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Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:39:24

Check it (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/intel-acquires-mcafee-for-7-68-billion/).

Now, IIRC, our beloved moderator may have some personal interest here.  I would like to know what he thinks of the whole thing.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: timw4mail on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:43:33

Great, two companies I don't care for merging. :/

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:46:45

Maybe they'll merge it into a chip, and it might be able to run even half as fast as MSE for once...

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: TexasFlood on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:47:03

Quote from: itlnstln;214367

Check it (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/intel-acquires-mcafee-for-7-68-billion/).

Now, IIRC, our beloved moderator may have some personal interest here.  I would like to know what he thinks of the whole thing.

For $7.68 billion! dollars.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/2166775145_105df8a536.jpg)

Title: Intel to acquire McAfee
Post by: iMav on Thu, 19 August 2010, 13:28:47

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Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 19 August 2010, 13:32:36

Duplicate post (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11241).  Ban iMav.


Thanks for the vid, iMav, no hard feelings.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: TexasFlood on Thu, 19 August 2010, 14:08:40

I would think good news for McAfee employees. Overnight the stock up like 60% and McAfee gets a potentially huge competitive leg up against arch-rival Symantec.  Intel gets, well, better income than cash just sitting around and potential opportunities to address security issues in the fast growing embedded / mobile device market.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: iMav on Fri, 20 August 2010, 11:00:14

Quote from: itlnstln;214559

Duplicate post (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11241).  Ban iMav.


Thanks for the vid, iMav, no hard feelings.

What duplicate thread???  ;)

[McAfee hat on]
This is a significant milestone for Internet security.  There is no better partner that McAfee could have found than Intel.  They share our vision for security, they share our vision of a connected world, and working together we'll be far stronger globally and able to make a much bigger difference in people's lives.  Together we will secure the digital world.
[McAfee hat off]

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 20 August 2010, 11:04:42

So in other words we're all ****ed?

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: Lanx on Fri, 20 August 2010, 11:21:27

intel has/will implement cpu level virus protection, i even think there will be a chip dedicated to just virus protection on the MB for whatever purpose. Basically i think intel trying to put mcafee onto a chip! just like how there use to be the intel 386sx (w/o the fpu) or the 386dx(w/ the fpu)
like there'll be iCore7dx version!

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 20 August 2010, 11:59:42

Quote from: iMav;214951

What duplicate thread???  ;)

[McAfee hat on]
This is a significant milestone for Internet security.  There is no better partner that McAfee could have found than Intel.  They share our vision for security, they share our vision of a connected world, and working together we'll be far stronger globally and able to make a much bigger difference in people's lives.  Together we will secure the digital world.
[McAfee hat off]

Excellent marketing B.S., when do the _______ start?

Stock corporate euphemisms for layoffs, pick your favorite to fill in the blank above, feel free to add any I missed
Accelerated resource management
Adjusting to shifts in demand
Aligning costs with revenue
Become more fit
Corporate expulsion
Corporate out-placing
Corporate sabbaticals of indeterminate length
Cost improvement plan
Curtailing redundancies in the supply of human capital
Deciding to go in another direction
Dehiring
Displacing
Downsizing
Employee simplification
Fitness plan
Grandfathering
Headcount reduction
Inverted Growth
Job action
Just-in-time workforce scaling
Labor force rationalization
Letting you go
Normal involuntary attrition
Offboarding
Overhead reduction
Payroll adjustments
Rationalizing
Real-time market-responsive human resource shaping
Rebalancing the level of human capital
Redeploying into the general workforce
Redesigning
Reduction in Human Inventory
Re-engineering plan
Releasing skills to industry
RIF (Reduction in Force)
Rightsizing
Separating the Wheat From the Wheat That Doesn't Kiss Enough Ass
Simplification
Smartsizing
Streamlining
Synergy-related headcount restructuring
Terminating your position
Unpaid Vacation
Ventilation of the workforce
WFR (Work Force Reduction)

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: itlnstln on Fri, 20 August 2010, 12:50:09

That list is pretty funny, TF.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 20 August 2010, 15:15:22

Quote from: itlnstln;215019

That list is pretty funny, TF.

You want funny?  Here you go...
The Top 14 Euphemisms for Corporate Layoffs

14. Dissing the Gruntled
13. Improving the Odds in the Office March Madness Pool
12. Fueling Demand for Lottery Tickets and Malt Liquor
11. The Corporate Catch-and-Release Program
10. Giving You a Shot at Posting Your Very Own Negative-Growth Quarter
9.. Causing 404s on the Career Server
8.. Moving 1/3 of Your Workforce to Within a Dead Dog and a Cruel Woman of a Blues Classic
7.. Giving Bruce Springsteen Something to Sing About
6.. Issuing Transfers to Pets.com
5.. H.R. Ruffstuff
4.. Hiring a Bunch of New People, Only Backwards
3.. Ass-Harvesting on the Cubicle Farm
2.. Beaming the Red-Shirted Extras Down to the Evil Monster Planet

... and the Number 1 Euphemism for Corporate Layoffs...

1.. Separating the Wheat From the Wheat That Doesn't Kiss Enough Ass

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: itlnstln on Fri, 20 August 2010, 15:17:55

I like 13 the best.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 20 August 2010, 15:44:36

Virus protection on the CPU? That is just weird. And how would you go about updating it each day?

The CPU should always remain as a separate component and not integrated into anything. I hate non-standard parts.

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: didjamatic on Fri, 20 August 2010, 16:59:10

Good luck iMav, show 'em your security face:

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/Animated/Warface.gif)

Title: Intel Acquires McAfee
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 20 August 2010, 17:09:54

Quote from: didjamatic;215130

Good luck iMav, show 'em your security face:

Show Image

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/Animated/Warface.gif)

I bet iMav has a damn good security face, just needs to say the right things to new management:

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