Not only are they not stupid but in this day and age chances are they know that the internet exists and most likely know how to use it.
Some poor women was checking out her husband’s iPhone when she found a “raunchy” (read: cock and balls) picture attached to an email in his sent items that was addressed to another female. Obviously concerned she confronted her husband.
The chucklehead in question actually had the balls to tell his soon-to-be-ex-wife that he had been to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store and there was a known glitch with the iPhone. Yep, apparently iPhones have been known to attach random pictures to emails in the sent items folder even though the picture was never sent.
Well apparently this guy isn’t married to a lady that fell off the fucking turnip truck yesterday. She fired up an internet machine and posted a question about this “known glitch” in the Apple Support forums. As you can imagine no one in the forum is buying the “magic picture attachment” bullshit this ass-clown trotted out. Hit the link to check out the full thread.
Most USB devices serve a purpose. Perhaps they power your wireless mouse, maybe they store massive amounts of data, maybe they even open beer bottles. And those are all awesome ideas. This awesome device, however, simply powers itself so that the dog can continually hump your computer when plugged in. Fuck man’s best friend, this is computers best friend son! And no doubt it’s work computer appropriate.
Everyone has run into at least one situation where a phone call is required but you would rather punch yourself in the face than actually talk to the person. Maybe you are in a rush and you need to call that one buddy who can’t have a phone conversation that lasts less than thirty minutes. Maybe you want to leave your boss a message letting him know that you won’t be coming in without actually talking to him. Maybe you need to call the girl that you woke up next to last weekend but you really want to avoid the awkward phone conversation.
For those awkward situations and many more Slydial is here to help. The service couldn’t be more genius. Basically Slydail allows you to go straight to someone’s voicemail without having to sweat through the four or five rings it would normally take. The whole process is pretty simple. From any mobile or landline phone dial 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425) and then at the voice prompt enter the phone number that you would like to leave a voicemail for. At that point you will be sent directly to that person’s voicemail.
Of couse nothing in life is free. So when you ring up Slydial you will either have to listen to a short advertisement or cough up $0.15 per call. If you are a professional people dodger Slydial does offer subscription plans.
Even though Microsoft has given Gates so much, and will probably continue to go about its ways by ruling the software industry with an iron fist, wouldn’t it be funny to see Gates go out with a nice “Fuck You” to his fellow Microsofties? I’m not talking about a debilitating software crisis like Y2K, but maybe just some small inconvenience virus. Just something that’s going to remind everyone who’s top dog. Like every time someone types “B” it auto-fills with “Bill” and “G” auto-fills with “Gates.” You gates the idea.
We will always remember, and thank, Gates for giving us the headache that is PowerPoint. I hate that damn program!
Check out Lupe Fiasco’s “Outty 5000” from the Revenge of the Nerds Mixtape.
Yup, it was only a couple of days ago that it officially became summer. Surprisingly, up here in the great Pacific Northwest, the weather is actually looking and feeling like summer too!
To mark the start of the new season, Gizmodo put together the 10 Gadgets for Air Conditioned Summer Survival. The list includes stuff like an air conditioned bed, special ice cream scooper, ice sauna and big wave trampoline.
However, my favorite on the list is the USB Air Conditioned Shirt. This will come in perfect for the working man who has a window that gets blasted by the afternoon sun. Just plug this bad boy into your computer’s USB drive and enjoy the cool breeze as the rest of the office bakes! Only two drawbacks: First, the $169 price tag is a bit steep for a work shirt, and second, the shirt only comes in a short sleeve variety. Apparently that’s because it’s made in Japan and they are targeting people like Dwight Schrute.
Now I just need to find a USB battery pack and take this thing out to the bars and clubs to keep me from pitting out! Those places get hot as balls!
All those long hours tolling away in airports dealing with grumpy passengers and pants that are always two sizes too small are about to pay off for TSA agents. The TSA is rolling out new security scanners to 10 U.S. airports that use millimeter waves to see through clothing and detect things like metals, plastics and ceramics. Of course the TSA agent “looking at the images in a separate room” (that’s not creepy) has to actually be looking for those things and not just staring at boobs.
Besides masking their faces, the TSA says on its website, the images made “will not be printed stored or transmitted”.
Oh yeah that puts all my privacy concerns to bed. It doesn’t help that in the first 15 seconds of the below CNN video you see an obviously large overweight dude staring at a continually rotating naked x-ray chick on his computer monitor. The bastard has some kind of headset on so I can definitely see this conversation happening.
TSA 1: Oh dude, I found our next “random” passenger.
TSA 2: Niiiiice, her boobs are outstanding.
TSA 1: You lucky bastard. I should be on monitor duty.
TSA 2: No worries I will just minimize this window and open a new one so you can check it out on your break.
I know that we are a day late and that every site on the web has done some kind of post about the 3G iPhone but I think we would be remiss if we didn’t post something about it. I am not going to burn through a bunch or words describing the features. We all know about the built-in GPS, 3G connectivity, improved battery life, App Store and the renamed .mac service mobileme.
Basically I wanted to do two things with this post. First I wanted to say that I don’t yet have a full fledged iBoner but I’m definitely rolling with an iChubby. I am not going to switch providers and sign a contract with AT&T so I will have to wait for the geniuses to do their work and crack this new iPhone before I pick one up. Second, I wanted to point out that in the post I wrote last week about Bodog offering lines on what would be announced at WWDC I chose the winning bet.
I think the best looking bet is the “Will Apple announce a “thin” iPhone? “ paying out +150 on the “No”.
While the iPhone 3G is “thinner at the edges” Apple definitely did not announce a dedicated “thin” iPhone. It would be a whole lot cooler if I had had the balls to actually put some money on that line but I will just settle for being right.
Already got money set aside for that 3G iPhone that you think Apple is going to announce at the WWDC on June 9th? Why don’t you put that money on the line and see if you can pay for your new iPhone with your confidence instead of your hard earned cash. I think the best looking bet is the “Will Apple announce a “thin” iPhone? “ paying out +150 on the “No”. Rumors have run rampant on both sides of the thin issue. Some say the 3G version will be thinner and others say that it will be slightly thicker. I think Apple will announce 3G and more features in the same size packaging.
Will Apple announce a 32GB iPhone? With “Yes” paying -300 and “No” paying +200.
Will Apple announce a “thin” iPhone? With “Yes” paying -200 and “No” paying +150.
Will Apple announce a 3G iPhone? With “Yes” paying -500 and “No” paying +300.
Will Apple announce a 32GB, 3G, “thin” iPhone? With “Yes” paying -130 and “No” paying -120.
Will Apple’s stock (APPL) close higher or lower than its opening value on June 9? “Higher” pays -200 and “Lower” pays +150.
The following will be remedial for most Tasty Boozers but if these gambling lines don’t make sense to you here is a quick explanation.
The minus is the favorite and the plus is the underdog. So, taking the first bet as an example -300 means that you pay $3 to win $1 on the other side the +200 means that you pay $1 to win $2. If you bet $100 on the -300 your pay out would be about $133.33 (original $100 + $33.33 in winnings). If you bet $100 on the +200 your payout would be $300 (original $100 + $200 in winnings).
Consider this a little bit of public service announcement from Tasty Booze. The very first thing you should do whenever you get a new gadget or service that uses a password is to change the default password it came with.
The vast majority of wireless routers that I come across have never had their default passwords changed. You think the wireless at your house is secure because it requires a WEP key or a WPA password, but if someone can guess your default password (hint: it is printed online in owner’s manuals) then that someone can access your router and either disable or change those protections. How can this bite you in the ass? Well the FBI has recently started posting fake hyperlinks that claim to link to kiddie porn. When someone clicks one of these dummy links they are redirected to a government server that logs their IP address and notifies the FBI. The FBI takes that IP address to the ISP and gets the billing information for the account using that IP address. Then the FBI shows up at the billing address carrying a search warrant with weapons drawn. If someone uses your default password to access your wireless and then clicks one of the dummy links you are fucked.
Here is another default password you have probably never changed that can bite you in the ass. Your voicemail password. Telephone hackers (yes, they do exist) dial a number and try to guess the voicemail password. Generally, if it hasn’t been changed something like 1234 will work. Once they access your voicemail they change your outgoing message to “operator, I will accept the charges.” Once that is done they will start making international collect calls through your number and the phone company is going to come looking for you to pay the bill. One unlucky Sprint customer had $13,000 worth of calls charged to her account in just 48 hours.
That it is my helpful hint of the day. Always change the default password. I will now get back to finding funny shit on the internet which is probably what you came here for.
Apple has filed a recent patent application that looks like an iPhone flip-phone in the works. Our friends at Engadget don’t want to get your hopes up too much, as patent applications come and go sometimes with nothing to show.
Judging by the images, it looks like Apple is going to take the Motorola Razr and just incorporate a dual-touch screen instead of a keypad and screen. Brilliant!
Hopefully Apple will find a way to keep this version of the iPhone under $600. Although my current BlackBerry Curve doesn’t show it, I have an affinity for flip-phones. For some reason, I just like the security of knowing that with it closed, I’m not going to be scratching up the screen or randomly dialing people when my phone is in my pocket. Just make sure they keep the coolapplications.
Maybe this will be ready in time for Christmas or at least MacWorld 2009!
No, that’s not a typo or a joke. Seems that a submersible, open-top car/submarine is exactly what the Swiss have invented.
And the picture to the right is not a joke either, even though it looks like it should be painted on the side of a van, that’s actually it!
It’s called the sQuba, and it has a top speed on land of 77mph, though it slows to a speedy 1.8mph underwater. And yes, if you go underwater, you will have to use a SCUBA apparatus to breathe, because you will be completely exposed to the water. Because it’s, you know, a fucking convertible.
The car, of which there is only one in existence, and which has (as far as I can tell) zero practical application, cost $1.5 million to make. Meanwhile my wireless internet keeps cutting in and out. Way to prioritize, scientists!
Original article here, including video of this idiotic thing.
This is pretty fun. Basically a site called babynamewizard.com has come up with a really cool way to track the popularity of names over the last couple centuries. Ostensibly, it’s to help prospective parents research names, but what it is really fun for is searching names of you and your friends and seeing the rise and fall of their acclaim.
It’s very user friendly, and to my mind, very interestingly set up as a search/graph function. Have fun.
p.s. For those of you that know my real name, typing it in and observing its steady decline from its most popular date (like 1890 or so) to present day is pretty funny…
Who remembers what a typewriter looks like? Anyone? Apparently nobody in Florida remembered what the single page at a time machine looked like.
In Sarasota, Florida on Monday, a suspicious package that forced the closure of several blocks and a city parking facility on Monday morning turned out to be an old-style typewriter. Naturally since no one had seen one in their lifetime, they had no idea what it was.
The bomb squad was called and the package detonated, at which time they discovered it was a typewriter. The investigation continues, since the reason that the typewriter was in the cage is still unknown.
Isn’t Florida filled with old people who wear white loafers and would remember what a typewriter looks like? Couldn’t they have brought in one person over the age of 50 who could have identified this thing? The article mentions that the typewriter was found in a cage that only county officials can access. I bet some poor saps wife made him clean the thing out of the garage and he stashed it there because he wanted to write a novel on it someday. I can’t wait for another 5 years to pass so that we can call out the bomb squad to blow up an Atari or a Neo-Geo that no one regonizes.
We have all seen the commercial where a guy dressed as an airline pilot describes how he was able to check the weather on his iPhone which allowed the plane he was piloting to depart on time. Apparently the commercial inspired some chucklehead equipped with an iPhone to challenge a Captain’s weather delay announcement. As you might guess it takes some smarts to fly a commercial jet and this Captain proved he has got more than enough with this wicked awesome response / burn.
On one of the frequent-flier blogs, an airline pilot writes that only moments after informing his passengers of a weather-related ground hold affecting their flight to Memphis, Tenn., he and his captain received a call from one of the flight attendants. Seems an iPhone-wielding customer in the back had a challenge. “Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good,” the flight attendant says, “and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?”
Reportedly, the captain responded with a public address announcement that was sharp enough to elicit audible laughter from the cabin.
“If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough,” he began, “to use it to check the weather at our alternate airport, then calculate our revised fuel burn due to being rerouted, then call our dispatcher to arrange our amended release, then make a call to the nearest traffic control center to arrange a new slot time (among all the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones), we’ll then be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multimillion-dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave.”
Consider yourself burned, SON! You checked a weather map on the internet dipshit. 90% of cell phones available today have the exact same capability but people don’t use them to second guess trained professionals. Only some pompous ass clown with an iPhone would think that said iPhone and it’s internet weather map is better than the millions of dollars of equipment, personnel and training packed into an airport control tower.
