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That about sums it up.
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Ramen
(via fuckyeahnoodles)
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Growl
It’s that time of year.
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I don’t bother with blogs that don’t allow comments.
Or newspapers for that matter. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. It’s clear, the Internet is too hard for you.
UPDATE 1/5: I see from commentary elsewhere that this concept is rising to the surface again. “Bloggers” desperate to convert to “journalists”, and feeling that they can rise above it all. They aren’t of much use to me until they develop real sources and reporting, and aren’t just repeating what other people (usually in larger established news organizations) have discovered and reported on. So, I repeat, I don’t bother with ‘em. The comments help to keep them in check and lower the “pass on the company press release” mentality.
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Really like the George Harrison documentary
Funny. I find myself chuckling every now and then. And it’s kind of nice to have a Beatles movie that isn’t centered around John Lennon for a change.
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Carrier IQ and Android: demystification | 9to5Google | Beyond Good and Evil →
The point of this post seems to be that Google isn’t to blame, therefore nothing is wrong with Android.
The opposite is true. Google’s intention was to create a free for all system where anyone could use their software and do to it what they will in exchange for extra traffic back to Google’s services. That includes a multitude of variations on safe and unsafe smartphone computing.
Apple offers a differentiation: one source of approval. The buck stops with them. No excuses if something goes wrong. Thus, CarrierIQ isn’t on iOS, and no carrier versions of the OS to worry about.
The vast majority of android phone owners won’t have that assurance. Whether you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing is irrelevant.
And quoting The Register is like quoting the National Enquirer. When will geeks learn that…
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Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com →
A good example of why digital entitlement isn’t allowed into the electrical engineering room. Or, as commenter Joey from TX put it: “Consider what brought down one of Air France’s most sophisticated jets over the Atlantic- ice on a wind speed indicator.”
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US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide | World news | guardian.co.uk →
I would think that there would be a huge popular movement in Europe by now to boycott the use of US-based online media, or require by European law that its citizen’s data be hosted overseas and outside the jurisdiction of US judicial system.
That would bound to have an impact on US technology corporations’ profits, which in turn will have an impact on politicians who would use the justice system for such pursuits.
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I Don’t Care About Flash
I really don’t. I removed it from my life years ago, blocked it in my browsers and heckled my friends who were more recently admitted into the cabal of technocracy that insisted on complicating their lives with it. Seriously. Anyone who knew anything about web technologies avoided this stuff years ago, and not doing so pegged you as a newb quicker than a flame war over Android.
But it is a little sweet to watch the Evil Tower begin to topple. Back in the later 90s, when Adobe moved into crunchy Fremont on the outskirts of Seattle and herded their minions out into the rain for COMPANY CALISTHENICS, all dressed up in their turd-red Adobe Tshirts (and rain jackets), I would watch and say to myself “These boobs are going to fall. Hard.”
Thus another of my prophecies has come to pass. You’re welcome.
