February 2012
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WOW this is funny, geeks in full battle →
Dan Lyons a writer who used to be quite respected in his day, just keeps messing up and trying to keep his name alive via insulting more well know tech jounalists. Went on MG Siegler and Michael Arrington a few weeks ago and now aiming (read: failing) at Robert Scoble just too much fun to watch as his hypocrisy comes to bite his ass. Please oh please piss off Pete Cashmore next…
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WHAT KIND OF DEMON EVIL SPEAK IS THIS ???!!!!!
Budget Speech 2012:
Excise duties on tobacco and alcohol products Dhiveshan Naicker has offered the following tip, Mister Speaker: “Raise the tax on alcohol and cigarettes so that people will stop drinking and smoking too much”. This is good advice. The increases in duties on tobacco products will be between 5 and 8 per cent this year. In respect of beer and spirits, an increased benchmark ...
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Anonymous, what you need to know.
Here is a great article by Nicholas Pell from Mademan that give you a quick easy overview of the organisation known as Anonymous.
Anyone who hadn’t heard of Anonymous last year sure knows their, um, name now. Late last month, in the largest coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever, Anonymous took down the websites of the MPAA, RIAA, Universal Music Group, BMI, U.S....
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Dutch Parliament Rejects ACTA On Human Rights...
The controversial ACTA treaty is quickly losing support in Europe.
After a handful of countries already backed off last week, The Netherlands and Bulgaria put their decisions of hold today.
A majority of the Parliament isagainst the ratification of ACTA.
They only intend to change this position if there’s irrefutable evidence that it doesn’t violate basic human rights.
Right now this is...
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Safe House - Awesome review in SA
Safe House released here in SA this last weekend, was well… what we expected it to be… there is tons of action and hectic chases, raining bullet fire and a side helping of a love story (purely there for producers benefit by the way, has no effect on movie story line at all but it’s required, and frankly played very well by both Ryan Reynolds and the new comer Vera Farmiga , so we let it...
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iPad 3 Unveiling March 7 →
ok everyone you know what to do, start selling your iPads on eBay while they are still worth something…..
parislemon:
Rene Ritchie scoops the info, and Jim Dalrymple confirms it. Good enough for me.
As previously discussed, March 7 makes sense as it’s a Wednesday, a day which Apple likes to use for such events. But it does call into question a SXSW launch.
That event starts on March...
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CIA website down, Anonymous says it’s responsible
Anonymous bullhorn @YourAnonNews is claiming that the hacktivist group has taken down the Central Intelligence Agency‘s website.
“CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” a person behind @YourAnonNews tweeted.
The attack took place roughly around 12:10 p.m. Pacific time on Friday, and the website is still down an hour later.
Anonymous traditionally has “F*ck FBI Friday,” in which it...
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WatchAn animated explanation of how your personal data gets tracked and sold
The video comes from Michael Ringley, a graphic designer living in San Francisco. It tracks the life of an MMS message, 28,000 of which are sent every second, and shows how the average user will have 736 pieces of personal data collected every day. That includes details like your number, who you’re calling, the location, date...
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Just signed away my first born to FNB
So I just signed up to the new Smart phone/device promotion with FNB because well to be frank, Standard Bank was driving me crazy with their ineptitude. Standard bank just last month locked all my accounts and didn’t even notify me, even though they have my Cell phone number, Home Number, Work Number and Email address, because… wait for it…. hide the children…. are you...
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The cure for ques!!! - Can't wait for this to be...
This is sheer genius, I whish they did this here in SA where we wait for eons at a time… however the banks will never go for a fake Pick n Pay or WoolWorths being in their branch. Then again it does help put us into debt so it’s win/win really…
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Path: We are sorry. →
In a fair apology from Dave Morin The main line:
“we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.”
thepersonalnetwork:
We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
As our...
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Hipster as well as Path upload part of your iPhone... →
This is shocking that such top notch apps and web savvy companies would do something so reckless as pulling a users private contact list info without the users knowledge never mind consent.
Even the @Scobleizer was shocked (From Google+) :
Robert Scoble - 1:55 AM - Public
Yes, +Path and +Dave Morin really screwed up here. They should have realized that uploading data without...
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Frankies wins battle with Woolworths
There was A BIG, Social Media David and Golith, fight about between Frankie’s and Woolworths on Twitter & Facebook about the term “Good Old Fashioned”. I only caught the end of the fight on 702 of all places (yes I listen to 702, hand me the zimmer frame) when the CEO of Woolworths was on admiting defeat and that he would go above and beyond retracting the tag line, he would...
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Finally, Facebook Files for $5 BILLION IPO!!
In a landmark move the Social site that is so ingrained into modern life Facebook is finally (this has been on the cards for years) filing for their IPO. It seems it was worth the wait they are now pitching for $5 Billion US and the industry experts say it’s a viable figure.
Not bad for a eight year old company.
Mashable’s take:
Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for...
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January 2012
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“We succeeded in taking that picture from deep space, and, if you look at it, you...”
– Carl Sagan
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things →
A sad but true state of affairs in our increasingly technologically driven world illuminated in the article below. We all act appalled, as we should, when we hear about the conditions in Foxconn. Where our beloved gadgets come from, be it an Xbox or an iPad. We are horrified but then we chose to allow the memory to fade away so that we can play a game or watch a movie without the annoyance of...
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Impressive HTML5 site of the human body
I came across this incredible Chrome App earlier today, and was very impressed, the site was built by BioDigital. You are able to see all the levels and systems within the body (both male & female). Google had an experiment like this a few years ago but was scraped. This model however is far more developed even going within the layers, as in you can now peel away individual muscles to see...
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Anonymous asked: about sopa and pipa?