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Comment For real? (Score 1) 653

How can an entity own curved sides and any shade of yellow. This is out of hand people. Had they did this and then printed the word Fluke on it OK. This is no different than Apples rounded corners. Companies can now own geometric shapes, colors, and even DNA. These are things of nature, not men. What is this world coming to?

Comment Re:What is a publisher even for? (Score 1) 463

Don't you know that in the United States of America you can't publish anything without a man in the middle to skim a percentage off the top? It's un-american to do it any other way. Heck even asking why it's that way is un-american.

(I know you asked for a serious answer. I am joking, but the publisher who thinks this is serious about it.)
Iphone

Submission + - DOS on iPhone and IPad (cnet.com)

gent01 writes: A company called Fast Intelligence got DOSBox running on iOS and dubbed it iDOS. It's been stuck in review for the app store for some time. Evidently the iDOS app was approved and was available in the app store this morning, but it's already been taken down.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20020759-56.html

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/26/idos-emulator-hits-the-app-store-gets-pulled-in-record-time/

Security

Submission + - Twitter Closes Hole after attack hits up to 500k (threatpost.com)

chicksdaddy writes: Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least oneTwitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.

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