Psystar to countersue Apple for antitrust violations, will ask court to declare Leopard EULA void (6)
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Wannabe Mac cloners Psystar hired itself some hotshot lawyers to defend against Apple's lawsuit, and they're not wasting any time earning their fees -- as Psystar's hinted in the past, it's going to countersue Apple for antitrust violations and ask that the court declare the Leopard EULA void. That's a pretty longshot argument, especially since EULAs have traditionally been upheld in California and Florida and we find it hard to believe ...
Print It! (7)
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John McCain thinks that a "tech freak" is someone who reads emails on a computer, rather than having them printed out on paper by staff. GOP presidential candidate John McCain, fundraising in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the nation's technology capitals, acknowledged Monday that he isn't a "tech freak" or entirely comfortable with the Internet, BlackBerrys or e-mail. But he strongly disputed criticism that he is "out of the loop" as unfair. As ...
Anchors Away: Philadelphia News Anchor Charged with Hacking Co-Anchor's Email (1)
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[Ed. note: This post is by MARIN, one of the finalists in ATL Idol, the "reality blogging" competition that will determine ATL's next editor. It is marked with Marin's avatar (at right).] If you've ever secretly read somebody else's email 537 times, turns out you're not alone. Larry Mendte, former CBS3 Philadelphia news anchor and Botox enthusiast, allegedly hacked into his former co-anchor Alycia Lane's personal email accounts 537 times since January 2008 and leaked ...
Endgame: Scrabulous Gets Wiped Off Facebook (55)
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Long outplayed by two Indian brothers, Hasbro finally delivers a massive counter blow to Scrabulous, one of the most loved games on Facebook. Scrabulous fans in North America will see the following message when they try to play the game: Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here. Hsbro has long contended that Scrabulous infringes on its ...
Man shoots lawnmower (17)
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The gentleman seen here, Keith Walendowski, 56, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, got so angry with his lawnmower that he shot it. He's now been charged with a felony for possession of a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct while armed. From the Associated Press: He told police: "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want." A woman who lives at Walendowski's house reported ...
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Mike said:
The pride of my home town...
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phrenologist said:
"Some clown in Sacramento..."
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Dustin Diaz said:
Give this guy a break. Anyone should be allowed to shoot their own lawn mower :/
Quick Tip of the Week: Battery Optimization (2)
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When you’re on the road and have no place to plug in, how can you optimize battery performance on your Mac laptop? Find out by watching the latest QuickTip of the Week.
Freakazoid on DVD -- yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! (48)
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Oh hell yes! Warners just released season one of Freakazoid, the best TV cartoon since the Max Fleischer era, on DVD. This is the most demented, hilarious, madcap, witty, surreal, fantastic toon of all time, and now you can get it for the home collection. Yes yes yes! Link (Thanks, Jeff!)
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mrkvm said:
AWESOME!
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Keith said:
The wait is over, and I'm ordering mine today.
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tante said:
Oh I love freakazoid! If you have not seen it, get it somehow, it's brilliant.
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Brandon said:
Dude, I totally added it to the Amazon wish list 10 seconds before you shared it.
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Banana Lee Fishbones said:
OMG Becky! Best news in a long time. Hooray!!! Thank you Warner for allowing me to give you money for something I really really want! See how that works?
Old People Fuck? Well How About That (1)
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My 91-year-old maternal grandfather, Poppi, the widowed husband of The Dead Nana, may just be a geriatric G.* And this causes problems for some people. * A “G” being defined as a Gangster. I could set the scene with the whole, My sister said, “Did Mom tell you yet?” And I thought, “Someone is (1.) dead, (2.) in the hospital, (3.) gay, or (4.) in jail.” But it was none of the above, and upon...
Shrapnel: new comic featuring Syd Mead's designs (3)
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In other Syd Mead news, Shrapnel, a new graphic novel series featuring Mead's mecha designs, debuts at this week at Comic-Con in San Diego. The story was spawned from a video game by Mark Long of Zombie Studios. He ended up collaborating with Nick Sagan (Carl's son) and M. Zachary Sherman to turn it into a comic book. They hope a feature film will follow. I wouldn't be surprised -- the promotional video for the ...
Viscous keyboard-cleaning goop (54)
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This Swiss goop ("Cyber Clean") is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the germicidal surface de-germifies your icky, filthy, disgusting keyboard. Link (via Red Ferret)
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Nick said:
yep, need that, or I would, if whoever re-owned my keyboard after the office move gave it back...
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Neal said:
interesting...
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LuisManson said:
un limpiador q da asco...
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Andrew said:
wouldn't this make your keyboard nasty though?
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tosh said:
i need one of these
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Jason Matthews said:
neat, but isn't most of the grossness underneath the keys?
Science of brain "fatigue" (24)
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New research suggests that the brain's "executive function," the mental system involved in abstract thinking, planning, and focusing on one thing instead of another, can be fatigued to the point that your ability to make decisions is badly hampered. Scientific American has an interesting survey of studies in this area. The, er, decision whether to read the article or not is up to you. From SciAm: ...What types of actions exhaust executive function and affect ...
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Mark said:
Tell me something I don't know...thinking makes you tired. Thanks Dr. Ialreadyknewthat.
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Kerray said:
"the mere act of making a selection may deplete executive resources"
A Parent’s Nasty Email: Cry for Help or Reality Check? (2)
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I received the strangest email the other day, and I don’t know why. The email was a very curt response from a parent (I’ll call her Thelma) to a teacher. The teacher made a third request for a permission slip. Thelma responded with three sharp sentences, some words IN ALL CAPS, every sentence [...]
Students surf their way to success (13)
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Early on in my career at Google I was approached by a former professor of mine, Jamie Murphy, who was eager to give his students hands-on exposure to online marketing. Apart from delivering a great learning experience, Jamie wanted to make sure that his students would leave university with skills they could take directly into the workforce.Together, Jamie and I recruited a panel of professors from all over the globe and came up with the ...
Six Million iBricks… and Growing (59)
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Well this is a fine kettle of fish. iPhone activations have essentially gone down and everyone - from folks updating their old phones to new 3G activators - are stuck with bricks until traffic dies off. Reader Brent reports: Hey Just a heads up…my iPhone, and looking at their forums, everyone else’s iPhones are bricks because the last step of their update process is to connect to the App store which can’t handle the traffic ...
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Clay said:
If Microsoft did this people would be screaming bloody murder.
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noattention said:
Glad I did this yesterday.
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Darnell Clayton said:
Good thing I updated yesterday, ahead of the crowd. :-)
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Andrew said:
It just keeps working!
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David said:
Wait...is this bad Apple PR?
Federal Report Shows Reading, Math Scores Up For 4th and 8th graders; Increases Seen in Teen Birth, Low Birth Weight (1)
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Federal Report Shows Reading, Math Scores Up For 4th and 8th graders; Increases Seen in Teen Birth, Low Birth Weight The nation’s fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government’s latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation’s children. Not all the report’s findings were positive; there also were increases in the adolescent birth rate and the proportion ...
Pandora on the iPhone (14)
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This is a really exciting day for us -- after many months of effort we're finally able to deliver what may be the best form of Pandora yet... Pandora for the iPhone. Our iPhone application gives you the full Pandora experience -- create and listen to up to 100 stations, rate songs, bookmark, even buy tracks from the iTunes store right on the phone. The application works over EDGE, 3G, and WiFi, is integrated with ...
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Jeremy said:
That is a pretty good use of combined technology. I've wished I could listen to Pandora on my iPod for sometime.
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Suzanne said:
can't wait to get my iPhone and then i'll be able to use Pandora on the fly for free. i absolutely love it!!!
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4braham said:
I might have to get one of these.
