Internet Day of Darkness 1/18/12
Join Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, Twitpic and others in protesting against SOPA/PIPA Internet blacklist bills by staying offline all day tomorrow.
Major companies, websites and everyday protesters are continuing to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as the bill nears its day for debate in the House. Tumblr has joined the fight by creating Fight For the Future, a site which breaks down what it believes to be the three major threats …
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.
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| — | Jay Griffiths (via cultureofresistance) |
Crippled phones
Time to break out the tinfoil hat again. I believe the move toward phones without microSD storage such as the Samsung Nexus S is to push us to store and access all our files on the cloud. This works for the phone manufacturers and the providers, who have eliminated unlimited data and switched to tiered. Now if we have to always use the cloud, we will incur data charges and drain our batteries, which can no longer be removed, thus driving us to purchase new phone after new phone.
There is definitely a conspiracy between the manufacturers and telecoms to drain us every dollar in our wallets.
Flash Player 11 is defective
For some unknown reason, all Flash related content stopped working on my Firefox, which insisted I had an outdated version and needed a newer one. I downloaded and installed version 11, but this did nothing, Firefox still insisting that I had an outdated version. I finally uninstalled 11, rebooted, downloaded and installed 10.3 and now it’s working again.
My warning to users is that version 11 is defective and will break your browser’s ability to play videos. Keep version 10 until Adobe fixes version 11.
Keyboard phones getting the shaft?
I’ve noticed, at least with Android, that all the best phones with the high end CPUs, maximum amounts of RAM and best displays, never have a keyboard. The only Androids that are made with keyboards nowadays are made with slow, single-core CPUs, low RAM and low rez, pen tile displays.
This leads me to wonder if the phone manufacturers are trying to steer people away from wanting keyboard phones by making keyboard phones less desirable. If they are doing this, it’s probably to save money because of course, it costs more to make a phone with a keyboard than without.
I personally don’t like it because I love a hardware keyboard and make far too many errors when I try to type with the on-screen keyboard. If necessary, I will get a phone with lower-end technology, like the Samsung Stratosphere, rather than the Droid Charge or Razr, for the simple reason that the Stratosphere has a keyboard while the other two do not.
I’m hoping the Droid 4 Mazerati will be the breakthrough we keyboard users have been waiting for, and will sport a keyboard as well as running a duel core CPU and have 1 GB RAM and maybe even Ice Cream Sandwich on it.
I guess all I can do is wait and see.
The worst kind of tyrant is not the who says, “Heil Hitler” or who cries “Allahu Allahu Akhbar!” The worst is the one who says, “For your own good” and “For the children”.
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