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Commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
Apology, sure, but how do we know he won't just take it back? :) Honestly, I was never leaning even close to a Kindle with it's god-awful ugmo design and 1970 display (hellos, color?), but this really pushes me far...
Commented on Michael Jackson didn't sell 750 million records
Tear him down, drink his blood, find another. Tear him down, drink his blood, find another. @Aldasin, I'll guess you've never been a child celebrity who had his life twisted and distorted by almost everyone you trust just to keep...
Commented on Ragdoll Metaphysics: Could The Xbox 360 Be The Last Console You Buy? (or, The Actual Most Important News of E3)
The xbox 360 is in a death-struggle with the apple tv for control of my tv time. I've been surprised at how well its held up in the 4-some years I've had it, and I sometimes have to remind myself...
Commented on Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer
And now we're at this point. Humanity just never fails to disappoint....
Commented on Apple bans EFF RSS feed display-app from iPhone store
I'm finally catching up with this story and on reading the EFF's blog post I was fired up and ready to comment on Apple's behavior. Then I saw that, wait for it, the EFF blog doesn't allow for comments! Clearly...
Commented on Afghanistan's only pig in quarantine
Free the Afghanistan One!...
Commented on "Look Around You" comes to US cable this week
@SHEAMCF Wonder Showzen carves out a hole in your soul that nothing else will ever fill, but Look Around You does well in its own right. I found it a lot like old SCTV, where I wouldn't often laugh when...
Commented on Doctor finds foot growing in brain of infant
Rejoice! More evidence of the beautiful plan that The Intelligent Designer has made for us. Because of course an almighty being would design shit just for us. But yes, this is just more evidence of how god's grandeur is all...
Commented on Chart of marijuana-related ballot initiatives for 2008: big wins
Holy smokes. Talk about the news that didn't make the news. Thanks for posting this....
Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
One really can't ask for a better example of a wholly mediated and managed person. She's emptied herself of every aspect of individual will, thought, reflection, and replaced it wholesale with a patchwork of stereotypes and pre-recorded soundbites. She is...
Commented on "iSafe" app for Android keeps the fearful in fear
Wow, have mercy on my brain. Stuff like this, where personal awareness and common sense are supposedly sublimated by a piece of technology, are real scars on the soul of community. I'm all for not walking down the dark alley...
Commented on Forty-foot long ancient snake
That's a big f'in snake....
Commented on High school student in Kentucky faces felony charges for writing a zombie story
I really, really wonder about the kind of world these kids will grow up to create after being raised in this kind of anti-intellectual zero-tolerance climate. These are the people who will be taking care of us as seniors, applying...
Commented on Ford will offer special key for teen drivers that changes vehicle features
@ #41 posted by Vvelox True that, but most things aren't distraction-filled 1-tonne machines with a margin of error that can be measured in less than 5 seconds....
Commented on Ford will offer special key for teen drivers that changes vehicle features
@Takuan You can't possibly be serious. My parents put a lot of work into getting me to follow the rules, but on the road with the car at 16, I definitely broke them time and again. It's human nature to...
Commented on Historic Halloween Steampunk Airship Ride With Victorian Rockers Abney Park
That's awesome. I'm really rooting for a new age of airships and slow travel by sky. A week aloft to cross the country would beat travel by train in my book....
Commented on Homosexuals should carry warning tattoos, says London Stock Exchange chaplain
To my everlasting comfort, the internet will brand and remember this bastard forever, to be read as a bigot or hero, depending on the mood of times to come. In my mind, he's an animal....
Commented on US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass
Though I'm not a big fan of hers, I heard Naomi Klein discussing the bailout bill and surrounding events in terms of her Shock Doctrine, which I think holds up pretty well. Right down to the parallels with the way...
Commented on Another reason to Jailbreak your iPhone: Backgrounder
Perplexing? He said that concerns about battery life and overall stability are why they don't allow background apps. And there's no mention of the updating infrastructure that Apple promised way back when. Maybe less stand up comedy and more research...
Commented on Bank Robber Uses Craigslist To Hire Unsuspecting Accomplices
He should be allowed to keep half for being that clever....
Commented on MobileMe software engineer hints at what went wrong
>I'm unconvinced: Apple is different from most companies in that it is headed by a galvanic, steel-willed prophet / despot, whose visions mercilessly drive the entire company. Yes, that's definitely a recipe for an environment where anyone can step forward...
Commented on Will the "Brick" be an Apple TV with DVR?
My feeling has been that Apple steered around any kind of DVR features so far in order to keep the relationship with the networks stable. That said, I can see the networks coming around to accepting that DVRs are here...
Commented on Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses
Thanks for posting this. VANOc has done what I thought unthinkable: to surpass the IOC in sleazy grabs at any possible public resource and claiming it as their own....
Commented on Mundane Mary Worth Tackles Technology
Oh Mary Worth you well-meaning meddler. And, for anyong intrigued by the idea of Garfield without Garfield: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net...
Commented on <i>Cult of Mac</i>: the iPod Touch is not a serious gaming platform
If the Touch platform delivers games that people like, will pay for, talk about, and most of all play the hell out of, how is it not a serious gaming platform? The kinds of games that each platform is best...
Commented on Rumor: MacBook refresh coming October 14th
I was particularly disappointed that an event titled Let's Rock had the mindblowing audacity to be about entertainment (music and gaming). Tut, tut, Mr. Jobs. > For most of us, Apple's "Let's Rock" event was a big rubbery one I...
Commented on Does the US military have some super new capability?
Oh a mystery box! Powered, no doubt, by the captured ass-kissing power of Woodward himself....
Commented on Hans Reiser's confession
Painless, except for the I'm Dying feeling....
Commented on Ethan Persoff's coverage of the Democratic National Convention riot cops
Yes they can!...
Commented on TELUS Canada royally hoses its wireless broadband subscribers
> You know, for a developed nation... It's regressed quite a bit since you left, Cory. Within a year of the Conservatives implementing a business-friendly meat inspection process, we're now in the middle of a listeriosis outbreak that's killed some...

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Alessandro Cima commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
My response to clever little Mr. Bezos is to stick a pin in his eye. Apology not accepted. I love Orwell and I love '1984' except for that last bit about the history of the language. Should be deleted. But I think Bezos is a dip who doesn't read. Amazon's habit is to kick the crap out of people and censor what they want to censor, then make a feeble apology and promise it won't happen again. But gosh they just seem to do something nasty every three weeks or so. Bloggers should not be linking to Amazon product pages....
JB NicholsonOwens commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
A better way to make "any book you ever buy will always be downloadable again" work is to sell people copies of DRM-free book files. People could manage their own files and be free to sell them to others without going through Amazon as a controller/tracker of all exchanges. Magnatune.com does business in exactly this way. If you buy tracks from them and give them an email address, you can request re-downloads of any purchased track. You don't have to give them an email address if you don't want to. If you do, they'll probably send you the download URL...
styrofoam commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
Amazon lets you download the book. You can move it from your Kindle to your PC. You can have it emailed to your account. You still run the rick of losing it in a file deletion, computer crash, whatever. Theoretically, storing it in the cloud is a nice way to always get it. Even if it was DRM free and they had deleted it from the cloud, the same thing would have happened, because it technically disappeared from your library. it didn't delete on your kindle itself. So keep copies of the these files on your PC, and you're good....
styrofoam commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
Right- all the earlier stories made a big fuss over how the publisher changed it's mind. that's all I ever heard about, and I thought it was totally jacked up. The initial facts were initially wrong, but nobody's going out of their wey to correct themselves. Granted, it's still a debacle of PR. But the actions now at least follow some sort of morbid logical path. Before it was horrific. Now it's just keystone kops....
sabik commented on Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder
@styrofoam #25: yes, we know. Amazon designed it to happen that way. That's why everyone is saying it's an architectural problem: the architecture of how Amazon "sells" the ebooks is at fault. They've set it up, probably unthinkingly, so that this kind of thing can happen. Now it has happened. They're justly copping flak for setting it up to happen. This particular decision may have been "stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line" but it was also inevitable given the way they've set up their system....

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