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Law enforcement LOVES the iphone:

http://chris.pirillo.com/why-do-law-enforcement-officials-love-the-iphone/

Really Apple is the only major manufacturer who has provided me no-cost full disk encryption, location tracking, remote lock, and remote wipe capabilities out of the box for my phone,

You gotta be kidding. Blackberries had had strong AES encryption, remote lock & wipe etc long before Steve Jobs even thought of making a phone.

And unlike the iphone, the encryption on the blackberry has been tested, audited & certified.

Here's a great article explaining why law enforcement loves the iphone: http://chris.pirillo.com/why-do-law-enforcement-officials-love-the-iphone/ (hint, it isn't because of the strong iphone security)

Unfortunately, customers don't seem to be interested in real security, so they keep buying iphone...

"Vixie predicts an uncertain future where computer users don't understand or simply don't care about the risks involved."

Exactly. That is one of the reasons iphone is so popular.

More people keep putting their entire digital & financial life on their smartphone, and you might think people would be very interested in keeping all their information secure.

Blackberry has been audited, tested & certified by many government & non-government agencies: http://us.blackberry.com/business/topics/security/certifications.html

Iphone has been audited, tested & certified by... nobody.

And here is a great article about why law enforcement loves the iphone: http://chris.pirillo.com/why-do-law-enforcement-officials-love-the-iphone/

Since this was true three years ago, the good news is that your IT folks may only be about three years out of date with technology, thus placing them in the top 20% of corporate IT folks. Hey, I like to be optimistic!

Dude, the security of the iphone platform remains far, far below that of the blackberry. Read the many certifications for blackberry: http://us.blackberry.com/business/topics/security/certifications.html

How many certifications does iphone have? None.

As more people are putting their entire life on their phone, you might think security would be important to them.

The last couple years suggests that most people don't care about security and are far more interested in Oooh! Shiny!

But don't try to claim that the iphone is a secure platform. It's false. How many countries have tried to ban blackberry? How many countries have tried to ban iphone?

Why does law enforcement love iphone? http://chris.pirillo.com/why-do-law-enforcement-officials-love-the-iphone/

In what world is MS Windows easier to use? Not this one, or the one where Macs are growing faster. Of course Yale is too uppity.

You claim below that it is based on personal preference. Most of the world considers Windows to be easier to use than any alternative.

Macs selling faster...hmmm I have a problem with that. See, mac came out before windows...and windows has like 90% of the desktop market...which by definition means windows sells a LOT more over shorter time...which means windows sells faster. Maybe the iphone/ipad craziness has turned that around a little nowadays, but lets just wait and see if it leads anywhere.

The original post complained that some things were not logical or not intuitive.

And I stated those were matters of personal preference. Do you have scientific studies showing one GUI is better than others? Or are you letting your emotions dictate your reactions?

Your post didn't confirm anything about it being personal preference, and neither did the parent post deny that. You may have felt it was implicit, but I disagree.

I agree it is about preference...but that wasn't the point of either of the previous posts.

I'm sorry, in what world does "I am so used to OSX I dont notice myself doing this thing and so it is easy" become an answer to "new users will find this difficult and unintuitive"??

In what world is MS Windows easier to use? Not this one, or the one where Macs are growing faster. Of course Yale is too uppity.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/tco-new-research-finds-macs-in-the-enterprise-easier-cheaper-to-manage-than-windows-pcs/6294

The original post complained that some things were not logical or not intuitive.

And I stated those were matters of personal preference. Do you have scientific studies showing one GUI is better than others? Or are you letting your emotions dictate your reactions?

Falcon

That would be a bug affecting android 2.2 or higher which causes text messages to go to the wrong place.

As their main webserver quietly melts in the background, please direct your attention to a video here (Coral Cache) that has the exact same title as the url in this article.

This link/video mentions Jerone Young, one of the "main engineers at Canonical" responsible for ARM development.

unfortunate how most anti-nuclear arguments use Chernobyl as an example - we can build them so much safer today. Looks like the oil drilling technology hasn't come as far, while still capable of producing devastating effects for years to come.

Unfortunate how most pro-drilling advocates used the slogan "we can build them much safer today".1 2 3 4, etc etc.

These are the same old arguments businesses constantly give to get around regulation. Call the laws "outdated", "old", and talk about how progress has made them unnecessary.

We saw the same "mining is much safer today" from coal companies skirting regulations. And it's the same line of argument that was used to remove regulations from the financial industry. And it's used pretty much everywhere that "stifling" government regulation stands in the way of "economic progress and freedom".

At 5:00 in this video you can learn how the oil companies lobbied successfully to NOT have to use modern safety backup systems:

"BP didn't want to spend the money for a system- a fail-safe system... used all over the world... except the United States because we give them a free pass. ...it's called the "acoustic switch" system.. it's a relay system that... stops the oil exactly from the source... If BP has to do business in Norway, they have to use the switch. When they do it in the US, they don't have to use it... During the Bush deregulation years, you had the mineral management service that told companies like BP that "gee whiz we have a new policy- it's the closed-door Dick Cheney policy..." that allowed the industry to bypass safe systems like the acoustic switch, and there was no need to spend $500,000 with a company that was making $40 billion dollars. It was a complete bypass of safety."

New tech makes old achievements irrelivant. Get used to it.

ORLY? I beg to differ.

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Aero *is* spiffy.
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So? You get the same with compiz-fusion and it's not as praised as Aero is, even when people know of compiz itself.

I hate when someone praises plagiarism.

Yes, let's all move in the same direction on the same projects, thereby destroying that which makes Linux so successful.

Linux works BECAUSE of the fracturing, not in spite of it. Yes, there are downsides to that where applications and such aren't terribly cohesive. But there are upsides, where you get the source to everything and no one can ever take it away from you. You don't get that benefit with your beloved OS X. It may look shinier, but OS X still has a ton of UI inconsistencies. Don't kid yourself... no OS has the consistency thing down, and I'd rather take the more stark inconsistency of Linux for the benefits it provides than pay through the nose for OS X + hardware, then all the little nickel and dime utilities you need for OS X.

the credit card companies know that payments to certain entities are for scam crap

Like iTunes (look for this one to be taken down soon from your friends at Apple), iTunes, and iTunes.

Ever seen the youtube video with ZFS striped across the USB thumb-drives? You can implement RAID5 (raidz) and/or RAID6 (raidz2) and lose up to two of the thumb drives PER vdev. Get 8 GB usb thumb drives and get lots of them. Create groups of 3 or slightly more thumbdrives per vdev and raidz2 away. You can safely lose 2 thumb drives and still re-import the entire zpool by plugging the USB drives anywhere. BTW, you'll need this: http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/12/31/13-port-usb-hub/

They obviously thought they'd give it a few extra months of effort to perfect the new features introduced by the service pack.

http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/09/28/vista-rants/

Why don't you stop using Windows? I know that's not an option for everyone, but these days it's something you should consider. It's not like there aren't alternatives out there. There are! A Google search just turned up several blog posts that talk about Windows alternatives:

Langa Letter: Exploring Windows Alternatives
Avoid Windows Vista anti-piracy shenanigans by using BSD, OpenSolaris or Linux.
Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista
Dump Windows Update, use alternatives
Alternatives to Windows Software

I'm sure you could find a lot more information, too. So there's really no excuse for still using Windows, especially if there's really nothing keeping you from switching to one of the many alternatives.

I think it's difficult to even suggest that Vista offers a "pretty face". A large number of bloggers have written about the rather poor appearance of Windows Vista.

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2006/10/26/ vista-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/
http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/56
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/02/27/windows-vista- im-breaking-up-with-you/

And it's not like Microsoft was unaware of the problems. We had people pointing out many of the visual flaws throughout the development process:

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5231. asp
http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/01/the_tru th_about.html

Don't think that Linux isn't above ripping off OS X as well : http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/09/06/vistas-ui-is-b etter-than-this/

And even then, Apple weren't the ones doing the original thinking : http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-5250692.html

http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/09/06/vistas-ui-is-b etter-than-this/

The Kororaa Project http://kororaa.org/ had a live cd that had the Nvidia drivers included that had all this in it. It was amazing. They were forced to remove the distro though because of the GPL license.

Tags are better to facilitate searching, categories are better to steer your regular readers. Chris Pirillo uses extensive tags in his blog while Poh Huai Bin uses categories in his.

As regular readers of both I MUCH prefer categories. If I'm interested in what one of my blog heros has to say on a broad topic I have a lot more success and fun browsing through everything in a category than by trying to figure out some arbitrary keyword.

You do what you feel suits your blog content and organization best, but if it were me I'd set up categories. I might be old fashioned, though.

They left Tv and moved to the web. All for the better.

Well just type "photocasting" in google and check out your first hit. Is it Apple? No, currently it is a post from over two months ago from chris pirillo's web site showing how to setup PHOTOCASTING with flickr and the PSP.

http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/2/ 1337933.html

Attribution is just not in Apple's DNA.
-SR

1. MSN Search will be renamed to MSN Grahams Number
2. Robert Scoble will be fired and/or hired by another company at twice his current salary
3. George Lucas announces three more Star Wars films (dubbed Suckquels), after Special Editions for the Prequels and Super-Duper Mega Deluxe Power Special XP Uber Plus Editions for the Original Trilogy are re-pre-pro-issued
4. Adobe Reader 7.0.1 will be released, solidifying its place in the Guinness Book of Worlds Records as the Most Painfully Long Boot Process for an Application that Everybody Needs.
5. eBay will eBay itself on eBay
6. Microsoft will begin issuing patches as viruses and spyware, thus boosting update adoption by ten billion percent
7. The RIAA will make writing on any kind of CD illegal
8. Everybody and their grandmother will have a podcast thats just as boring and useless as their blogs
9. To compete with Atom in the marketplace, Harvard will start calling RSS Eve
10. It becomes legal to castrate / sterilize spammers under vigilante justice

Robert X. Cringelys 2005 predictions:

1) Microsofts entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users. This is based on everything I know about Microsoft, having watched the company for almost 28 years. They will make a big fanfare, spend a lot of marketing dollars, but in the end, the company simply wont be able to keep up with the demands of keeping virus signatures current, which isnt the real point of this gambit, anyway. There is so much to this story and so much that I could write that I think Ill do so next week, and just move on to the next prediction.
2) Carrying over from last year, I predict that Burst.com will beat Microsoft in their current lawsuit. But to avoid having to eat crow again over timing, let me put this in greater context. IF a trial actually takes place, as it is now scheduled to do this summer, Burst will easily win. Microsoft is at a disadvantage already as a bully. Burst will probably get Judge Motz to tell the jury that Microsoft deliberately destroyed evidence, and it doesnt hurt, either, that Burst is just plain right on all counts Microsoft DID violate their patents, DID violate Bursts non-disclosure agreement, DID attempt to illegally put them out of business, and DID attempt to control the market.

Of course, Microsoft might settle before trial, but at this point, I dont think that is likely out of simple arrogance on Microsofts part. Microsoft is furious with Burst for the little companys continued survival, plus Microsoft is listening to the wrong lawyers on this one. So Burst will win on some or all counts ,and I expect the damage award to be in the billions. Of course, Microsoft will appeal. But the key difference between this case and other Microsoft cases is that once Burst wins, Real Networks and Apple Computer, both of which are also infringing Bursts patents (along with TiVO and a bunch of other companies), will immediately buy Burst licenses, throwing $100+ million into Bursts coffers and leading to everyone else EXCEPT Microsoft taking a Burst license, too. At that point if it goes that far and Microsoft is that stupid Redmond wont be able to risk not having a Burst license and will settle, too. Only by waiting so long Microsoft will have blown any number of advantages it could have had. Typical.

3) Apple will take a big risk in 2005. This could be in the form of a major acquisition. With almost $6 billion in cash, Steve Jobs hinted to a group of employees not long ago that he might want to buy something big, though I am at a loss right now for wh

Also, I think the term "geek blogger" is a bit oxymoronic, because a blogger IS a geek. The notion that somebody out there with the looks of Angelina Jolie is blogging away merrily is...

What about Ponzi? (She is Chris Perillo's fiancé.) Ponzi is not really a geek and has distinctly Angelina-like attributes. That is, looks beautiful, has a sexy as hell voice, great personality, amply endowed in the torso area, and well, lucky Chris is all I can say!

(I say not a geek because their podcast shows she can cook, use an iron and discuss feminism but not sort out her iPod. Not geek attributes!)

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of beautiful people in the blogosphere who aren't necessarily geeks.

http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/26/ 975606.html

since everyone bitches about how they have no content, let's see how many present their content, or rather: how many are black text on white background...

EVIL

* underlined+bold
* drop shadow
* cream background, not much of an improvement. some of the header text is glossy (shiney / embossed / see above one / other various "auto-artistic" trash ).
* the tiny images illustrating each entry, are dithered (i guess with a "web palette" [making it look even more horrible], which people stopped doing 5+ years ago) then jpg'd.
* cyan background (the name of 100% green + 100% blue)
* purple text, orange links. no, that's not better.
* yes i really want to be tortured with your family album pics
* half of the people leave directly (or die) with the header
* light yellow (piss-water yellow?) background.
* "I.Mter-
views" ?
i don't get it. dashes in headlines are satan.
* scary vector portrait
* horrible. evil. tasteless.
* scarier than the sixapart girl.
* yellow background.

GOOD

* pear/white background. title with first letter biggie, first line in different font from rest.
* greenish tasty tone over everything ...which i didn't follow. great. thanks. as for the equally bad link-colours being that horrible default-blue/purple, it was only around 10%. this was checking 70% of the a-list. methinks those popular people should hire someone to design their site

good design = pyros, don't remember any other. and yeah, it's not a blog.
says intersting things = ms g33k. who i'm not sure is a good thing to link, i won't link myself.

Personally, I don't care about the fact that Matt wants to make money from the work he did for wordpress. I'm more concerned over the fact that he's engaging in something that I wouldn't do myself -- that is, stacking his site with keywords that pay disproportionately more than other adsense keywords.

I'm willing to look past what Matt does because he's essentially allowing another service (Hot Nacho) usurp his pagerank and I have a feeling he's going to drop Hot Nacho, but I'm having a harder time forgiving people like Chris Pirillo who promotes nonsense such as this guy's scheme to get more money from adsense. It sounds too much like the get rich quick real estate schemes of the late night infomercials. Everyone, please! If you use adsense then live by the adage, if it sounds too good to be true, then most likely it is. Don't ruin it for the rest of us by doing this grey area shit. We all will lose out! Sure the tricks may work in your favor in the here and now (like a pyramid scheme), but at who's cost in the long run? Sites who put up legit information about a certain adword will be sideswiped by sites who cheat. It's not fair. If google can't fix the cheats, they'll just yank it for everyone across the board.

Additionally, by tolerating behavior such as this, we're opening the door for other sites to steal legit material written by those who've poured too much research and time in each article. Play by the rules and everyone will be happy. If you're a leecher, hoarder, or just plain criminal, I wish you the worst case of hemorrhoids, dysentery, and cholera combined.

This is a blantant rip-off of Chris Pirillo's Rent My Chest. The least he could do is give the man some credit. :-)

Gretchen Pirillo is one hot number. She's living proof that there is justice in this world and hope for single geeks.
Especially really ugly ones like Mr Pirillo.

According to his webblog, in the last few months, this poor bugger got his ass fired from TechTV, only to be replaced by the uber-knowledgeable (*snicker*) Leo Laporte; gotten sick; gotten food poisoning; has a conspiracy theory that Doc Searls is actually Colonel Sanders; has a beef with hydrogenated oils in soda crackers; has sunk to the oh-so pathetic level of doodling on his own body in order to get hits to his website, "C:\PIRILLO.EXE -- Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid".

And to top it all off, he writes a newsletter called "Windows Fanatics". I feel so bad for this guy. World Vision should add this guy to their client list, he's at least as pathetic as the starving AIDS-ridden African child with flies crawling on his face.

BSD isn't dying, this guy is.

TechTV is owned by Vulcan Inc., the Bellevue, Washington-based investment organization of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen.

Hmmm... is TechTV objective? Do they also have Apple and Open Source programming?

The Screen Savers also feature a lot of Microsoft bits. But they throw a lot of other bits in there too. They did a week of shows mostly dedicated to Linux. They do "alteratips" which are tips for mostly MacOS X and Linux (although, like the Windows tips, they're pretty light-weight). They do on-air help calls for Linux and Mac issues on occasion. The show hosts occasionally grumble about Microsoft and its faults (technical and political/marketing). Tux appears in the background often. OSX's strengths are lauded. Linux is often portrayed as an OS people already enjoy, and the viewer might like to try out too. And for their daily tech news, they often quote articles from Slashdot.

Of course, that's not to say all of TechTV is as enlightned. Sometimes TechTV Live and Cyber Crime have articles with viewpoints and/or quotes that make me cringe.

In all, Paul Allen seems to have a fairly wide focus despite his involvement in Microsoft. And TechTV seems to harbor an environment that allows a reflection of a wide degree of the IT industry.

TechTV is owned by Vulcan Inc., the Bellevue, Washington-based investment organization of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen.

Hmmm... is TechTV objective? Do they also have Apple and Open Source programming?

The Screen Savers also feature a lot of Microsoft bits. But they throw a lot of other bits in there too. They did a week of shows mostly dedicated to Linux. They do "alteratips" which are tips for mostly MacOS X and Linux (although, like the Windows tips, they're pretty light-weight). They do on-air help calls for Linux and Mac issues on occasion. The show hosts occasionally grumble about Microsoft and its faults (technical and political/marketing). Tux appears in the background often. OSX's strengths are lauded. Linux is often portrayed as an OS people already enjoy, and the viewer might like to try out too. And for their daily tech news, they often quote articles from Slashdot.

Of course, that's not to say all of TechTV is as enlightned. Sometimes TechTV Live and Cyber Crime have articles with viewpoints and/or quotes that make me cringe.

In all, Paul Allen seems to have a fairly wide focus despite his involvement in Microsoft. And TechTV seems to harbor an environment that allows a reflection of a wide degree of the IT industry.