Category: Computer/ Tech Related
Who Would Buy This Stupid Ass Mouse?
This is byfar the shittiest mouse I have ever seen in my life. It is called the WarMouse and was originally developed for use with OpenOffice.
I don’t know about you, but I’m all against using a mouse with 18 fucking buttons. How can you tell which one is which? And where the hell is the left and right click? What the hell is the point of this crap?
This stupid piece of shit is $80. You need to be out of your mind to buy this crap. Today, we’re trying to simplify things, not make things more complicated.
Apple’s mice only have one button. If only all mice looked like this again. Utter simplicity:
The Pirate Bay Is Back
All torrenters rejoice. In response to my previous post Is the Pirate Bay Down for Good?, the answer is nope. Just like I said. Told ya it would be back! It just simply can’t shut down because one guy croaked after all that site has been through. I feel better now. Remember kids, respect intellectual property!
Wait? iPhone 4 Has a Glass Back?
Really Apple??? Fucking brilliant! Who’s dumbass idea was it to put a glass back on the phone that shatters when you drop it? I can understand the front screen shattering. Actually, I can’t. I have a Droid, which has gorilla glass. I dropped that shit 7 times on concrete, tile – you name it. Nothing happened except the case got nicked.
Absolutely brilliant on their part. Let’s have everyone break their phones so we make more money selling more! It’s a scam!
Is The Pirate Bay Down for Good?
HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL No. The Pirate Bay (the absolute best public torrent site ever) has been down for two days. Torrentfreak is reporting that its founding group, Piratbyrån, has disbanded because one of its founding members has died.
This is awful news, but I don’t see how the site can go down just because one of the founding members is no longer here. It’s not like he was the sole admin and operator of the site. Can’t the others carry out his work? And even if your group disbanded, you’d think that after everything that the site operators have been through, they’d want to continue strong:
Historical Site Outages
- On May 31, 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. They were restored from a secret backup location.
- On 17 April 2009, the admins were all found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK. They skipped prison and paid no fine.
- On October 5 2009, one of the IP transit providers to The Pirate Bay blocked all Pirate Bay traffic causing an outage for most users around the world. The site was restored the next day.
- On June 30, 2009 Swedish advertising company Global Gaming Factory X AB announced their intention to buy the site for SEK 60 million. The sale never happened.
- On May 17, 2010 due to an injunction against their bandwidth provider, the site was taken offline. Access to the website was later restored with a message laughing off the injunction on their front page.
- On June 23, 2010 the group Piratbyrån disbanded due to the death of Ibi Kopimi Botani, a prominent member and co-founder of the group. So does this mean the end of The Pirate Bay?
Source: Wikipedia (yes, I cited Wikipedia, wanna fight about it? This is a blog, not an academic paper)
I just don’t understand how it can be down for good. It survives a raid, hundreds of lawsuits , a sale that didn’t go through and multiple ISPs cutting its bandwidth or blocking its access. But suddenly, someone kicks the bucket and it’s down? What happened to their will to fight?
I’ll be expecting it to come back sometime in the near future – maybe the outage is just a coincidence. But for now, the once unsinkable has sunk!
PS- it’s 4:38am. Don’t I have anything better to be doing (hint – sleep) than writing about this?
I Can Fix the Android Market
June 30, 2010
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If you haven’t read the tech blogs recently, many people are frustrated with the Android Market. DVD Jon, the legend who first cracked the encryption key on DVDs, blogged about what is wrong with the Android Market.
What is wrong with the Android Market? JUNK APPS. I love how it’s open and anyone can develop anything for it without it going through Apple’s Nazi approval process. But, at the same time, I hate scrolling through the list and seeing this shit that’s completely useless:
Next on my list of flawed apps: joke apps. There are multiple apps for different jokes. You have driving jokes, South Park jokes, dirty jokes, blonde jokes etc etc etc. It goes on and on. Please explain why an app could list a bunch of jokes randomly without performing any function? I want my app to do something for me, not just cycle through the same 40 jokes. Newsflash – the phones have a browser. If I want to look up jokes, I’ll Google them. I don’t need an app per joke category.
Next issue: The same author can publish 200 apps that are all the same except one minor thing. For instance, some developer made a live wallpaper app with country flags for the World Cup. I didn’t feel like scrolling through them all. This is a waste of space and they all do the same damn thing.
Before I fix the Market, you need to understand how devs get their apps listed: To be published on the Android market, the developer pays Google $25 and then publish can do whatever he or she wants (as long as it doesn’t violate their terms of service). Anyone can install .apk apps if you allow the option to install from unknown sources, but I’m talking about over the air Market apps.
This is how you fix the Android Market, in simple bulleted form:
This will allow anyone to create any app, so there won’t be developer outcry. It will also solve the junk app issue / allow apps to be on the market that do not necessarily violate the TOS but aren’t Google Verified.
Sound good? Yeah it does. It needs some tweaking, but that’s my basic framework.
I do realize this was probably a boring blog entry, but fuck it.
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