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That is a VERY scary website! There are far more reasons why IE6 must die: http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/ http://davidwalsh.name/6-reasons-why-ie6-must-die http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/ http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/ie6-must-die-twibon/ Even Microsoft is trying very hard to kill IE6. Don't be selfish. Let IE6 die!

That is a VERY scary website! There are far more reasons why IE6 must die: http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/ http://davidwalsh.name/6-reasons-why-ie6-must-die http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/ http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/ie6-must-die-twibon/ Even Microsoft is trying very hard to kill IE6. Don't be selfish. Let IE6 die!

That is a VERY scary website! There are far more reasons why IE6 must die: http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/ http://davidwalsh.name/6-reasons-why-ie6-must-die http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/ http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/ie6-must-die-twibon/ Even Microsoft is trying very hard to kill IE6. Don't be selfish. Let IE6 die!

Your fancy-schmancy facial-recognition algorithms won't detect your potential mugger.

Especially at nighttime.

[...] japan is 100 million (and you HAVE to have advanced gadgetry there - cellular phones that cannot display tv broadcasts dont sell - that includes apple's iphones http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/why-the-iphone/ )

You might want to check your sources: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/28/japanese_hate_for_iphone_all_a_big_mistake.html http://mashable.com/2009/07/04/iphone-japan/

or is it some marketing hype in order to make the stocks in nasdaq move ?

I don't think AAPL really needs this kind of help. Selling a crapload of high-profit stuff seems to work well enough for them.

...when the original source is available and doesn't contain grammatical wonders such as the following (emphasis mine):

...infact making “mentioning of users in tweets” more easier for new users.

According to this story from 2006, Google signed a $900m agreement to power the MySpace search between Q4 2006 and Q2 2010. The caveat is that it was, "so long as Fox achieves its expected traffic levels and other commitments." Either way Murdoch hasn't lost quite as much as the headline figures suggest.

I'll resize the screen to REALLY small (or just small enough it still plays)

If the window is made smaller than the ad display area, or the window is not frontmost, the ad will pause.

In the end, there will always be some way to watch their shows without having to really focus on annoying commercials.

Until they start putting CAPTCHAs between the commercials. Google video captcha produces this article.

Agree, also it will cost $25,000 per annum on top of that. I think people jumping on the "this is bad" idea before reading all the facts. Go read this. Spending $200,000 and waiting 9-20 months just to get it taken down a week later isn't worth it, even for high rolling criminals.

O rly?

Iceland is currently drafting the new constitution on social media and especially on Facebook, and it has already gathered a lot of positive vibes from people around the world - http://mashable.com/2011/06/13/iceland-crowdsource-constitution/

After the devastating financial crisis the call for the people to participate must be revitalizing.

Governments can do very likeable things.

For the last fucking time, you cant compare all of android to just the iPhone, you have to include all iOS devices.

Also, in general iOS users are more willing to spend money on applications making it a much more attractive OS for developers to target if they want to actually get paid for their work.

Here are a couple articles describing some times when Microsoft has sued different companies over patents:

TomTom:

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/02/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html Salesforce:

http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/49826-microsoft-sued-over-patents-for-a-change

Motorola: http://www.osnews.com/story/23860/Microsoft_Slaps_Motorola_with_Patent_Lawsuit_over_Android

Barnes & Noble:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/21/microsoft-sues-barnes-noble/

Just a few of the companies being sued by Microsoft. Most companies don't wanna get sued by Microsoft - so they often settle. But Microsoft will sue if they don't get their way.

How are any of these links supporting this very specific claim (complete with snarky comments about others needing to do research): "Lindows, Android, Apple. You might actually want to do some research"

Here are a couple articles describing some times when Microsoft has sued different companies over patents:

TomTom:

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/02/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html
Salesforce:

http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/49826-microsoft-sued-over-patents-for-a-change

Motorola:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23860/Microsoft_Slaps_Motorola_with_Patent_Lawsuit_over_Android

Barnes & Noble:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/21/microsoft-sues-barnes-noble/

Just a few of the companies being sued by Microsoft.
Most companies don't wanna get sued by Microsoft - so they often settle.
But Microsoft will sue if they don't get their way.

They had it for the release of iOS4. I don't know how full it was, but the point is still that unsigned code was run from the web. http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/ios-4-jailbreakme/

And I think that lasted for about a week. So?

They had it for the release of iOS4. I don't know how full it was, but the point is still that unsigned code was run from the web. http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/ios-4-jailbreakme/

"I would never turn FBI informant if I were a hacker." - Martin Luther King

In other news 47% [1] of all news articles are speculative bullshit with no grounding in reality. See we can all make up numbers.

1. "We can invent references, too, and nobody will bother to check them." - Gettysburg Address, 1812.

...and the videos coming out are pretty awful.
http://mashable.com/2011/06/04/syrian-internet-restored/
You've been warned.

I was right! Apple has gotten by with "security by obscurity" for so long that practically NO sally average Mac user follows safe practices, nobody on the Apple side runs AV or antimalware, so here come the sharks.

You're full of shit, as always, and think that you're fucking Noah every time it rains. Macs get a new piece of malware every now and then. This is the most interesting one to date, but you can lay off building your ark.

Which only makes sense, because despite all the "poo poo, Macs aren't toys for the rich, poo poo" studies have shown that not only do mac owners have multiple Macs, they on average pull down $100,000 a year.

It will become obvious to anyone that reads that article (or that reads your posts in general), that you see the world though a pair of tinted glasses that you have worn for so long that you don't even realize they are on.

From the article: "Thirty-six percent of Apple computer owners reported household incomes greater than $100,000, compared to 21 percent of all consumers." In other words, 67% of Mac users make less than $100k, and 79% of PC users do as well. That's a far cry from "Macs are toys for the rich".

Also from the article: "NPD’s study also shows 85% of all Mac owners also have a Windows PC." and "66% of Apple computer households have three or more computers. For Windows households, only 29% have three or more computers." So, while it's true that some Mac owners have more than one Mac, even more have their old PC. And a significant number of PC owners have THREE OR MORE computers as well. Does that mean PCs are only toys for the rich?

Well over 10% of households have Macs. Mac market share is growing faster than PC market share. Macs are consistently the highest rated computers on the market, and are extremely popular among consumers. These aren't just rich people. Fuck, these aren't even *PRIMARILY* rich people.

Mark my words: Now that they have seen how well they can spread the blood IS in the water, now the sharks will come. like any other predator the wolves looking to steal CCs

They already are... via phishing emails. As far as CC stealing malware, your ilk have cried "wolf!" for a decade now.

As a windows builder allow me to say...Welcome! The "how not to get pwned" workshop is on Thrusdays, coffee and donuts are in the back. Welcome to the club fellas, hey at least that means you're popular now, right?

The truly disturbing thing is your posts on this topic have been near orgasmic. Not only are you prematurely predicting a malware "tidal wave" for Mac users, but you appear GIDDY about it. You also seem to think that Mac malware is about to exceed PC malware (well, that you think "PCs will keep the bot nets, and Macs will get the CC stealing malware" or whatever). Ok, Mr. Camping, what are you going to do when your prediction fails to materialize?

I have a feeling Android may be the "mass market" product the bones the Linux guys, so at least you won't be alone.

Android has almost nothing to do with Linux. Primarily, the connection is the kernel. iOS is the "mass market" product (there are more than twice as many iOS devices out there than Android devices, and iOS still outsells Android on a daily basis). However, Android gets the overwhelming bulk of the malware (there has been a small amount of malware (I think two) for jailbroken iPhones).

This is not because Android is more common (it's not even close), it's because Android is easier to target. Also, even if Android ends up majorly pwned by the malware makers, let's say it becomes even worse than Windows (I'm not predicting that all, btw, this is just for illustration), that will have essentially *ZERO* impact on desktop Linux malware (aside: for which there is more malware than there is for the Mac!).

I understand that part of

Oh you're so right, why they can even get to the DOS underpinnings that way! Oh, wait a tick, that hasn't been true for nearly FIVE years now since on Vista and 7 both run IE under low rights mode something even Linux doesn't have. Last time I checked Linux ran the browser with the same rights as the user that launched it whereas both IE and Chromium based (like the Comodo Dragon I'm typing on now) run as LOW rights, with the Dragon and other chromiums going one more step further and sandboxing (and if you are running the excellent Avast free you can have a "Yo Dawg" moment as it sandboxes too) the browser.

So unless you want us to start talking about how Linux is only up to version 2 of the kernel and doesn't support SATA yet you might want to stick with the facts, kay? If someone chooses to run a decade old OS, even if MSFT is nice enough to still offer security patches, that still isn't gonna make it safe for the modern web, anymore than digging out some 10 year old Debian discs would make for a very secure web server.

As for TFA, what was it I said to the Mac troll that swore up and down it wasn't a bug (he insisted on correcting everyone with a nice blame the victim "its a trojan!" meme) and insisted It didn't have anything to do with his excellent OS, just stupid users? oh yeah I said "the blood is in the water, now the wolves will come because they have seen that many Macs are like sheep ready for the slaughter" and guess what? I was right! Apple has gotten by with "security by obscurity" for so long that practically NO sally average Mac user follows safe practices, nobody on the Apple side runs AV or antimalware, so here come the sharks.

Which only makes sense, because despite all the "poo poo, Macs aren't toys for the rich, poo poo" studies have shown that not only do mac owners have multiple Macs, they on average pull down $100,000 a year. Wow. Who do you think has a juicier CC? The guy making $100k a year pisslefarting on his Mac? Or Becky the Wally world checkout girl who just got that $400 Dell out of lay-away? I know who I would be going after, and it sure wouldn't be Becky. Windows will be the target for botnets, and Macs will be the targets of those wanting them CC digits.

Mark my words: Now that they have seen how well they can spread the blood IS in the water, now the sharks will come. like any other predator the wolves looking to steal CCs, be it by ransomware or scareware or simply snatching the digits, they will look at Macs like a hungry wolf looks at a nice T-Bone steak. If it is any consolation Mac guys, I have a feeling Android may be the "mass market" product the bones the Linux guys, so at least you won't be alone. As a windows builder allow me to say...Welcome! The "how not to get pwned" workshop is on Thrusdays, coffee and donuts are in the back. Welcome to the club fellas, hey at least that means you're popular now, right?

You're kidding, right? This is allowing us to play all those games from our youth without them looking like blocks at 1080 HD. If anything this is helping the past, no longer will they need to release a "remake", they can re-release the original with this algorithm attached and they're done.

Besides, do you think 1080 HD will be the resolution of choice 20-40 years from now? I imagine we'll be looking at wall-sized TVs at some point and 1080 pixels will look awfully blocky on a 10 foot wall. Sharp has already released a 7x680 x 4,320 pixel 85-inch screen, how long before 4320 is the new 1080?

You are so very very WRONG.

Apple has sold 160 million iOS devices and Google reports that there are 100 million Android devices out there. That's over a quarter billion devices running operating systems that a) didn't even exist 4 years ago and b) came to market being compatible with exactly zero existing apps.

No idea what yaori is, but Amazon also banned wikileaks

Nah Amazon will do the same thing Google did when Apple tried to ban Google Voice. There will be a Kindle HTML 5 ebook reader for phones. It will run entirely in the browser. http://mashable.com/2010/09/17/google-voice-app-store-return/ Apple banned Google Voice. Google puts out a Web App. Apple allows it back in. Apple would rather have the enemy in the App Store than a large percentage of their users using Web Apps. Or worse yet Jailbreaking their device and using the Cydia store.

People I know who have an iPad use it extensively - they don't miss the lack of flash. They aren't technically illiterate, either. They are doing four major things with their iPad - playing iPad specific games (eg http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/sword-sworcery-game/); using it as a reading platform (Kindle app, comics readers, Google books, PDF reading with annotation); using it as a netflix/hulu platform (no hulu plus for android yet) and using it for Google maps/earth. They do these things fantastically well.

There is a lot I don't like about Apple, and in the Apple/Google war, I prefer Google - but if Steve Jobs continues his project of putting Flash out of our misery, I'll give him a big, wet, sloppy kiss.

Step 1: make some affordable accessories to comfortably set up a tablet as if it were a PC monitor; keyboard, speakers, etc.

With the iPad2 I can mirror to any monitor, or use a keyboard stand that Apple makes, or use any bluetooth keyboard, or buy any number of speaker docs.

Step 2: start marketing parts instead of finished products only so it isn't an entire industry of iMacs. Let people build their own.

And how is that different with the entire iPad ecosystem today, where people are doing just that with a huge range of third party accessories? Otherwise you aren't seriously arguing that people surface-mount components in a homebrew tablet right? Because that is what you'd be doing to keep the size and weight anywhere near current tablet standards.

Step 3: open things up and give people more control over what they do with their devices; if you buy it you get to decide how it's used.

99% of iPad buyers have all the control they can use, they use the web and buy a huge range of tablet specific apps and that is enough.

The other 1% can jailbreak. And that is in fact better for the technical user than using any other device because of how much easier it is to hack ObjectiveC apps to tweak the system and individual apps instead of having to write whole applications from scratch. A huge part of the Cydia app store is not just superficial customization like the home page, but about customization to add features to existing apps (like Mail.app).

Now you may start to understand why Apple calls the tablet the "post-PC", the only missing component is off-pC backup. Hmm, I wonder what Apple is doing with a huge new datacenter?

...or just remove "?gwh=numbers" from the URL... or at least tha's what mashable.com says.

http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand/

http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand/?asid=92c52ad2

correct link

http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand/

Karl Marx said that the industrial revolution polarized the world into two groups: those who own the means of production and those who work on them. Today’s means of production aren’t greasy cogs and steam-spewing engines, but that doesn’t mean they don’t divide us. Industrial data is all around us, and search engines, governments, financial markets, social networks and law enforcement agencies rely on it. We willingly embrace this “Big Data” world. We share, friend, check in and retweet our every move. We swipe loyalty cards and enter frequent flyer numbers. We leave a growing, and apparently innocent trail of digital breadcrumbs in our wake. But as we use the Internet (Internet) for “free,” we have to remember that if we’re not paying for something, we’re not the customer. We are in fact the product being sold — or, more specifically, our data is. So here’s a tricky question: Who owns all that data?

Who Owns Your Data?

But what are we complaining about? It’s all free. Having to move our bookmarks is not really a huge problem, but we all seem appalled that large companies care about money. Since when is this an anomaly? Company sees something cool, hopes to make money, buys it, doesn’t make enough money, poof. Here’s a truth for you: most companies only care about your data insofar as this data can help them make money. They have this site and you fill it. You fill it.

"Death to web services. Long live web services!"

So to the extent you're locked in, that's the extent you are not on the open web. The perfectly open web has zero lock-in. The silos are totally locked-in and therefore not on the open web.

What I mean by "the open web"

Your site should be the source and hub for everything you post online. This doesn't exist yet, it's a forward looking vision, and I and others are hard at work building it. It's the future of the indie web.

Tantek Çelik

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling ("Do you belong in journalism?", The New Yorker, 14 May 1960)

Yeah, they've been having technical problems since October 26, 2009!

As Flyerman points out, the 16 year old was posing as a man, and she social engineered a female within the organization. So, no, the girl didn't manipulate a guy via his hormones at all. The "security experts" failed repeatedly, on a number of fronts. Would you like the links to the real story? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbgary-wrote-backdoors-and-rootkits-for-the-government.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/the-ridiculous-plan-to-attack-wikileaks.ars Please note, that I do not agree with a lot of what Anonymous does, but sometimes, they really do get things right. http://mashable.com/2011/02/19/anonymous-westboro/

It sold 1.5 million in the first six weeks. Not exactly floundering.

http://mashable.com/2010/12/21/windows-phone-7-sales/

http://mashable.com/2010/12/09/youtube-upload-time-limit/ Since december. There is a limit at some point I'm sure, but I've already watched 45 minute TV shows that were uploaded in single parts, and they most certainly weren't Partner videos.

Since when? Last I heard, YouTube had increased the limit to 15 minutes for non-Partner videos.

If we are just talking about photos, there are even more options. A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.

Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data.

But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed
Yahoo Photos and
Yahoo Video
and deleted everyone's data, right?

Yahoo happily deleted dead people's personal webpages which cost them nothing in terms of bandwidth or processing power.
Most of pages were lame but they were still someone's page.

Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data. But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed Yahoo Photos[...]

From the article linked by you:

However, the company is offering several options for moving your photos to alternative services. In addition to Yahoo-owned Flickr, users can automatically migrate their photos to their accounts on Photobucket, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Kodak Gallery.

I personally didn't care about my photos there, so I didn't do anything and all my photos ended up on Flicker. What's your story?

Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data. But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Video and deleted everyone's data, right?

Well of course this could (and eventually probably will happen), but there's nowhere absolutely safe for a physical copy either. Best to have at least one of each in my opinion. The odds of your house getting broken into or catching on fire or your backup HD just plain dying - not an everyday event but certainly well within the realm of reasonable threat. The odds of Flickr being shut down without notice or mistakenly deleting your account - also possible. The odds of both of those happening the same week? Comfortably low, IMHO.

If we are just talking about photos, there are even more options. A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.

Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data. But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Video and deleted everyone's data, right?

1.5 million as of end of December so somewhere between 0 and 60,000 affected users (assuming "Low single digit" maxes out at 4%).

Who is paying and for what?

Other searches indicate that it's from "brand advertising, Microsoft advertising, virtual goods and performance advertising."

I don't see what made you jump to this conclusion.

Maybe it's my flu, but your ignorance is slightly irritating. Anyhow, here is your opportunity to educate yourself. And educate yourself some more
More details and a good analysis of Apple's strategy against Android.

No need to thank me, but if you do, you're welcome. Always pleased to reduce ignorance.

I did a couple searches thanks to your post and appreciate being closer to my answer.

I have one gmail account but importing twelve years of private Yahoo e-mail into gmail, which has existed a mere five, makes me cringe. Can't allow them to cash in with its advertising partners on a huge data mine for one single user. Yahoo mail never had privacy problems, and you cringe because they're the least flashy one. Good for me. Hotmail and gmail accounts get hacked all the time.

I'll settle for a pst-type Yahoo archive to be saved away from the web and potential advertisers down the road.

Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?

Yes. They're now selling promoted tweets for up to $100,000. Engagement rates were significantly higher than what was seen on Google's sponsored links, though that's likely due to its novelty. With enough promoted tweets however, you could start to see some serious cash rolling in.

especially if it's programmable

What use is programmability if you're prevented from actually installing anything on your device in the first place? What use is your application if it is subject to the whims of whoever owns the cloud it's running on?

I suspect that the vast majority of them would gladly part with privacy or security in exchange for something flashier, faster, and/or cooler

Some Blippy users found out the hard way that that's a bad idea.

I don't think Moore has ever denied that he has an agenda, and that he's telling the story his way.

Wait, are they stories or documentaries?

Because if they're stories, then that's cool. He can make stuff up all he wants. I think that a dinosaur on a rocket in Fahrenheit 911 would have been spectacular... but that's his call.

If they're documentaries (as they seem to be when it comes to awards time), then it would be great if they didn't take so many liberties with facts and stuff. I wouldn't call them documentaries any more than the "works" of James O’Keefe.

You have to ask yourself, does James O’Keefe make documentaries? If anyone thinks that only one of these guys makes documentaries, then you should look into the fallacy of special pleading.

"Got a Gawker acct that shares a PW w/your Twitter acct? Change your Twitter PW. A current attack appears to be due to the Gawker compromise." http://twitter.com/delbius/status/14235293116792833

Acai Berry Twitter Worm Spreading Like Wildfire [WARNING]

http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/acai-berry-twitter-worm-warning/

One more reason I'm doing all my Christmas shopping through Amazon this year.

... and here is one big reason not to do any Christmas shopping through Amazaon this year.

You clearly have trademark issues as well. "Pac" is distinctive so any name using "pac" will likely be a trademark infringement.

Yeah you are better off calling it Super Face.... errmm..