Wells Fargo using bailout money to take expensive vacations is like giving a homeless person money for food and having them buy alcohol. # After U.S. Government Bails Out Wells Fargo, Company Plans Las Vegas Retreat for Top Loan Officers; Tax-Payers Paying for Camel Ridesby Jon | 1 comment | Tags: bailout, stupid, taxpayer money, Wells Fargo
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Apparently, the Aurora Feint game would send your contact list unencrypted to the company’s servers. Hopefully the developers will fix this properly and get their game back in the App Store.by Jon | Add a comment | Tags: Aurora Feint, games, iphone, security, stupid
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Did you hear about the mess that involves Loopt.com users spamming their contact list at the expense of their recipients and without prior consent from their recipients? You need not have ever tried or even heard of Loopt in order to become a victim of their spam. Loopt enable users to broadcast their exact location [...]by Jon | Add a comment | Tags: cellphones, loopt, sms, spam, text messages
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My wife and I added AT&T’s Smart Limits for Wireless to our daughter’s phone last night. After reading about it, and watching the demo, I thought it sounded like a useful feature for my daughter’s phone. Her mom and I were mostly interested in the “Time of day” restrictions for school time and bedtime. We [...]by Jon | 12 comments | Tags: at&t smart limits for wireless, cellphones, stupid, wireless service
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Staples is set to begin selling self-destructing DVDs, made by Flexplay, which will render themselves unplayable within 48 hours of breaking the packaging’s seal. The discs will go on sale sometime this month for $4.99 each. Flexplay claims that the discs are “fully recyclable and conform to all applicable EPA environmental standards.” Unfortunately, just because [...]by Jon | 2 comments | Tags: dvd, self-destructing discs
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What’s up with the There Will Be Blood cardboard case for the standard edition DVD? Who wants to buy that? It doesn’t stack nicely on the store shelf, and of course it isn’t going to sit nicely on my own movie shelf. Granted the standard edition is $7 less than the collector’s edition, but if [...]by Jon | Add a comment | Tags: dvd, stupid, there will be blood
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Two Apple Store employees were convicted of stealing and selling 332 iPhones from the store totaling $132,468. (link)by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in apple, iphone, stupid
It’s Friday. I deserve a chance to let off some steam before the weekend.by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in rant, stupid
You know the saying, “One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.” This happened yesterday with an ill-conceived PR stunt. Again, today we see can see an example of another type of “bad apple”. When one member of a community spews hate and disdain at other communities, it tarnishes even the innocent bystanders. As I briefly [...]by Jon | 4 comments | Posted in apple, mac, stupid
Over the past week some Mac sites (four that I know of) were defaced by someone calling himself “malcor”. This, in turn, brought about some panic in the security and WordPress communities. A couple security firms blogged about the incident (Avert Labs, Blogvis.com) which only served to increase the awareness/panic. The so-called hacker named “malcor” [...]by Jon | 6 comments | Posted in exploits, security, stupid
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