Women with long finger nails complaining that iPhone is sexist. Here's a whacky idea: JUST. GET. ANOTHER. FUCKING. PHONE. THEN. Saying that women shouldn't be allowed to vote and are terrible drivers is sexist. Buying a piece of technology that you know will be useless to you unless you cut off your Wolverine-esque talons and then complaining about it, well, that's just asshole behavior.
Good news for those of you on Charter: Charter suspends ad program over privacy fears. Of course, it's just delayed, so expect it to come up again in the future.
Does your blood boil or start to freeze when you read about low bandwidth transfer caps with ridiculous prices for every gig you go over internet here in the US? Well, just think of our poor friends in Nippon: Japanese ISP limits uploads to 30GB per day. Again, that's 30 gigs per day. I don't think you could download 30 gigs in a day, let alone upload that much on a US connection.
If those of us in the US are lucky, maybe we'll start to catch up in the next decade: Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015. Of course by then a gigbit will be considered slow everywhere else. Plus you'll only be able to download 200 megabytes with it or face fees and having your service shut down.
Joss Stone: Piracy is brilliant, music should be shared. Well, she just moved up on my radar from "oh yeah, I've heard of her and promptly forgot her" to "well she seems okay, doesn't she?" status.
Meanwhile, Prince continues to be an absolute douche. My Way or Norway: Prince sues to obliterate tribute album. At least this time it's his own music he's giving people shit about. He should consider himself lucky there are still a few people who give enough of a shit about him to do a tribute album.
Doesn't the FBI have more important things to do than chase down the guy who leaked the new Guns N' Roses album? Yes, but nobody is bribing them to worry about those important things.
If we don't have a copyright czar, people will die? Well of course not. That's not what certain parties want though, so they'll lie to try and make it sound like we need one.
Don’t humiliate yourself complaining to the Pirate Bay. Their legal page is a fun read.
Workplaces to see more spats over after-hours. Years ago, when I had my first cell phone I didn't want my employers to know about it, because I didn't want them bugging me in my off time. Now that virtually everybody has one that's probably a lot harder to pull off. It seems like employers want to actually own their employees and your off-time isn't really your own.
Don't think that just because things have quieted down over GTA IV since the release of the game there aren't still opportunistic blowhards trying to generate controversy over it to make headlines: Connecticut state senator alarmed over (non-existent) rape scene in GTA IV. (I also like Destructoid's: "Senator determined to find rape in GTA IV, even though there isn't any" because they flat out call her "stupid". How do these people get elected to public office?
Let's not forget about the older games in the series. Behold! GTA's Hot Coffee settlement draws minimal response. 0.022% of the people who bought GTA: SAN ANDREAS actually joined in and filed a claim over the hidden content in the game. That's because nobody gave a shit about it except lawyers who saw a way to make some money without doing any work. (They're getting $1.3 million in fees.) I hope they don't ever get that money.
Wanted: A video morgue file for aging celebs! Death means video tributes in the 21st century!
Remember how great LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS and SNATCH were? Well, it's been downhill since then for Guy Ritchie. Here's hoping that ROCKNROLLA will be a return to form. Empire has the trailer.
HOSTEL 3 moves forward, sans Eli Roth. But... but... but... why? Was there anybody really asking for a third movie in the series?
Good news for those of you on Charter: Charter suspends ad program over privacy fears. Of course, it's just delayed, so expect it to come up again in the future.
Does your blood boil or start to freeze when you read about low bandwidth transfer caps with ridiculous prices for every gig you go over internet here in the US? Well, just think of our poor friends in Nippon: Japanese ISP limits uploads to 30GB per day. Again, that's 30 gigs per day. I don't think you could download 30 gigs in a day, let alone upload that much on a US connection.
If those of us in the US are lucky, maybe we'll start to catch up in the next decade: Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015. Of course by then a gigbit will be considered slow everywhere else. Plus you'll only be able to download 200 megabytes with it or face fees and having your service shut down.
Joss Stone: Piracy is brilliant, music should be shared. Well, she just moved up on my radar from "oh yeah, I've heard of her and promptly forgot her" to "well she seems okay, doesn't she?" status.
Meanwhile, Prince continues to be an absolute douche. My Way or Norway: Prince sues to obliterate tribute album. At least this time it's his own music he's giving people shit about. He should consider himself lucky there are still a few people who give enough of a shit about him to do a tribute album.
Doesn't the FBI have more important things to do than chase down the guy who leaked the new Guns N' Roses album? Yes, but nobody is bribing them to worry about those important things.
If we don't have a copyright czar, people will die? Well of course not. That's not what certain parties want though, so they'll lie to try and make it sound like we need one.
Don’t humiliate yourself complaining to the Pirate Bay. Their legal page is a fun read.
Workplaces to see more spats over after-hours. Years ago, when I had my first cell phone I didn't want my employers to know about it, because I didn't want them bugging me in my off time. Now that virtually everybody has one that's probably a lot harder to pull off. It seems like employers want to actually own their employees and your off-time isn't really your own.
Don't think that just because things have quieted down over GTA IV since the release of the game there aren't still opportunistic blowhards trying to generate controversy over it to make headlines: Connecticut state senator alarmed over (non-existent) rape scene in GTA IV. (I also like Destructoid's: "Senator determined to find rape in GTA IV, even though there isn't any" because they flat out call her "stupid". How do these people get elected to public office?
Let's not forget about the older games in the series. Behold! GTA's Hot Coffee settlement draws minimal response. 0.022% of the people who bought GTA: SAN ANDREAS actually joined in and filed a claim over the hidden content in the game. That's because nobody gave a shit about it except lawyers who saw a way to make some money without doing any work. (They're getting $1.3 million in fees.) I hope they don't ever get that money.
Wanted: A video morgue file for aging celebs! Death means video tributes in the 21st century!
Remember how great LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS and SNATCH were? Well, it's been downhill since then for Guy Ritchie. Here's hoping that ROCKNROLLA will be a return to form. Empire has the trailer.
HOSTEL 3 moves forward, sans Eli Roth. But... but... but... why? Was there anybody really asking for a third movie in the series?
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