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Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project
An anonymous reader writes "bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware. The project has gained the backing of two high-profile individuals: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon), and actor and comedian Stephen Fry."
Stephen fry also uses the iphone and loves it, not exactly supporting freedom of any kind there...
It's just his tendency to be vocal about how awesome he feels the iphone is, possibly failing completely to understand the restrictions that the project mention in TFA is trying to work around. During an episode of "Last chance to see" we saw stephen making quite a fuss and handing in about four of the bloody things before being allowed to visit the kakapo, what an incredibly sad individual.
A British Comedian or whatever who is into eugenics, nothing too interesting.
Sometimes there are second considerations.
Smartphones in the US were painfully abysmal before the iPhone. Every phone I owned before the iPhone deserved to be immediately flushed down a toilet. And I owned most of them. The stuff was GOD AWFUL. I remember using a friend's Nokia which was essentially a flip-out camera with a phone embedded into it, and it took 1/3rd of an hour of searching and 7 menu clicks to take a photo.
The iPhone advanced phone interfaces and technology tremendously. Tremendously. We're in a far better phone world because of it. Is it horribly locked down? Definitely. But it also works really well. Sometimes making the world an actual better place is enough, even if you're not vegan while doing it.
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Fry did start promoting DAB radio, which for people outside the UK is a digital radio system that uses outdated technology (poor choice of codec) where the broadcasters simply compress the life out of their audio to jam more channels in, thus ruining the audio and spoiling the whole friggin point of digital radio.
so, whilst he might be clueful, he can still be a sell-out.
Wow, what on earth prompted all this hero worship? Unless that's your anecdote, you who worked on the production of sense and sensibility, seriously, drop it. How are his mental health issues of _any_ relevance to this discussion?
I wouldn't buy an iphone because it's positive feedback to apple that i approve of what they're doing, even if i wanted to jailbreak it afterwards, apple doesn't care all that much, compared with me buying a competing device it's still a win.
Is this a particularly complex train of thought that other people are unable to comprehend?