The Great RAID Level 5 - Transcript

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David Lawrence: You know sometimes we fly right buy things and we don*t fill in all the dots and apparently there are some Macintosh users out there who don*t realize just how lucky they are. We talk a lot on this show about the different pieces of anti-spyware, anti-adware software that you need and so far you know again when we are doing this show live in august of 2005. So far the Macintosh has not been targeted by ad networks and adware and spyware and malware and there really isn*t any software for the Mac because none is required. I got an E-mail here from Kent Norton where the subject line was What Virus buy Adware and I just went to reply with my standing auto response lists on the Windows stuff. And then I read and it says for my Mac G5. Well you don*t need anything you have a Mac. I have a Mac I don*t need anything. So again just to be clear when I am making these recommendations I am recommending for Windows users what is necessary. Because Mac users simply don*t need it right now. Now if Mac continues to become more popular you know it*s on an upward swing then maybe down the line there might be a need for it but right now no, not a chance. So and the count right now is 186 people have sent me E-mail so I have been furiously hitting the auto responder during the breaks and still have five more on my screen. Now before we went to break at the top of the hours talking about this little feud that*s brewing between CNET and Google and it is, it concerns me and I will tell you why. Because Google since they become so large and have become a public company have had this *the heck with you* attitude and if was late night radio on under less of family oriented circumstances it would be a different phrase but their attitude basically has been we don*t care. Even though their corporate mantra is *Don*t be Evil* they don*t have a corporate privacy officer. They don*t have someone who makes sure that the company even though they do cool things that they don*t step into the area of invading someone*s privacy. And in fact Eric Schmidt who is now the CEO, you know Sergey and Larry they are not running the company, Eric is running the company although Sergey and Larry certainly have a lot of influence. In the old days Google was considered one of those companies that would usually do the right thing and if was brought to their attention that they weren*t doing the right thing they would stop and you know sort of you know check things out and change if they felt it was important you know. Well to have this attitude of we are not talking to CNET for a year because they have the temerity to question whether or not Google needs to be more careful about the different products that they offer and how invasive they are in our lives. To then say to CNET we are not talking to you for a year because you questioned that, is the height of arrogance and to me if it continues this way will be the beginning of their demise. I know its hard to believe but look at how big AOL was before they started you know sounding and acting too big for their breeches and getting involved with time one or and everything else under the sun. Look at IBM. It took years for them to understand that being in the laptop business wasn*t necessarily a great idea for them. And they have changed their corporate culture. This story is a bellwether especially for those of you that invest in Google. If the CEO is going to make statements like well sometimes you have to trade privacy for functionality and believe me I am one of these people who doesn*t cry that the sky is falling when it comes to privacy I don*t believe you have much privacy on the internet. But to treat a news outlet that could have material affect on the value of that company. The fact that CNET has as many millions of readers that they do each month and if they usually talk pretty glowingly about Google that they are shutting out that outlet as a stockholder I am livid that Google has done this. I am livid that Google*s PR firm and PR Department has become so high and mighty that they don*t return, they don*t return phone calls to me anymore. I have got 8 million listeners I want to clarify something I don*t want to make a mistake on the air they don*t even return my phone call. And I know that there are people who listen to this show that work at Google that hear it on KNEW in San Francisco or they hear it on XM or they hear it on Sirius or they are working in the Chicago offices and they are working on GN or Outland Sacramento or wherever they are listening. Take this back inside while you are having your gourmet meals. And make it clear that this is not the way to run a railroad to pull back and say we are not going to talk to a news outlet for a full year because they questioned your abilities to maintain people*s privacy. That*s a problem worth addressing. There are lots of people out there who don*t know how much information is available via Google. They don*t know what could possibly harm them and neither do you Google. You have no idea the unintended consequences of your being so pervasive and to turn around and instead of saying hey you know what there is something we should look at and we will instead of hiring a privacy officer at the CXO level so that you are not going to be evil. That you are not inadvertently evil is a mistake and to have CNET question that is reasonable. To have you respond with we are not talking to CNET for a year is unreasonable and it is going to materially affect the company*s worth. You are now a publicly held company may have told the street do heck with you we are not going to do what you thing but you can*t say that to the shareholders. You have decided to become a public company. You owe them every outlet, every opportunity to increase the value of the company and that includes having your stuff publicized good and bad by CNET. To say the CNET we are not just talking to you we are going to take our bond and go home. Please, this is the beginning of the slippery slope this is bad, this is evil. It*s fourteen past the hour. Charlie you are Online Tonight with David Lawrence, hello sir.

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