Posts by Jason

Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

I bet you still need 7 years Swift experience to apply

'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back

All of these "patent troll" companies should be defined as such in international law by default, until they prove they are not.

Norton Internet Security antivirus update 'borked Internet Explorer'

Quote

helpfully adding "Kindly stop using work-arounds."

Which singularly consisted of "Uninstall Norton and try anything else, seriously"

The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!

Re: @owen

You are correct, I saw multiple links to multiple snippets of non-news that my brain just barfed.

Sorry, iNews, iBarfed

Apple loses round to Amazon in 'App Store' name dispute

Fruit Store?

I don't understand why Apple haven't sued every fruit store in the world that sells Apples, for trademark infringement

Pandora boss urges 85% pay cut for musicians

The worst part is that the musicians have no option to remove their music from these channels, so they can be screwed into the ground.

Leave the commission as it is and given the musicians the right to have their music heard where they see fit.

iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'

Only if you hold it between the index finger of your right hand, and left big toe, to your left ear while standing next to an Apple store

Chronos EZ430: An SDK packing watch for real techies

Yup, me too

Luckily my birthday is coming up, so I can call it an early present

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 embraces - yes - HTML5

Someone is looking for a job @ MS

Quote : "Microsoft's efforts to improve Internet Explorer received support from web standards advocate Molly Holzschlag, who works for Opera. The forthcoming IE "will kick butt", she told Mix attendees at a workshop on Sunday"

Guess who will have a new desk next Monday?

I can't see other Opera execs being too happy with that statement . . .

Apple seeks OS-jacking advert patent

Dear God ....

Personally, I think that people here are thinking small,

what about projecting life insurance advertisements to people on life support machines that disables the function of the machine until they agree ....

Dial 999 on your phone and have to agree to 10% off voucher at Starbucks before you can connect ...

Start a presentation in front of your latest client, with the boss present, and have to purchase Viagra before you can get to slide 3 ...

Would you like to download the latest Codec, before you can launch that nuke ... Actually that may be a good thing.

I have a feeling that the next upgrade to the Mac OS (White Weasel, or whatever it will be called) may be free if you agree to a lifetime subscription of Encylopedia Wikipedia, hardback version

Apple lobs $100 credit at iPhone buyers

Stuffed apple?

You can find a recipe here

http://www.cooksrecipes.com/dessert/stuffed_baked_apple_recipe.html

I wonder what it feels like to be a lemming?

Early days of dial-up hacking recalled

La Différence

Hackers, pr0n and the protectors in the same venue, Vive la Différence. Looks like the only thing the has changed in 20 years in the speed of accessibility, no suprises there then :)