Apple Kill QuickTime With DRM, Then Censor Complaints
Wed, 23/01/2008 - 7:12pm — HomerOh dear, the MacHeads are not happy bunnies...
Looks like a recent update to QuickTime has introduced some kind of DRM enforcement, that effectively renders it useless (pun intended).
Worse still, complaints about this update are being censored on Apple's support forums.
Apple - Support - Discussions - After QT7.4, AE error-you do not have ...
It seems that Apple has deleted (again) one part of this discussion...
US Federal Emergency Management Agency used fake reporters
Sun, 28/10/2007 - 3:26pm — HomerFEMA sorry for fake news briefing -- chicagotribune.com
WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.
"We are reviewing our press procedures and will make the changes necessary to ensure that all of our communications are straight forward and transparent," Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, said in a four-paragraph statement.
FUD: "Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop"
Tue, 02/10/2007 - 1:13pm — HomerA response to that FUD piece, "Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop", from Microsoft Shill, Michael Gartenberg
This piece is so heavily encrypted into FUD, that it's necessary to provide a full translation, as follows:
Even Unix workstation vendors had thoughts of moving beyond scientific and engineering applications to mainstream knowledge worker desktops.
Translation: He arrogantly presumed, and continues to assume, that *nix solutions will never be useful to anyone but geeks, despite the fact that there is nothing that can be done on Windows that cannot also be done on *nix, perhaps with the exception of being part of a spam bot-net ... and frequently crashing (thus losing productivity).