Posts by WizardRobeAndHat

PS3s overheat after firmware update

All according to plan...

Sony would very much like to brick those old, pesky PS3s that do more than the current gen.

Apple pressures Toyota to kill jailbreaker ad

Why the jailbreak hate?

Apple should love me for buying loads in the App Store - why do they care if I get a few odds and ends for apps that received their ban-hammer?

Toyota plans major electric car roll outs

oh no. I read the title as thri-kreen.

Mine's the coat with the keys to mom's basement.

Mobile operators handed content billing blueprint

just give me VPN access

then I can be done with all the other tariffs.

Apple iPhone 4 vs... the rest

<3 WebOS

Good to see the mention of the Pre 2, I thought little WebOS was all but forgotten. The interface is brilliant --- my two cents.

Unix beardies vs. clean shaven DBAs

love that shirt....

Pure genius... solving the problem of children by giving them cancer.

Google claims Wi-Fi slurp legal in the US

theft?

Google stole nothing, these data transmissions were still presumably routed to the correct destinations. I do not see anything wrong with passively recording publicly accessible streams of data. It is no different than attaching a voice recorder to your head and walking around, catching drifts of conversations in which people are periodically volunteering personal details to someone else.

'Toothed' condom hits rapists where it hurts

re: but remember...

awesome, was waiting for the snowcrash reference :)

Google polishes its Microsoft browser

Chrome is only better at some things...

How does google frame perform at Flying Images browser test from Microsoft?

//Paris... because some might think she is a downgrade.