iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service

An anonymous reader writes "A few days ago, Inner Fence released a paid iPhone app called Infinite SMS, which let iPhone users employ Google's free SMS gateway to send SMS messages without paying their service providers. The resulting surge in traffic on Google's SMS gateway forced Google to block all third-party applications from using the free SMS feature — including Google's own GTalk client."

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Question for iPhone users

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey fellas,

I got an honest question for you and specifically, I mean my peers who are successful in life being in money, education, or whatever since you understand where I am coming from on this.

First of all, I must admit that a lot of you are better men than me to be able to forgive the fact that our people know more than anyone else that a black male cannot get by in life being mediocre, a dealer, or gangster. He better have DA BOMB skills, knowledage, AND a trade. Yet when black men like me try to improve ourselves, we get nothing but hatred, ridicule, and kicked to the curb by our own black women but are later expected to turn to them for companionship when they:

• are too overweight to get a thug
• when they have so many kids there ONLY option is a good man
• are waaayyy past 35 or 40 years old and just figuring out the error of their ways.
• all the above

Niggas, how are you able to do that? I mean, God knows that I do not want to stir up more hatred than there already is, but DAYUM! How are you able to even consider mating with them when they did not want you in high school and college because you were not a thug?

Now ladies, I already know what you are thinking. AH, this guy is a reject, he is ugly, blah blah. The truth is that I have always been considered attractive for my beautiful African features. What you ladies have to understand is that it takes guts for men to walk up to you. And you black women are mean as hell to a nigga that does not fit your thug-like standards.

Black nerds have to exercise the concept of strategic approach, but YOU AS WOMEN do not. So to make a long story short, men will ALWAYS approach women that give positive vibes and signals and in my case it has always and consistently been non-black women. The funny thing is that even though this is mostly fact, black women STILL will put you down and call you a reject and this CERTAINLY does not help their cause because as the saying goes,

"You catch more flies with honey than you do with jenkem."

I am a spiritual person, but I will be the first to admit that I have my issues like everyone else, but mentally, I refuse to tolerate this sort of treatment anymore from women that should know by now that exceling is a black males ONLY option.

So, educated black geeks, tell me how you do it? This is VERY consistent behavior amongst our own and I know a lot of you REAL MEN understand me. NO ONE in my circle of friends would even attempt to date black women. I NEVER have dated a black woman and never will, but I am curious about you guys who are successful and do date black women. Do you guys feel like you are dating your enemy?

Please tell me your stories because it is always good to here different perspectives of this.
P.S.- Honest to God I do not mean to offend anyone, I just need to know how you can forgive being put down by your own people your entire life and then be expected to want to date them.

Re:Question for iPhone users

[Anonymous Coward]

Business Overview

The business focuses on a simple service provision as the basis for their corporate offering, namely the creation of storage facilities specially built to store dead and/or decaying afro-americans. With offices in Alabama, Elko, Georgia, Louisiana, Dead Nigger Storage Inc now has more branches throughout the Confederate States of America than both KFC and Big Kahuna Burgers combined.

Originally run from Jimmie and Bonnie Dimmick's garage, the business' growth rate within the first few months of operating forced them into a rethink. In 1998, the Dimmicks purchased Monster Joe's Truck and Tow in Downtown Los Angeles, which has remained their base of operations to this day.

With the catchy friendly slogan of "Storing Dead Niggers is our business" Dead Nigger Storage Inc remains a market leader at the forefront of ethnic minority storage, despite the recent upsurge in the market for companies such as Jews on Ice and the Cracker Barrel.

Very recently, Dead Nigger Storage Inc has expanded into a chain with several branches outside of the United States. Though each branch outside the USA are largely similar to their American counterparts, most customers note a handful of "little differences". For example, in America one can store a decapitated Nigerian. In the Paris branch, however, one stores un Nigirie guillotin. In general, dead niggers are still called dead niggers, but over there they're called les dead niggers and corpse sizes are measured differently because of the metric system.

In 1999 Detroit became the largest Dead Nigger Storage facility in the western hemisphere.

Traditional Methods of Storing Dead Niggers

"You know what they preserve dead niggers with in Holland instead of synthetic petroleum based chemical preservatives? Mayonnaise." ~Vincent Vega on storing Dead Niggers

Many individuals have struggled with the issue of dead nigger storage, including Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun who favoured the time-attested methodology of dry suspension, a technique that preserved by hanging them in carefully controlled environments for up to 21 days.

Other techniques utilised include smoking, often over specially constructed firepits or pyres. Although this often provides a more pleasurable flavour and aroma, it often led to a complete burning of the subject.

Pulverization is often utilised, either through the use of sticks, or in more extreme case through "dragging", a technique thought to include a pick-up truck. Another practice designed to aid tenderization is referred to as "curbstomping".

Dead Nigger Storage in Popular Culture

Dead Nigger Storage is subtly referenced in 14 separate Quentin Tarantino movies including Reservoir Dogs and the two Kill Bill films. The company also has numerous placements with Tarantino's latin lover Robert Rodriguez' movies, including The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

English Murder Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, referenced the company in perhaps her most famous work, Ten Dead Negroes made into the 1957 film The Only Good Injun is a Dead Injun. Perhaps her most famous reference remains the Hercule Poirot "quote" "Sacre bleu! C'est un morte negro, non?" in The Murder of Michael Donald.

One of the main accusations of racism aimed at George Lucas over his Star Wars franchise was his portrayal of certain species along stereotypical lines. Famously, in the scene when Jar Jar Binks is fatally wounded in the head whilst riding in the back seat of Mace Windu's landspeeder, a small sign can be seen in the background stating "Dead Gungan Storage".

Dead niggers usually are dead cause they got lynched and are stored here.

Re:Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

Your father beat you as a child, didn't he?

Re:Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably because every /. discussion of how to make a living from creating open source software involves the magic fairy of selling services associated with the software. What people forget to mention is that the magic services fairy is at least as likely to die via gang rape while on its way to your house as it is to successfully deliver the kind of money you'd have gotten from making a closed source piece of software.

(This is not to say there aren't occasions to work on OSS, but most business models revolving around making OSS are dubious.)

Re:Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

The USA is a developed country. We don't use candles, eat rats and shit outside like you do. The companies here are competitive, forcing each to offer better and better deals. It drives innovation, it drives economy. Unlimited service for a flat rate is just the eventual result of that competition.

It sounds like you're just jealous because you live in some back assward little country with a bunch of straw villages. Now get your faggot ass off of our internet.

Re:Alll's Well that ended well.

[Runaway1956]

This post, in particular? Of course not. Your use of the internet to view television shows? Yes, you probably should, if you wish to think of yourself as completely honest. You choose to watch television, without paying for it, which impacts on bandwidth usage. A mutual agreement might be arrived at, whereby you pay 5 or 10 percent extra for internet, without being charged for the unused television service. And, such a package SHOULD BE AVAILABLE for everyone. Discussing your digital activity on the interwebz with the post office is so absurd that no rational person would consider it as more than a joke. But, feel free to act on the idea, if you wish.

Re:Well,

[WiiVault]

They do not charge for incoming. Didn't when they were Cingular or the old At&t. That is simply not true.