By The Angry Drunk
…that settles it. I’m no longer in the market for an AppleTV. MacMini HTPC here we come.
By The Angry Drunk
So, CanSecWest ran another one of their “crack shit and we give you prizes” contests and surprise, surprise, the MacBook got cracked.
Ok, before we get this ball rolling let me make something clear. I’m not a security expert. I’m not looking at this as a security expert. I’ll leave that to people much smarter than me. So, having said that, anyone who attempts to question my security expertise in way of rebuttal will be shot.
I hate these sort of competitions, because they are just theater. And, while one could make the argument that competitions like this help spread awareness about computer security, I’d argue that they don’t. Here’s why.
The problem with competitions like this is that the tech media, and the hordes of mouth breathing commenters / forum retards never seem to take away the important message. Instead we usually get breathless hyperbole (note, I’m specifically not accusing Macworld of that. I linked to them because they were the first story about this that I had open).
Whenever one of these stories breaks, you can be assured that the bulk of the responses will generally fall into one of two buckets.
The MacMacs will inevitably come out
Continue reading Jimmy Crack Mac and I Don’t Care
By The Angry Drunk
The short story is, I’m impressed. I’m also honestly surprised that Apple went ahead and addressed the sheer number of whiny nerd complaints that they did. More commentary, and commentary about the commentary to come.
By The Angry Drunk
In the interests of being lazy, I’ve decided to install the Disqus comment system. I’m sure someone somewhere will have a problem with that, but frankly I don’t care. You all can still post anonymously in order to tell me what a horrible person I am, but now you’ll also have the option of using your Disqus or Facebook credentials to insult me as well. See, it’s a win for everyone.
By The Angry Drunk
A few days ago my esteemed comrade John Welch wrote up a very insightful post about the issues surrounding the Amazon Kindle’s text to speech features and Author’s Guild response. I’m not going to revisit the specifics of the situation. If you’re unaware of them go and read John’s post, but I did want to add some of my thoughts in the form of a historical parallel that seems to be getting missed in the discussion so far.
By The Angry Drunk
Yeah, I know, it’s not exactly a shocking revelation; but every now and then Scoble comes up with something that makes even a battle hardened veteran of the New Media Douchewars like myself sit back, shake my head, and go “huwazat?!?”
In this particular instance it’s a bit that Robert wrote regarding the Facebook Terms of Service Copyright Landgrab. Linky here. Here’s a quick review, for those of you with actual things to do with your time. Recently Facebook posted a change to their Terms of Service that said, in essence, you are giving them a permanent and irrevocable license to all content that you post to Facebook and that Facebook can effectively use that content in any way they see fit.
I’m not going to comment on the specifics of the situation; mainly because I don’t care, and this sort of crap is exactly what I expect of an outfit like Facebook. But I am going to comment on Robert’s reaction; because I think that reaction is a prime example of what most of us already know: Robert Scoble is completely out of touch with reality.
Robert’s reaction can be summed up in one quote from the
Continue reading Scoble Just Doesn’t Get It
By The Angry Drunk
In the Retarded Zealot Hall of Fame there is none loftier than Paul Thurrott. He has achieved a level of absolute inanity that is unparalleled by any MacMac, freetard or New Media Douchebag. Given that fact, today’s bit of mental vomit comes as little surprise.
Microsoft Licenses ActiveSync to Google Why is the company cooperating with a competitor?
There you have the headline of today’s diatribe; and there you have the crux of the idiocy. See, like any good zealot, in Paul’s mind Microsoft must be the end all and be all of, well, everything. The mere thought of cooperation is trauma inducing. Paul begins by spending a few sentences making snide comments about “conspiracy-happy Mac fanatics” (pot meet kettle) before making this comment:
With Apple gaining usage share in the PC market regularly over the past several years, why is Microsoft propping up this ever-stronger competitor with the crucial Office productivity suite?
Oh, I don’t know Paul; maybe because Apple and Microsoft aren’t really competitors.I know that this is a shocking concept to both sides of the OS wars, but it’s true. Apple doesn’t compete with Microsoft. Fuck, every currently shipping Apple Macintosh computer not only can run Windows;
Continue reading Paul Thurrott Opens Mouth, Unbridled Idiocy Pours Forth
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Back in September of last year I wrote a piece about the chuckle fucks in Norway ranting and raving about evil iTunes and its human rights violating DRM. In the ensuing shitstorm of responses from the forces of moral decency (aka cheap cocksuckers) it was pointed out, numerous times, that ranting at Apple over this issue was doing about as much good as pissing into the ocean; because it wasn’t Apple demanding the DRM, it was the record labels. Of course that point was lost on the cheaptards; because in their world, wishes are horses and they damn well are going to ride.
Cue today’s announcement that Norway is dropping its idiotic demands due to Apple and the record labels, agreeing to drop DRM in the iTunes music store.
Hope you arctic dipshits enjoyed your three years of windmill tilting. Now imagine how much faster we could have had this had you gone after the real problem instead of trying to gin up headlines.
Fucktards.
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