Fail Archives:
Seriously, guys. How many times have I trumpeted this horn? If the MPAA wants to substantially slow digital piracy, they should make content available online for a small monthly fee, and people will pay for it. That’s precisely what some of our friends across the pond are doing, and the MPAA says they are a [...]
This one made me laugh heartily. Attendees at AusCERT, and Australian computer security conference, took home complimentary USB drives from IBM, but those drives had been infected with malware. The good news is, it was an old malware (2008) that is detected by pretty much every antivirus product out there.
OK, so it’s unfair to blame [...]
I actually cannot figure this one out. So, you pay for AT&T service, but you don’t get service at your place, so you pay AT&T $150 for a device to boost their service at your house? Really? How can I get into the business of providing you with poor service for a monthly fee, and [...]
No, really. If there is one thing that is absolutely missing from my tweet stream it’s advertising. Every time I look, on the twitter webpage, in Tweetdeck, on the phone, etc, I really wish there was one more thing I needed to read. I can’t tell you how happy I will be when Starbucks can [...]
From the looks of it, there is a reasonably large group reporting wifi issues on their iPads. The short version is this: even in the same room as other laptops, iPhones, etc, the iPad has shown week and intermittent connections for several users. I can see how something like wifi signal would be easily overlooked, [...]
The entertainment industry never ceases to amaze me. Warner Brothers is looking to hire some interns in the United Kingdom, to help them with their anti-piracy work. Basically, these students need to set up and/or maintain accounts on various torrent sites, send takedown notices, and try to rat out Internet pirates. There is a small [...]
