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Interesting question - you could take automated screenshots, save them in a lawyer-friendly format (e.g. PDF) and then add a certifying signature with a secure timestamp (perhaps adding the raw pages and images from the site as attachments to the PDF as well).
If the target market was lawyers you could probably charge a chunk-o-money for it as well...
NB I have no idea whether such a service already exists.
Microsoft is a behemoth of a company with presumably layers of bureaucratic and historical debris all over the place. Short of a very profound, top-down remodelling of the company, it's actually refreshing to see that new voices are popping up inside of MS and being allowed to advance this quickly.
That is not to say they don't have a lot to make up for, just that there might still be hope for Microsoft.
And this certainly is completely different from when they partnered with Apple, and then screwed them over. Or when they partnered with IBM, and then screwed them over. Or when they partnered with Mosaic, and then screwed them over. Or when they partnered with hardware OEMs, and then used then to screw over competitors. I'm sure this time, MS is really serious about being a community player.
The way you phrased your comment can only lead to arguing semantics of the word “terrorist”. As risk to the establishment, a “subversive” can always be framed as a terrorist with a little bit of creativity.
Can you volunteer a significant difference between Franklin and a modern-day terrorist from the establishment ruler's standpoint?
I totally agree. These bloody modern terrorists, not sharing our views and customs. Bet they don't even play cricket. Very uncouth. You'd think that half of them had grown up in a war zone or something, the way they go on. Pass the gin.
Not like the old historic terrorists, no, those lot had style. They were on our side for one thing, made us a lot of money in the long run. And they look bloody good in paintings. Oh look, the gins run out. I'll go find some rum.
“Apologies to Hans Christian Anderson” — with the whole TED PR thing just starting to cool down, I found this typo actually quite charming. The surname is spelt “Andersen”. :)
EDIT: I wonder, did you write this with anyone in mind or is it a patter you're seeing everywhere? I sure see this kind of nonsense as a plausible scenario in many big-name companies, and I see it in the company I currently work at, though it's dealt with and hopefully will be over soon.
I'm very careful not to reject this kind of "My Success Story" thing straight away. Too often it feels to me like the kind motivational self help with no insights or real lessons to be shared — until I find out someone who watched the same video (or attended the same event, read the same article) got a real insight of some kind from it. [1] That said, I watched a bunch of these videos and got nothing from them. :-(
I'm not subscribing at this time because I'm genuinely concerned I'll be subscribing to videos of people rubbing their success in my face, and not much else.
[1] Here's something another member of HN fished from one of the videos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617651 (though I support the spirit, I don't particularly agree with that sentence).
EDIT: to be sure, I'm not claiming this website is going to offer lousy content, but I am claiming that they're doing lousy advertisement to that content (well, as far as I'm concerned at least — I'm merely a data point here).
http://nyan.cat/ http://lol.cat/ http://crypto.cat/ (hey, at least it has a Catalan version)
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