So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?
I work at AT&T Labs, and yes we generally get informed via an email with an attached press release.
a tangent: May I ask what AT&T Labs does?
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#12So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?
There was a note on their web page at least as early as yesterday saying essentially the same thing as above.
I think he was commenting on the lack of AT&T composing an actual email for employees instead of just attaching the same press release that they put out to the public.
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#13A slight inaccuracy, 4chan is moderated, even the "unmoderated" parts. Linky: http://www.4chan.org/rules
As far as I know, the 4chan /b/ (random) board is only moderated to the extend they're minimally required by law such us banning underage users (as it's an adult board) and removing child porn.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work at AT&T Labs, and yes we generally get informed via an email with an attached press release.
a tangent: May I ask what AT&T Labs does?
R&D in alot of different areas. Probably more famous when we were Bell Labs and came up with things like the transistor, coaxial cable, Unix, C++, Radar, Radio Astronomy (Echo of the Big Bang) etc but more recently research has been focussed on communications and networks.
My team reports up to the CSO for AT&T and are prototyping different tools and solutions that ICDS (The AT&T CDN) can offer their clients, we are building an application he can use for his virtual security conference at the end of the year. We also work closely with the Mobility Security Research team, they actually have a fully functional test cell site in the building which is kinda cool.
Most of the stuff my team does is not externally visible, but we did build this little site to start showing some of the decades of content AT&T has (Though its not primarily what we do). http://techchannel.att.com/ I like the Tech Icon series, good interviews with Bill Cheswick and Cliff Stoll.
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#16A slight inaccuracy, 4chan is moderated, even the "unmoderated" parts. Linky: http://www.4chan.org/rules
As far as I know, the 4chan /b/ (random) board is only moderated to the extend they're minimally required by law such us banning underage users (as it's an adult board) and removing child porn.
You are almost correct but it's not entirely without rules, 4chans /b/ people keep saying "bring back snacks" where snacks are referring to the ban on:
* "Post ending in x"
* Gay porn
* People seeking attention but not "putting out"
Refence but keep in mind the common sense thing is to not click encyclopedia dramatica links if are at work or want to avoid knowing useless things: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Bring_Back_Snacks
For the record I don't actually visit 4chan, I just happen to know this out of sheer morbid fascination.