Scott Moritz: Idiotic Douchebag or Moronic Cock-Sucker? You Decide

Jesus fuck me Christ! I’ve read some stu­pid crap, from some stu­pid fuck­ing “writ­ers” over the years, but the unadul­ter­ated shit that Scott Moritz spews out has got to take the cake. Seriously, if you are stu­pid enough to make a sin­gle stock trade based on the tripe that this Uncle Fester look­ing douche-nozzle vom­its forth you deserve to not only lose your money, but to be drug out onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and shot in the head.

Last week we had this idi­otic turd of an arti­cle report­ing on the iPhone 3.0 pre­view event. Here’s a clue Scott. When you can’t even get the basic facts of the fuck­ing story cor­rect, you should prob­a­bly just go hang your­self. Hint, the iPhone push noti­fi­ca­tion ser­vice isn’t being pro­vided by Meebo you fuckwad.

But Scott isn’t con­tent to just be a tal­ent­less inat­ten­tive hack. No, he’s going for the gold with this unfath­omably insane piece of dri­vel. I’ll start with the head­line itself.

Apple’s Netbook Foray Will Flop

Think about that for a sec­ond. Really let it roll around in your head. Yes, Scott (I shave my head so I look like my hero

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Great Expectations

sigh

So, it seems that I’m going to have to explain real­ity to the MacMacs yet again. I know you’re all busy dust­ing off your hair-shirts and prepar­ing for the inevitable round of self-flagellation that you so love to indulge in after every Apple announce­ment. But please, for the love of Moloch, try and actu­ally think for a minute here.

Apple is pulling out of Macworld Conference and Expo after this year. Ascribe to that what­ever con­spir­acy the­ory makes your fuzzy lit­tle heads warm; but it’s a sim­ple fact. Corollary to that fact; Steve Jobs wasn’t going to deliver the Keynote. Again, come up with what­ever “moon-landing-was-a-hoax” the­ory you want to to explain that; but it’s a fact.

So, given those facts; did you really, really, think that Apple was going to make some earth-shattering announce­ments today? Did you hon­estly believe that this was going to be any­thing other than the most banal and hum-drum Keynote since Jobs returned. Why, in the name of all that’s unholy would Apple go and prove that every­one who cru­ci­fied them for pulling out of the Expo was right.

Really, use your frack­ing brains you nimrods!

I Gave at the Office

So, my office is doing a canned food drive for a local food bank. Ok, that’s cool, laud­able even. Now, how are we going to imple­ment this? A box in the break room per­haps, where peo­ple can qui­etly donate as their con­science dictates?

Oh. Fuck. No.

No, instead we’ve been divvied up into teams, appar­ently via some ran­dom algo­rithm since I have no idea who these peo­ple are. Then a “team cap­tain” is appointed to send out obnox­ious rah-rah emails. And why, dear read­ers do we need rah-rah emails? Because, of course since this office has a ten to one ratio of Sales douches to nor­mal peo­ple, we’ve gone and made this into a com­pe­ti­tion. Yes indeedy, don’t donate because it helps peo­ple, donate to get a splen­dif­er­ous half day off. Sometimes I think that these retards are inca­pable of tak­ing a crap unless some­one posts the results to a “leader­board” somewhere.

To add idiocy to obnox­ious­ness, the lat­est douchemail from the “cap­tain” encour­ages us to buy cases of bot­tled water. Because, you know, it’s more effi­cient for me to pro­vide water at $.75 a pop than it is for the food bank to use the taps at $.01 a

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What Fresh Idiocy Is This?

Today’s dose of “teh stoopid” comes to us cour­tesy of The Apple Blog in this won­der­ful gem of idiocy from Bob Rudis titled iTunes Store and Apple’s DRM Safe Haven In Jeopardy. I have nei­ther the time, nor the energy to prop­erly dis­ect this gem; but it breaks down like this. Apple recently com­mented that the rate hikes on dig­i­tal down­loads being pro­posed by the Copyright Royalty Board could make it shut down the iTunes Store. For those with ter­mi­nal brain dys­func­tion, this is what we call a “bluff.” Bob com­bines this fact with the fact that Walmart, that paragon of con­sumer activism recently shut down its wildly suc­cess­ful online music store; and in the process of doing so told it’s cus­tomers to pound sand.

From these two events, related tan­gen­tially at best, Bob then extrap­o­lates a dystopian future where Apple shut­ters iTunes and leaves its cus­tomers in the lurch. Of course, this leads us to Bob’s heroic cry to the com­mon man to rise up against the shack­les of FairPlay and ask, nay, demand that Apple vio­late their con­tracts with the music indus­try and remove FairPlay now.

It’s really too bad that Apple, in its usual secretive

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Today’s Winner For “Retarded Business Model” Goes To…

…The chuckle-heads at Psystar, whose web­site seems to be down, so here’s a link to the Ars story. It seems these frig­tards are sell­ing a Leopard com­pat­i­ble Mac “clone” for four hun­dred clams. Here’s a quick drama­ti­za­tion of the strat­egy meet­ing in Psytar cen­tral that resulted in this brave exper­i­ment in get­ting your asses sued off by el jeffe Jobs:

GUY 1: gur­gle gur­gle gur­gle inhale.…cough, cough. Hey man, you know what would be really cool? If we slap some com­mod­ity PC parts together with an EFI emu­la­tor and sell it to run Mac OS X on.

GUY 2: Dude, don’t bog­art the bong man. Yeah, that would rock, and we could sell it for, like four hun­dred bucks.

GUY 1: Oh yeah man. The pro­po­nents of free soft­ware will buy these like hot­cakes. We’ll be strik­ing a blow for freedom.

I don’t know who to pity more. These morons, or any fool who actu­ally orders one of these things.

peace out.

And Today’s Jackass Blogger Is…

Ashutosh Chaturvedi! Ashu serves up one hell of a two-fer on his blog. In fact, his blog has a whop­ping 2 posts, and they’re both mind bog­glingly retarded. Taking the lesser of two fuck-ups first, we have this gem. Ashu is upset that Tuesday’s Leopard Security update broke ssh. Quote:

One would think that Apple had tested out the secu­rity update before releas­ing it to the pub­lic… but appar­ently not.

He even man­ages to link to the whiny entitle-twats on the Apple dis­cus­sion forums bitch­ing about it. Only prob­lem is, it’s not an Apple error. In fact, it’s Rogue Amoeba’s fuckup, as evi­denced in the very fuck­ing thread he links too. Now, true, the actual cause wasn’t deter­mined until after Ashu posted his lit­tle drop­pings; but then again, when did a MacMac blog­ger ever take the fuck­ing time to trou­bleshoot an error before unleas­ing the flood­gates of whin­ing on Apple.But really, that is just the warm up for the real, aneurysm induc­ing what-the-fuck that Ashu man­aged to spill forth yes­ter­day. See, appar­ently Ashu was actu­ally let into the iPhone Developer pro­gram. That’s right, the

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Here We Go.

Strap in cats and catettes, this is going to be a bumpy ride. Apparently Apple has made their first round picks for the iPhone devel­oper pro­gram. Note, this only applies to devel­op­ers receiv­ing the cer­tifi­cates that they need to install and test their soft­ware on phys­i­cal iPhones. Anyone read­ing more into the deci­sions (such as who will even­tu­ally be let into the iPhone AppStore) is full of more bull­shit than a con­sti­pated Angus.

Against all odds, and seri­ously here I’m fuck­ing shocked, the first story on this to hit my feed-reader was from iLounge with this gob-smackingly non–hyper­bolic story. I mean, what the deuce iLounge; what sort of chumps are you, post­ing the actual email con­tents and not wildly spec­u­lat­ing? Are you try­ing to put me out of the bitch-slapping busi­ness? For con­trast, here is the head­line from TUAW “iPhone devel­oper rejec­tion let­ter mass mail­ing” Rejection you say! Well fuck Apple, I can’t believe that they would be so cruel. El jeffe must be cack­ling with joy at the thought of all those dis­ap­pointed devel­op­ers. Or, wait, let’s see that the actual fuck­ing “rejec­tion” let­ter (which iLounge was

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Ryan Block: Tool

Today Apple held an event to lay­out the roadmap for enter­prise sup­port and the SDK. I’ll leave the analy­sis of the event to my bet­ters, mainly because a) I don’t own an iPhone, b) I’m not a devel­oper and c) the morons in charge of “Enterprise IT” where I’m at would first ask if that was a ship cap­tained by a chap named Kirk, then ask if you could help them with the hand they have stuck in a honey jar.

Instead I’m going to focus on Ryan Block of Engadget, because he is a fuck­ing tool. Let’s just lay this one out here, since I’m sure the rest of the blo­gotesser­act will be all over this soon enough. Ryan was actu­ally dimwit­ted enough to ask, dur­ing the Q&A fol­low­ing the announce­ment, if a SIM unlock­ing appli­ca­tion would be some­thing that Apple would allow.

Yeah, just let that one sink in a bit. Ryan, we get it, I’ve lis­tened to your crappy pod­cast. You’re none to fond of Apple. You don’t like iPods. And you’re firmly in the cat­e­gory of fuck­tards that think that, just because you think that a fea­ture is neato-keen, well then by-cracky the manufacturer

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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.

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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