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10 passengers we love to hate: Day 2 -- bringing a warm meal on the plane {Gadling}
Jun 10th 2009 1:10PM Ugh... I remember when Pizza Put starting selling mini pizzas to go at LAX (or was it DFW?). I love pizza, but seriously, they these pizzas started smelling like vomit after 30 minutes in a confined airplane.
Anyhow, when you bring one of these onboard, to me it smells like you used the barf bag.
MacBook Pro first hands-on! {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2008 5:16PM Now that all the ports are on one side, I wonder if Apple (or someone else), will make a docking station for it now?
Parallels for Mac hits 1,000,000 users {Download Squad}
Jun 10th 2008 9:05PM I use it for development work. There are many things that run better on Windows than Mac. Example, DVD Fab Platinum. It is the only program that will rip DVDs that all my Mac rippers won't. And it is Windows.
Now that being said, I've worked on some Mac's with VM Fusion, and I find Fusion to be better. I wish Parallels would catch up.
Most Killer Songs: No. 16 {Spinner}
Feb 28th 2008 3:22PM I've never understood this song. Why is he in prison in California for a murder he committed in Nevada? If he said "I shot a man in Fresno just to watch him die" it would make a lot more sense.
MIT student arrested for fake bomb at Boston's Logan airport {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2007 1:22AM Anna Jackobsen of the Women's Wallstreet Journal has the right response.
http://www.theaviationnation.com/2007/09/21/woman-walks-through-logan-airport-with-mock-bomb/
Anna mentions the case of Rigoberto Alpizar, the guy who was shot and killed at the Miami Airport in 2005 because he claimed to have a bomb. He didn't and he died for his "stunt". Lot of people were upset with the police for killing him because (a) he was off his meds, (b) there was no bomb.
The problem with stunts like his, and hers, is that is puts security personnel in the difficult position of deciding what is a real threat and was is not. The threats are very real. Look what happened in Scotland in June. There are people who truly want to cause mass murder, and their venue of choice is airports and airplanes.
Nice to see so many people who claim they know exactly what bombs look like. I hope that you are never wrong.
She is damn lucky she is not dead. She owes a lot of people a lot of apologies.
Canada a hotbed of piracy? {Engadget}
May 2nd 2007 9:09AM Thank God for our krazy kanuk neighbors! I love how you guys managed to drive DirectTV nuts.
(1) DirectTV is not allowed to be sold in Canada (I don't know why... but that is besides the point).
(2) Some smart Canadians started selling "blue cards" to Americans via mail. The blue cards allowed Americans to receive DirectTV without a subscription.
(3) DirectTV goes ape s**t and demands that the Canadian blue card vendors be prosecuted for theft of services.
(4) Canadian court rules that since DirectTV can not be had in Canada, owning a blue card can not be illegal.
(5) DirectTV send home to go pound sand.
British gov't to hit up Apple, Sony for crime-resistant gadgets {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2007 10:26AM Rather than have the police do their job, they burden the public with more expense. here in Western Australia, their solution to car theft was to pass a law requiring all car owners to install demobilizers. How about instead getting the police off their asses and start busting the car thieves?
Oh yea, I forgot. The are on the take with theft rings and are too busy protecting their precious speed cameras.
SubRosaSoft's MacLockPick extracts personal info from OS X {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2007 9:58AM I can't wait until TrueCrypt gets ported to OSX (or at least Java). It has plausible denyability, is open source, is free, and in my opinion, is the most trustworthy option out there.
Beer to thank for consumer electronics explosion? {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2007 9:06AM Compare the countries of the world where alcohol is banned to where it is enjoyed.
Alcohol is the lubricant that makes society work. It allows people to go crazy without going insane. It gives them to liquid courage to do or say what must be done or said. It allows you to blow off steam, which frees your mind up to concentrate on more productive matters.
Ill-fated Mars Global Surveyor has human error to blame {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2007 7:00PM Most airplane crashes are also the result of a chain of events, each of which on their own would not cause the complete failure or event a problem.
Unfortunately, human error and Murphy's Law seem to mesh together perfectly.
