Shakespears Sister

Listening to Shakespears Sister while working, its amazing how music can bring back long forgotten memories, thinking of open windows and cat suits - fun times/bad times maybe....but memorable times none the less.

yet again Twitter screws over their developer base

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/twitter-clickable-ticker-symbols/
Twitter is essentially introducing a new hashtag — or what is being called a “cashtag.” Instead of the ubiquitous “#”, the addition of the symbol “$” added in front of any ticker will instantly provide context for that stock, aggregating all tweets that use the ticker under one label. Twitter gives the example of “$GE” — General Electric’s ticker symbol — although this will obviously work for any company, like Apple ($AAPL) or Google ($GOOG), allowing users to peruse conversations happening around those stocks in realtime.


Twitter’s new feature closely resembles functionality that StockTwits has boasted for some time now


Considering Twitter has been telling developers "DO NOT COPY OUR FUNCTIONALITY WITH END USER CLIENTS" for the last year or so yet proving another way that Twitter is an "idea" and does not have the management depth to run it as a "long term" company

The fact that pretty much every developer i know (including myself) has zero interest in building apps against Twitter anymore prooves that they've screwed the pooch.

Anonymous hacks AAPT "user data"

And that folks..... is why the government shouldn't be asking ISP's to collect this data.

Shame its not "just politician data" that Anonymous are leaking onto the internet. If politicians in Australia and the USA etc say there is nothing to hide here and that this data should be stored for a minimum of 2 years then fine, lets start with all the senators etc posting their browsing habits/internet data live onto a public website first for 2 years and then they can vote on this issue.


http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/anonymous-dumps-australian-telco-data-online/
After the threats, admissions and delays, hacktivists protesting the data retention scheme proposed by the Federal Government’s National Security Inquiry have begun dumping data gleaned from an Australian telco — presumably AAPT.

So far, the dump looks to be as large as we were promised: 40GB of customer data. Sources leaking the data say that there are over 600 tables of customer information set to be published, and after looking at the first few, it looks to be all business account information.

Amazon sales tax and what it means to you

http://mashable.com/2012/07/28/amazon-sales-tax-2/ 

Amazon is backing a bill that would allow states to collect or remit sales tax on items purchased from a small number of large, out-of-state online retailers including Amazon and Overstock.

Amazon are only supporting this bill now because they intend to setup distribution centers across the USA for next day/same day delivery.

I think its shamefull they have flipped their position now it suits them and as much as possible i spend my money with other online providers because of their actions.

Its good to see that Senators Mike Enzi, Lamar Alexander, and Dick Durbin are deep isnide Amazons pocket on this issue.....hope the donation "bribe" check doesnt prevent you from sleeping at night guys.

Microsoft isnt going anywhere

Wow Vanityfair what a piece of crap article, people forget Apple was almost bankrupt at one stage. I'm not saying what Apple have done since then isnt amazing but lets face it Microsoft is hardly "flaming out in a ball of death" the way this article would have you believe.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer.print

Microsoft’s Lost Decade

Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc. Talking to former and current Microsoft executives, Kurt Eichenwald finds the fingers pointing at C.E.O. Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates’s successor, as the man who led them astray.

Microsoft’s low-octane swan song was nothing if not symbolic of more than a decade littered with errors, missed opportunities, and the devolution of one of the industry’s innovators into a “me too” purveyor of other companies’ consumer products. Over those years, inconsequential pip-squeaks and onetime zombies—Google, Facebook, Apple—roared ahead, transforming the social-media-tech experience, while a lumbering Microsoft relied mostly on pumping out Old Faithfuls such as Windows, Office, and servers for its financial performance.

Public Enemy - Most Of My Heroes Still Dont Appear on No Stamp

The digital download alert for people who invested in the Public Enemy "Sellaband fundraising campaign" last year just came through this morning.

Listening now - lol i hope my neighbors like Public Enemy or are out this morning, giving the speakers a bit of a work out.

https://www.sellaband.com/en/projects/publicenemy

1.Run Til Its Dark

2.Get Up Stand Up

3.Most of My Heroes Still

4.I Shall Not Be Moved

5.Get It In

6.Hoovermusic

7.Catch The Thrown

8.RLTK

9.Truth Decay

10.Fass Food

11.WTF

 

Oh Australia you disappoint me

Oh Australia you disappoint me
- http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/asios-getting-the-keys-to-your-computer-20120719-22b8p.html

(btw all of this is defeated with a simple offshore VPN for $20 a month.......politics what a fucking farce).

Google CEO's to be arrested by ICE any day now

Mark Gibbs wrote a great article last week that needs to get more traction.

Is Google guilty of enabling piracy?
- http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/071912-backspin.html

This is exactly the point i've been making all along about Richard O'Dwyer, he cannot be charged or convicted with something that Google and Yahoo etc are doing each and every day.

This is one court case i really wish i was chosen to sit on the jury for.

Early Fall?

Based on this photo you would think its Fall today already.

Social media tools failing in Syria

lol how do you know Americans are being lied to, watch the footage difference about whats happening in Damascus between CNN and Russia Today (ch 135 for people on Time Warner in New York).

Yes the rebels are involved in street to street fighting in the suburb of of Al-Midan but a lot of Damascus life is going on as normal. If you just went off the footage "being smuggled out" by "Rebel Social Media" you would think the entire city had been over run in victory.

lol no wonder Time Warner wont allow Al Jazeera access on their network.