* Posts by Bryce Prewitt

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Blockbuster winds itself into Chapter 11

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Perhaps.

That might be true of suburbs, but is one of the odd curiosities of small town and big city living: they both enjoy independently owned movie shops. Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Tucson and every other big city I've been in has at least one MAJOR independent player, if not a half dozen or more. Small rural towns, I'm talking population a hundred thousand or less a few hours drive from the nearest metropolis, almost always surrounded by ranch country, tend to have a Hastings and at least one pretty spectacular record store or movie shop. YMMV, but in my experience it's the suburbs that "bought into" Blockbuster the most (and Blockbuster themselves have attested to that being their primary market dozens of times).

As far as the $15 DVD at Wal-Mart... you pay $15 for DVDs? Come on, man. Wait like two months and they'll sell you three copies of the same movie for $8. THREE COPIES OF "ROMEO MUST DIE" FOR EIGHT DOLLARS!!!

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Cutting through the managementese.

OK, ignoring almost all of Jim Keyes's managementese (or would that be investorese?), the one bit that stands out as the biggest load of horse shit in a statement riddled with horse shit is his comment about Blockbuster being a "well established brand name".

I'm not really sure brand loyalty exists in regards to corporate distribution. They are a place where you go to rent movies. There is nothing exclusive about that. I can rent movies at Blockbuster, at Hollywood Video, at Movie Gallery or at any number of independent shops (that most likely rent pornography, too). Mainstream movie consumers only care about the cost and convenience of renting while supposed film snobs only care about cost and selection. Blockbuster fails at both and as such its name has become synonymous with "unwieldy overpriced inconvenient understocked understaffed brick and mortar has-been that hires high school AV club dropouts". They aren't like Forever 21 or H&M - you shop there because of their exclusive clothing lines - they're more like Target or Ross - you shop there because they offer the same clothes as other retailers at a cheaper price. Why get at Blockbuster what I can get from Netflix, Redbox and/or cable (though they are the next in line on the long "old media" fail train) for far cheaper?

They might have a well-established brand name, but I guarantee it's not with fondness that people think of Blockbuster. It cuts both ways, and there's no way in hell they will ever overcome the negative image they have seemingly so carefully cultivated.

Universities warn Willetts on science cuts

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Cut the police. Severely.

(This applies to the US, but I'm sure it applies to the UK, too. Slightly off topic, anyway.)

Cut the police. Sack a good lot of them. Fire literally every single cop who has ever done anything wrong. The same goes for politicians. Can the war on drugs, tell the Mexicans we'll take care of their cartel problem, give all of them citizenship and tell them to be nice or else, and start selling drugs legally with a huge tax on them. It'll certainly make us tons of money. (For you in the UK - Can the Eurofighter, tell the French we'll take care of their Roma problem for them, and launch them out of big giant cannons at any invading forces. It'll certainly be cheaper.)

Then simultaneously lower the cost of attending public university while raising the requirements to graduate. Offer incentives for kids to finish high school, such as a free pair of Doc Martens and a nice good head shaving (they're the twats who need to stay in school the most, yes?) or the likes. Disincentivize business degrees (not because I dislike business, quite to the contrary, I fucking love money, but business degrees teach you absolutely fuckall about business) and incentivize science, mathematics, history and arts degrees. Require high school level teachers to have Masters degrees but offer significantly higher pay so that it becomes extremely worthwhile to pursue teaching as a career. Tie teachers' pay and job security to their performance. etc.

I agree that this is sort of coming off like passing around the begging bowl, but cutting funding to education is never a good idea. Fire shitty teachers and professors, yes, so they utilize less resources and the good ones get more, but never, ever cut funding to an all ready flailing program, as you'll just guarantee it sinks further.

Bill would let feds block pirate websites worldwide

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The most obvious comment possible.

By blocking access to the most superficial means of piracy they will only force people to learn more technical avenues of piracy - almost all of which will be more difficult to track and enforce copyright law against. The side-effect of this will be that developers will seek to make it easier for people to pirate while making it more difficult for the government to track them. Everybody loses, even the corporations.

Software re-sale restricted by US Court of Appeals

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Distinctly the 9th

Don't worry, everybody. Considering this was a 9th Circuit decision and they are overturned by the Supremes 75% of the time then there is a good chance this won't stand.

It seems almost as if they even specifically worded their decision TO be overturned - ie "we don't write policy" is just gagging for it.

IANAL, but only on Sundays.

Email worm wants to party like it's 1999 (almost)

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Litmus Test

Hey, considering the creators of this worm are providing us with a (free!) valuable (free!) resource (that's free!), why not take full advantage of this situation and use the worm as a litmus test whose outcome decides whether or not a person should be allowed on the internet?

Really now, do YOU want somebody on YOUR internet that (1) opens unknown attachments (which is bad enough) and (2) surfs without virus protection (despite being a complete and utter tit)? No, of course you don't! So, do your part: if you know a friend, family member or "colleague" that has been struck by the "Here You Go" worm, give them a hearty handshake, thank them for their time and then chuck their computer out the window to the skip waiting below.

In fact, you could probably go ahead and chuck them into the skip, too, as if they don't have enough smarts to not go poking around without protection online, they're probably poking around with protection in other places, too. (ahem)

Google pulls trigger on 'Instant' search engine

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Unhappy

"One million times the information stored in all the libraries in the US..."

...almost all of it useless. That's the real headline here - not this crap about Google's new "Instantly Find Even More Spectacularly Irrelevant-to-your-Search Results" feature.

I remember when I had high hopes for the (all-encompassing) internet. This isn't rose-tinted glasses talking - I remember full well how awful Usenet was _even before_ Eternal September - I just can't help but think that, despite the fact that we have nearly limitless access to information, most of it is far more useless (and quickly becoming harder to find, especially in regards to correct, relevant info) than that which we could find by stepping into a library or by picking up a phone and calling an expert on the subject. I hold no illusions here - people probably spent more time playing MUDs back in 1990 than they ever did writing scripts to calculate new and infinitely higher prime numbers.

Perhaps it was just the fact that we were all interacting with a newborn technology that was constantly changing and constantly being innovated. It's fairly safe to say that a lot of semi-underground pop culture felt the sea change coming - look at how deeply invested in concepts as abstract as the world wide web and the internet books like "Neuromancer" and "Snow Crash" were. They had all the hope in the world, as did we. I think every engineer who reads The Register can remember the days when we all hoped that every home would have a computer in it, so that mom, dad and little Timmy could get online and better their lives through free access to education and information, where all three could communicate with friends and family across the world and talk to new, interesting and often times strange people in other countries. What a great concept.

Too bad it got proper fucked. You know what you can do for me, Google, instead of finding ways to make your homepage utterly unusable shite? Create the metaverse and let me ride a virtual motorcycle down to a virtual library where I pull out from the shelf one of the millions of public domain books you ripped off, at which point I'll likely find a far better written, far more concise and far more useful answer to my question than any of your fucking "results" are likely to provide these days.

Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic

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Fin

No.

Twitpic pulls 50 Cent bum burger snap

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euro anthem trance and ambient/downtempo

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We're supposed to care what you think... why?

Java daddy says Sun engineers ran 'goofiest patent' contest

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WTF?

Are we speaking the same language here?

I'm fairly sure, damn near positive in fact, that I'm not the one misunderstanding or failing to comprehend anything in this situation.

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Huh...

@ Ian

First you wrote:

"If Google wanted to challenge the patent on the grounds of prior art, then they should have done so to invalidate the patent."

Then you wrote:

"I am not advocating anything in terms of how to defend against patents."

Oh! I see! It's all completely clear now. Oh, wait, except the opposite of clear.

"I am not advocating anything..."

"If Google wanted to challenge...then they should have done..."

Oh, oh wait...

"...in terms of how to defend against patents."

"...challenge the patent...they should have...[tried]...to invalidate the patent."

All right, I got it, I got it now! Shit, I lost it.

Somebody please help me here, I'm obviously dealing with somebody from the Ministry of Truth.

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@ Lou

I'm not really sure what it is that I said you disagree with. It wasn't my statement, it was Ian's. He was saying that Google should have known well in advance that Oracle was going to buy Sun and acquire Java and use any acquired patents to troll for cash, then (deep breath) Google should have proactively attacked the patent office for issuing idiotic patents, SPECIFICALLY the ones that Oracle were going to sue them over.

The logic. It is flawed.

While I too think software patents are absolutely ridiculous the concept that a company should predict the future and engage a bureaucratic government entity in what equates to a land war in Asia instead of gambling on their lawyers skills in court is absolutely ludicrous.

If you want to talk about a system that diverts resources away from legitimate R&D, imagine a world where software companies are actively trying to get each others patents nullified by the USPTO because there's the risk that someday somebody might sue someone else. That concept is an even bigger joke than software patents themselves.

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obtuse

You're advocating that a company's best defense against patent suits is to hire an army of lawyers to permanently go to war against the patent office. That instead of dealing with accusations of infringement on a case by case basis.

Gee, Ian, I can't possibly understand why Google don't just hire you to fight Oracle for them!

Firefox 4 beta gets Sync and Tab Candy Tab Panorama

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Is opening a new window too hard?

We've been given this most absolutely fabulous of devices known as a brain which is empowered with the most amazing ability to sort, organize and multitask

Now, with that in mind, Firefox has, since its beginning, allowed multiple instances to be run at once. I know, I know, I'm committing heresy by insinuating that perhaps we should - shock! gasp! - use our operating system as intended, but perhaps we could put just a tad bit of our superior intellect to work and... organize windows based on intended tab subject. For instance, I'm looking at The Register, an article reminds me that I want to research SLRs, I open a new window and then a tab to Wikipedia, then a new tab to Google to search for DSLRs, then tab out whatever shopping links or reviews from them.

Again, heresy! Of course, it could be said that Firefox could be dedicating its UI designers to a vastly more useful purpose, like unfucking just about everything they've been doing since Firefox 3, but I'm deathly afraid of what they'd do to actual code written by real programmers... if Firefox could be said to have any of those anymore.

Please don't mistake me for an Opera fanboy - those guys really get on my tits - but Firefox has been suffering from a self-inflicted syndrome, that of being a keystone predator. It hasn't had any natural enemies until Microsoft stepped up IE in the last year, and they've gotten lazy. They're well funded by Google and can shove out all the shitty, bloated code they want because there was no alternative (yeah yeah, sod off fanboys, nobody cares).

The lack of tabs was a legitimate problem, as was that of plugins running within the same process as the browser. Misuse of tabs isn't the fault of the operating system or browser, it's one of the few true instances of PEBKAC.

Secret X-37B space plane lost by sat-spotters for 2 weeks

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Well now, that's amusing.

Latin America isn't a continent.

LG touts 'surprisingly productive' iPad killer

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The best way to differentiate yourself from Apple.

One would think that the best way to differentiate yourself from Apple would be for your product to be exactly like one of Apple's in nearly every way but far cheaper. It would have a slick design, intuitive interface, useful applications, would "just work", "won't" crash, wouldn't be locked down and would, conceivably, be half the price or less. Again, everything an Apple product is but better and cheaper. Not sure why this is so damned hard these days, but it apparently is. Even Microsoft, who made their fortune by ripping off Apple software and letting people put it onto cheaper machines (yes yes, I know it's far more than just that, but it's also not wrong), can't seem to do it anymore.

To use the mp3 player example, the Zune was a spectacular failure because it couldn't do anything it set out to do well. Sure, the lack of iTunes sync sucked, but the god-awful software, small storage sizes and the fact that the interface made doing just about anything on it only slightly less difficult than using a punchcard machine are what killed it.

I hope LG manage to pull this off and at a decent price, too. You sell a (fairly precise) multitouch tablet for ~$400-500 that can either interface with DAW software (and act as a "mixer" frontend) or is useful as a DAW in its own right and you'd sell them like hotcakes. It's what Wacom is trying to do, but they forgot the whole "being cheaper than their competitors" part.

Schmidt: Erase your identity to escape Google shame

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The obvious answer here is...

...that the Wonder Twins never should have hired Eric Schmidt in the first place.

Surely they're just biding their time until Google invents a Time Machine and erase him from their corporate history. Actually, they could do that all ready, they'd just need to speak with some old Soviets about the process...

Alleged pirate fingered for filming film at Harrow flicks

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Wow.

This post is almost as bad as that time you failed to completely comprehend how evil Google was. ;)

Beatles on iTunes? 'Don't hold your breath' says Yoko

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QED

"Quite a few of the albums include a lot of crap that no one will buy if they don't have to. Instead of selling 6 albums they will sell 10 tracks. They days of fluffing up 3 tracks with a bunch of crap and calling it an album are over EMI."

So... what were you saying again?

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10 listenable tracks on 6 albums?

Oh, I'm just gagging to know what those ten tracks are and on what six albums they're on. If you can point me to one Beatles album that is more than a 4th filler then I'll eat my hat. I say this and I'm not even a card-carrying member of the Beatles fanaticism club.

The Beatles were one of those rare bands whose b-sides were even better than their a-sides, and their a-sides were light years beyond anyone else's.

Look, you can dislike the Beatles all you want, but don't start prattling on as if your opinion is accepted fact. The Beatles are to 20th century music what Mozart was to classical composition. It's time to accept that and move on - the fact that you don't like some of their tunes isn't their problem, it's yours.

I'm not even going to fucking touch that "new and improved" bit. You don't even listen to music, do you?

US appeals court bashes warrantless GPS tracking

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Only a matter of time til it goes to the Supremes...

...whereupon, seeing as how the appeals court made a fairly level-headed decision, the decision will be summarily rejected with little, if any, explanation, thus allowing a further expansion of the government's all ready dubious-in-necessity powers of surveillance and secrecy.

Kafka gets more real every day. The appeals court rules that the FBI needs a judge's signature to track somebody via GPS, congress passes a law creating a secret court of judges that automatically sign off on any warrant handed to them. Don't believe me? Happened all ready - FISA in '78 and its expansion of power in the mid-80s.

This ruling is a victory, but a hollow one. The fact that the judiciary believe that they have any power whatsoever is laughable at best and dangerously naive at worst.

Boffins authenticate Apple 'Antennagate'

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Really?

So, a phone company says new phone is greatest thing since sliced bread, buy it, it's really really good, and you somehow don't think they have a vested interest in doing so, honesty be damned?

Come on, really?

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It's free publicity.

iPhone 4 reception issues are a hot topic right now. This little video is guaranteed to get them more attention (see: free advertising) than probably anything else they've done in their history.

It's pretty tinfoil to believe that someone paid them for this. PA Consulting has more to gain from this video than Apple does to lose - and I hope you get what I mean by that statement. I'm frankly surprised nobody thought of this earlier. This is about as Business 101 as it gets.

Apple spews Judas Phone signal bar 'fix' to world+dog

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Fail and You.

If ever there was a time, place and topic for Ted Dziuba and his "Fail and You" column to cover it would be now, in the Register and on the iPhone 4 debacle.

I've no idea why he and El Reg parted ways, but this would be a hell of a time for a reunion.

Mozilla stokes Firefox 4 with first beta build

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Lock + Key

Can someone please put the Opera fanboys back in their box?

'It's as though I've got Jonathan Ive's personal tool in my...'

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Oh, deary me

Are we sure this article doesn't fall foul of any obscene publications laws?

I think I just cummitted a thought crime!

Linux game-time refined with latest Wine

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GIMP != Photoshop

You see, your argument falls terribly, terribly flat here as GIMP has the single worst user interface of any program ever.

Whatever happened to the email app?

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I love Pegasus Mail, but not David Harris.

I love Pegasus Mail. I think it is a fantastic program.

My problem is with David Harris. I have considered supporting him before as anyone who offers up a quality product deserves to be paid for it. Unfortunately, David's a whinging crybaby. Over the past decade he has offered upgrades at a pitiful pace, which is bad enough, but then goes on to cry about not "getting paid enough for it". His recent letter, detailing how he would like 1,000 supporters a _year_ EACH donating $50 USD just to continue development without detailing any sort of roadmap or release timetable is ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS. A request for a guaranteed income without a guaranteed delivery of a product is easily one of the most arrogant things I've ever heard of from an independent software developer. The fact that Pegasus Mail has remained largely unchanged (except under the hood) for the past decade further adds to David's arrogance. Add in that he has spent the last couple of years rewriting Pegasus Mail's core code because he hasn't kept up with modern techniques and compilers and it all comes off as a guy who wants to get paid NOW what he didn't in his glory days.

My heart goes out to him in many ways, though. It's hard to be a lone Shakespeare making a living off your work when you have a million monkeys with typewriters trying to replicate what you've done and give it away for free. I wholeheartedly agree with his thoughts on open source and am very glad he has not released his code for free. Unfortunately, instead of manning up for the hard sell and convincing us all that his product is worth it, that he's deeply invested in its future and that he cares about us - the end user - he's chosen to throw himself a giant pity party.

If Pegasus Mail 5.0 comes out before the end of this year then I'll join his "Pegasus Mail 1,000" and send him $50. If not, he'll never get a dime from me and, I suspect, many, many, many people who have grown tired of his charades. You want to get paid $70,000 NZD a year SOLELY to develop Pegasus Mail then you had damn well better develop it and communicate with your NOW _PAYING_ CUSTOMERS.

Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe

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How about legalizing online gambling?

You know, then all the poker sites don't have to operate overseas and use sorta shady "banks" to provide deposit/withdrawal services.

Our government is fucking "retarded" sometimes.

Google fined for book copyright

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Mind the undertow.

This was sarcastic, right?

How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes

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Heart

Nice article.

One correction, though:

Microsoft were never as evil as Google are.

Still, a great read and a very nice summation of this decade. Every other magazine in the world is deriding the 2010s as the worst decade since WW2 and its very nice to see that IT didn't quite follow that trend.

Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy

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Are they even trying to hide their true intentions anymore?

Seems to me there is at least one article a day where someone from Google - mostly those at the top - make themselves out to be more insidious than, more omnipresent than, more self-important than Big Brother.

The best part about this whole deal is that when Google finally comes crashing down - and they will, soon - it will be the most spectacular (and dirty) meltdown the world's ever seen.

I'll advocate it: someone needs to hack Google like they hacked CRU. You can bet that would take down more people than just a bunch of pompous climate "scientists."

Google expands plan to run own internet

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What's studiobriefing.net?

Hey guys, so, who can't wait for Google to tell me what does and does NOT exist on the internet? Why of course, Google, you couldn't have shut down studiobriefing.net because it never existed in the first place - at least according to you!

Repeat after me: Too much control in one place. Too much control in one place. Too much control in one place.

People don't seem to realize that dystopia exists NOT because it was forced down our throats but because WE ASKED FOR IT.

Google is evil. Government is evil. It's time we throw our cards in with the less evil of the two to stop the one that is truly venomous. It's just far too bad that Google has Obama's ear - looks like it'll take the Big "G"s that make up the European Union to split Google at the seams.

Eat my dust - it's time for Comment of the Week

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Thank you for that.

I've been barking up the "TeeCee is easily one of the most inane commentards on The Register" tree since comments were first enabled.

Thank you. My only regret is that I am sure he will wear this as a badge of honor and redouble his efforts.

Wii HD coming in 2010, claims mole

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@ TeeCee

"Capacious"? Every post you write on this site really gets on my tits. Good God, man! *THINK* before committing your atrocities against the Queen's English to the internet for all to see.

Ares 1-X booster rocket dented in test flight

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Video.

How is it that NASA still can't deploy a fully functioning video system? The Discovery Channel and Mythbusters and Co. can stick a prosumer digital camera a couple dozen feet away from a metric ton of TNT and it'll not only survive the experience but come out of the ordeal never having lost the feet.

WTF, NASA?

Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming

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Boffin

Good to see groupthink isn't a dying art.

After all, none of us are as smart as all of us.

Did the FCC bribe US carriers on net neutrality?

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FAIL

Your dictionary seems to be incorrect.

The last time I checked, Bill, this is the definition of "compromise," not "bribe."

UK, France mull Photoshop fakery laws

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WTF?

There's no law against bad taste, is there?

"Vocalists' song stylings are pitch-corrected"

Poorly, I might add.

Ten sizzling gizmos survive economic nightmare

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The horror, the horror

"These glasses might even make the prequel watchable."

No.

Opera stretches vocal cords with v.10 release

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Flame

@ MarkOne

I've been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading "The Register", masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!"? Yeah. Do you guys do that?

Gmail in massive web outage

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Dear Google,

Please fix GMail and Google Maps. They have both become ridiculously slow and are prone to frequent downtime. I am sure this is because of GFS, in which case I'd say you're making the same fundamental mistake as Apple in the late 90s and Microsoft with Vista: pissing off customers because your software is unreliable and you're acting far too slow to fix it.

Chop chop.

Sincerely,

Your "Customers" - in quotes because it's not like we pay for anything, is it?

Poor porn protection hurt Firefox 3 uptake

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Missing the fucking point.

Hey, Mozilla, what's really annoying about the "Awesome bar" isn't that it tries to fetch bookmarks, too!: it's that instead of coming up with "theregister.co.uk" when I start to type "there" it will come up with _all_ instances of "there" in my history or bookmarks - "there" in the title of a webpage, "there" in the url, "there" in the description, anywhere "there" could be found.

This is stupid and horribly inefficient. I'm sure you think you're doing everyone a favor and, perhaps you are to the idiots out there that still "bookmark" favorite locations in real life based on that funny looking tree, but you're making browsing a living hell to the rest of us out there that have long since evolved past such a need.

Allow me to turn back the "awesome bar" to the way it was in 2.x. When I start to type in "www.ther" you'd better return "www.theregister.co.uk" and _NOTHING_ else!

Dan Brown is most unwanted author says Oxfam

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Speaking of DOS...

Just this past winter, in one of the blue line subway stops just a mile outside of downtown Chicago, I found a pristine copy - looked like it'd never been thumbed through or read - manual for DOS 6. I flipped through the pages for any hidden messages - alas, none.

Maybe someone was kindly taking it to the charity shop before realizing no one in their right mind would ever read a DOS manual.

A quarter of Brits packing multiple mobiles

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Don't you mean "mobes"?

Passersby were amazed by the large amounts of mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes, mobes...

Rogue iPhone app stores raking mazuma

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I believe the word you are looking for is

"sprung."

Landlord sues tenant over moldy Tweet

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FAIL

@Aaron Em

tl;dr

Spotify: iPhone sideloads for £120 a year, unlimited

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Wouldn't denying the software constitute

abuse of their position as a monopoly that has total control over what software you "legally" put on your iPhone? They'd basically be denying a competitor equal access. Not good.

Windfarm Britain means (very) expensive electricity

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Nuclear isn't finite.

Keep up with the times you luddites. Nuclear isn't finite, hasn't been for years - read up on breeder reactors - and even if it was, we've hundreds, if not thousands, of years worth of fuel.

Stop creating excuses to send your country back into post-war austerity.

Apple sued over shrink-wrapped Mafia death threats

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Badgers

Oh no! Someone made a funny at the expense of a loon!

Cry me a river.

You crybabies are worse than youtube sometimes.

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