You know, I would really like to know where in fresh hell all the GODDAMNED Proposition 100 money has gone.
Something IS rotten in Denmark.
You see, now there is another proposition being introduced in November that is asking voters to approve a half-cent tax increase for public safety. Isn’t that part of what Prop 100 was [...]
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Opposition To The Proposition…
$135 Billion Worth of Oil “Found”, Again, in Afghanistan
We reported about a month ago that $1.4 trillion worth of natural mineral deposits had been “found” in Afghanistan.
We had our own definition of what “found” meant.
Flash-forward exactly 1 month and you have NewsDaily reporting that Afghanistan has found 1.8 billion barrels worth of oil ($135 billion based on today’s price of oil) under the [...]
Damn You, Paranormal Posers!!!
Wait. What’s a paranormal poser? I mean, I am FULLY PREPARED to unleash a litany of strongly-worded STRONG WORDS towards anyone bringing tarnish and untoward monkey-business into the most holy of holies – paranormal investigation – but FIRST, I must get to the bottom of this “paranormal poser” situation.
According to a new, timely, and relevant [...]
iTunes App Store Hacked Again – User Credit Card Data Stolen?
For anyone that doesn’t know, a few weeks back someone (or some group) hacked the iTunes App Store (the place you buy apps for your iPhone, iPad or iPod from) and bumped up all the apps by a specific seller in the “eBook” section to the front page as bestsellers; even though most weren’t even [...]
Why I Hate Social News Sites
NOTE: This is an anti-social-news site venting post. If that will upset you, please click away.
I have posted before about why I hate Digg, but to be fair, I hate all social news sites that rely exclusively on users up-voting stories.
I recently had my account at reddit banned out of thin air, so when I [...]
Apple Loves HTML5 – As Long as You Use Safari – FAIL
Grant Gochnauer sent in a great little tech tid-bit this morning; Apple has launched an HTML5 demo site to show off the flexibility and power of HTML5 in light of their total rejection of Flash as the medium to deliver next-gen rich web content.
Unfortunately, as soon as you try and do anything on the site, [...]
AT&T Announces No More Unlimited Data Plan for iPad
PRNewswire is reporting (more here) that today AT&T (the 3G carrier everyone loves) has announced that the $30/month, iPad unlimited data plan is no more for new customers. Instead the best you can get is a $25/month 2GB data plan.
Customers with existing unlimited data plans will be grandfathered in, but new iPad customers coming on [...]
Dealing with Facebook Privacy Issues
If you are on Facebook (that was addressed to all 130 million of you) and you aren’t happy with the changes Facebook has been making to the privacy settings in order to best expose your information to advertisers, don’t worry, they are on your side… sort of. I got a kick out of this:
(Click to [...]
Lost… so Lost…
Update #2: There is an excellent description of what the show was all about in Update #2 Cont below…
NOTE: This post contains Lost spoilers. If you haven’t watched the last episode yet, please be aware of that and continue reading at your own risk.
NOTE #2: I’m super-cereal guys, this post contains spoilers about Lost’s finale… [...]
You’re Ugly and Your Drama Dresses You Funny.
Of course, I am talking about PARA drama.
For the uninitiated, para drama is a stupid term invented to define an even stupider thing. That stupid thing being the ridiculously disproportionate amount of infighting, backstabbing, trickery, chicanery, and downright lying that members of a so-called “paranormal community” commit towards each other with more regularity than a [...]
WARNING: EdgeStar, CompactAppliance.com and Living Direct are a Terrible Shopping Experience
NOTE: This post is meant as a warning to online shoppers to avoid shopping with CompactAppliance or any of the “Living Direct Network” of sites — they are a bottom-of-the-barrel company with terrible customer support and you’d be better to spend your money at another reputable dealer.
I was recently in the market for a portable [...]
Ubisoft's New Draconian DRM Kills Gaming all Weekend
Previously we’ve written about the new DRM that Ubisoft has developed in-house that requires a 24/7, uninterrupted internet connection (not even for a modem reboot or lost sync) to the master Ubisoft DRM servers.
At the time there was a lot of speculation about “What if your modem reboots?” or “What if Ubisoft’s DRM server goes [...]
Nexus One Owners Reporting Cracking Screens During Charging
It sure seems that Google/HTC’s Nexus One was intended to be the end-all-be-all phone to save the universe from evil, but so far all it’s managed to do is come up short in multi-touch performance/bugs, poor 3G signal connectivity and to top it all off, HTC’s unimpressive customer support. Now added to that list is [...]
Black Box Car Data Belongs to Insurance Co. in "Total Loss" Settlement
This is one of those posts that touches on 1 topic, but is really about another. The data-processing super-computer that is Marc Chung recently sent along an email thread to me that contained a link about how Toyota is stone-walling investigators questioning about the black-box data retrieved from cars involved in recent “unintended acceleration” crashes.
Whole Foods Market "Organic" Food is Uncertified China-Grown Food
In the interest of making this information more visible, Marc Chung forwarded an email along this morning by Scott McNeil which was sent to Dewayne Hendricks. To be clear full credit goes to Scott McNeil for all the research done in this email, I’m merely acting as a proxy to promote this information so it [...]
Citi Announces "No Balance" Penalty for Card Holders
Thanks to Todd Swarthout for the heads up on this one. In a world where logic is dictated by the guy with the biggest bank account balance, Citi has started notifying card-holders that if they spend less than $2400/year they will be charged a $60 yearly “service fee” in order for Citi to cover it’s “rising [...]
This is Why People Pirate Movies
The graphic above is a chart showing the different experience between a person who pirated a movie and a person who purchased it. It’s one of the best visualizations I’ve seen of why people pirate movies in a long time. Beyond that, I would add that accessibility of the media is the most-common reason for piracy.
For [...]
Ubisoft Cloud Copy Protection Can Instantly Shut Down Your Game
Above is a mockup of the Ubisoft Cloud Copy Protection prompt integrated into Assassin’s Creed 2 that pops up the instant your network connection to the Ubisoft master server goes down from within the game.
… let that sink in for just a minute…
You thought BSOD’s were frustrating, you thought games locking up on you was [...]
eBay is Designed to Encourage Ripping Off Sellers
I used to sell on eBay a lot a few years ago and had an OK experience. A few times I had people try and rip me off, but fortunately the fear of bad feedback killed the transactions before they could continue.
Last week I decided to clear some tech out of my closet, so I [...]
Google Throws Privacy Out the Window by Default with Buzz
Update #1: Today Google rolled out the first of what we hope is many of the Buzz privacy controls that were lacking at launch. The changes include:
More visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile
Ability to block anyone who starts following you
More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can [...]
My Experience with HTC Nexus One Support was Mediocre
Disclaimer: This is a re-telling of my experience with HTC Nexus One support on February 8, 2010 from 9am through 10:30am. I wanted to relay my experience so any potential Nexus One shoppers out there may get an idea of their own experience-to-be if they run into trouble.
I bought a Nexus One 2 weeks ago. [...]
googleandmoney.com and The Blackbelt Profit System are Scams
I listed an item on Craigslist recently and received an email last last night from denese Hankins <hankinsdenese@yahoo.com>, about 10pm with the simple text of:
hey
do you still have the item?
“Yes, sure do.” I replied, wondering what the best place to meet this person was going to be. It was 1:41am though, I was having a [...]
eBay Shipping Costs for Seller 67% Higher than Originally Calculated
I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with eBay for about 8 years now. If found it handy in the past to try and sell more obscure items on eBay than Craigslist when I didn’t think I would find locals that would be willing to pay what I wanted for the item.
In all that time, one [...]
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