PayPal on Security?

This is so rich I just got the fuck­ing gout. PayPal actu­ally opin­ing Safari’s anti-phishing capa­bil­i­ties! PayPal, the com­pany that put phish­ing on the map, and is well know for gank­ing their clients’ dough. I’ve got a sug­ges­tion for Apple if they want to make Safari more secure…block PayPal.

Suggestion to Gawker on How to Fix the Consumerist’s Shitty, Shitty Comments

Ban every fuck who includes the phrase, “I don’t think we’re get­ting the whole story here.” and it’s vari­ants. Seriously, you’ll lose 80% of the com­ments, but the aver­age intel­li­gence of the remain­ing com­ments will go up by 800%, so it’s an over­all win.

Suck It Ionic Breeze!!

Ha! While, in this econ­omy, it pains me to see any com­pany in finan­cial prob­lems (mainly on account of the aver­age work­ers that will actu­ally take the hit). This makes me laugh. Who’d have thunk it, a busi­ness model based on sell­ing over­priced crap to morons with more money than sense isn’t doing so well. At least the CEO will be ok. I mean, think of the CEO’s!!!

More Dreaming From the Mac Blogosphere.

Sweet beer-battered Christ with a side of cole slaw. For the life of me, I’m try­ing to fig­ure out what the fuck this is sup­posed to be about. Seriously, what is the argu­ment here? That the AppleTV needs an abil­ity to play DVDs? I sup­pose that you can argue that, although I would place that argu­ment firmly in the “if wishes were horses” cat­e­gory. Anyone with two neu­rons to rub together can see that el jeffe Jobs couldn’t give two shits about let­ting us access con­tent that we’ve obtained from any­where other than the iTunes Store. But what, in the name of Cthullu, does the MacBook Air have to do with the price of whores in Reno. Or the digres­sion into the his­tory of Winamp and iTunes. Let me type this as slowly and clearly as I can. Here is Apple’s dig­i­tal media strat­egy in 2 bul­let points:

  • Buy shit from the iTunes Store
  • Play it on an Apple branded device (iPod, iPhone, Mac, AppleTV, etc)

That’s it. To para­phrase Jeff Goldblum, there ain’t no fuck­ing step 3. Apple has exactly one goal…make money for fuck­ing Apple. Notice how both points in

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Skepticism

Good syn­op­sis. Via the Bad Astronomy blog.