The Angry Drunk

It seems the “Apple HDTV” has reached the point in the life­cy­cle of an idi­otic Apple prod­uct rumor where the blog­tards really go off the rails and begin to spout “spec­i­fi­ca­tions” for the uni­corn du jour. First we had the grand­pappy of this mis­be­got­ten idea, Gene Munster, spout­ing off at some con­fer­ence that he knew the price of the uni­corn. Next some lack­wit ana­lyst declared that he knew what sizes the uni­corn would come in. Unfortunately this stage of the rumor cycle is unavoid­able. It’s also one of the most infu­ri­at­ing stages; mainly because of the mind-fuckingly stu­pid shit that these magoos come up with.

Which leads us to today’s unfor­tu­nately titled post from John Martellaro at the Mac Observer titled The Operational Details of the Apple HDTV.

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Yesterday Google posted an arti­cle on their blog with the won­der­fully Orwellian title Greater choice for wire­less access point own­ers. Addressing the per­sis­tent con­cerns over Google’s prac­tice of gath­er­ing data on pub­licly acces­si­ble WiFi routers in order to bol­ster their loca­tion data­base Google has pro­posed a solu­tion. Of course this being Google it’s an opt-out solu­tion that 99% of the con­sumers pur­chas­ing a router will never know about. Worse yet, the “solu­tion” is pos­i­tively insult­ing to those who do know about it:

We’re intro­duc­ing a method that lets you opt out of hav­ing your wire­less access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point’s set­tings and change the wire­less net­work name (or SSID) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For exam­ple, if your SSID is “Network,” you‘d need to change it to “Network_nomap.”

That’s right, in order to pro­tect the pri­vacy of our per­sonal net­works Google wants us to mod­ify the net­work name to con­form to their arbi­trary stan­dards. I think that tonight I’ll be chang­ing my network’s SSID to “Fuck you Google you arro­gant assholes”.