Comment Re:This can't be!! (Score 1) 463
And I'll be able to edit my Perl 6 code in TextMate 2!
Submission + - iOS 5 causes developer's iPad to overheat (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: "A developer has complained that after installing iOS 5 beta onto his first-gen iPad, the tablet overheated, taking out the Wi-Fi chip. When he took it into the Apple Store, he was told it was a "known issue". "I'm extremely concerned this is apparently a known issue and yet the iOS 5 download is still available," he said."
Submission + - Time To Close the Security Theater (forbes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: An editorial at Forbes calls for the dismantling of the TSA, pointing to recent headlines as the latest examples of 'security theater' at its worst. From the article:
"The problem isn’t that the TSA is harassing the wrong people. The problem is that the TSA is harassing anyone. The TSA is encroaching on fundamental liberties and providing no discernable benefit. ...Naturally, the TSA responds to incidents like these by saying that the agents are highly trained and that they have followed proper procedure. This indicates a signal failing for the agency: if “doing it by the book” involves touching people in ways that would be considered sexual assault in virtually any other context or telling a 90-year old breast cancer survivor to remove her bra lest it contain explosives (as happened to a friend’s grandmother), then the book needs to be shredded and rewritten. Better yet, it needs to be replaced with a competitive market for air travel in which the airports, the airways, and the airliners are in private hands. Some might object that private firms will have incentives to cut corners on safety. It is a legitimate concern, but competitive mechanisms tend to weed this out."
Comment Re:Welcome to the twitter generation. (Score 1) 535
Well, they already did for arcade boards...
We've already got multiplayer games that become useless after the servers are turned off: I'm sure some companies, like Capcom and EA, are just itching to do the same for single player...
Comment Re:Praise Xena (Score 1) 353
If their hardware is still working, why should they have to upgrade it just to use some shiny piece of shit software in which they have zero interest?
They shouldn't. As long as they accept that we shouldn't have to downgrade our websites just to support some ancient piece of shit in which we have zero interest.
Comment Re:moot point - accout restored (Score 1) 190
Does anyone have a link to that Gawker article that works without Javascript enabled?
That has to be the most brain-dead site design in history... apart from Flash-only sites, of course.
Comment Re:There should be... (Score 1) 143
Usually because the UK government seems to insist on interpreting the EU directive in the most pedantic manner possible, while other EU countries take a more sensible and pragmatic approach...
Comment Re:Nonsense! (Score 1) 591
You "opt in" to AdMob by visiting a page which has an AdMob ad on it (or by using an app that contains AdMob advertising).
Generally, you're given as much advance notice of that as an iPhone user would have got of this data collection. Granted, you're more aware after the fact, but your data has still been collected without consent...
Comment Re:Autocratic Admin? (Score 1) 465
Sounds a lot like Versions / Resume that Apple are putting in Mac OS 10.7.
Though I don't have a copy of the developer preview, so that page is all I've got to go on so far, but it certainly sounds about right.
(Except Apple seem to be checkpointing every hour, on the hour, so you can't take a checkpoint just before making a big change. But maybe that will change before release...)
Comment Re:Postcode (Score 1) 461
On topic: what's the problem with memorising a ZIP-code to somewhere other than where you live?
1060 W Addison, Chicago, IL 60613.
There you go
Comment Re:It's the maps (Score 1) 599
GPS is advisory only , just as if your spousal unit was in the passenger seat with a map and a compass.
Though the GPS will give you considerably less grief if you ignore its instructions
(This is one of the more annoying things about Garmins: the way they say "recalculating" every time you fail to follow instructions. At least TomTom have the grace to make their units just Shut Up And Do It in those circumstances)
Comment Re:Please take responsibility for your life. (Score 1) 599
My TomTom comes up with the "now you can't sue us, nyah" screen only after a full reset. Powering off and back on doesn't cause it to display again.
Now if I didn't need to keep doing full resets to work around TomTom's crappy Bluetooth code, I'd be fine...
Comment Re:no speed limit is kind of a myth (Score 1) 349
Like the car tax sticker in UK, they are designed to destroy themselves during removal.
Huh? The UK tax disc is just a circle of paper. You have to have a holder stuck to the windscreen to keep it in (dealers usually take the opportunity to put one in the car with their branding on the back, in case you forgot where you bought the car from...)
Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border 225
suraj.sun writes "According to a Fox News report: 'Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach — a medieval catapult, capable of launching 4.4 pounds of marijuana at a time. National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence last Friday evening. The 3-yard tall catapult was found about 20 yards from the US border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th military zone in the border state of Sonora.'"
Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders 783
eldavojohn writes "The old cliche that the rich and corrupt hold all their money in Swiss bank accounts (to avoid taxation) may finally have a bit of transparency, as the news today is that Wikileaks has been handed a list of account holders tendered by Rudolf Elmer, former banker of Julius Baer. Julian Assange promises a 'full revelation' while Elmer cited his motivation as being: 'I want to let society know how this system works. It's damaging society.' This appears to be real, as Mr. Elmer is soon to appear before a Zurich regional court on charges of coercion as well as violations of Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. The public may soon find out that their favorite celebrity, politician or employer doesn't feel responsible to contribute financially to the commonwealth at the expense of privacy."
