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Man Outed as Gay Left With Bad Taste in Mouth
May 4th
Files can easily be recovered from old phones and PDAs, including smartphones. Don’t dispose of one unless you are certain the data cannot be recovered. Otherwise, don’t complain if someone steals your deleted data or outs you as gay on facebook. Here is a post on how to wipe data from an iPhone/iPad.
From the DenverChannel here:
He left the store just before closing. Not even 30 minutes later, a posting from his old Android phone appeared on his Facebook account. The status message read “I am gay. I’m coming out.” Dewberry didn’t write the posting, nor is he gay.
Dewberry said he accidentally left his Facebook and other accounts logged in on his old phone. When the message was posted his new phone hadn’t even been activated.“Calls started coming in immediately to my house phone,” Dewberry told 7NEWS Reporter Don Champion. “Friends, ex-spouses, they were all calling.”
Dewberry said the 9:19 p.m. time stamp from the message told him it was a Best Buy employee who made the posting. The next day he called the store and filed a complaint with a manager. Days later Dewberry said he was told the employee involved was fired.
“It just put a bad taste in my mouth,” Dewberry said. “My reputation has been tarnished and they’re responsible for it.”
Being gay puts lots of bad tastes in your mouth. Just ask door-knob licking gay bully Dan Savage.
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Loading ...Ubuntu for the Android- True Desktop to Mobility
Feb 28th
While I was troubleshooting my own Ubuntu installation, I came across this awesome video showing an Android phone that runs Ubuntu and is dockable to a larger screen to enable traditional input devices. Looks fantastic! Truly a desktop to mobility solution.
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Idiocracy Was Born in San Francisco
Oct 4th
All cellphones now sold in the city limits of San Francisco have to have a label on them specifying the amount of radiation the thing gives off. How people are supposed to figure out this score is beyond anyone’s guess.
From NBC here:
San Francisco controversial new law requiring cell phone retailers in the City to provide radiation information is now live.
The ordinance requires cell phone retailers to display information about the amount of radiation emanating from cell phones and to provide fact sheets to customers who ask for them.
There is some controversy about how radiation levels are measured and whether cell phone radiation poses an immediate threat at all.
Ever notice with the big brains on the left that the “science is settled” on the whole Global Warming thing, but when scientists continually tell us that cellular signals are harmless to all forms of life, that scientific information is “theory” and “controversial?”
They should go ahead and label the calorie and sodium content on cell phones too. Consumers too dumb to trust cell phone safety are very likely the eat the damn things.
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Steve Jobs Has the iCancer
Aug 26th
Someone forgot to plug Steve Jobs into the wall outlet.
The photo above was from TMZ taken two days after the Apple CEO resigned.
So maybe cellphones really do cause brain cancer?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...CrowdJamming the Cellphones is Here
Aug 13th
Back in 2008, I posted a piece over at [GAS] about how the government, in times of crisis or threat, could dampen cell phones to prevent communication between adversaries as they coordinate an attack. Now, in the wake of the use of social media via cellphones used to burn London and coordinate protests in the Middle East, BART, the train system in San Francisco, pulled the plug on their underground cellular infrastructure to prevent hoodlums (libs call them activists) from coordinating an attack.
From Breitbart here:
Details emerged of Bay Area Rapid Transit officials’ decision to cut off underground cellphone service for a few hours at several stations Thursday. Commuters at stations from downtown to near the city’s main airport were affected as BART officials sought to tactically thwart a planned protest over the recent fatal shooting of a 45-year-old man by transit police.
Two days later, the move had civil rights and legal experts questioning the agency’s move.
BART board members were told by the agency of its decision during the closed portion of its meeting Thursday afternoon, less than three hours before the protest was scheduled to start.
BART Deputy Police Chief Benson Fairow said the issue boiled down to the public’s well-being. “It wasn’t a decision made lightly. This wasn’t about free speech. It was about safety,” Fairow told KTVU-TV on Friday.
BART spokesman Jim Allison maintained that the cellphone disruptions were legal as the agency owns the property and infrastructure.
A whole bunch of libs are pissed off they couldn’t get their mobs to light fires in San Francisco to protest the shooting of a dangerous, homeless bum. Tactical use of disabling cellular services as crowd control is probably a good idea.
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Girls Are No Smarter in 21st Century
Mar 30th
My pal and I had a brief and uncomfortable discussion in front of our wives about how stupid most single women still are in the 21st century. We both agreed that single women are still dumb. Most single chicks are largely incapable of making good decisions on their own. Given equality they don’t seem to handle it well. And now, as further proof, a woman is given equality, a good job, a cell phone and, apparently, lots of free shots, to prove how stupid she is.
This is a classic example of how a chick is given the brush-off because she is unattractive/annoying/drunk and the guy just pokes fun at her to watch her make a fool of herself. Of course the man has heard of Ebay. He faked that he was getting ready to shit his drawers just to get away from your annoying ass. And of course you are single. Get used to telling men that because you are going to stay that way for a very long time.
So why did Ryan give his number to you? Obviously, he hoped he would capture your dumbass making a fool of yourself so he could upload it to the Internet. Thanks to Patton Oswalt, aka Remy from Ratatouille for the link.
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UAE and Saudi to Ban Blackberries
Aug 2nd
Islamic states are banning the Blackberry because their email and texting systems are encrypted. Meaning that these states can’t eavesdrop on citizens who use them.
From FT here:
The United Arab Emirates is to suspend BlackBerry mobile communication services from October because, it said, they operate outside its laws and raise national security concerns.
Saudi Arabia appeared to be following suit, with an official at Saudi Telecom, a state-controlled company, saying the kingdom was banning BlackBerry messenger services.
BlackBerry services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, use internal encrypted networks that are difficult for governments to monitor. It is the only data services provider operating in the UAE that exports its data offshore and denies authorities access to its systems.
The UAE’s regulator said its decision was based on the fact that “certain BlackBerry services allow users to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national security concerns for the UAE”.
The UAE’s suspension will begin on October 11 and will also apply to roaming BlackBerry devices. The ban in Saudi Arabia, the Arab Gulf’s most populous nation and the Arab world’s biggest economy, was due to begin this month.
If they ban blackberries, how long before they ban Skype? Or any other VOIP program that uses encryption? And from personal experience, RIM’s communication doesn’t stay encrypted everywhere it goes. Maybe if they are communicating to other RIM devices, but to non-RIM users those texts and emails still go out unencrypted.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...iPhone 4 Has Antenna Problems
Jun 24th
If you are right handed and hold the iPhone in your left hand like most people do while accessing the touch pad, you will short out the bluetooth and 3G antennas causing calls to drop!
The “Geniuses” at the Apple store have been handing out free rubber bumper covers for these phones to people standing in line to complain about it.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...F-Secure’s Mobile Phone Anti-Theft
Jun 14th
Not sure if this will work on an iPhone, but it would be nice to know where your phone is if you lose it and have the ability to lock your account.
UPDATE: This works on the Android and Windows smartphones.
Thanks to @MikkoHypponen for the video.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Obama Says: You Have No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy to Your Cell Phone Logs
Feb 11th
Remember when Bush was President and everyone had their panties in a twist over the warrantless wiretapping of foreign phone calls? Liberals were apoplectic about it and sued all the way to the supreme court to make him stop. Angry, they used the privacy issue to justify voting in a half-black man who has never held a real job at a private company. So what does our new President do? He says the government can now track all your movements at home and abroad, and you have no reasonable expectations of those movements being private. That’s hope and change you can believe in.
From CNET here:
Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.
In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration tracked a tractor trailer with a drug shipment through a GPS-equipped Nextel phone owned by the suspect. Texas DEA agents have used cell site information in real time to locate a Chrysler 300M driving from Rio Grande City to a ranch about 50 miles away. Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile logs showing the location of mobile phones at the time calls became evidence in a Los Angeles murder trial.
And a mobile phone’s fleeting connection with a remote cell tower operated by Edge Wireless is what led searchers to the family of the late James Kim, a CNET employee who died in the Oregon wilderness in 2006 after leaving a snowbound car to seek help.
The way tracking works is simple: mobile phones are miniature radio transmitters and receivers. A cellular tower knows the general direction of a mobile phone (many cell sites have three antennas pointing in different directions), and if the phone is talking to multiple towers, triangulation yields a rough location fix. With this method, accuracy depends in part on the density of cell sites.
Anyone with an iPhone understands how the map feature works. It uses triangulation between cell towers to pinpoint your position. Soon there will be apps available to allow you to track your friends or even strangers based on social networking settings. And the government will be doing this too. So all you leftists that feel betrayed by Obama and his spying on your every movement, just take some tin foil and wrap your phone in it.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Obama Voter Sues Neighbor for Half Million Bux Because ‘iPhone Waves’ Make Him Insane
Jan 11th
Some retarded democrat who claims that the electro-magnetic waves emitted from all technology gives him the “runny poops” is suing his next door neighbor because, like a normal person, she has an iPhone and an internet connection.
Look! This puppy’s brain is getting cooked by Cellphone Rays! Bwaa ha ha ha ha!
From SFReeper.com here:
Arthur Firstenberg. He’s the “electrosensitive” activist who has campaigned against wi-fi in public buildings and, more recently, against digital television broadcasts.
Firstenberg claims that the low-level electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones and other modern gadgets makes him, and others “sensitive” to radio waves, suffer terribly. The side-effects of exposure, he believes, include “nausea, vertigo, diarrhea, ringing in the ears, severe headaches and body aches, crippling joint pains, insomnia, impaired vision, impaired muscular control” and other ailments, some potentially deadly.
In the past, he has taken his case to City Hall, where he found a polite if unreceptive audience. Now, Firstenberg wants a judge to stop his neighbor from using her iPhone, her wireless internet and her laptop charger, saying the radiation has forced him from his home.
He also wants $530,000 in damages, including $100,000 for pain and suffering.
I say that if this goes to court everyone in there should take his picture with a cellphone camera.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Islam Means Misogyny: Divorce by Text Message
Apr 9th
From the Fark article: I dvrc thee, i dvrc thee, i dvrc thee. lol kthxbye
From Reuters here:
A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives.
A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split — the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message — after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband’s intention, the paper said. Under sharia law a man can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce you” three times.
The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in jihad according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
Way to render a woman instantly homeless. And I thought the war in Iraq was over according to Obama who is stepping up troop strength in Afghanistan.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chinese Exploding Cellphones
Feb 3rd
A Chinese man’s cellphone exploded while it was in his shirt pocket. Shrapnel went into his neck and he exsanguinated. What a bitter way to die.
From the Reg here:
A Chinese man was killed at a computer shop last Friday after the cell phone in his chest pocket exploded, severing a major artery in his neck and leading to massive blood loss.
According to local news reports, the man worked as a shop assistant at the store. An employee at a neighboring 7-11 convenience store told local media that she heard a loud bang and saw her colleague lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She said the man had recently swapped his mobile phone battery for a new one.
Oh my god, you know what this means? You can get a Super Big Gulp in China!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...WTF? OMG 15k TXTs in 1 Mo.
Jan 13th
The only thing worse than perpetual thumb cramps is the astonishing lack of parenting that would allow a child to send almost 15,000 text messages from her cellphone in 1 month. I hope she had an unlimited texting plan.
From the NYPost here:
Greg Hardesty didn’t LOL when he got his teen daughter’s cellphone statement.
The California man’s 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages. It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour.
The girl messages a core of “four obsessive texters” – all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 – on her LG phone.
Luckily, Hardesty has a phone plan that allows unlimited texting for $30 a month. Otherwise, he estimates, he would have owed AT&T $2,905.60 at a rate of 20 cents per message.
The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage.
Almost 2000 text messages per month average? That’s crazy. Whatever happened to just talking on the phone?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...John Mayer Dumped Jennifer Anniston- By Text Message!
Aug 21st
Ah, the naked cruelty. That crackling sound you hear are Jennifer’s ovaries hardening. Apparently, after nagging John about wanting to start a family, he hung up the phone on her and texted her to say its over!
According to PopCrunch here:
“She is so intent on getting married and having children, he felt hemmed in,” says a source.
“After a 20-minute phone conversation, he just said, ‘I can’t take it any more’, and hung up. Then he texted, ‘That’s it – the end’.”
Maybe Jen can borrow Brangelina’s kid catcher net to snare an overseas orphan.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Electronic Jamming of Your Devices- Good “Manners?”
Jun 27th
I put up a new post over at [GAS] about jamming digital devices in order to create security, or in the case of movie theaters and restaurants, “good manners.”
So go check out the post. Would you be comfortable with having your cellphone auto-silenced in theaters or airplanes? Is it okay to disable your digital camera in a museum?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...CellPhone Spying- Are You Being Monitored?
May 6th
There is a great new post at [GAS] by JR Raphael about how easy it is to install spying software on a cellphone. It should be noted that it is also easy to install the software on any phone you can get your hands on, so be sure to maintain control of your phone. And if you are a real psycho and want to spy on your spouse or girlfriend, the article points you to a site that can help you do it.
Remember, Virginia has already used cellphone records to locate deadbeat dads. They might soon turn on the tracking software and send the cops to pick them up. The courts have already approved using cellphones to track drug dealers.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Berkeley Wants to Ban Cell Towers
Nov 9th
Berkeley California is chock full o’ moonbats. And for a city more famous for its college and its scientific research than anything else, you would think that the city would be up to speed on scientific principles. But no, they embrace everything that has to do with junk science.
Moonbats fear cell towers almost as much as Global Warming.
The latest moonbat douchebaggery has to do with the city council overturning the city’s zoning board who wanted to ban cell phone towers because they claimed cellular signals were dangerous to peoples’ health. When the zoning board denied the permits needed for Verizon to place antennas on a storage building, Verizon sued. Lawyers for Berkeley told the city that they needed to allow Verizon to do it because there was no scientific evidence to back their stupid claims that cell signals were hazardous.
From SFGate here:
Dozens of south Berkeley residents packed the council chambers at this week’s meeting, waving signs while jeering and heckling the council and attorneys. Some speakers said that radiation emitted from the antennas is a health risk and that too many of the towers are clustered in their neighborhood.
The World Health Organization, in a recent report, concluded that cell phones and cell-phone towers pose little risk to health. It also stated that more research needs to be done.
Councilwoman Dona Spring voted in favor of overturning the zoning board, but advised the city to take other action to reduce the number of telecommunications antennas.
“When we start getting tumors and our babies start dying, we’ll know in the future the negative health effects of these things,” she said. “But one thing we can do now is to reduce demand – only use cell phones for emergencies and use land lines for computers.”
Ah, the ignorance of liberalism. Ban cellphones because they are certain that the radiation is bad, despite what scientists claim. Ban cars because carbon is going to cause Global Warming, despite the lack of proof for their claims. But experiment on aborted fetuses for stem cell research, ’cause that can cure diseases- despite that research has shown it won’t. Perverting science with politics usually leads to people dying.
If the residents of Berkeley are so concerned about their health, why do they live in an active earthquake zone? Thanks to Dan Riehl for the heads up.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Jailed Teacher Looks Sad
Nov 6th
As posted previously, the Mexican authorities caught up with the child-raping math teacher and basketball coach Kelsey Peterson. She was dragged back across the border to California where she already made a court appearance. She looks so sad in the photo.
No apple for this rotten teacher.
The most interesting part about this story about her court appearance is not anything that happened in court, but the new information that the authorities tracked her down because her cellphone was GPS capable. They knew right where to find her. I would have loved to see the look of surprise on her face.
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