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Way to go you idiot bastards: Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children: “A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two [...]
There’s one thing that’s been on my mind recently. I’m sure you’re familiar with the news that Apple has been delivering Safari by default to Windows users with iTunes installed. I think just about everyone agrees that this is committing a fairly heinous crime against your users, but let’s analyze a different take on this. [...]
Once again, the iPhone rules the press with a heavy dollop of enticing news. There’s a lot here on the surface and a lot below the surface. Let’s scratch the surface first. The announcements about Apple licensing ActiveSync are interesting. There was lots of speculation in this regard and greetz to those who called it. [...]
Full text of MSFT e-Mail: Microsoft execs on Vista problems: “Full text: Microsoft execs on Vista problems A federal judge today unsealed internal Microsoft e-mails that have been used to support the plaintiffs’ case in the lawsuit over the ‘Windows Vista Capable’ program. Snippets were previously read aloud in court, but the full messages go [...]
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Recreated historic photos with senior citizen models – Boing BoingI am disturbed by this. Very. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
HUNTSVILLE, AL: A creature formed by excess cable in a data center has been slain by an intrepid systems administrator armed with a caution sign. The creature, which formed after floor tiles were opened for the first time in 7 years, spoke to the systems administrators working in the area and taunted them with “trash [...]
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Woman Arrested For Committing Act of Love. : Lock the Bedroom Door on Offsprung.com The only warning I’m ever going to give you: this link is from a sex blog. If you can’t deal with that, don’t click. So this link briefly explains the situation of a woman in France who was overcome with desire [...]
6 die from brain-eating amoeba – Infectious Diseases – MSNBC.com This one is real, folks. There’s a one-celled organism out there that likes to enter through your nostrils, swim up to your brain and feed on the gray matter until you die. That’s not Stephen King or Clive Barker – this one is real. Scary, [...]
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So I listened to Macbreak Weekly #59 today while walking around the block. A substantial piece of the discussion involved the impending iBrickness, which by now, has either happened to you or not happened to you. I also caught Leo’s latest rant on the iBrickify rants by Apple. While I agree with him on some [...]
I’m reading a lot of backlash today regarding Apple’s announcement that an upcoming firmware update may turn the iPhone into an iBrick. Most of reactions can be filed under kneejerk, but since that will be the smallest word on the tag cloud (cough cough), let’s analyze this a little bit. Apple is preemptively warning consumers [...]
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