Who seems to wonder if its users may not be human? Who narrowly escaped the credit crunch? Who thinks free shipping is worthy of 5 stars? Take our quiz to find out.
You know the drill: Match the quote to the quoted then check your answers in the answer key.
The quotes1. "They're offering free shipping. Why isn't the score a 5.0?" 2. "We wanted to turn the user interface into a human interface." 3. "When you drive your car, do you only feel safe 26 percent of the time?" 4. "With a new Administration and Congress -- and multiple energy-related imperatives -- this is an opportune, perhaps unprecedented, moment to move from plan to action." 5. "For a couple of years, maybe more, people have had the suspicion ... that Skype pretends to be secure but actually isn't." 6. "Hackers always think nobody's looking on Saturday mornings." 7. "Some of our advisers said to us, 'Wait a few weeks,' and we said, 'We're not waiting an hour.'" |
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The quotedA. National Cyber Security Alliance executive director Michael Kaiser responding to a Symantec survey that found that only 26% of respondents believed their computers were very safe from viruses B. Bruce Schneier, the chief security technology officer of BT Group PLC, on news that a Chinese version of Skype snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy." C. Google on its $4.4 trillion plan to reduce the U.S.'s dependency on fossil fuels and embrace alternative energy D. Bryan Sartin, director of the investigative response team at Verizon Business, on successfully catching a criminal who was accessing customer data. E. Jo Harlow, senior vice president of marketing at Nokia, speaking at a launch event for the company's new touchscreen cell phone. F. Professional eBay Sellers Alliance Executive Director Jonathan Garriss blasting eBay for allowing buyers to rate sellers on shipping, something he says eBay can better measure with hard data G. Barry Diller on his splitting his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, into five publicly traded companies in late August |
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