Posts by Raumkraut

Google Buzz

AFAIK Google Buzz wasn't a location play, it was/is Google's latest tribute to twitter.

Neigh dammit! *flog* *flog* *flog*

Lucas will do anything for the chance to squeeze a few more bucks out of the Starr(Wars)y-eyed fanatics.

I call statistics

From the police website:

"Three North Yorkshire Police officers spent four months sifting through six million images and found more than 62,000 indecent images of children and 1,585 similar videos."

Over SIX MILLION images. On an IT geek's computer. Unencrypted. You know what that says to me? Automated leeching. And of those SIX MILLION images, 1% were suspect. I call that a statistical anomaly, not systematic child abuse.

Let's assume he started downloading porn at, say, age 13. That's 500,000 images per year; 1,369 per day. Giving him 8 hours sleep makes ~86 images per hour; or 1.4 images every waking minute for the last 12 years.

Do they honestly think that he saw and downloaded all these himself?

Good on you, Microsoft.

Alas, I suspect it won't be enough. What are the chances that the next few similar raids will be instigated by someone "representing" Adobe?

Unless all these organisations only ever use Microsoft products (there's your conspiracy theory, folks).

More than 1000

Pre-orders for the first batch of 4000 were filled a long while ago, and IIRC they are currently taking orders for the second batch of 4000. All of which, they say. should be sent out by the end of the year.

Know your porn

Guy being hit in the nuts with a football = Slapstick comedy.

Naked guy being hit in the nuts with a football = Extreme porn.

People watch these genital mutilation things for the same reason they go to see Saw movies and the like: Some people just enjoy being shocked. And there are certainly also a great number of people who enjoy shocking others, and these are exactly the kind of people who would keep the clip around.

You never know when you'll get an opportunity to record another "First Goatse": http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/firstgoatse/

It's an iPad stand

Aren't there already 3rd-party articulated iPad stands, using which the end result is the same as this?

Lies!

Everyone knows that every app in the Apple App Store (AAS) is a gem of undeniable Jobsian brilliance! Otherwise, why would anyone continually use "total number of apps available" as an indication of value?

Bunch of iSluts

It doesn't say anything about the amount of rumpy-pumpy actually going on, just the amount of sleeping around (and perhaps prostitute use).

What that graph actually tells you is that Android users are more faithful than those with iPhones.

Am I missing something?

How is not being asked for your PIN more secure again?

The only reason I can come up with is that it reduces the opportunities for people to determine your PIN...

Three words: "Reality distortion field".

It's been shown that the value of companies decided by "the markets" has little to do with long or even short term profitability, but about rumour propagation and groupthink.

I would posit that Apple have such a high valuation because their customers - the market Apple are targeting specifically - includes exactly those kind of people who directly affect "the market". So they see the shiny, they fall into the reality distortion field, and end up worshipping at the altar of Jobs.

Think of the children!

"In all, he allegedly infected more than 100 computers used by approximately 230 individuals, at least 44 of whom were juveniles, prosecutors said."

So what they're saying is that these 44 juveniles had access to the infected computers, not that the perp elicited any material from them or had any desire to. From the article, it seems that he was only interested in 1 of the 2.3 people who had access to each computer.

AFAICT this is no more than the "authorities" cynically adding an emotive "think of the kiddies!" factor to sway the public perception against Mijangos: "Plead guilty and we won't add spurious kiddie-porn charges."

Implication is guilt in the court of public opinion.

New attack sites, or newly detected attack sites?

How do we know this flaw wasn't already being exploited in the wild, before the public disclosure? Isn't it only since the advisory informed people of what to look for that the security companies have been able to identify the attack sites?

Delayed reaction

Surely this just means that the health consequences of obesity only become apparent after 40, not that there are no consequences until then. I suspect that many of the problems are caused by long-term, gradual effects.

Sure, being a lard-arse may not be so bad *now*, but in 40 years you'll be on the horse tranquilizers, to cope with your chronic back pain. Unless you die of a coronary before then.

The rise of W

Perhaps the old logo was getting overshadowed by Wikipedia's use of a serifed "W"?

Durn whipper-snappers.

Charged with what?

He was charged with "making indecent images of children"? And put on the Sex Offenders Register? So did he actually take/create those images which he "downloaded" onto the victim's computer?

I would assume that this would have to be the case, were we not talking about a country so socially and legally steeped in paedohysteria.

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