lawrence171
Evilly Yours - Evilness
join:2001-12-24
Canada
1 edit | Friendster sucks
Friendster sucks, and now... will suck more! |
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matt380
Dangit, Bobby.
Premium
join:2002-06-12
Kennesaw, GA
clubs:
1 edit | huh?
i don't see anything damningin HER posts. have i missed something?
edit- gender change.. sorry! dang. |
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Dennis
Premium,Mod
join:2001-01-26
Algonquin, IL | Shitcanned
If I had a friendster account I would cancel it in a heartbeat in response to this. |
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B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| reply to matt380
Re: huh?
"Trout Girl" and "Joyce" should have been a give-away, but I think it's a girl.
And those blog pages look TERRIBLE in Mozilla.
I have no interest in pursuing this story any further.
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In a realm outside causality and function |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
 ·Site5.com
 ·AT&T Midwest
 ·Comcast
| Are we hearing the whole story?
When I read this story, the only thing I could think of is that there was more to it? Fired for blogging? I don't think blogging was the reason. Maybe it was blogging instead of working. I have no idea.
It just seems like we are not hearing the whole story.
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My Domain
Nightfall's Hockey and Life Journal |
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA |  With a name like sASSa......
....he HAS to be an asshole! |
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
Premium
join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
clubs:
·Comcast
·Metrocast Communic..
 ·Vonage
| reply to Nightfall
Re: Are we hearing the whole story?
i think the fact that she let people know they are now using PHP was the killer. which isn't highly sensative at all, anyone in a position to abuse that info could use many other avenues to discover they switched to PHP.
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crazediamond
That's Dr. Craze to you
Premium
join:2002-01-19
Germantown, MD | reply to B
Re: huh?
but i thought all those alternatives to IE were coded by god himself and made perfect in every way :P
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nolancj
join:2002-06-30
Long Beach, CA
| reply to odog
Re: Are we hearing the whole story?
First, who really cares. I have no opinion w/o both sides of the story.
2nd, she did discuss 'proprietary information'. Despite the fact that you could get this info any number of ways.... who knows.
Regardless, my guess is there is more to the story. Companies will many times use an issue like this, which isn't really an "issue", to can someone they would have a harder time canning for other reasons.
There is definately more to the story. She may not know it, but I'll bet her boss does. |
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DrewCapu
Giant Diehard
join:2001-12-19
California
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| reply to odog
said by odog  :
i think the fact that she let people know they are now using PHP was the killer. which isn't highly sensative at all, anyone in a position to abuse that info could use many other avenues to discover they switched to PHP.
It's not sensitive at all, especially considering all of their urls (formerly jsp's?) now end in php  |
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11337845
Live free or die
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Seattle, WA
| reply to odog
said by odog :
i think the fact that she let people know they are now using PHP was the killer. which isn't highly sensative at all, anyone in a position to abuse that info could use many other avenues to discover they switched to PHP.
You mean like looking at the extension at the end any Friendster page?
ROTFLMAO! |
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Trakker
Danger
Premium
join:2003-01-12
ß | And this is news how?
Jesus... |
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someguy2
@161.57.x.x | amen! |
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Trivista
join:2003-11-11
Longview, TX
| One of their board members.
John Doerr is a sun board member and may not have taken kindly to negative comments made against JSP.
John Doerr - John is a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Amazon.com, WebMD.com, Drugstore.com, Homestore.com, Handspring, Sun Microsystems, Google, Good Technology, Elance and Smartpipes. John holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. |
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| said by Trivista :
John Doerr is a sun board member and may not have taken kindly to negative comments made against JSP.
So "saying negative things about JSP" is worse than "abandoning JSP for PHP"?
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | yay i cancelled
Well, I never used the service anyways, but i had an account so I cancelled it and left a reason ;p It did seem much faster, too bad they had to be dicks |
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Trivista
join:2003-11-11
Longview, TX | reply to Steve
Re: One of their board members.
In the eyes of some PHB's yes, yes it is. I am not saying it's right what they did (I think it is insane) but it may be a possible motive as to why. |
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winterforge
Premium
join:2000-07-23
Seattle, WA
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Thank God they fired her for telling about using PHP in her blog, there's no way I would have known if not for her. I can't even find it in this URL when I click on sign up at their site »www.friendster.com/join.php How dare her discuss such private information.
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| Most companies would have disiplined her ....
I mean, she goes on a public setting (her blog), identifies herself as a company employee, and makes what I'm sure are unauthorized comments about the company.
That would be a big no-no at most places. Companies hire PR and marketing people to make statements about themselves to the outside world. They can't have employees making uncoordinated off the cuff comments like that. There could even be unintended legal consequences for the company for doing so.
She was pretty naive for doing this. Firing may have been harsh, but she was pretty dumb. |
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA | There are Two Sides
to every story.
We heard one side. I wonder what the other side is? |
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