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iPad Jailbroken 624

A day after the release of Apple's tablet computer, a hacker claims to have gained root access to the iPad. "A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple's restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to have hacked the iPad. Just a day after release, the hacker, who goes by 'MuscleNerd' online, said that he has gained root access to the iPad..."

Comment Re:Less is more with the April fools jokes (Score 1) 95

The number would need to be much higher than 10. This is not a problem with demand, no. It is a problem with geography. Google Wave is available to more than 10 countries. For this scheme to work, with a reasonable response time, we would need at least one or two people per country (depending on country size). Other than this impracticality, I like the idea... It would also require people to have gps tracking turned on so the Google people could find them...

Comment Re:SharePoint (Score 1) 130

SharePoint is not the most elegant or user-friendly system ever made. I have used it now at work for a few years, and it is used a lot, and does a lot, but nothing is fast or simple to use. New and current users require a lot of training. It doesn't seem to do anything very well, simply because it tries to do too much. It will integrate with Microsoft Office and you can embed InfoPath forms etc, but it never seems quite as integrated as the documentation suggests.
Social Networks

YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It 419

pcause writes "Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear that Google knew the site contained pirated content and bought it and continued the pirating."

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