Tag Archives: Software

Programmed obsolescence for iPhone? Apple has an app for that! iOS update.

Forget planned obsolescence, the digital age means manufacturers can trigger killer apps like a remote switch for the hangman’s trap door. Just poke a hole in your customer’s canteen if you want to bring them back to your watering hole. … Continue reading

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A gratuitous snarky product review.

Google, who invade every part of your computers and shopping and personal behavior and then sell it to whichever government or other corporation who has the bread to buy it, has a new version of Geany or Siri which controls … Continue reading

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Not a tribute to Steve Jobs, just a sad note. Nicola Tesla or Thomas Edison?

I’m more than a reluctant adherent to Apple technology, and am personally saddened at the death of Steve Jobs. Was he only 56? I assumed by his accomplishment that he was decades older. But my sadness is probably selfishly motivated, … Continue reading

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Found a really cool video game, like a First Person Shooter only better

It’s called “search and rescue” and the object of the game is a cockpit-eye-view rescuing people using a helicopter simulator. Designed by and for guys who have taken that step back, taken a good look and decided that “games” that … Continue reading

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Are you there God? it’s me Anders. The impersonal diary of Oslo Bomber and Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.

So there’s a Mexican vigilante drug ring declared itself a law-keeping fraternity of the Knights Templar, now the Oslo gunman/bomber claims accreditation. The “2083” manifesto which Anders Behring Breivik released through a carefully harvested email list includes a curious diary/progress … Continue reading

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Corporate personhood: unintended consequences

yes/no: are corporations persons? Are Corporations composed of shareholders? Do Corporations act on behalf and with the explicit consent of the shareholders? Has the corporation, with said consent, used any consideration of value including the intellectual property of the corporate … Continue reading

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Wikileaks Jacob Appelbaum confounds US customs w Bill of Rights thumbdrive

US-based Wikileaks colleague Jacob Appelbaum has a humorous account of his reentry yesterday to the US. Flying into Newark last July his laptop was searched and his cell phones confiscated. This time Appelbaum tweeted ahead that the ACLU would be … Continue reading

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49 million shares of Microsoft sold

for a total of over a billion, by one seller, the CEO Steve Ballmer. This at a time when certain content-specific software such as Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia Flash were acquired by Microsoft, the largest Internet Service Provider in America, … Continue reading

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9/11 of course. What did you expect?

Thanks to Friend Tony for pointing out that people who don’t believe the Official Story of 9/11 is actually valid, are so stupid that we don’t merit being read, listened to or answered. This makes somewhere around a hundred times … Continue reading

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QuiBids internet racketeers threaten Not My Tribe with scam legal letter

Game On QuiBids. We received a letter today from an Oklahoma law firm, on behalf of “QuiBids LLC,” apparently the preeminent of “penny auction site” confidence scams, who took exception to our earlier look-see into their rip-off operation. Frankly, I … Continue reading

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Full of it, Steeped in it, Stepped in a big stinky pile of it…

The India Laptop slammed by tech sales reporter, because he can’t understand altruism, patriotism or any other motives other than profit. Now, the Capitalist Overlords use Altruistic and Patriotic sentiments as Sales Gimmicks and really, nothing more. Country means exactly … Continue reading

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$35 iNDIApad running Linux reveals iPad users pay for intellectual property

While MIT has been racing to design the world’s first $100 computer, India has performed an end-run at a third the price, and it’s a tablet no less. Running with open-source software, as genuine volks-werks will, the iNDIAPAD will reach … Continue reading

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What OTHER Databases are affected by FBI misuse?

The “age progression” technology they supposedly used to publish the picture of Osama bin Laden on their “Ten Most Wanted” list turned out to be a complete fake face or Face Fake. They used the picture of a Spanish politician … Continue reading

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Scriptmatix “penny auctions” such as Quibids are less scams than pure fraud

Shell games tempt only the gullible, don’t they? So long as YOU don’t fall for them, what’s a little income redistribution among wretches? That’s an attitude shared only by the uninitiated. So-called internet “penny auctions” exploit human vulnerability like trust … Continue reading

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Better to cloak SSID? Google won’t say

WiFi users who opt for the convenience of broadcasting their SSIDs, versus cloaking their wireless networks, based on the security strategy that a privacy measure calls attention to itself, were shocked last week to learn that Google’s Street view vehicles … Continue reading

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Joe Stack’s Piper Cherokee Manifesto

It’s getting so you can’t fly a plane into a federal office building and hope somebody will finally find your website. Though engineer Joseph Stack left an online statement to explain his last act of desperation against the IRS, it … Continue reading

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Colleges mirror the Economic Draft

The notion that one needs the Army to get ones life together, that without Army Discipline your life goes nowhere… and that the Army prepares you for a Better Career and Better Wages… meaning the Army actively seeks to recruit … Continue reading

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Why IP Logging?

For one, Site Security. Having the ability to express opinions contrary to those of local or even Foreign (ahem) governments causes a great deal of stress to those who wish that such was Not The Case. So they attempt to … Continue reading

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Kindle Burned!! (hacked)

BBC NEWS Hacker cracks Kindle’s copyright An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, reports say. The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any … Continue reading

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Drones vulnerable to P2P filesharing?

The WSJ headline screams “Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones … Iranian Backing Suspected.” Hmm. Why Iran — because insurgents can’t afford $25.99 SkyGrabber software? Captured Iraqi laptops have evidence of intercepted video feeds, not code. The hacking term is no misnomer. … Continue reading

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Book burning is old hat for Kindle

Awww, the “Gift of Reading.” Wasn’t that something we gave ourselves for free in public school? And look at the e-book with which Amazon expects to separate readers from viewers –the latest movie.   Holy Schnikies Amazon picked a whopper … Continue reading

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Who is making a list, checking it twice

I know, right? Why won’t her boyfriend take his new Playstation online, where obviously all the fun is? “What’s wrong with him?!” The Sony PS3 spokesman commiserates, but he’s an interested party. So what’s up? Well, we have a clue … Continue reading

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Pentagon Investment Group Parte Deux-mille et neuf

P.I.G. for short. The French is to the best of my limited knowledge 2009. The P.I.G. in question being Richard Cheney aka Bush’s Dick. Told the Freakin’ Bureaucratic Idiots that he has no idea who exactly spilled the beans on … Continue reading

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Sometimes I wonder if they actually know what they’re doing…

Targeted advertising companies that is. I get ads for all kinds of stoopit  stuff. John Cornyn and Rick Perry have me on their mailing list, WHY? I voted against them and anybody whose name appeared on any piece of paper … Continue reading

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On the subject of remote kontrol killing

I occasionally raise this extremely bad example from its Undead Crypt. There is, to paraphrase the Tee Shirts, A Ranch in Texas that’s missing its ass-kicking, and I really should go back down there and help them find it. It … Continue reading

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