Posts by Rob

Dwarf superglues todger to hoover

@ James Pickett

The hoover runs on electricity, therefore clearly falls within the realm of technology reporting, not to mention that superglue is pretty fancy stuff as well, the dwarf can be seen as an incidental but welcome addition.

Amazon throws cash at MySpace-ified music startup

turned to the dark side already..

"we flew out to Seattle, where we met with Jeff Bezos and the Amazon team and talked about the music business"

"We spent a good amount of time on the peer-to-peer networks growing up, when you could steal music from AOL chat rooms"

sounds like it's too late for them allready.

Google: Kill all the patent trolls

Corporations are not people

I personally feel that corporations should not be treated as entities in their own right, they are groups of people and should be held accountable as such, regarding patents, misdemeanors, everything.

It might make people act a bit more responsibly in the end.

Gaming 4G warfare for the USAF, with rayguns

warmongers

This bit made me laugh:

"..that enables them to cut out with surgical precision the cancer that threatens us all: heat-packing humanitarians who leave the innocent unscathed"

Ah, those crazy americans

eBay rethinks firearms policy

they didnt already?

surely: "firearms, ammunition & parts" on the list of things you can't sell covers it?

it just seemed odd that they'd feel the need to list every part by name..

BBC iPlayer launches, but with limited viewer reach

Free Easy & Cheap

They could have just released torrents of their programmes in .avi format,

it would be really cheap if not free to produce avi's, everyone and anyone could get them, in line with the freeview PC card method, as mentioned above.

Seems like everyone's a winner that way

But as they apparently have to have DRM, the only conclusion has to be that they somehow profit from making us watch certain programmes at certain times, so it's got to be either product placement (felt any unusual shopping urges lately?) or, subliminal messages relevant to some current event..

mm, friday beer

Virtual narcs boot Second Life casinos off the island

Gambling = Bad?

What's so wrong with gambling anyway? -I'm not a fan myself, but if someone chooses to spend their money that way, why is that more wrong than spending it on books or wine or something?

Microsoft in ads deal with Digg.com

What ads?

That seems a bit fruitless these days when adblock catches pretty much everything, The web's one of the few places in the world you can actually get away from ads these days. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)

Although the google text ads are not so intrusive as to make me go to the effort of blocking/removing them, what's the bet that MS is going to go more for the flashy flash epilepsy inducing type of ad..

AllofMP3.com owner faces jail time

RE: Funny isn't it....

Looking at these arguments about money and music makes me wonder how long ago it was that people made music for the love of it, and were glad that anyone even liked their songs enough to listen to them, let alone liked it enough to go to a concert.

But then I suppose that back then the musicians had day jobs. Nowdays it seems that anyone who gets in the charts expects to be able to live off the proceeds.