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“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein
Again this week we started with a chat about various things. From our runs at Skype on the iPhone to Gareth’s prognostications on the future. And a lot more in between.
Before we got down to these stories….
President Obama gives the Queen of England an iPod – “One hopes that the nice colonial doesn’t get his arse nailed by the Feds.” The Queen was quoted as saying, not knowing if the copyrights in the material given on the iPod, had been cleared by the President. “You don’t mess with the DCMA.”
China accused of cyberspying – A report commissioned by the Dalai Lama’s office has found evidence of state sponsored cyberspying by the Chinese. It was an accusation strongly denied by the Chinese government. The Chinese spokesman that we contacted also denied any involvement, he then asked us if we wanted pancake roll or prawn cracker with our meal.
Hulu starts encrypting its HTML content – In it’s ongoing war with Boxee and others, the TV streaming service resorts to more and more desperate measures. But we all know that the content wants to be free.
Conficker, disaster or damp squib? – After the media hype. With the virus ‘just’ updating. We ponder what the virus writers are planning for enormous botnet they have created.
Attack of the qwerty phones – Texting with a numeric keypad just sucks. It seems that mobile makers agree, with more and more phones coming with qwerty keyboards. At last no more texters thumb, so if you can still raise them, put them way way up.
New piracy laws nearly halves internet traffic in Sweden – With prosecutors already trying to put the operators of the Pirate Bay behind bars. New laws scare the users of P2P off the internet in Sweden. The only upside is the amount of bandwidth freed for access to Sweden’s greatest export. And I’m not talking about ABBA.
And so you have Episode 6 of Killing pixels…
