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iRoach 1.0 (Mobile)

Cockroaches are sooo gross and ugly. Everybody hate them! Start your war against these creatures now. Tap the screen to squash as many cockroaches as you can. But if you think it's easy, you are wrong. They are numerous and fast, so get your fingers ready! iRoach is a funny...

Tags: Mobile, Creature, Suponix, Cockroaches, iRoach, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-29

SCO plans more Linux lawsuits

SCO plans more Linux lawsuitsshoot theyself in foot"McBride said in his speech that SCO shouldn't get the blame for putting the GPL at risk, however, he maintained that it was IBM's countersuit against SCO that brought the issue to a head. "The GPL is definitely at risk," he said. "But...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Cockroaches, flood gate, SCO Group Inc., lawsuit, GPL

Discussion threads 2003-11-18

Additional Resources

Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty

Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...

Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Greenland becomes green land; Brazil gets good news

Yes we know it is all lies...http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.htmlhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Did the dinosaurs pass some gas and causethe ice age? I guess they should have beentaxed for passing gas!;)Do you do any actual research?Or do you just try to scare people into thinking the way you do?Greenland is one of the worst examples you...

Tags: BE TRUE, information technology, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Palm's App Catalog submission process is very broken ...

Read Some Kafka, It'll Become ClearMr. Zawinski was doubtless referencing Kafka because Kafka's works, such as [i]The Trial[/i] and [i]The Castle[/i] are well known for dealing with "the worst elements of form filling, bureaucracy and officialdom." There's a lot more to Kafka than just giant cockroaches, and the work "Kafkaesque"...

Tags: Palm Inc., Kafka

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Open source does not work well for bad guys

Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...

Tags: open source, bad guy, Conficker, Linux, Closed Source

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

(Nissan Leaf EV photos)

Nissan Leaf EV photosLooks like a cockroachThe Prius the new Honda hybrid and now the Nissan, they all look like cockroaches just missing the windup key on the top of the roof. Thanks but no thanks. I like my Porsche & Volvo S80 just fine.

Tags: Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Nissan Leaf, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Shame on you, Facebook!

Shame on you, Facebook!The Double Standards of the Western WorldIf Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints caricatures of holy prophet Muhammad, it is "FREEDOM OF SPEECH". If facebook allows holocaust denial, it is SHAMEFUL. How CIVILIZED is the world with such double standards we live in!Free speech for me but not for...

Tags: Facebook!, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Cockroach media will survive this recession

The problems that print, TV, and other media companies are having in their transition to an online business is that the revenues from the new world don't match those from the old. And that means cuts. Here is an extract from a staff memo by Robert Thomson,...

Tags: Revenue, Journalist, Recession, Media, Paul, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-07

HP ditches Linux netbooks in Europe

HP ditches Linux netbooks in EuropeSo wait...Are you saying that this is [b]not[/b] going to be The Year Of Linux after all? *sniff*The good part is that we get to listen to the Linux Fanboys making idiots of themselves all over again next year. I have never seen one...

Tags: UNIX, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, netbook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linux netbook

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet

If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There's a new summary put together by the National Science Foundation. It summarizes the recent increase in jellyfish invasions across the globe....

Tags: Swarm, National Science Foundation, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-14

Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS

Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Save the environment: stop eating

Save the environment: stop eatingWe need to extinct to save the worldOnly human extinction can save the world.RE: Save the environment: stop eatingGo veg - save the planet!wow"Save the environment: stop eating"Wow. I really hope that's a joke. That's pretty extremist.I'm fine with saving the planet and all that, but...

Tags: environment

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off

In the northern lattitudes the boreal forests of North America are losing their evergreens. Scientists say the mountain pine beetle is thriving due to the warmer winters. In turn beetles are killing large numbers of trees in Canadian forests. Previous beetle attacks have occurred in the Canadian...

Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Species, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-09

In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe

Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...

Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Using mail for phishing

Using mail for phishingSnailmail phishing already happening - legally!Murph said: [i]"As it turned out the letter we got was naive but genuine - but your next one may not be because sooner or later some bad guy is going to do this - and take at least a few hundred...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Forget health insurance. Who needs an Rx? Just drink the water.

Forget health insurance. Who needs an Rx? Just drink the water.everything's all right, MacSure, everything's fine...all cancer rates are falling, sterility among breeding age adults in US and Europe is not a concern and the drop in male babies v. females means nothing, and thre increrase in "allergies"...

Tags: Food & Beverage, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, beverage, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2008-03-15

Microsoft rechristens Silverlight 1.1 as 'Silverlight 2.0'

Microsoft rechristens Silverlight 1.1 as 'Silverlight 2.0'A quick correctionI just wanted to point out that the standard .NET languages (C#, VB.NET) will be supported in Silverlight 2.0 by a portable CLR framework and not by the DLR framework. The portable CLR framework (not to be confused with the compact...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, C#, Programming languages, Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Silverlight, CLR, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Photos: When roaches meet robots

Researchers set out to discover whether the icky brown bugs will accept artificial cockroaches into their shadowy community. by CNET News.com

Tags: Robot, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-11-16

More proof that the spammers are winning and how the e-mail system needs a rewrite

More proof that the spammers are winning and how the e-mail system needs a rewriteDavid, you guys are embarrassing yourselves featuring OLD stories, like"Microsoft and Open Source: Kissing cousins" which is weeks old and was crappy to start with. If the bloggers to have any NEW stories, do NOT...

Tags: e-mail, spam, spammer

Discussion threads 2007-09-18