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http://twitter.com/FMCNL -- for anyone else who just wanted to see the twitter feed.

There was a tweet from Motorola recently explaining that the lock on the bootloader for the XOOM could be turned on or off at will. Anyone know if this is an actual change in opinion over at MotoHQ, or just pressure from Google because it's the first Honeycomb tablet available? Also, does anyone know if this lockdown of the phones is due to pressure from the service providers?

It appears to be aimed at developers whilst keeping the nice safe consumer ecosystem secure. I don't know about you but if their new phones came out with this option they may suddenly start entering into my consideration again..

Here is the Twitter account of Lloyds TSB (A British Bank) https://twitter.com/LloydsTSBOnline/ - it does seem to be the only one though.

I wasn't aware of this trend. Let me clarify my position. Macs are over priced. From an economic stand point I have no idea why anyone would purchase one.

From a fashion stand point I totally understand why they sell. No comment there and as with anything based purely on taste you can't judge what someone does or doesn't like.

"This iOS bug will be fixed" Apple disagrees with you.

"Apple is aware of the issues, which are currently filed as bugs. But according to Matt Asay, who is vice president of business development for mobile Web framework maker Strobe, Apple supposedly has no plans to fix them. Instead, they are marked "not to be fixed by exec order," suggesting that a higher up at Apple is preventing engineers from fixing the problems."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/confirmed-some-web-apps-not-seeing-ios-43-javascript-speedup.ars
http://twitter.com/#!/mjasay/status/47786214966837248

Apple is no longer a computer company. They're a media company. They're more similar to the music industry/Hollywood/mainstream news/movie studio than they are to a software or hardware company. Apple came up with a new way to sell old stuff. Like any media company they strive for lock in and closed formats/distribution channels to protect revenue streams. Why can't you put music on an ipod without their shopping program?

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. They're using a 300 year old business model.

According to Mathieulh, Sony is smart: they're let you log into PSN if you are using the old authentification method from 3.55... and flag you as a thief. http://twitter.com/#!/Mathieulh

>> What do they achieve by lying about an accomplishment that does not impact the experience of the product?

Welcome to Apple era. Check out this "OH SHINY!!" rambling on twitter about this app, and you have the reason why such lies work - it's easy to convince apple userbase (i.e. sheeple (there, I said it) ) if you market it right (no matter how useful the product is, or how truthful the advertisement is)

http://twitter.com/#search?q=time%20warner%20ipad%20COOL

You don't get it. Ask any [iDevice fan] and right now he is twittering/fbing frantically on just how UBER SUPER COOL his tablet is, that he can now watch TV AT HOME!!!!!!!!11!!!

I'm not saying this is or isn't a true statement, but...

• http://twitter.com/#!/taawd/status/47751718020194304
• http://twitter.com/#!/ashleexk/status/47772853537488896
• http://twitter.com/#!/KenoComberbun/status/47777150501265409
• http://twitter.com/SCB8/statuses/47402067702194176

Heck, have them all: http://twitter.com/search/ipad%20tv%20time%20warner%20sweet#search?q=ipad%20tv%20time%20warner%20cool (though "uber" turned up nothing ;)

Google is involved in this? Perhaps encryption could help them improve the accuracy of transcription in Google Voice...

from @neiltyson: http://twitter.com/#!/neiltyson/status/47289370788638722

"Sixty-four decimal places of Pi gets the observable universe's circumference down to a sextillionth the size of a proton."

Basically, they are saying, "Don't bother writing a Twitter client, ours is so much better than yours."

Their terms of service say quite the opposite, though:

Your Service may be an application or client that provides major components of a Twitter-like end user experience (a "Client"). An example of a Client is a downloadable application that displays user timelines and allows users to create and search for tweets.

They do place restrictions on these clients, a few of which are potentially objectionable (particularly, you aren't allowed to use "data collected from end users of your Client to create or maintain a separate status update or social network database or service," which sounds like it might prevent, say, a client posting to Facebook and Twitter at the same time), but they're not banning them entirely.

....the photos have been republished in several places, which the Piggipedia author, @3arabawy, has seen fit to broadcast on his Twitter feed. The URLs for these are as follows:

http://anonymiss.imgur.com/
http://ge.tt/4LaxiU0
http://cryptome.org/info/eg-ss/eg-ss-01.htm

The dude behind this is one of the main voiced of the Egyptian revolution. History will not look kindly upon Flickr for their cowardice here.

It looks like Anonymous has republished the photo and has tweeted that they are a gift to the Egyptian People. You can see the photos here: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/03/13/egyptofficers-rev-840/egyptofficers-rev-840.pdf and Anonymous' tweet on the subject here: http://twitter.com/#!/Anony_Ops/status/46799870304071680

Excuses, excuses. Your Mac is an insecure piece of shit.

That is just juvenile. The Mac is definitely not as magically secure as a lot of fans like to suggest, but it is not an "insecure piece of shit". Apple has been paying more attention to security these days, so the OS and browser will only get more secure as time goes by.

However, you are correct that the original poster was talking rubbish. Every year the Mac goes down first and every year people come up with the same excuse that the hackers target it because they want the prize more than the others. But as VUPEN's twitter post shows, they were allocated to the Mac first by the organisers. They got IE second, but I guess they must have been too late as someone else got that one.

He also runs around adding links to his blog into articles. Oh, and here's his reaction to the deletion going through yesterday. This guy is an admin. An admin. And the only reaction when you point out all of this is along the lines of "don't make personal attacks or you'll get banned".

Wow, Pete. Four posts over a 16 hour period?! I must have really ruffled your fat-boy feathers for you to sit and stew for over a half an Earth-rotation...LOL. Too, too..TOO EASY! (see what I did there?)

BTW, not that I'm counting (but at least I can) it's a 7 Digit ID next to my name. Learn to count, fucktard.

You Lose AGAIN!!

P.S.=> looks like you're making friends per usual. HAHAHA!

They have. In fact, they both got 2.3.3 at the same time:

http://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/status/40221838743179264

Can you imagine Hugo Chavez with his 5-10 hour speeches broken into 140 characters?

While I understand it's always fun to lambast Hugo Chávez, I'd like to point out he indeed has a Twitter account, and he even attracted more than one million followers. Not so shabby, eh?

http://twitter.com/#!/koush/status/25932456007 and http://twitter.com/#!/koush/status/25932456007

http://twitter.com/#!/koush/status/25932456007 and http://twitter.com/#!/koush/status/25932456007

https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/39841406323265537 for those that want to see it

Yes, that is what the Governor said, however, the site was up before this and accessed before this

Was it accessed before this on the capitol's guest network? Or was it accessed 'before this' via the local Starbuck's free wifi or similar, or somebody's MiFi?

Also worth noting is the tweet they posted earlier today: "Our site is down due to server migration. Will be back up shortly." Possible that somebody updated a DNS entry in the past day or two, resulting in the site being pushed off the whitelist? Perhaps.

I agree with the point that this site shouldn't have been blocked for political reasons, but the data we have so far falls far short of making the case that that's what actually happened. All we have is a screen shot of a Chrome error page, and a lot of rhetoric. And, the site was added to the whitelist and access restored quickly - if they were going to block it intentionally, I find it hard to believe they'd reverse the block so quickly at the first sign of an outcry. From the moment they decided to block it, they had to have expected it would cause a shit storm if people noticed, and the quick correction gains them nothing - they take the hit for being "censors," and they gain nothing from the block - it's a net-negative, politically speaking.

Per their own IT staff, as reported elsewhere, the site was already up and accessed in the Capitol complex, before it was taken down for the second time. Said staff member, speaking anonymously, would not comment on why it was taken down the second time. He did state that it went through the normal blocking/release of any website caught by their firewall system.

The implication is that the site was originally found not to violate the State's acceptable use policy and was allowed through the firewall. However, after the firestorm regarding the unions erupted, a decision was made to block the site. Then when there was a public outcry, the explanation was given that it was automatically done as is all sites. But, their own records show otherwise.

Yes, that is what the Governor said, however, the site was up before this and accessed before this

Was it accessed before this on the capitol's guest network? Or was it accessed 'before this' via the local Starbuck's free wifi or similar, or somebody's MiFi?

Also worth noting is the tweet they posted earlier today: "Our site is down due to server migration. Will be back up shortly." Possible that somebody updated a DNS entry in the past day or two, resulting in the site being pushed off the whitelist? Perhaps.

I agree with the point that this site shouldn't have been blocked for political reasons, but the data we have so far falls far short of making the case that that's what actually happened. All we have is a screen shot of a Chrome error page, and a lot of rhetoric. And, the site was added to the whitelist and access restored quickly - if they were going to block it intentionally, I find it hard to believe they'd reverse the block so quickly at the first sign of an outcry. From the moment they decided to block it, they had to have expected it would cause a shit storm if people noticed, and the quick correction gains them nothing - they take the hit for being "censors," and they gain nothing from the block - it's a net-negative, politically speaking.

At the bottom of the ClickBank page where you are asked to enter your details: [affiliate = arnell75]. Google says: http://www.google.com/search?q=arnell75. Gives you: http://twitter.com/#!/arnell75. Basic premise? How to use the Internet to make money. Sound familiar? Seems like the man behind this immoral scam to me.

CNN shares a funny four minutes video showing a replacement for Andy Richter on Conan O'Brien late night show on TBS (mirror).

Next Media Animation (NMA) has an one minute and eleven seconds YouTube video.

Your ant overlord uploaded an one minute and 22 seconds Vimeo video from Late Night Show With David Letterman.

Saw the site through Twitter before "died":

https://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB

My local station ran round one at 11am, and I've posted spoilers here: http://twitter.com/robotwisdom

Well, sort of. 95% of the break was done by fail0verflow, who I think it's safe to say don't hold Hotz or his motives in particularly high regard. They quite deliberately stopped at the point where they could run homebrew unrestricted, since going further had no use other than piracy. Predictably, Hotz did that extra part and released it as a pirate-friendly "jailbreak.zip".

Whilst the DMCA is total bullshit, it's hard to feel too much sympathy for him. He did something that had no purpose other than enabling piracy / cheating, he surely knew that was a DMCA violation, and he attached his name to it loud and proud. His defence will probably try to argue that the jailbreaking exemption applied to cellphones should be extended to consoles, but it seems far more likely he did this for purely egotistical reasons than as high-minded civil disobedience.

I believe the quote goes: If I had a nickel for every time I said "If I had a nickel," I'd have 2 nickels. I don't say it much.

I wouldn't call this attention whoring. Attention whoring involves being a whore. Neither the person who made the copy of the sites, nor the author of this post, are attempting to receive anything for what they have done.

Nonsense. Ben Metcalfe is a somewhat bitter ex-BBC employee and his reward is reputation (as it often is on the Interwebs). TFA, his web site and about 20 seconds' worth of mouse clicks between them make this clear.

To get you up to speed:

While completely un-user-friendly at present (just take a look at Bitcoin.org whenever it comes back up), BitCoin is a phenomenon of significant scale:

Value of BitCoins in current circulation: > 5 million USD
Quantities traded daily on exchanges: in the 10's of thousands of dollars' worth daily
Bitcoin transactions on the network itself: around 10,000 BTC per hour
Computational power of the BitCoin network: 186 Ghash/sec (about 42,000 quad core CPU's, or around 2 petaFLOPS)
Active nodes right now on the p2p network: >2,600

Security: vetted by leading cryptographers as many orders of magnitude better than online banking. Cheating on a single transaction with BitCoins you already own requires you to outpace those 2 petaFLOPS above. Usurping the entire network requires you to beat the *cumulative* cycles of the network over it's whole existence. "Stealing" someone else's coins without direct access to their keys: laughable to even try and compute.

Mining/where BitCoins come from: don't be confused by this, it is as irrelevant to using them as the paper money engraving and printing process is to using cash. Many people seem to get hung up on it as the primary source of getting bitcoins, which it isn't by a long shot.. TL;DR: an open, competitive process is used to "create" the coins, with increased competition resulting in increased security so that the more valuable bitcoins become the more secure they will get. In practice this means that the cost of creating coins stays reasonably close to the market value of them. In paper money this would be like if 5$ worth of security features actually went into each individual $5 bill as opposed to the few cents that goes into the most secure paper currency, and then $100 worth of security into each individual $100 bill. Now you begin to understand why BitCoin is so much more secure than traditional banking.

Privacy: individual transactions are public, but can be split over an arbitrary # of addresses, and nobody knows who owns any addresses so in practice all transactions are completely anonymous with regards to the receiver, and you would have to be watching all connections to a given node to catch a spend, identical to traffic analysis plus discovery powers on a traditional bank. Unlike a traditional bank, BitCoin happily works over Tor and other anonymisation protocols.

And finally, the eternal question of whether BitCoin is going to seriously succeed or end up on the fringe: This is silly to pontificate on. BitCoin, like anything else on the internet, will succeed if we cause it to succeed, and fail if we ignore it. It takes a lot of hard work to establish a digital currency, and whether people put that in or not all across the web will determine what happens to BitCoin. The underlying math is provably secure; thanks to the copyfight we know that the p2p network can't be taken down by authorities. Now we just have to see if an open transaction standard that allows anyone to participate can, like the web before it, gain enough traction to matter.

Sources: http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ http://twitter.com/bitcoineconomy https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

fail0verflow member marcan42 claims that's not the master key, but an outdated one. so the internet is now waving at useless hex values.

The house always wins.

Uhh not quite with sportsbooks. In fact, this makes 2 of the last 4 Super Bowls where most books lost money. Don't believe me? ESPN's Vegas Insider Chad Millman is reporting that Vegas lost money this year. The problem with your logic is you assume that the linemakers are making correct lines in anticipating the action. However, just like the Giants/Pats SB, Vegas made the line so "soft" they couldn't adjust the line to even out the wagering. Your reasoning that they will just change the line as the money flows in is fatally flawed because with big money events like the Super Bowl, creating a big "middle" is death to Vegas and the Sharps will hammer both sides of the lines and potentially break the book. This year, there was too much money on the Packers and the Over and once the 2pt conversion was successful, Vegas was done for.

All week long bookmakers such as the LV Hilton were reporting that they didn't want to move the line from 2.5 to 3, but were forced to and then had to play with the juice (-130 for +3 Steelers) and that there was no way they were ever going to 3.5 to create the middle. And as for 2007, you can thank all that New York money that flowed into Vegas at +450 Giants Money Line for causing the red numbers in 2007.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I just checked out Charlene's Twitter feed.

http://twitter.com/#!/charleneli

Can we say Microsoft shill?

The more amusing footnotes to this story are the #kennethcoletweets tweets that everyone is making up now:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23kennethcoletweets

@KennethColePR: "People from New Orleans are flooding into Kenneth Cole stores!" #KennethColeTweets
@KennethColePR: Jeffrey Dahmer would have eaten up our spring collection! #KennethColeTweets
And many more...

Check out their new PR page on twitter! http://twitter.com/KennethColePR

Fear not: Egypt's government has hired Hill and Knowlton to promote the country "as an outsourcing location." Uh, money well spent, I'm sure now that Egypt is a case study in why not to outsource. (source: the US Foreign Agents Registration Act database, which is searchable online. https://twitter.com/Integrilicious/status/31803089807740928 )

All of this can change if Mubarak leaves and he country really opens up. Give it a few years: a timezone near Europe, a large English-speaking population, and a lot of enthusiasm. Who knows?

I was always under the impression that Big Brother was a repressive Government.. and didn't have anything to do with corporations anyway.. and I believe the US Government has already embraced social media.

For all ethical purposes, Bing should be labelled "powered by Google".

I so much agree that I tweeted a twitpic ;-)

Contact information for Benihana in case you want to call and complain:

http://www.benihana.com/about/franchise/contact

Phone: (305) 593-0770

Corporate Youtube account:
http://www.youtube.com/benihana

Corporate Facebook account
http://www.facebook.com/Benihana.Official.Page

Corporate Twitter account
http://twitter.com/Benihana__

Website contact page
http://www.benihana.com/contact-us

Perhaps not:
http://twitter.com/arabist/status/30786981814341632

Recently, I stumbled on the perfect phrase for this story. It's in French, so here's my rough translation: "To those who call themselves geeks because they own an iPhone/iPad: I'm not a farmer simply by having a bottle of milk."

Source: http://twitter.com/hugolaporte/statuses/28308683112849408

Not sure if you were going for teh funnies but:

This tweet from Dan Morrill, Android Open Source & Compatibility Tech lead, means more than meets the eye. This officially opens up all possibilities for custom ROM makers, as there aren't any minimum processor requirements for Honeycomb.
http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/07/dan-morill-minimum-requirements-honeycomb/
The tweet referred to above:
http://twitter.com/morrildl/status/22845294886518785#

And it will remain in a crippled state. The minimum spec for Android Honeycomb is a dualcore Tegra 2 (A9) chip. The Nook has a single core A8 chip.

http://twitter.com/#!/morrildl/status/22845294886518785

hardware's been hacked, the secret's out. but Sony got its restraining order against Geohot http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/01/27/sony-wins-restraining-order-against-geohot/ , the new firmware's allready been hacked http://twitter.com/KaKaRoToKS/status/30458152793149440# , and I personally think the update had more to do with COD hacking http://www.ripten.com/2011/01/27/firmware-3-56-ban-hammer-hits-cod-hackers-hard-mauler/ . Might just make me think about playing it again.

Egyptian authorities apparently pulled the backbone plugs. As a result of the Egyptians protesting, because the Tunisians protested, because of a Wikileaked document, from a US Embassy saying the truth - there was an old, fucked up dictatorship, that is no more. Egyptians have their work laid out for them.

Non-Slashdotted, actual source link.

The NYTimes article is of course very well written and despite painting Assange as fairly unstable and paranoid, the events do seem believable. They aren't exactly unbiased in the matter though, so who knows who is right anymore. It doesn't really matter. This only serves to distract from what really matters: the leaked info, not the leak itself!

wikileaks of course tweeted about it:

NYTimes does another self-serving smear.Facts wrong, top to bottom.Dark day for US journalism.

Sorry, I'm not following you. Is your allegation that Twitter can't be trusted to have a message from Stephen Toulouse behind this link when he regularly says on the official XBox Live podcast that @Stepto is his username, or that the head of XBox Live Policy Enforcement can't be trusted to tell the truth about the evidence pointing to gamesave-hacking, rather than something that could be theoretically achieved through being really, really good?

The Mom's twitter account has add'l info, including a claim that "Someone accessed his acct from out of state on august 26th.not clear on what they did yet"

ColdAssSunshine

Follow the link directly to Stephen Toulouse's Twitter update: https://twitter.com/#!/Stepto/status/30451173655838720 if you don't want to trust the website.

That's definitely Stepto; he mentions his Twitter identity reasonably regularly on his website and on the official podcast. And the text certainly implies they can tell the achievement was cracked by gamesaving or some similar not in-game method - this isn't a case of 'playing too well'.

I certainly can't see any particular reason to take the mum's "my little boy would never cheat" claim over it.