Comments on: Silence isn’t Golden

By: John Ferret

John Ferret — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:32:11 +0000

This may sound a bit shallow given the nature of what’s been going on with ex big blues but I think that picture of a ferret on the top of the page is absolutely delightful! I come to a page to see tech info and suddenly come across something from my second great love! Thank you.

By: turtleshadow

turtleshadow — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:27:04 +0000

The news keeps getting worse and more funny in a sad sort of way.

Insider trading widened Thursday [Nov 5, 2009] as five players in the $1.5 trillion hedge-fund industry pleaded guilty to criminal charges and eight others were arrested.

Caught up are of note: Ali Hariri, a vice president Atheros Communications Inc. A wireless chip house Emanuel Goffer [Spectrum Trading LLC and is associated with Incremental Capital] passed info on acquisitions of companies including 3Com Corp., Avaya Inc., Axcan Pharma, Hilton Hotels and Kronos Worldwide Inc. I laughed when I read how much they liked the Bourne Supremacy

At one point, Goffer destroyed one of the cell phones by first removing the SIM card and biting into it. He then broke the phone itself in two, throwing away one part and telling his source to get rid of the other piece, the SEC alleged.

Other reports allege that an exec at Akamai was also tainted. If the SEC keeps releasing info that's sounding like the Quantum organization from is really real. I think I need to pull out money from the bank and not buy gold but instead invest in drinking water. I think perhaps the major wound has been the one nail in the head of IBM. Im unsure if the body will survive.

By: MoffatTurdo Smellakowsky

MoffatTurdo Smellakowsky — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:14:17 +0000

Have never seen morale so low at ibm Research Triangle in North Carolina. Working here is like working with a bunch of zombies, the walking dead or semi-alive corpses. It’s like everyone knows their job is ending, just unsure exactly when. No one cares about what they are doing, everyone is complaining about management and record corporate profits while they throw cheap hot dogs at employees. If it weren’t so sad, it would be so funny. Please shareholders, keep buying ibm stock, it’s my only way out of here.

By: Payam Minoofar

Payam Minoofar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:02:27 +0000

Who talks about IBM, is what I meant to say, of course.

By: Payam Minoofar

Payam Minoofar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:00:22 +0000

You must be the only guy on the planet who take about IBM with his old mother. You guys got nothing more interesting to talk about?

By: GrapeWhine

GrapeWhine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:07:45 +0000

Have read on several other blogs that Moffat was a notorious bird-dogger, chasing tail around the world, on IBM’s dime, of course. Apparently, he was showing off for some hottie he knew through his co-conspirator, Diane Chiesi. That scenario would explain a lot. Now he’s got himself in hot water. As one blogger put it: “That’s one expensive piece of a**!”

By: StewBaby

StewBaby — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:50:57 +0000

According to ‘el Reg’ Moffat is gone now. They are quoting an intenal memo that someone sent them… gotta love the whistleblowers!

By: Tony H.

Tony H. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:18:12 +0000

“IBM could declare him innocent until proven guilty or they could write him off, but the fact they have said nothing at all means there are probably more shoes to fall.”

IBM has often been compared to a centipede; there’s always another shoe to drop.

By: ISC No More

ISC No More — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:54:35 +0000

Ego, sex or money. Pick one as we may never know for sure

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:19:20 +0000

What I’m not seeing is any speculation about why he did it. I have no idea what he earned, but it was surely a lot, and he surely was not making 10 times that much by selling information,,,I saw low seven figures for everyone in total. He’s universally respected (except by Bob of course), extremely wealthy, is doing important work he likes, and he blows it all…for what? What did he want that he couldn’t buy already? We’re talking weird here, not money. People three levels lower down in the food chain leak data; guys like this don’t.