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Spotify launches on iTunes App Store and Android Market, premium members only {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2009 4:08AM This article makes me happy, going to get onto this later today, think it'll go fine on my HTC Hero :)
ATM scam at DEFCON clearly the work of ironic criminals {Engadget}
Aug 3rd 2009 11:29AM They've got no idea how long its been there though, could've been in use for months and only just got spotted.
Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2009 9:16AM doh :S
Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2009 9:14AM except instead of counting time, it counts his budget deficit. Damn, you'd need alot of flies for that.
(Muahahahahahaha - ahem)
Large Hadron restart delayed again -- you can relax until October {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2009 10:40AM My theory:
Main worry about the large hadron collider is that it'll create a wormhole big enough to tear through the earth and destroy us.
I think the LHC is going to tear through the earth, the universe, and time, and go boom. - Making it the surprise cause of the big bang that started everything off.
Nokia N86 8MP and N97 launching in UK today {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2009 11:58AM Funny, I thought that about the iphone.
Seriously, two years and three iterations before MMS and copy/paste were added?
And that camera's just embarrassing. I seriously don't get how people have gone so crazy for such a poor piece of equipment.
Nokia N86 8MP and N97 launching in UK today {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2009 11:46AM I wonder. Nokia users tend to be smart rather than unquestioning fanboys.
Do you think maybe the early sales will be to people that pre-ordered the phone from nokia, expansys.com and the like? Why queue when you can get it by signed delivery?
Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services {Engadget}
Apr 13th 2009 2:32PM Yeah totally, but then SIP is already available on a lot of the last gen phones out there, definitely symbian - Something that's changing slowly. o2 leaves everything on the n95 for example for Orange and Vodafone both take out the SIP capabilities (SIP is what enables VOIP). Anything that protects our market and stops it getting like the US carrier situation can only be a good thing.
And background apps BECOMMING available? Please, there's only one smartphone out there that can't run background apps and we all know which it is. (CLUE: it's the one that had built in stereo bluetooth that was held back until a paid update)
List of things an airline can get rid of {Gadling}
Oct 30th 2008 6:18AM Nah sorry Mark I don't buy that at all. Weight gain is not a disease - it's eating too much of the wrong thing and not having the self discipline to do exercise or control your diet.
I accept that a few people have a predisposition to being larger, but not the kind of size we're seeing in recent years. If that was even slightly true then there would be morbidly obese people in the third world, starving to death but still big with it.
I do accept that food can become an addiction though, but like a lot of drug or alcohol addicts that addiction is purely psychological. It's not until late stage addiction as the addict is poisoning themselves to death that it becomes physically linked.
I'm also not suggesting 'just stop eating', I think that people have a responsibility to change their attitude to food and take some personal responsibility, and not expect society to feel sorry for them and give them any kind of special dispensation. In the UK treating obesity related diseases is now the biggest single cost to the national health service - that means my tax pound is already paying for people that choose a big mac and fries over fruit, which I don't think should happen. Smokers are starting to have to contribute towards treatments for smoking related diseases for bringing it on themselves, obesity should be looked at the same.
And that includes paying extra for flights ;)
List of things an airline can get rid of {Gadling}
Oct 27th 2008 12:07PM Personally, and I don't mean to be rude here, but I really think anyone over 14 or 15 stone (200 pounds) should be charged extra for their flight.
Sounds fattist (and I suppose it is to a point) but passengers with heavy luggage get charged more as they're contributing to more fuel being used and in my belief the same logic applies to people that put away too much cake.
