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Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy - Nextgov

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:47:19 -0800

Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy - Nextgov:

The reason? Their plan involved using a third-party PDF viewer to view charts and technical manuals. That viewer—GoodReader—is developed in Russia.

Mission & 22nd (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:03:57 -0800

Mission & 22nd (Taken with instagram)

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:19:08 -0800

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Now Is The Time

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:25:29 -0800

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Another Crappy Sunset (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:03:39 -0800

Another Crappy Sunset (Taken with instagram)

"Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the stuff without DRM, for..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:45:13 -0800

“Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the stuff without DRM, for a few dollars. Make it available to everyone, worldwide, at the same time. Then take the massive, unending pile of money, forever.”

- The Piracy Threshold - Matt Gemmell

Google hit with FTC complaint, says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:24:45 -0800

Google hit with FTC complaint, says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental:

Accidental? ACCIDENTAL? That shit might fly with a know-nothing bureaucracy that couldn’t tell the difference between JavaScript and a screen play, but people who understand what’s happened here realize that the code necessary to do this doesn’t accidentally write itself.

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings - WSJ.com

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:15:43 -0800

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings - WSJ.com:

“Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy”

(via mlkshk) Been there.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:58:37 -0800

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Been there.

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:05:34 -0800

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Friday Night Popcorn (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:24:28 -0800

Friday Night Popcorn (Taken with instagram)

"Google has never successfully sold anything to consumers. Not a single thing."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:26 -0800

“Google has never successfully sold anything to consumers. Not a single thing.”

- Google’s Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here’s Why

That’s the one thing to keep in mind as Google brings its first product to market.

I’m willing to bet money that it won’t be designed in-house. Like Amazon, who built the Kindle Fire after licensing the design used for the BlackBerry Playbook, Google will get some other company to handle the hard part—the part that counts for at least 50% of the user experience.

The software on the device will be lackluster while occasionally showing fleeting moments of brilliance. And at the end of the day, the thing will be a flop, mostly because companies like Google don’t have the guts to go all-in the way Apple does.

"So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:19:34 -0800

“So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.”

- We are sorry - Path

Nice mea culpa. But a “commitment to your privacy” means never creating this situation in the first place. Too little, too late. Trust is gone, and that—as a new company—is the currency with which you buy users. It’s limited to the point of being damned near finite, and you can’t go back to the bank for more.

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:31:45 -0800

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers:

I’m thinking of starting another blog. stupidshittechstartupsdo.tumblr.com has a nice ring to it.

"If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:01 -0800

“If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t have any disclosure of this link modification on their site, and so far, while it has been written about, no major news outlet has picked up on the practice or its implications.”

- Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social

That’s a pretty shitty way to make money. While this article goes on to boast about Pinterest’s attempt to “generate revenue early”—a practice that’s out of the ordinary for tech startups but common goddamned sense for any other industry—I don’t see this as a smart way to proceed. It’s sneaky, and it shows that they company can’t come up with anything better.

iPhone 4S vs. Samsung’s new Galaxy Note The Note’s...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:20:28 -0800

iPhone 4S vs. Samsung’s new Galaxy Note

The Note’s three selling points?

It’s not made by Apple.
It’s big.
A stylus!

To which I say…

The average consumer isn’t interested in technology holy wars. Worse, using your commercials to tell them them that buying your product will make them less fashionable will probably make them run the other way.
WAT. My fucking pants pockets would have to be retrofitted with elastic and sadness.
“If you see a stylus, they blew it.” - Steve Jobs

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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:12:34 -0800

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:02:04 -0800

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"I’m not concerned about the very poor."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:51:12 -0800

“I’m not concerned about the very poor.”

- Mitt Romney

…who also said, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” Great candidate. Can’t wait to see how he performs in a debate against Obama. Should be a laugh-riot.

Sleeping Florida man arrested in drive-thru, offers cops taco as I.D. from inside burning car « Martin County Times

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:36:31 -0800

Sleeping Florida man arrested in drive-thru, offers cops taco as I.D. from inside burning car « Martin County Times:

“When asked for his I.D., the man handed the officers a taco. He then began trying to eat the taco.”

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