This site is viewed by a (parking) lot of people, judging by the cast of usual suspects. While I think tossing around words like "corruption" and "shady business practices" is overblown, nothing pegs the FUD meter like threat of lawsuit against a clearly inebriated poster.
Posted Tuesday 21st February 2012 11:46 GMT
Muckminded
Re: Re: Re: While I think that Apple is being unfairly treated...
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I understand the sentiment, and Apple has been a prick for quite a while. I was more interested in the "corruption" charge, which appears unsubstantiated. Suing people is not equivalent to corruption, it's just a way of pissing down your own boot (both of which are probablt full by now).
Posted Tuesday 21st February 2012 11:06 GMT
Muckminded
Re: While I think that Apple is being unfairly treated...
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I'm grateful that somehow, the perspective keeps leading my eye to the left, away from the company name. Someone earned every bit of the five minutes spent doodling.
We take one device, slather it with operating systems, deep fry it in FUD and then dust it with your choice of spray-on antennae, or sweaty captain Balmer funk.
Paying more would not ensure the workers get paid more.
Maybe you could enforce higher wages by contract, but that might result in some unforeseens among workers. Big Wong makes less than Little Wong, Big Wong gets angries, Little Wong gets involuntary iPhone insertion (I will sideline the joke about polyp detection).
Can we at least wait for the war with Iran to wind down before cluttering up the moon? Undoubtedly, his first term would involve another field trip to the Middle East.
And yet, the fact that Hostess, manufacturer of Twinkies, has gone belly-up twice in a handful of years doesn't even make their list? Pitiful bureaucrats have no idea where their post-apocalyptic nutrition-like sustenance is coming from. Typical ivory tower, caviar and cyber-doomsday fools.
I can't think of any technology in which a 50% increase in efficiency would be interpreted as a negative. Moose is an ass, besides being bad at math. Hopefully, he will post more.
but it might be similar to an OS developer licensing the use of an MP3 decoder from a third party holding the patent. Presumably, anyone using the decoding API available to the OS would then not need to also obtain a license from that third party. In which case, it would be up to the OS developer and the patent holder to set a fair price on the patent's use, knowing any developer or user of that system would likely make use of the API.
Hell if I know whether that is feasible, or even applies in this case. It's patent law, not rocket science. That's why it takes longer to sue a large corporation than build a space agency capable of getting a few guys to the moon for a few rounds of golf.
This is pretty much the opposite of the article earlier in the week about HP and its progress with memristors. None of the details which would allow the tech to be commoditized are nailed down. It would require a steady supply of depleted uranium, may not scale well to room temperature, might not even be able to flip its charge, and turns all puppies that approach your computer into Cujo (you have to fall asleep while reading the technical paper to learn about that last side-effect).
The potassium in my banana will reach half-life before this unvention comes to market.
It is rare that a product appears to have nothing but upside. Usually, it's something like "It gives you enormous strength, but your pecker falls off". So, yeah, I'll take the non-sterilizing, happy tech, that may also be capable of making a cat that I can turn off.
The beauty of modern corporate fuck-ups is how well they scale. This wouldn't be possible in technologically inferior societies, so quit crying about every little bitty breach of 100 million or so.
Yay for progress!
This message brought to you by the Luddite Hammer Company.
First: pretty sure Eldar is the son of Beldar, the father of the Coneheads family. He may blog in Russian, but he's from a small town in France. Remulak, I believe it was.
Second: any news that gets confirmation from a SoftSailor, LimpRudder or other flaccid nautical equipage must be viewed as suspect.
Etc: if those two companies do choose to mate, I don't want to see the baby pictures.
My title has nothing to do with anything I typed in this box.
So, I am left to hope for corporate implosions, as some Schadenfreude firework display across a bitter mindscape.
Wait. I still hope. And not just for shitty outcomes. No!
I hope Google makes it. I hope the baby seals make it. I hope vapid sycophants get reimbursed for towing the heavy line (given the unhappy climate)!? High five!
OK, no, really, I don't give a shit about any of this.
Certainly, it is a different battleground. But, once again, a "Watson" threatens to supplant humans trying to just get by. I now fear any event that has a "Watson" in the mix. May the Harry Potter and Jeopardy franchises be dipped in tepid bathwater. Hella tepid, yo!
62 years old, and still just a Sprigg. If he's anything like a saguaro cactus, he's only gained one inch every ten years, so very little crime to detect.
I am certain they are retro-proactively moving against this threat delta to achieve ducks-in-a-row parity on their major talking points, while maintaining an aggressive anti-negativity posture informed by agile crowd-sourcing.
Nothing says lovin' like tracking your child's performance via spreadsheet. Giving him or her a PowerPoint presentation as a birthday gift is the real kicker.
Had we noticed the net was dangerous, yes, we would have reacted more proactively. Now, please, accept one month's free subscription to a network capable of compromising a lifetime's worth of credit rating.
Hard to measure, but the disfavor customers will now likely have of businesses that utilize AWS likely doesn't measure up to the coupons Amazon is handing out for the days of service lost. A simple calculation of downtime = value won't entice companies to renew their contracts.
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Posted Tuesday 21st February 2012 13:29 GMT
Muckminded
Re: @jeebus(sp) → #
In Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue
This site is viewed by a (parking) lot of people, judging by the cast of usual suspects. While I think tossing around words like "corruption" and "shady business practices" is overblown, nothing pegs the FUD meter like threat of lawsuit against a clearly inebriated poster.
Posted Tuesday 21st February 2012 11:46 GMT
Muckminded
Re: Re: Re: While I think that Apple is being unfairly treated... → #
In Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue
I understand the sentiment, and Apple has been a prick for quite a while. I was more interested in the "corruption" charge, which appears unsubstantiated. Suing people is not equivalent to corruption, it's just a way of pissing down your own boot (both of which are probablt full by now).
Posted Tuesday 21st February 2012 11:06 GMT
Muckminded
Re: While I think that Apple is being unfairly treated... → #
In Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue
Happy schadenfreude to you.
RCH = Recently corrupt, how?
Posted Monday 20th February 2012 21:30 GMT
Muckminded
Re: Re: Love the "expert" commentary here → #
In Security biz scoffs at Apple's anti-Trojan Gatekeeper
Who the hell is developing more and more complicated VHS-based systems? Maybe she should just buy some iTape so she doesn't have to look at the TV.
Posted Saturday 18th February 2012 06:07 GMT
Muckminded
Light blue means → #
In Microsoft explains bland new Windows logo
It's a boy! Congratulations.
I'm grateful that somehow, the perspective keeps leading my eye to the left, away from the company name. Someone earned every bit of the five minutes spent doodling.
Posted Friday 17th February 2012 01:47 GMT
Muckminded
Metro Sandwich → #
In Google befriends Microsoft with WinDroid tablets
We take one device, slather it with operating systems, deep fry it in FUD and then dust it with your choice of spray-on antennae, or sweaty captain Balmer funk.
How can it lose?
Posted Tuesday 14th February 2012 22:51 GMT
Muckminded
On a slightly different note → #
In SPRAY-ON antennas waved about at Google's techfest
I'm guessing there are unforeseen environmental consequences to spewing capacitors over everything a spray can will reach.
Posted Friday 10th February 2012 11:52 GMT
Muckminded
"previously unknown design idiosyncrasy" → #
In IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab
So, HAL is willing to let the mission proceed now?
Posted Thursday 9th February 2012 12:31 GMT
Muckminded
I'll go first → #
In Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate
SSL = Say "Security" and Laugh
Posted Thursday 9th February 2012 11:32 GMT
Muckminded
I Still Marvel → #
In Hackers claim to have penetrated Foxconn backdoor
That one application can so frequently and kindly serve as entry point to entire corporations.
Where do I want to go today? A dark satanic mill, please.
Posted Thursday 9th February 2012 11:09 GMT
Muckminded
Exactly → #
In Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast
Paying more would not ensure the workers get paid more.
Maybe you could enforce higher wages by contract, but that might result in some unforeseens among workers. Big Wong makes less than Little Wong, Big Wong gets angries, Little Wong gets involuntary iPhone insertion (I will sideline the joke about polyp detection).
Posted Wednesday 8th February 2012 11:31 GMT
Muckminded
Grats on the severance → #
In Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East
But, the redundancies are higher up than the employee level. They are at the platform level. If you are moving on, then good luck and good thinking.
Posted Saturday 28th January 2012 04:14 GMT
Muckminded
"Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?" → #
In Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook
A kickass computer with a horrid name, apparently.
Posted Friday 27th January 2012 02:46 GMT
Muckminded
Another fiscal conservative → #
In Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state
who knows how to waste money.
Can we at least wait for the war with Iran to wind down before cluttering up the moon? Undoubtedly, his first term would involve another field trip to the Middle East.
Posted Friday 20th January 2012 09:39 GMT
Muckminded
One trick pony → #
In Google shares tank after disappointing financial report
invents anti-lasso technology.
Posted Thursday 12th January 2012 10:06 GMT → #
Muckminded
In Davos report: Cyber-attack risk to global stability is real
And yet, the fact that Hostess, manufacturer of Twinkies, has gone belly-up twice in a handful of years doesn't even make their list? Pitiful bureaucrats have no idea where their post-apocalyptic nutrition-like sustenance is coming from. Typical ivory tower, caviar and cyber-doomsday fools.
Posted Monday 9th January 2012 20:10 GMT → #
Muckminded
In 1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife
Available in April. Most likely the first day in April.
Posted Tuesday 20th December 2011 08:03 GMT → #
Muckminded
In Plastic semiconductor makes solar cells more efficient
I can't think of any technology in which a 50% increase in efficiency would be interpreted as a negative. Moose is an ass, besides being bad at math. Hopefully, he will post more.
Posted Wednesday 7th December 2011 10:13 GMT → #
Muckminded
In Samsung imagines see-through bendy tablet of the future
I refuse to become just a pair of disembodied hands for the sake of Samsung, unless porn is involved.
Posted Tuesday 15th November 2011 06:51 GMT → #
Muckminded
In Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble
It merely needs to increase in value.
It will.
Posted Tuesday 11th October 2011 22:27 GMT
Muckminded
Stockblocked → #
In High-frequency traders attract regulator’s interest
Here's an unreasonable idea: enforce a minimum hold time of 30 minutes.
Posted Monday 12th September 2011 23:23 GMT → #
Muckminded
In Printable mini-display tech draws power from NFC devices
Be great for dispensing bad news when you swipe your access badge, like: "Welcome back from your 3-hour lunch. You're fired."
Posted Wednesday 7th September 2011 10:52 GMT
Muckminded
Sky is falling → #
In Torvalds dumps Kernel.org for Github after breach
Grab both ankles, and confuse an OS with an FTP site.
Posted Tuesday 6th September 2011 22:55 GMT
Muckminded
Amazing... → #
In Torvalds dumps Kernel.org for Github after breach
how a few words can display so much stupidity.
Posted Friday 27th May 2011 06:09 GMT
Muckminded
Mangoatpig → #
In Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat
So, what's next? Knife fights? Hydraulic mining? Fast food?
He won't have my vote until he can dwarf toss a man to fifty paces.
Posted Tuesday 24th May 2011 08:49 GMT
Muckminded
This may be a stretch → #
In Apple defends iOS devs from patent holder
but it might be similar to an OS developer licensing the use of an MP3 decoder from a third party holding the patent. Presumably, anyone using the decoding API available to the OS would then not need to also obtain a license from that third party. In which case, it would be up to the OS developer and the patent holder to set a fair price on the patent's use, knowing any developer or user of that system would likely make use of the API.
Hell if I know whether that is feasible, or even applies in this case. It's patent law, not rocket science. That's why it takes longer to sue a large corporation than build a space agency capable of getting a few guys to the moon for a few rounds of golf.
Posted Monday 23rd May 2011 20:54 GMT
Muckminded
And Microsoft will pwn online search → #
In HP exec: WebOS tablet will trounce iPad
And Segways are making a comeback.
And people want uranium hard drives.
And I will become productive (or even reproductive).
That last one made me sad.
Posted Monday 23rd May 2011 20:53 GMT
Muckminded
Other possible headlines → #
In Architect of Great Firewall of China 'takes shoe to face'
One Step Closer to Democracy
Which Came First, the Nikes or the Eggs?
Just Shoe It
Shanghai Surprised
Also Comes with Choice of Rice or Noodles
Crouching Liar Hit By No One
Posted Monday 23rd May 2011 15:39 GMT
Muckminded
As opposed to "forespiration" → #
In Office 15 steals OVERLARGE font, design vision from Windows PHO
At first glance, I thought "backspiration" might refer to moisture produced while making the beast with two cracks. I prefer your definition.
Posted Sunday 22nd May 2011 17:27 GMT
Muckminded
Depleted enthusiasm → #
In Making a storage mountain out of a molecule
This is pretty much the opposite of the article earlier in the week about HP and its progress with memristors. None of the details which would allow the tech to be commoditized are nailed down. It would require a steady supply of depleted uranium, may not scale well to room temperature, might not even be able to flip its charge, and turns all puppies that approach your computer into Cujo (you have to fall asleep while reading the technical paper to learn about that last side-effect).
The potassium in my banana will reach half-life before this unvention comes to market.
Posted Tuesday 17th May 2011 04:08 GMT
Muckminded
Happy → #
In HP breakthrough to hasten flash memory's demise?
It is rare that a product appears to have nothing but upside. Usually, it's something like "It gives you enormous strength, but your pecker falls off". So, yeah, I'll take the non-sterilizing, happy tech, that may also be capable of making a cat that I can turn off.
Posted Tuesday 17th May 2011 02:53 GMT
Muckminded
Aye, here be aggregators → #
In 99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials
The beauty of modern corporate fuck-ups is how well they scale. This wouldn't be possible in technologically inferior societies, so quit crying about every little bitty breach of 100 million or so.
Yay for progress!
This message brought to you by the Luddite Hammer Company.
Posted Monday 16th May 2011 22:00 GMT
Muckminded
Microstock → #
In Russian rumor: Microsoft to buy Nokia for $30bn
First: pretty sure Eldar is the son of Beldar, the father of the Coneheads family. He may blog in Russian, but he's from a small town in France. Remulak, I believe it was.
Second: any news that gets confirmation from a SoftSailor, LimpRudder or other flaccid nautical equipage must be viewed as suspect.
Etc: if those two companies do choose to mate, I don't want to see the baby pictures.
My title has nothing to do with anything I typed in this box.
Posted Tuesday 10th May 2011 04:40 GMT
Muckminded
If I hope → #
In Google says Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'
in the middle of cynics, am I a fool?
OK, shut up, I get it.
So, I am left to hope for corporate implosions, as some Schadenfreude firework display across a bitter mindscape.
Wait. I still hope. And not just for shitty outcomes. No!
I hope Google makes it. I hope the baby seals make it. I hope vapid sycophants get reimbursed for towing the heavy line (given the unhappy climate)!? High five!
OK, no, really, I don't give a shit about any of this.
Posted Monday 9th May 2011 23:49 GMT
Muckminded
So, his name is Watson → #
In Microsoft's iOS and Android love deepens
Certainly, it is a different battleground. But, once again, a "Watson" threatens to supplant humans trying to just get by. I now fear any event that has a "Watson" in the mix. May the Harry Potter and Jeopardy franchises be dipped in tepid bathwater. Hella tepid, yo!
Posted Monday 9th May 2011 23:01 GMT
Muckminded
Visibility = Vulnerability → #
In Whitehats break out of Google Chrome sandbox
To design unhackable software, also ensure it is never used. You know, like Opera.
Went there.
Posted Monday 9th May 2011 22:31 GMT
Muckminded
Yeah → #
In Intel's Tri-Gate gamble: It's now or never
Companies really miss that bottom line thing.
I post dumb things too, but I'm at least polite enough to be succinct.
Posted Monday 9th May 2011 20:38 GMT
Muckminded
Is Eastwood busy? → #
In Sony mulls hacker bounty offer
http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/2008/11/22/engrish-the-cool-cowboy/
Posted Monday 9th May 2011 12:09 GMT
Muckminded
Hubble hubble → #
In Nude gardener's arse hauled into court
62 years old, and still just a Sprigg. If he's anything like a saguaro cactus, he's only gained one inch every ten years, so very little crime to detect.
Posted Friday 6th May 2011 22:32 GMT
Muckminded
Bin Nauseum → #
In What treasures will the US really find on bin Laden's hard disk?
Anything worthwhile won't be released. Anything trivial will be chucked out to feed the next version of this article.
Posted Friday 6th May 2011 21:39 GMT
Muckminded
Jumbo mumbo → #
In Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines
I am certain they are retro-proactively moving against this threat delta to achieve ducks-in-a-row parity on their major talking points, while maintaining an aggressive anti-negativity posture informed by agile crowd-sourcing.
And it was good.
Posted Friday 6th May 2011 18:57 GMT
Muckminded
The pre-cogs → #
In White House warns El Reg over kitten-killing content
...think you are making a wise choice.
Also, be warned that women and seamen don't mix.
Posted Friday 6th May 2011 14:19 GMT
Muckminded
Excel, Junior → #
In Parents get iOS analytical toolkit to track kids' progress
Nothing says lovin' like tracking your child's performance via spreadsheet. Giving him or her a PowerPoint presentation as a birthday gift is the real kicker.
Posted Wednesday 4th May 2011 22:01 GMT
Muckminded
It's almost as if → #
In Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack
giant companies have their own interests foremost.
If that is the case, then I will only occassionally purchase high-ticket items from them. No, really, mostly.
Posted Wednesday 4th May 2011 20:23 GMT
Muckminded
Sony implicates self in attack of stupidity → #
In Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack
Had we noticed the net was dangerous, yes, we would have reacted more proactively. Now, please, accept one month's free subscription to a network capable of compromising a lifetime's worth of credit rating.
Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.
Posted Wednesday 4th May 2011 18:00 GMT
Muckminded
Kids can be so cruel → #
In Cross-dresser kills goat while high on bath salts
It may have been self-defense.
Posted Wednesday 4th May 2011 17:59 GMT
Muckminded
Oh, here's your problem... → #
In Sony calls in data Sherlocks to unpick megahack disaster
Corporate negligence.
I'm guessing it got in by the front door.
Posted Saturday 30th April 2011 22:38 GMT
Muckminded
Compensation → #
In Amazon cloud fell from sky after botched network upgrade
Hard to measure, but the disfavor customers will now likely have of businesses that utilize AWS likely doesn't measure up to the coupons Amazon is handing out for the days of service lost. A simple calculation of downtime = value won't entice companies to renew their contracts.
Posted Wednesday 27th April 2011 13:53 GMT
Muckminded
Stuff → #
In China sets out space-station plan, asks public to name it
Happy Lucky Space Station #1
Spy Shack
Semi-Autonomous Space Vehicle of Irony
The People's Future Accidental Re-entry Vehicle of Sunshine
Posted Wednesday 27th April 2011 12:56 GMT
Muckminded
Here's hoping → #
In Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall
they can genetically engineer a target audience in time to not go all Microsoft Kin on us.
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