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You don’t want your phone to be an open platform

Absolute Bullis allegedly what Steve Jobs told Newsweek and continued: "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up". Even Jobs can't make plain-ol' BS look good. It's so absurd it's not even funny. Surely Stevey has heard of restricted well-defined public APIs and I'd think he'd be the first to consider iPhone as something more than just a 'phone'; something like the 'Ultimate Digital Device', perhaps? I bet Apple will start selling 'approved' apps sometime in 2008 on their online store. I don't even want to think how much it'll cost to get the SDK (if that's ever possible) and how easy it'll be to get your app approved. 'Sorry We're Closed'. Update: An interesting report on the iPhone lock-down by the British Macworld.

Patent Insanity Redux

"Intertainer was the leader of the idea of entertainment on demand over internet platforms before Google was even thought up". Hmmm, no. Try again: Intertainer is two people and some lawyers trying to make money out of nothing. This needs to change.

TheDailyWTF

A gentle reminder as to why the IT industry is so absurd. [thanks to stitch (and his chickens) for letting me know]

Η Ελλάδα έχει 21% φθηνότερη βενζίνη από την ΕΕ15

...δήλωσε ο υπουργός ανάπτυξης της Ελλάδος με αφορμή τη νέα αύξηση της τιμής της αμόλυβδης βενζίνης άνω του €1.00. Ε και; Η Ελλάδα έχει επίσης 30-35% χαμηλότερους μισθούς από το μέσο όρο των χωρών ΕΕ15 και τις ακριβότερες τιμές σε σωρεία άλλων καταναλωτικών αγαθών...

Mismatch.

Or Apple's way of saying: "Sure, our current 'professional' Macbook Pro displays might be utter crap. But not to worry: we're planning superior LED backlights for our next-gen laptops". The-MDD-windtunnel-turned-into-'quiet'-G5s effect lives on!

Φάτε τους κλώνους!

Χωρίς ειδική σήμανση και με τις ευλογίες της FDA, το κρέας κλώνων θα βρίσκεται στα κρεοπωλεία κοντά σας...αν βρίσκεστε στις ΗΠΑ. Μια ακόμη αποτυχία της FDA να κάνει τη δουλειά ενώ προωθεί τα συμφέροντα των αμερικάνικων επιχειρήσεων ή δείγμα των καιρών μας;

The death of the neo-con dream

"Their plan has fallen on hard times. There were flaws in the conception and horrendously bad execution. The neo-cons have been undone by their own ideas and the incompetence of the Bush administration."