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Droids, iPhones, and Trolls: An Observation
*Tap tap* Is this thing on?
I guess it’s been a while since anything’s been posted here, so I figure I may as well use good ol’ DT as a personal blog of sorts. Anyway, here it goes!
Over the past few days, while following the iPhone 4 launch coverage it’s occurred to me that the old platform wars are over, Nobody really gives a crap about Mac vs. PC any longer. It may explain why macvswindows has gone quiet as of late.
Instead, the debate has shifted to phones, and Microsoft is nowhere to be seen. It’s Google and Apple duking it out. And fans of those companies too. And not surprising, the arguments for Android are quite similar to those once used to support using Windows. The anti- and pro-iPhone comments are reminiscent to what people once said about the Mac. And it’s remarkable how quickly things have turned too. Even one year ago there was still plenty of chatter surrounding Windows and Mac. After all, Apple was still running its “Get a Mac” ads, and Microsoft was firing back.
Heck, we’re even seeing the same overblown rhetoric! (Google can’t be trusted! Apple is too closed! The iPhone will be dead in a year! Android is too hard to use!)
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I just have to wonder...what will next year’s big debate be?
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In Light of the Lyrics App Debacle
Apple initially rejected Jelle Prins’ iPhone app Lyrics, which displays lyrics for the songs in your music library, including the profanity contained in some song lyrics. Apple cited that fact as the reason for turning Prins down.
Oh Apple, look what I found:
Perhaps maybe you should make them censor it?
Ooh, and there’s this other app that allows unfiltered access to the internet, including objectionable content which you seem not to like allowing. I think it’s called… um.... Safari, that’s it! Wait a minute....
Yeah, make the developers of that conduit of smut pay for their sins against our children.
Speaking of children, won’t somebody think of them?
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4chan.org’s Popular Board /b/ Taken down
In wake of the DDOS attack on /b/ that I reported on a few minuets ago. It has taken only twenty seven minuets for the moderators at 4chan to take down /b/. At 7:27PM EST /b/ was reported as 404’d.
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4Chan.org Threatend By Internet War Against Boxxy
While browsing one of my favorite sites I found that the internet war between 4chan.org‘s Anonymous and a young, quite annoying girl from youtube named Boxxy has began to reach what a sociologist would call ”Critical Mass.” There is a large movement amoung 4chan.org users to perform a DDOS attack on the site at 7:00PM EST tonight. If you also brows the website be sure to expect delays or even a total server crash from 7PM onwards tonight.
The group of users are calling the attack under two codename: Operation Valkyrie and Operation Clampdown. The goal of the attack is to, according to the boards at 4chan, “stop the spread of the boxxy cancer.”
I will keep you updated on this situation as it develops throughout the night.
UPDATE 6:45PM EST: Just fifteen minuets before the attack an image is found of DDOS program aimed at 4chan.org. It appears to be a program commonly used called Low Orbit Ion Cannon. The interesting thing from the screen shot is that the programs are set to broadcast a message to the 4chan.org mods to destroy boxxy or else it seems the attack will be endless. More information to come.
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Note to Apple: Vista is fixed.
Apple’s relentless anti-Vista smear campaign continues, with its latest round of “Mac vs. PC” commercials accusing Microsoft of spending money on marketing that it could be spending to “fix Vista.”
Here’s a note to Apple: Vista is fixed. It’s called Service Pack 1, a release that, by all accounts, addresses the vast majority of issues Vista had at launch. Windows Vista with SP1 is fast, stable and highly capable, and despite Apple’s relentless smear campaign, people are gradually beginning to realize that Vista isn’t as bad as they’d been led to believe.
It’s time for Apple to stop the smearing and go back to focusing on the positive aspects of Mac OS X.
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