The Wrong Advices

From TorrentFreak:
A DVD-player that has been designed to prevent DVD-screeners from leaking to the public will be phased out because industry insiders say the DRM hurts their viewing pleasure. It seems that DRM is fine when it’s annoying the public but unacceptable when it’s affecting them.
The hypocrisy of people within the film industry is [...]

Computeractive magazine is giving away copies of AVG Anti-Virus Pro for a limited time (Offer ends 17th of January 2008). Definitely worth the download. [link]

Everyone has used the smiley face at one point or another, but do you know how its use started?
Twenty-five years ago a Carnegie Mellon University professor named Scott E. Fahlman sent a message proposing the use of a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a joke marker. It is the earliest [...]

It seems like such a long time ago that this whole mess started, and checking the date it was. SCO filed their lawsuit back in March of 2003. It’s taken over 4 years and millions of dollars in legal fees to reach a conclusion most people thought was pretty clear from the outset - [...]

It’s now possible to use the iPhone to make calls on the Telstra network but unfortunately it’s not a complete hack. At the moment it’s not possible to receive calls or send/receive text messages.
To compound things the procedure to unlock the phone is fairly complex and you need to be a bit of a [...]

Well we finally have an unmistakably negative review of the iPhone and it’s from one of the most infamous writers on the Internet.
In his typically crude style Maddox points out how terrible the iPhone is and how stupid you are if you own one, whilst praising his Nokia E70 - going so far as [...]

Some of you might be wondering why you would need a list of default router passwords?
Well if you reset the settings on your router the password goes back to the factory default. If you don’t have the manual handy you’ve just locked yourself out of your router. This is the point where you’d start [...]

Probably the most interesting thing I’ve heard about Truemors is that it’s built on Wordpress.
It’s easy to see how the scalability and ease of modification that exists with Wordpress would attract such a high profile startup.
After poking around a bit I’ve noticed they are using some modified plugins as well. Notably WP-PostRatings (for voting) [...]

Joost has finally launched commercially but they aren’t making it easy. I don’t understand why they are still making people jump through hoops to use their service. Just let people sign up already.
From the press release:
Joost now is available to an unlimited number of friends, family and colleagues of existing beta testers. Starting today, when [...]

In this video Intel gives us a glimpse of the technology they envision we’ll all be using in the future. It seems to me we already have alot this technology at present but for various reasons it’s not viable for mass consumption.

It’s cost prohibitive.
In some cases it isn’t mature enough. Take voice recognition for [...]