Big Brother loses one, ‘Jailbreaking’ iPhones legal, not felony

Apple loses bid to criminalize iPhone jailbreaking – Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179694/Apple_loses_bid_to_criminalize_iPhone_jailbreaking – “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made [...]

Clearing off the desktop…

…sometimes I fall behind.  So to catch up, I just dump a lot of stuff with short commentary and reboot the browsers so my computer can think again. Here goes… First up is an acknowledgement of the change to Arizona law.  This took away the worst of it, but I’d expect the rest to be [...]

I’m Still Trying to Come Up With a Title for My Book

I just thought of another good one, “Philosophy is an Action.” If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.  I’ve already written down some predictions of what people will think of it, and I want to check my work. Joel, you first. 

The First Two Chapters Are Up

As mentioned a little while back, I am putting the blog on hold and writing a book. O.k. I didn’t do such a good job of that (as the latest posts can testify) but that hasn’t stopped the book from coming along nicely. They can read be read here. I’d love to get some feedback [...]

Steve Jobs is Dying

This is a really sad day.  Not that Steve is dead yet, but having some personal history and knowledge of pancreatic cancer, it’s not a good sign that he isn’t speaking at Macworld. One of the first computers I ever used was one he (and his nerd buddy, Steve Wozniak) designed and sold.  It was [...]

The Earth in a Phone

Amidst the launch of Google’s own Android mobile operating system, the company is bringing its Google Earth software to the iPhone App Store. As reported by our sister site News.com, the iPhone version replciates much of the desktop application’s core experience, downloading imagery from Google’s servers as the perspective shifts and dotting the map with [...]

How to Fix Vista and iTunes

Just a quick FYI if you get this Windows Vista error while using iTunes ”applemobiledevicehelper has stopped working”… here’s how you fix it.   nixo9999 Posts: 1 From: san diego Registered: Feb 9, 2008   Re: AppleMobileDeviceHelper has stopped working Posted: Feb 9, 2008 4:50 AM   in response to: Kaptinkangaru587     Reply Email This worked for me [...]

testing the new iPhone interface.

I have to say, this is quite an improvement over the old one. It looks to be about as simple as possible, which I like a great deal. ——— NOTE: This is a reference to this wordpress update. Yes, I did find a bug in it. Do you see it? spoiler: I posted a comment [...]

Penny Arcade : Really Long Titled Video Game

Penny Arcade : Really Long Title Originally uploaded by el_wah This is is a screen shot from the recently released Penny Arcade video game. I played through the game the other day. I should have a review up for it some time this week. Quickie review: Solid RPG-Slight Action game with some funny dialogue and [...]

The Downside of BioFuels (and Stupid Wars)

Haiti’s President Tries to Halt Crisis Over Food – New York Times The police in Haiti struggled Wednesday to control looting and rioting over high food prices as President René Préval issued a sharp call for an end to the chaos. “The solution is not to go around destroying stores,” Mr. Préval said in a [...]

Matrix .01 Coming Soon

I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day But it’s coming. A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. And it will help us meet new people for dating, business and friendship. Imagine walking into a meeting, classroom, party, [...]

Viva La Communication!

Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones – Yahoo! News HAVANA – President Raul Castro’s government said Friday it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the communist-run state. ADVERTISEMENTIt was the first official announcement of the lifting of [...]

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