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Comment Re:This is what happens... (Score 1) 628

by jbacon (#28739027) Attached to: UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook

Brilliant plan! Let us untie the hands of police, and give these super-civilians the power to shit all over us peon-civilians to an even larger degree than is already possible. This way, we can eliminate all our violent crime, and replace it with violent justice. But then, there wouldn't really be much of a difference between crime and justice, would there?
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UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook 628

Posted by Soulskill from the clicking-buttons-is-much-easier-than-walking-a-beat dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals. 'Riot police stormed a man's 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an "all-night" party on Facebook. Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested. The birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC. It was about 4pm when eight officers with camouflage pants and body armor jumped out of their vehicles and ordered everyone out about an hour into the party.' The event's organizer, Andrew Poole, said, 'The police had full-on camouflage trousers on and body-armour, it was ridiculous. There were also several plain-clothes officers as well ... they kept on insisting it has been advertised it as an all-night rave on the internet. The times on it were put as "overnight" in case people wanted to sleep-over, but after being explained this they were still banging on saying it was advertised on the internet. They wouldn't accept it wasn't a rave. It was in a completely isolated field.'"

Comment Re:Android just won't catch up with iPhone (Score 1) 117

by jbacon (#28517783) Attached to: Unlocking Android

Seeing as I actually own a G1, I enjoy the ability to make my interface whatever the hell I want it to be. On the Market alone are several complete Home screen replacement apps, offering a plethora of features including iPhone-style dock bars, skinnability, and more. And once you break out of the one-click comfort zone and check out xda-developers, the opportunities abound. Custom roms, roms for other phones that are ported to the G1, and so much more.

So, the G1 ends up being a delightfully hackable, surprisingly polished platform. Considering Apple has a year's head start on them, the Android platform is doing superbly. Further considering that there are many, many phones on many carriers slated for release that run Android, I'm fairly confident in saying that the platform will be taken to a whole new level this time next year. Once carriers start learning that Android makes them money, they will throw their support behind it, and that'll be the game.

Comment Re:Not News (Score 1) 170

by jbacon (#28278615) Attached to: One-Tweet Wonders

This existed pre-internet. How many bought a diary and wrote one entry? Went out for a run, swim or to the gym once? Read a few pages of War and Peace? Only went to one foreign language lesson? Only bothered with a couple of piano/guitar/trumpet lessons?

While twitter has many problems, the fact that the majority of people tend to play with a new thing and then stop isn't new, or news.

Story of my life...

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