Gizmodo =/= comment democracy

For whatever perverse reason Gizmodo.com has desided not to publish my comments. This time on an text with title: The Worst Oil Disaster in US History: How You Can Help

after a list of ways to help non of which really helps except volunteering for cleaning the oil spil, I simply proposed that they could "use the bus" instead of their facking huge american cars that eat gazoline like firebreathing Gozillas.

The reason is quite obvious and requires no real explanation than that by using the busses, they use less gazoline so there is less need for oil companies to extract oil from Mexico, Alaska, Canada Middle East etc. They could also ask for a US fast train network for the same reason. Instead of spending enless amounts of money in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

But of course the American way of living prevents them from publishing different or so called communist opinions.

Well I really hope they drown in oil.

T-Mobile mobile internet blocking system.... is crappy

Recently I purchased a USB 3G mobile broadband dongle sponsored by T-Mobile.
It was very cheap and very locked too to this network, but luckily internet is a great resource to overcome such problems.
There is a catch though. The problem is that the buyer has to provide at the cashier Name and Address before taking it home, although no ID is necessary.
Despite that, T-mobile has a "fair usage" policy in how much data can be downloaded, and additionally has a content lock!
That means that you cannot access freely sexual content (which is probably justifiable)
http://tmuk.content-lock.t-mobile.net/cop/adult

unless you register by credit card, "or call 1818 from your mobile or visit your nearest T-Mobile Store".
https://tmuk.content-lock.t-mobile.net/cop/xhtmlmpintro.do;jsessionid=6D64DB54D4ED760259D2435BDBD02837?ID=6D64DB54D4ED760259D2435BDBD02837

Imagine my surprise when trying to access Blogger.com I got the same "adult lock" response!
Strangely wordpress.com is not affected by that, and blog.com wouldn't load when I tried it.

SOOOOOOOOOO
what may one think? Probably a mistake in the adult database, ORRRRRR bloggers are dangerous and should be approached with extreme caution.

iPad YEA

"Hello World" said the iPad today and the world jized its pants in a true American fashion. Gizmodo, (which unfortunately I follow) and other gadget websites shed countless pages of electronic ink, spending dozens of man-hours (theirs to write stuff, ours to read the said stuff) writing about the rumors of its existenze, showing photochopped and blurred or crystal clear photos of it, speculating on its specifications, and shedding tons of sweat and tears in the process.

They even posted a Bounty Ad for 100.000$ for evidence of its existence and for fracks sake they got an official lawyer response!!!

And I ask: Why the the heck does that happens? It is a fracking tablet computer. Yes it is slim, yes it powerful, yes its battery lasts a lifetime, yes there was a lot of secrecy around it, SO FUCKING WHAT? So there is gonna be absolutely no fucking, as I told a former friend once, when he asked the same question.

I am no Apple fanboy, I am no Windows fanboy, hell I am no Linux fanboy either, not to mention Be, Solaris etc. I couldn't care less if they all burnt to HELL and I wouldn't shed a tear. Though I would rather prefer if they would not burn simultaneously cause humanity needs some time to develop the next O.S. which is gonna jiz our pants next.

What the heck is all about really people? I mean look at it. Its sleek and dandy but does it run Crysis? Is it gonna change the world? Is it gonna be able to protect us from earthquakes, from asteroids? Protect us from viruses, nuclear disasters? Protect from stray bullets? Protect from hunger, from typhoons and drought? Is it gonna protect us from the climate change? Pour petrol in our tanks, regenerate the forests? Is it gonna change our lives? What the frack is it going to do? Ahhhhh I forgot. All those are other peoples problems. So who gives a shit about them?

Is it going to allow us a whole new way of reading books? Or accessing the internet, or navigating Google maps? And GOD knows what else? WOHOOOOOOO FRACKING GREAT. Now after jizing our pants about it lets do something more productive. Lets send 5 fracking $ to the people suffering in Haiti to ease our guild (if we feel anything at all) rather than send our troops. And then lets spend the other 494+ $ to the fracking iPad and lets get a bank loan to pay the remaining 5$ we already spent. Banks need to survive the recession too right?

Stupidity has no limits. Sky is the limit.

If the Gizmodo fan club was ever to read these I know exactly the kind of warm welcome I would get from many of them as did the booth babe and anyone else not agreeing with the American way of life. Heck why not? They are the rulers of the world, right?

Hmmm, now where did I leave my piggy bank? I think the time is right to spill its guts. And how the heck am I going to order the iPad from the US????

Don't get me wrong. It seems splendid and would love to have one, but why the hell all this maddening, artificial, demand?

Sony Ericsson C510 = A crappy Phone, AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS

I must admit I don't have Sony Ericsson mobile phones in a high esteem. The reason for that is mainly the usage of proprietary memory format the memory stick and its variations. As if the world didn't have enough formats and needed one more.

I got as a Christmas present the Sony Ericsson C510. Not thrilled by the choice of Santa Claus who didn't bother to ask me if I had any preferences, I started using it, since my other phone a Nokia 6500 slide, is having some problems with its screen. (I also dislike mobiles with moving parts, but this one was very nice and came free).

Back to the C510. Within the first 5 days using it, I found two problems, one very annoying. If the battery is taken out of the phone even for a few seconds, the date on the phone resets to the 00-01-2000 and has to be set every damn time. The other problem was after I opened the camera door to take a pic. The screen split in two equal halves and inverted itself being only readable in mirror. Holly shit. Same problem my Nokia has after 3 years of use, from the beginning!!
















Another issue is that not all camera features are compatible with each other. If you want to zoom while taking 3, 2 or even 1 megapixel photos you are out of luck.
Adding to that the autofocus feature is relatively nice but quite slow which strips it of the usefulness it could have.
Moreover it has a facebook function, meaning it can uploas pic to your account. Personally I can not think of a less desirable function and they don't even support Ebay.

I get the impression that Sony is trying to make money using the Cyber-shot logo without actually trying hard enough.

Bottom line AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS

Update, 29/7/18

I got a bag of old mobile phones to play with from a friend, and among them there were a few SONY models. In one of those, he had forgotten a micro memory stick. The moment I saw it I was thinking how I despised SONY phones for actually using proprietary memory formats. And now what a coincidence, I happened to read this post from the past with the same basic thoughts...!