joNDoty - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Perhaps the more ridiculous thing (Score 2, Informative) 254

by joNDoty on Thursday July 30 2009, @04:22PM (#28888511) Attached to: SMS Hack Could Make iPhones Vulnerable

You can turn off SMS: contact AT&T and tell them to disable SMS for your phone number. This is exactly what I've done and I highly recommend it. I save $5/month in texting charges, and I can still send and receive texts for free. Here's how:

1. Sign up for Google Voice.
2. Tell people your new Google Voice "texting" number (and use it for voice if you want).
3. Buy Prowl at the App Store for $2.99
4. Push your Google Voice SMS messages to your iPhone via Prowl. You can do it with Fluid and a script on a Mac.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!! (free texting)

Comment: Cancel Texting (Score 3, Insightful) 186

by joNDoty on Friday July 03 2009, @11:15AM (#28572551) Attached to: iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS

I recently canceled texting completely on my iPhone 3GS. Texting fees are outrageous and I'm not putting up with them anymore. If you want to text me, send it to my email address. Your phone probably supports texting to an email address and you don't even realize it. You can also reply to free texts I send you and I get notified instantly.

Sure, I can't receive texts sent to my phone number, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make if I'm going to help my country kick this ridiculous habit of overpaying for tiny emails.

Comment: Re:Single Best Story I have read on Slashdot (Score 1) 424

by joNDoty on Monday June 22 2009, @01:43PM (#28426285) Attached to: Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone'

For some reason people think all thieves are badasses that will kick your ass if you mess with them. Thieves are scum. That doesn't make them tough.

Comment: Re:Apple cannot block and it's not illegal (Score 1) 338

by joNDoty on Thursday June 04 2009, @03:18PM (#28214413) Attached to: Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon

This is impossible for Apple to block.

According to the article, "The root USB node (IOUSBDevice) still identifies the device as a Palm Pre...This means that Apple can very easily update iTunes to block the Pre."

They can try to see if any little details are missing, but in the end any probing they do can easily be met by Palm.

So what you're saying is that if Apple blocks it, Palm can counter? That much is true. It'd be the same cat-and-mouse game that we see in jailbreaking phones today or in circumventing DRM.

Comment: Re:I know it's unfashionable... (Score 2, Interesting) 226

by joNDoty on Tuesday May 26 2009, @04:00PM (#28100775) Attached to: Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone

Coincidentally, Chase Jarvis commented on the New Yorker's cover in his blog yesterday:
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/

Comment: Re:Solution (I hope) (Score 1) 408

by joNDoty on Saturday May 02 2009, @03:38AM (#27796943) Attached to: NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus

Speaking of YesScript, I highly recommend it.

Comment: Re:I agree (Score 3, Insightful) 884

by joNDoty on Friday February 27 2009, @02:36PM (#27015673) Attached to: Why Japan Hates the iPhone

As long as it was merely free, the item had no value. But once it was trash, it was worth having.

I think that's because even if you claim you're offering something for free, there's still a feeling that they owe you. Whereas they owe a trash can nothing.

Comment: Re:neodarwinism (Score 2, Informative) 951

by joNDoty on Tuesday February 10 2009, @02:54PM (#26802359) Attached to: Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live

Most Christians are NOT fundamentalists. You lumping all God-loving people into a crazy fundamentalist camp is a worse straw-man argument than calling evolution "darwinism".

Comment: Re:HAHAHAHA (Score 1) 249

by joNDoty on Wednesday January 07 2009, @11:25AM (#26358729) Attached to: Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent

Speak for your own corner of Europe. The name Oprah Winfrey most definitely rings a bell in mine.

Oprah is obviously not as powerful as Angela Merkel...

Speaking for my own corner of the United States,
"Angela who ?" ;-)

Apple TV "Barely Watchable" 424

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 09 2007, @09:20AM
from the so-was-baywatch dept.

lpangelrob writes "Peter Svensson of the Associated Press reviews the Apple TV, and comes away less than impressed.While the Apple TV gets solid marks for "a very iPod-like interface, commendably clear and easy to use", the Apple TV experience falls apart on an HD television. The reviewer notes that "videos from Apple's online iTunes store look horrible on an HDTV set. The movies and TV shows have the same nominal resolution as DVDs, but look much blurrier, approaching the look of standard-definition broadcast TV.'"