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It's almost like you haven't been paying attention to a single thing about Groupon for the last couple of years.
You could start here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Reception) but somehow I think that wouldn't matter to you.
Edit: since the downvotes from assumed sycophants are pouring in, I'm not afraid to defend my position: the story of the Groupon pump and dump is well-known here and criticism has always been widely upvoted. But once the man is right here in our midsts you retreat. This is essentially the same behavior we see over and over of society promoting the psychopath. Others might have short memories but I don't.
According to wiki, "He later turned informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying other hackers from Lulzsec and related groups"
The CIA's website went down June 15th, 2011 (towards the end of the LulzSec campaign) - definitely while Sabu was working for the FBI.
Edit: link to old discussion here since this his hard for some people to grasp and make the connections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659326
Mednafen, Stella, FCEUX just to name a few
Surprise, surprise. Startup burning through venture capital while actual 'revenue' is smoke and mirrors. We've seen this movie before.
It still legalizes asking for accounts and there's still room for misinterpretation.
ANY type of legalized access to employee social media accounts is bad. Period.
Yet this is what we get when we freely throw any of our personal information online.
I'm rather annoyed as it seems like a simple "housekeeping" task that OS X should have already handled. When upgrading the OS, Apple always re-hides my user Library folder and wipes out my TRIM support kext for my "3rd party" SSD, but they cannot perform clean up like this? Very disappointing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_electronic_surveillance_pro...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
But move along, nothing to see here!
Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean shady things aren't happening.
We just don't know 100% if Google is being forced to play along. I'd say it's really naive to think there would be public 'evidence' in the first place. You say it's unfair but I say it's critical thinking. Given the circumstance and the history, I'd say it's completely fair.
Either way it's terrifying, wouldn't you agree?
History shows humans will do anything to better their odds and leverage their success.
> And while it definitely happens and is widespread > citing exactly one example and suggesting it shows a trend or proves a point.
Guess you kinda just did the same thing? Just because I'm citing one example doesn't make it any less true and it seems we have two examples now: Samsung and Yelp.
Sorry, but this is rampant in e-commerce.
Even the small/local businesses do this. Just check Yelp reviews. Hell, Yelp used to allow businesses to move their best reviews to the top if they paid them enough.
1) http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...
2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/the-yelp-mafia/3116
3) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/02/yelp-facing-class...
There was so much fallout from this back in 2009/2010 that Yelp had to turn the tables and pretend to play nice guy finally by outing businesses that buy positive reviews (starting last October).
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...
Here's to hoping I don't ever end up where you are. Let's just let programmers do programming instead of brushing up on their MBA/"Six Sigma" style time wasting.
Crazy, huh?
No, wasting money on a valueless shiny rock is silly. But let's just keep advocating people 'keep up the tradition' instead.
This is a really disgusting line of thinking