Posts by g e
2287 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 12:21 GMT
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Posted in McKinnon's mum wins human rights gong
Awful headlines
Now, if uk.gov bends over to the united states of americaland the headlines won't be
McKINNON EXTRADITION TO PROCEED
it will be
HOME SEC TRAMPLES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD WINNER'S SON'S FREEDOMS
and fkn right, too. Shallow, lame, feckless and cowardly government that it is.
Poor old Man-Made warming priesthood
No sooner does some Man-Made Eco-Warming Enviro-Quango get handed a fistful of Government money to help it keep saying things about Man-Made Warming so it can get more Government money... than some inconvenient scientist pops up with a theory as to why they're Not Entirely Correct...
Again.
If only Crapple hadn't behaved like a spoiled child in the first place
ahhhh hindsight, always 20:20
I Really hope this all backfires on Crapple to the tune of BILLIONS. Nothing like something very costly to slap humility into a corporation.
So. Like George Bush...
It's full of shit.
Posted in Angry Bird rockets into spa-a-a-a-ce!
What about Wheatley & co?
Space
Space space space
Wanna be in space
etc
Unique ID?
Which doubtless is tied to your iShop account and every single other thing you do.
All silo'd within Apple for certain.
And how transparent is this process made to the end user? How clearly and unambiguously is this behaviour outlined to them so that they may make an informed choice on opt-out?
Oh. Optout probably renders your jesus-thing useless for most of its 'popular' functionality.
They gave the Judge a free iFad2
He agreed to bias in favour of Apple. When handed the device he apparently said
OH WOW! OH WOW! OH WOW!
Sound like the ideal person
To go vs apple
@Dick Emery, Barbra Streisand
I was thinking that but, this is slightly different as it's not so much drawing attention to that which you want hidden which is the Streisand Effect as I understand it.
I move to coin the term 'The Apple Effect' whereby you damage your own prospects by setting out to damage those of others, a subtle difference and an irony I'm very happy to see beginning to take effect in a truly karmic manner.
Posted in Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum
Yeah, but a ROOTED Kindle
With Honeycomb or ICS installed...
That WOULD be attractive...
Posted in Compact Disc death foretold for 2012
I'll believe it when I see it
The majors make way too much on 'breakage' on physical media and I don't believe the expense of running a building full of lawyers at full steam has yet outweighed the cost of changing business model for them.
As said above though, fuck paying anything over bottom dollar for a lossy format. Mind you a good chunk of the crap that gets churned out is probably made with MP3-Super-Fly-Guy-Deck-DJ Free Edition and 3 crap VST plugins anyway, so it's lossy to start with ;o)
What's the betting they developed some godawful arcane DRM thing they're expecting manufacturers to fit to their gear to support it, demonstrating they STILL don't get life in the 3rd Millennium.
" increases a little in one direction and falls in the other"
Sounds a little like a static warp bubble.
I demand someone use this alpha effect to make warp speed now!
Posted in Apple’s top cop steps down
You assume that
Calderon is offering the settlement as opposed to crapple trying to get him to settle for a lucrative gag order which I would deem far more likely.
Privacy
I think the main point is that the sacked guy posted it with intentionally restricted privacy, something I think the court failed to give enough weight to.
Had it been an open post then it'd be a non-issue.
Being honest with customers
"Buy an iphone4s - the battery life is shit but we're working on it."
Two. Way. Street.
Actually
Wouldn't sacked guy have a case for intentional harm against lick-arse guy?
The argument that sacked guy knew crapple's policy on free speech also applies to lick-arse guy as he'd have known this would cause trouble for sacked guy. Hence intent.
Loss of earnings, emotional distress and costs, methinks.
Hope sacked guy is reading.
I've got a printout here from a Farcebook page
it reads:
Apple products are overpriced shit and it's hilarious how we can bilk the slavering Pavlovian fanbois for cash at every single product rev. Plus we stole all our ideas from Samsung.
Tim Cook
... here's hoping
Chances are that doesn't matter
The data will still flow to a US server which the EU has been assured by all and mendacious US sundry that DP laws will be observed while EU purchasing habits are sold to US companies which have operating bases in the EU.
Fucked all the same.
On second thoughts...
YOU'RE USING THE BATTERY THE WRONG WAY
Still FAIL though
I do hereby move
That Fanbois should be renamed FailBois
Cos every Apple update so far seems to have contained a fuckup-101 which, considering they have total control of the hardware should never happen.
Fail. Boys. (or 'Still Amateurs', your choice)
/nuff
Posted in Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’
Seriously. WTF?
This passed the 'is not utterly fucking obvious' test???
The sooner USPTO causes the US Economy to collapse under its own stupidity the better.
He was
By the sound of it
Posted in Zuckerberg's HTML5 Trojan horse play
Facebook. Mobile. SHIT NO
I killed Farcebook running on my HTC Desire and reverted al its updates and wiped its data and cache. Why?
Because every time I use it the serially untrustworthy social network causes the GPS icon to come up on my phone.
Thank you for showing me Android. Fuck you, Facebook for doing it without asking me first, every single time.
Posted in Android grabs quarter of tablet market
30% less share eh?
Maybe it *is* cheaper to use lawsuits to damage other companies' business after all.
Unless they backfire on you, at least.
That's rich
Coming from Steve Ballmer, the only thing in the universe currently able to do more damage to Microsoft Corp than Windows Vista.
Posted in Seattle superhero arrested for assault
Oh stop it puhleeeeas
You're all going off at a tangent
In other, less reported news....
The WBC loons forgot to point out that God Hates Haters too...
FFS, WTF?
The US patent system is so broken that it's actually a startup business model now?
&^$%&*^%*"&%" !!!!
Because there really are no expletives currently robust enough in the English language.
Maybe 'Patent Troll' itself should become the world's rudest insult, akin to 'Belgium in the Hitchhiker's Guide.
But then, what would you call a patent troll...? A *&%$&^%$&*"%, presumably!
Go buy a camera instead
Unless you think you should be able to make phone calls from a Canon D5 maybe
But
They do have the right to restrict access to their gaming network however they see fit :o/
Hang on though
If they're charging, say, 3k per site and Marriott have 100 sites.. I'd think 300k would be worth making a call to the legal dept before stumping up a cheque...
It only take Marriott & Holiday Inn, et al to have a word with each other and split costs for further savings, too...
These trolls are fkd... if not they should be. With something rusty.
Bricks of War
Can't help thinking that would have been better :o)
Top banana all the same!
A Mistake My Arse
No, I don't mean my arse is a mistake I mean
Ohhh you bloody well know what I mean :oD
Congratulations! You have a choice of prizes!
You're a winner!
You may choose from :
An Aston Martin
An iphone
Seriously, what moron would pick the poxy phone.
Posted in iPhone 5 to support 21Mb/s HSPA+ not LTE
They'll leave LTE out
Cos they need something to put in the iphony 6 so all the OCD upgraders will buy it
Gallardo? You JEST, Sir!
Sesto - Flippin' Elemento, mate, all the way! :oD (Should that be Sesto EloMental ?)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sesto+elemento&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=sqyFTtaTMMeFhQeB4dXVDA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=938
El Condor Pasa?
Iiiiiii'd rather be a sparrow than a snaaaiiiiilll
What about?
Do T-Mobile or Verizon currently provide iThings in Americaland?
What a serendipitous time to re-think that. Worldwide, even.
So in other words...
"a patch introduced by OpenSSL in 2002 to fix this very vulnerability was turned off because it introduced incompatibilities in software from Microsoft."
"This vuln should have been closed 9 years ago but wasn't because M$ couldn't fix their shit"?
Really????? Not that I'm surprised, mind you, but a public apology from Microsoft would still be nice, just because they'd hate to have to make it.
Two reasons I went Android
1. Can buy another handset and all my stuff works so long as it's Android
2. Really don't want to be associated with the demographic that buys apple stuff
Walled gardens have no doors
That's not consumer loyalty, it's the pain of moving away from a poor (imho) choice outweighing doing the moving.
There's quite a few appleistas in my current client's co have have looked at my Desire HD and said, hey, actually, that's a pretty nice phone, how well do you get along with it ? And these are gfx designers, hardcore appleistas.
Posted in Who owns 4G mobile technology?
So how many have Apple yet to sue?
One look at that diagram kinda says 'Sucks to be Apple, next year', seeing as they've pissed off most of those co's already.
Apple to countersue VIA
Cos their chips are rectangular with ickle roundy corners
It's actually qute good
It will likely force Apple to reveal design specs to peove (in apple's eyes) that they don't infirnge.
You know how apple hates spec leakge.
Then Samsung will probably wave some wireless patent at apple and tell them to go away and either write a very big cheque or stop making stuff that infringes their patents. Which is anything but a desktop computer and maybe the laptops.
Do you really think people like Samsung don't think sh*t through first or is that the best YOU could come up with ?
If anyone's been a bit hard of thinking it would seem (currently) to be apple themselves for thinking these tech giants would roll over on their say-so.
Almost
I think the phrase is 'countersuing' .. e.g. Apple started it.
P. B. O'B. surely?
Paddy Brendan O'Brien ?
Piracy
Don't you have to profit from it to be a Pirate?
In fact isn't it not-illegal to just download something (and not redistribute it)?
Yeah, old point, I know... coat grabbed
A pot meets kettle moment
"The copyright-holders argue that the law hasn't kept pace with technology"
*ahem* outdated business model *ahem*
