What Professions do you think are Honest and Have Ethics?

Gallup has a survey asking people to rate the honesty and ethical standards of professions.

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The ones that caught my eye is journalists rate low in honesty and ethical standards.

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And newspaper reporters were lower.  Could this be a factor in why it has been so hard to monetize media?  And why users think news is a commodity?

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TV reporters have similar results.

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Demo'ing Mobile Software with Samsung Devices on the Mac

If you use Samsung devices most of the software was Windows only.  I could run the Samsung Software on Windows running in Parallels.  But finally Samsung has released the Mac version of SideSync.  What’s SideSync?  It allows you to share the Mobile screen to your PC/Mac screen with keyboard and mouse control.

Originally SideSync was a Samsung PC feature, but you can now download the apps for your non-Samsung devices.

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With SideSync I can now demo mobile software with video conferencing software that shares a desktop.  This is so much easier than trying to grab screen shots or be in person with a mobile device.  My favorite video conferencing is Fuze.  Thanks to Chris Crosby.

Here is a screen shot from my Mac with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen shared.

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Busy Week Next Week in SJ, May 20 - 22, 2014

I am from the SF Bay Area.  I was born in SF, raised in Saratoga, went to UC Berkeley, then worked at HP and Apple before heading to Redmond to work for Microsoft. Next week is part of my regular trips to the bay area to see friends and do business.

Here is a list of things I plan on doing.

  • Chat about asset management, mobile, cloud, operations
  • See Olivier Sanche’s family
  • See my family
  • Meet with friends at Facebook, Apple, and Google
  • Host a party with data center friends
  • Attend another party with construction friends
  • Meet random friends who are in town
  • Demo mobile stuff

Uptime Symposium Expo Passes are Open, except for me

I’ll be down in SJ next week meeting with some clients.  Uptime Symposium is going on at the same time and some friends asked if I would come by the booth to say hi and see their latest technology.  

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Sorry I won’t be able to attend the exposition given my work with others companies creates a "perceived conflict of interest” (451 Group’s word) and I am not allowed to register for the expo.

Unless I change who I work with I will not attending any Uptime Symposium events in the future. 

There is no impact because I can meet my friends away from the booth or see them at 7x24 Exchange in Boca.

EU's Demands on Google Search is the first step in Regulation

There is all kinds of news out there on how good or bad the EU’s action is on Google to erase search results.

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European Court Lets Users Erase Records on Web

New York Times-16 hours ago
The highest court in the European Union decided on Tuesday thatGoogle must, in some cases, honor requests from its search engine users to ...
 
 
 
 

If this does go away though, there will just be something else that comes back.  Why?  Because this ruling is just the first step in efforts to regulate the operations of a Google and other technology companies.  What comes next after a regulation is compliance which requires a disclosure of data.  This data can then be used to create more regulations and more compliance.

Consider this.  What ability does the EU have to control operations of Google?