' but, warn researchers, "If a couple doesn't like each other then no patch will improve their sex life." (BBC)

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

NewzCrawler changes program because of
Bloggers Stupidity

NewzCrawler changes program because of
Bloggers Stupidity 05/20/2004 07:14 PM
Seems that some software vendors are having to make changes to their aggreators because of Bloggers stupidity. I used to...

Blackhat Briefings: It's the stupidity,
stupid

Blackhat Briefings: It's the stupidity,
stupid 07/30/2004 01:40 PM
BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Robert Morris worked at AT&T's famed Bell Labs for 26 years, from 1960 until 1986. Then he began his second career: An eight year stint with the NSA, where he became the agency's chief scientist. Morris describes himself as "a teenage code clerk." He was trained in math at Harvard, helped invent the first modems at Bell Labs, and tells great stories -- declassified, of course -- about the history of communications intelligence. The briefing room was packed Thursday morning for his talk on "The History of the Future."

Asbestos bl0gging and plain stupidity

Asbestos bl0gging and plain stupidity 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
Michael Buffington pulled of the most successful troll in recorded Internet History with his Asbestos News blog, and you all bit.

"Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity"

"Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity" 01/25/2004 09:49 PM

Chronicling the Pinnacle of Human
Stupidity

Chronicling the Pinnacle of Human
Stupidity 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“The Internet boom and bust of 1996 to 2002 was the most important business phenomenon of the past several decades. In the wake of this historic period, we have an unprecedented opportunity to learn from our past mistakes and successes. To help us learn from history, we are creating the Business Plan Archive (BPA) to collect business plans and related documents from the dot com era. These plans – the “blueprints” that lay out the…

Corporate stupidity hall of shame

Corporate stupidity hall of shame 03/19/2003 10:45 PM
Business 2.0's published its annual roundup of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business.

Panic in the heartland, part 1: The crisis begins.
Outside a Wal-Mart (WMT) in the small town of Geneseo, Ill., a 73-year-old woman buys a newspaper and suddenly finds herself trapped when the door of the news rack slips closed and catches her coat. Unable to wriggle out, she solicits a bystander to enter the Wal-Mart and ask for help. A Wal-Mart employee comes out to explain that she can't assist, citing a policy against tampering with the news rack.

Panic in the heartland, part 2: The tense negotiation.
After going back inside for a moment, the Wal-Mart employee comes out and tells the trapped woman that she'll call the newspaper and have a representative come to release her. The woman suggests an alternative solution: Somebody could simply put two quarters in the machine and open the damn door. The Wal-Mart employee rejects this out of hand, explaining that the store can't pay refunds for the news rack.

Panic in the heartland, part 3: The sweet taste of liberation.
Eventually the employee relents and puts two quarters in the machine. Later the liberated woman's daughter visits the store and gives her a $5 bill to be used strictly to finance future releases. A Wal-Mart corporate spokesperson apologizes for the incident, saying, "This is not how we do business."

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Instant Messenger Protocol Stupidity
Continues

Instant Messenger Protocol Stupidity
Continues 06/25/2004 12:52 AM
I'm a generally tolerant person, but there are some things that really, really piss me off. And on this particular issue, I know I'm not alone. Not by a long shot. The Yahoo Messenger team's habit of screwing with the protocol every once in a while is one of those things. As CNet Asia reports in Users fume over Yahoo-Trillian scuffle, they made a change last night the did quite an excellent job of pissing off anyone using a third...

Banishing the demons of stupidity from a
system that has been owned

Banishing the demons of stupidity from a
system that has been owned 08/12/2004 03:25 PM
Occasionally a computer will become so significantly compromised with viruses, trojans, backdoors, hacked, spyware or malware that it becomes irrecoverable with normal means. Occasionally said computer will belong to a client, family member, friend or otherwise very important person who needs said computer back with data. In most business envrionments user data should be on the server and the following process is not typically appropriate. This process is Windows specific, and will help you deal with Windows less than graceful failures when taken over by viruses, trojans, spyware or has been hacked. If you do not have data to recover, or an substantial operational need to keep that exact install, then just wipe the drive and reinstall the Operating System. There are times however when you really need to recover a system and format c:\ is not an option. This process is not intended to be all inclusive, but to give you a starting point so that you can start doing other needed system repairs and or recover files safely. Fundamentally a recovered system that has been owned can be recovered, but never again should be considered known or trusted. It is always better to wipe and reinstall, but it is not always an option.

The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush
chose stupidity. By Jacob Weisberg

The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush
chose stupidity. By Jacob Weisberg 05/08/2004 02:04 AM
The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush chose stupidity. By Jacob Weisberg .. Slate

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Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of
Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens

Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of
Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens 06/07/2004 06:52 PM
Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of Ronald Reagan .. Christopher Hitchens .. Hitchens' .. He is

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"Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of
Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens"

"Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of
Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens" 06/09/2004 10:55 AM

" The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush
chose stupidity. By Jacob Weisberg"

" The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush
chose stupidity. By Jacob Weisberg" 05/08/2004 09:41 PM

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity 09/10/2004 10:43 AM
Someone who prefers to be anonymous sent in this opinion piece, supposedly written by an economics professor at Kyoto University looking at the troubles in the Japanese economy over the last thirteen years and then, at the very end, blaming it all on mobile phones. The article looks at consumer electronics, the entertainment industry and the automobile industry, but then shifts gears to look at mobile phones, noting that even while mobile phone sales are "booming," it's done nothing to help the economy. Then, the professor points out that so much mobile phone use is leading to high bills which "dampen household spending" (assuming, of course, that "household spending" doesn't include mobile phone bills). Then, even though he has already complained that entertainment revenues are down because there aren't "sufficient" services to provide them, he complains that Japanese young people are "wasting hours each day" text messaging and playing online games. Finally, he concludes: "The cell phone is the cause of the business slowdown as well as the erosion in young people's intelligence and scholastic abilities." So, basically, it sounds like the thesis is that spending on mobile phone service is somehow "bad" because it takes away from other spending, which is somehow "good." Seems a bit hard to back up.

Shark Tank: Call it a bonus for putting
up with stupidity

Shark Tank: Call it a bonus for putting
up with stupidity 01/30/2004 05:04 AM
When this software engineer pilot fish discovers just exactly how his productivity is being measured, he gets mad -- and then he starts coding.

In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of
High-Tech Marketing Disasters

In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of
High-Tech Marketing Disasters 12/08/2003 06:54 AM
A fun read that also offers a few lessons for the new paradigm.

Merrill R. Chapman: In Search of
Stupidity: Over 20 years of high-tech
marketing disasters

Merrill R. Chapman: In Search of
Stupidity: Over 20 years of high-tech
marketing disasters 07/07/2004 04:22 PM
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Bhs signs up again with CSC

Bhs signs up again with CSC 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
Shovels £80m supplier's way

Signs

Signs 02/10/2004 02:48 AM

Beautiful and useful signage.

100 freeway signs

100 freeway signs 09/07/2004 03:51 PM
to be a big day .. website

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Two signs that SCO is desperate

Two signs that SCO is desperate 12/24/2003 12:16 PM
As SCO widens its arguments, the whiff of desperation is becoming a full-fledged stank. So, now the Gnu Public License itself violates copyright law? According to CEO Darl McBride, the GPL removes the profit motive from software development and the profit motive "underpins the constitutionality of the (U.S.) Copyright Act." Here's Linus' reply: "I'm a big believer in copyrights," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail interview. "Of all the intellectual property (laws), copyright ... is the only one that is expressly designed so that individual people can (and do) get them without having scads of lawyers on their side." "If...

Signs of Trouble

Signs of Trouble 06/23/2004 09:09 AM
Inventory buildup can point to deteriorating fundamentals.

Thomson Signs On For New MSN TV

Thomson Signs On For New MSN TV 08/03/2004 02:27 PM
Thomson will continue to manuufacture the Mcirosoft MSN TV platform, the two companies said in a deal that was announced on Monday.

Signs and wonders

Signs and wonders 05/06/2004 08:35 AM
A journalist's investigation of holy Christian visions turns into a tortured spiritual quest.

Signs of life

Signs of life 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

Hah!

At least there's some evidence that Brian Dear's company - EVDB - has a logo.

Lots of folks are talking about it - but Brian's zipped lipped.

But they're apparently part of the 'Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium' - so now they're public. :-)

Hmm - why isn't WhizSpark part of this consortium? I wonder if they wanna help put up shared XML servers of Events - scraped from throughout the web? That's what OpenEvents is all about. Open APIs into shared Events.

AOL Signs Off From Sender ID

AOL Signs Off From Sender ID 09/17/2004 06:43 AM
America Online has decided not to fully support Microsoft's Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force and the open-source community expressed intellectual property concerns. "AOL will now not be moving forward with full deployment of the Sender ID protocol," spokesman Nicholas Graham said in a statement sent via e-mail Thursday. Instead, the Dulles, Virginia-based Internet service provider will support only the Sender Policy Framework to fight spam by verifying the source of e-mail sent to its users, he said.

AOL's rejection comes a week after an IETF group considering Sender ID as a standard said the proposal needed rewriting. Earlier this month, the open-source groups Apache Software Foundation and Debian Project dismissed Sender ID because the license would prevent them from supporting the technology. AOL is concerned about the lack of acceptance for Sender ID in the open-source community, Graham said. Additionally, the ISP is afraid that recent changes to Sender ID will make it incompatible with the original SPF specification, he said. AOL had endorsed Sender ID when it was submitted to the IETF in June.

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EDS signs MoD contract

EDS signs MoD contract 03/23/2005 07:33 AM
Head for the hills

ICANN signs in .eu

ICANN signs in .eu 03/24/2005 04:50 PM
ZDNet UK Mar 24 2005 8:35PM GMT

Signs you are busy

Signs you are busy 11/12/2003 03:19 PM

Paris Hilton must a very busy person. Personally, I'd let voicemail pickup.

3 signs up Argos

3 signs up Argos 07/26/2004 10:58 AM
Mail order giant gets 3G jiggy

Vital signs

Vital signs 11/18/2003 11:20 PM
CNET Asia Nov 18 2003 10:21PM ET

Signs of the Times

Signs of the Times 09/05/2002 04:19 AM

Signs Your Company May Be Too Big

Signs Your Company May Be Too Big 04/28/2004 08:15 PM
This is by no means complete. But I figured I ought to write down those that have occurred to me recently. it takes at least one month to get new test hardware there's a constant parking shortage everything has a form that must be filled out, such as "I want to ship a package to someone" when you're in the shipping room the fact that you have a loading dock upon which you can fill out that form and a...
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