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Troll Touch your iMac screen {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 18th 2008 7:29PM Very cool, but SERIOUSLY overpriced.
Should the legal drinking age be lowered? {Slashfood}
Apr 21st 2008 11:44PM To me, it's a simpler rehashing of the above comments about military service. A guy survives a day of fighting for his life and the lives of the men around him (not to mention all of us back home) and when he survives the battle, someone's gonna tell him he can't have a beer. That takes stones. It's also a touch heartless.
Earthlink considers "strategically" withdrawing MuniFi investments {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2007 12:18AM Municipalities have every right to set up a program that benefits everyone in the city, not to mention the businesses that pay millions in taxes to the cities.
Living in Philadelphia, one of Earthlink's original sites, city WiFi has been met with some skepticism from some, but the parks are full of people on city WiFi, many that work relatively closely, some that work for themselves and want internet anywhere.
Not to mention, of course, that with Philadelphia anyway, it's hardly free. $10/m promo for a little while, but the true price is $20/m. That's hardly free, but the city investing in the infrastructure made it possible for people to pay for this particular service - just as they pay for sewer, trash pick up, water, etc - all of which are city services.
Apple voiding warranties, blacklisting hacked iPhones? {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 21st 2007 1:57PM http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061124-8280.html
It's legal, via the DMCA restrictions list, to unlock your phone - and here's the fun part - specifically because the locking is only used to support a business model. If this goes to court, Apple will have a hard time defending a stance that both Congress and the Register of Copyrights have declared legal.
Further, companies are often read the riot act by judges when trying to void out their responsibility for a product they sold, especially when the particular function the user employed was... legal.
Philadelphia mayor caught camping for an iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 29th 2007 12:54PM Ben's got it right. In case his post is removed for... "dirty words", here's the crux of it:
"Philadelphia currently has one of the highest murder rates in the country. What is our dead beat mayor doing? Sitting in line for an iPhone."
Here's a mayor that had the FBI bug his office, has seen half his staff go to jail, has been implicated by just about everyone that WENT to jail with being complacent if not outright a participant in criminal activities, etc. Philadelphia grew by -60k people last year. We're in a housing crisis - million dollar condos everywhere, and 200+ murders already keeping people out of the city.
If you want to give Street props for anything, how about landing himself a cushy job, getting paid by my taxes, averting criminal charges (which I still don't understand) and having the balls to be out waiting for a damn iPhone.
When I first woke up this morning and saw that he was out there, naturally I assumed that he had solved the murder crisis, along with the looming public transportation crisis, budget problem, and the city's numerous other problems. Then I read the rest of the news, and realized that he's just a jerk.
False alarm: iPhone NOT delayed until October, Leopard NOT delayed again until January {Engadget}
May 16th 2007 12:10PM It makes plenty of sense - iPhone for the XMas season, Leopard to headline MacWorld. Apple likes releasing products around events, and WWDC (when the iPhone doesn't support third party development) is not the iPhone event, and Leopard in October is based around nothing - hence a much smaller frenzy.
