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Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It 181

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 07, 2009 @02:39PM from the new-geek-squad-terms-of-service dept.

Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.

Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.

Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!

Comment Why does everything have to appeal to everybody?? (Score 2, Insightful) 798

by Earl The Squirrel on Monday March 16, 2009 @04:58PM (#27216605) Attached to: Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy"

I read the article and it says it has to "appeal to a more mainstream audience", and yet it's earnings and revenue are up sharply this year. So, what logic says that they need to appeal to a wider audience?? Do they think that going more mainstream (which I suspect means also changing some of the type of programming as well....) won't cause any of the existing audience to leave? This sounds like the media equivalent to New Coke.

Sugar-Coated Drug-Dealing Game Approved For iPhone 73

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @04:11PM from the just-try-calling-your-suitcase-a-bomb-at-the-airport dept.

Pocket Gamer writes "Of course, Apple wouldn't allow such a salacious games as Dope Wars on the hallowed corridors of the App Store. What Catamount's done is sugarcoat its game (quite literally) and turned it into Prohibition 3: Candy Wars — a reskinned version of the exact same game."

Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" 268

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:27AM from the future-is-now dept.

CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."

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