The Mosquito Coast

There was a movie (and novel) following the same concept, "The Mosquito Coast," with Harrison Ford: genius gets tired of life at home, bails out, moves to Belize, and things work out well for a short time before turning nasty.

Playing games

Evidently this is Japan's latest games console, designed specifically for playing shiritori.

Finally something

At last Google is at least acknowledging the search spam problem. Now, will they do something about the keyword search spam sites and the shopping spam sites that I keep getting in my search results? Take care of that, Google, and you'll have gotten rid of most of the spam results that I've faced.

Euro-NANP

Seems like someone thought that the NANP is better than E.164.

NIH syndrome strikes again

So the requirements say that a method to asymmetrically authenticate a message is needed. There are several digital signature algorithms available, many within reach of a Google search. What do we do? We'll ignore decades of crypto research and invent our own signing algorithm, of course.

FC is better

"What small or medium company is going to set up a greenfield Fibre Channel SAN these days, when iSCSI is rampaging around?"

Given that it is cheaper and easier to buy a pair of Qlogic SANbox switches and set up zoning, than to buy a pair of decent wire-speed Ethernet switches and dick around with STP/QoS/trunking/VLANs/etc. to obtain equivalent performance, I'd say that any company that can crunch numbers without developing haemorrhoids would see the benefits of going the FC way.

As an Italian mum would say...

"Si non sopporta il calore, vattene dalla cucina."

Nobody will miss him.

I am disappoint

"... purged of hole that was under attack"

And here I thought that there was a Paris Hilton angle to this article.

Competition for LifeSize

I see this more as a competitor to LifeSize's Passport, which does only $720p and currently goes for $2k, but can do Skype video calls as well as H.323/SIP, is smaller, and doesn't require you to pay a pizzo. Either way, people aren't going to pay for HD video calls when free webcam video calls are "good enough," same as how MP3s, pirated DVDs, fast food, and Coors Light are "good enough."

Transformation won't save them

Blockbuster really needs to die. Now. With Netflix posting/streaming discs directly to the home, Redbox vending machines sprouting up at every grocery store and Wal-Mart with $1-per-day rentals, and online-only video sites like Hulu, Blockbuster really has nowhere to turn to now, not even the "miracle" that their strategerists are likely depending on. Even Hollywood Video saw it fit to keep its dignity and close up shop, and they were much better. Nowadays the only brick-and-mortar video rental places that are still thriving are the small chains and private businesses that carry old, obscure, weird, and/or indie movies, and/or porn.

Squint your eyes just a bit

You can make out an approximation of the outline of Mickey Mouse's head in the Magic Roundabout. I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that they took into consideration, especially given how so many people in Florida have never seen a proper roundabout.

Paris, 'cause she's a big fan of Hugh Wood.

Ignorance is bliss

"But Real reckons the problem isn't that people don't like Ring Back Tones, only that they have no idea what they are."

And yet people say that being ignorant is bad, here's an example of ignorance actually providing a significant benefit. It's just too bad that the beneficiaries are ignorant of the benefit, though.

Wasted opportunity

If they want to build a monument with giant balls as its most prominent feature, putting just a couple of balls next to the Gherkin ought to do the trick.

Minority Report

I'd hope that the glasses and implant would be keyed so that the implant would only accept signals from the appropriate set of glasses. How long until someone starts blasting video signals from a hidden high-power transmitter into a person's implants to inject adverts into the field of view?

Possibilities

So, if a woman wore a lucky bra over her Bulgarian airbags, she'd be almost invincible, right?

I bet Paris already knows the answer to that.

What's in a name

When I read "Cuban Linux" my first thought was to name it "Cunux". Alas, too bad that won't go.

Paris, for reasons that are self-evident.

Behind the times

Who cares about a single slice of toast -- give me the whole breakfast!

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html

Mobile apps

"[T]he ability to add apps has never been a killer feature for mobiles in the past outside of the enterprise."

Mostly because mobile phone companies require customers to agree to a dual-handed fisting before they're allowed to install 3rd-party apps on their phones. And pay an exorbitant price, too.

Thanks, Captain Obvious

Why does it take a scientific study to figure out what every self-respecting todger dragger already knows? My wife occupies 90% of the talking time in our house, and she's not even American. The article's title might as well be "Girls love to talk: Bloody Obvious".

Paris, 'cause she wouldn't carry a (very hackable) mobe if she can't talk on it.

@AC

"Didn't Germany build a wall at some point to stop economic migration (amoungst other things)?"

The Germans are likely more familiar with the Maginot Line.

Trenchcoat, please.