Posts by mafoo

Wall Street Journal launches own WikiLeaks

prizes!

First person to get them to publish a made up story as fact gets a prize!

The more ridiculous the story, the greater the prize!

Maybe start with something about how the WSJ is trying to turn itself into a gossip magazine...

Star Wars: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife

or..

...they are going to digitally replace all the characters with ewoks...

Ubisoft to turn games into movies, TV shows

see->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA

Sony: 'PSN attacker exploited known vulnerability'

new executive-level security position

"in response to this that the company has established a new executive-level security position, that of chief information security officer"

ie: someone to blame when it happens again.

TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops

hahaha

"Take that Apple, we h4ve t3h skillz"

Google moves to extract more from Apps

deadline

It appears that anyone who wants the 50 free setup has until the 10th of May to set their google apps account up.

Sony unwraps Android 3.0 tablet pair

well..

According to the BBC:

"The company suggested that there would also be some form of integration with its PlayStation network and the possibility of gaming functions."

but they'd have to get the network working first ;)

erm

well, except Apple doesn't release them...

Dell refreshes Alienware laptops

OMG

Its hideous!

And someone has clearly spent a lot of time designing that. Why... WHY!!!

Amazon outage spans clouds 'insulated' from each other

Pocket Legends

The outage has also taken down pocket legends just as they as they started a free fought night promo.

There will be many a grumpy company as a result of this, i wonder how much compensation Amazon is going to have to cough up.

Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy look-and-feel

They didn't sue when this happened

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2188

Samsung shipped a phone with apple's actual artwork on as its own for the GUI. Many lolz were had.

Android, Steve Jobs, and Apple's '90%' tablet share

Erm..

One point that the author has missed here:

Phones are subsided, and cheaper phones = lower monthly contract fee, so android phones are very popular.

Most people who have tablets buy them without data plans - and apple is currently pretty low on the price:feature scale compared to their competitors.

So I don't see their dominance in the tablet market being eroded anywhere nearly as quickly as it was in the phone market.

I have a feeling that HP and RIM might be giving apple more of a challenge than any of the android competitors.

Air Video 2.4.6

"Buy from amazon"

erm, wtf?

Wanted: Nude female web coders

from their website

"While working you could be on view to members of the general public - enjoy the situation (these could become future customers)"

so basically this is a porn cam, with the option of clients getting their rocks off and a retro looking website to boot.

seats

I hope they get round to putting some plastic over those chars. The fabric will be ruined! ruined i tell you!

WTF is... 3D printing

Equipment Price

Evidently a lot of the patents covering the lasers-in-powder printing methods will expire in about 4-5 years so the price of equipment should drop around then.

The only downside is i don't see the size of the equipment shrinking significantly as the trough for the medium has to be as big as the object you want to make (in 2 dimensions at least).

Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions

File vs Establish

Look at the list of app stores(tm)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_distribution_platforms_for_mobile_devices

Apple used the "App Store" nomeculature and filed the trademark before any of the competition started using that name, let alone existed.

But its fun to watch Microsoft's hyprocracy in this field.

Nokia lobs more patent claims at Apple

one problem

Nokia just gave micro$oft their patent portfolio in exchange for Win Phone 7 (and a billion dollars from M$)

Steve Jobs screws my wife (out of $944)

i would go with...

...tickled

possible tickled pink.

Capitalism killed the Martians, suggests Hugo Chavez

Awesome

I hope Ken Livingstone invites his best mate Chavez back to London while he is campaigning for the mayoral election.

AT&T ends illicit handset tethering

"I pay for unlimited data"

Unfortunately they also signed a contract saying they would have to pay extra for tethering.

Damn sly telocs

Rift

"Regulos the God of Bran"

Is "Regulos the God of Bran" really in the game?

Does his high fibre content help stop you getting digestion problems...? ... keeping you 'regular'.

Opera betas open source web debugger

⌘ = the following

If your an old mac user ⌘ is pronounce "apple",

Otherwise 'splodge', 'thingy' or even 'command' are usable pronunciations.

Dim Brits think TARDIS IS REAL

The TARDIS is real!

It's parked outside Earl's Court tube station. Go see for yourself :P

BMI taken out by Anonymous

BMI

The title of the article did leave me briefly wondering why Anonymous would want to Hack British Midland International Airways.

Microsoft to Apple: 'Oh, yeah? Well, your font is too small'

Awesome

Awesome, just awesome.

From messiah to pariah: The death of open source on mobile

Erm

His objection was that the Apps have DRM, but the app was freely available through the app store anyway. The source code was available. This is in the spirit of the GNU licence, maybe not to the letter.

His need to stir up politics for his own amusement has seriously harmed the perception of opensource software.

Hilariously, the person who requested VLC be removed from the app store, Rémi Denis, works for Nokia. Now he has Win Phone 7 to look forward to.

Almost makes you believe in karma.

VLC

Apple took VLC down because of a copyright infringement complaint from one of the contributors to the VLC source code. Many of the other VLC contributors were pissed off by his move.

One person throwing his toys out the pram because he thinks he could make apple change their licence, buggered it for everyone else.

I don't know of any other ports of GPL software that have been by Apple solely.

Apple: If you're under 17, you can't use Opera

Except

Except that parents can go to [Settings > General > Restrictions] and turn safari off, thus preventing said porn browsing ankle biters from looking up wobbly bits.

I makes sense if you take a step back, considering that parents want to be more controlling than Apple.

Ten... fantasy swords you wish you owned

better yet...

... The sword of a thousand truths.

Julian Assange™ applies to trademark himself

pfft

He's just copying sarah pain

Asian soup peril menaces bionic shark

title

I think most westerners don't really care about shark fin soup - we haven't grown up with it as a delicacy, so have no inclination to pay £50 for a bowl of it.

Shark meat (from the body) tastes vile. The closest that people in Britain come to eating it is 'Rock Salmon" which is dogfish.

Apple vanishes Java from Mac OS X Lion

Could be

Yes, they could be scrapping it to save on licensing costs, but its early days for Lion - the pre releases tend to use different software update ids.

As far as I'm aware no one has tried using the package from 10.6 to install rosetta into Lion - it could give you an indication of whether they really mean to kill it.

Rosetta

I think Rosetta has been a download option for a while now. The first time you try and run a PPC binary it goes "You need additional software to run this program, would you like to download and install it now?" - or something to that effect.

Australians safe from Mortal Kombat

erm

bunch of Sheilas

Apple 'greed' tax spreads beyond music, movies, magazines

umm

delicious irony.

Acer in alleged Chrome OS monitor plot

humm

Have you actually used the abomination that is chrome O_o ?

clarification

Chrome OS that is.

Stay-at-home PayPal crook used stolen funds to buy gold bullion

yeh

hehe, yeh. It's been a long day. -.-

or..

Robbing Hoddie...

RIM boss: 'Our PlayBook shames the You Know What'

/facepalm

I was demonstrating that business contract providers charge extra for tethering, but whatever, go back under you bridge and troll someone else. You obviously live in a made up world.

/sigh do you research

search for tethering.

http://business.orange.co.uk/documents/ice/business/orange_for_business_price_guide__pdf__185_kb_.pdf

erm...

Have you seen the terms and conditions about tethering?

expect to pay an extra £15+ a month for the tethering - if its anything like blackberry's other service charges, it will be a lot more than that.

and..

"he talked about how the PlayBook does things the unmentionablepad doesn’t, and how those things will make money for networks"

...by not connecting to their networks directly, instead requiring a tethered/mifi blackberry or other mobile device. Hummmm....

Watson? Commercial – not super – computer

or worse...

the bbc have your say section /tremble

Steelseries World of Warcraft mouse and keyboard

Still

it makes me look like an idiot, not a sucker ;)

still, the basic keyboard which i plugs into is still £40 which still brings it in at almost half the RRP of the caty one. (the best deal for the reviewed one is around £87)

So even though I overlooked the fact that my initial post lists a naff replacement key pad, the point that they keyboard is a rippoff and is basically a clone of a product already on the market with a different sticker on it, is still valid.

is a sticker of a Dragon instead of a dranei and a bloodelf worth £45 quid more to you?

:P

thats because it is

Only sucker would pay £100 for that keyboard, and give it a 70% review rating.

considering you get the same thing with a different sticker on it for under £13.

http://www.game.co.uk/Accessories-Computing-PC-Accessories/PC-Games-and-Downloads/Keyboards/Zboard-Keyset-World-of-Warcraft-Burning-Crusade/~r332288/?s=keyboard&d=1z13fqu

TiVo calls time on ageing set-tops

legally...

Sadly there is no legal definition of 'lifetime'.

Amazon threatens Texas exit over tax bill

"tens of millions"

"tens of millions" < $265m

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

or..

"Operation 'Trojan Horse' complete Mr Ballmer. When do i return to the mothership?"