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Corvus Crow
The Fireraven
Friday, 03. September 2010, 11:18
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Thursday, 02 September 2010
eBay will be moving to a single, consolidated checkout process, and effective June 30, 2011, eBay Checkout will be the only checkout process on eBay.com.A single, familiar checkout experience is key to reducing confusion and improving how people shop on eBay. We've been working with sellers and providers for some time and will continue to do so for a seamless transition next year. Reducing confusion? That is a nice sounding way to say that eBay thinks users are too stupid to make a payment without their help. eBay's job is to offer a platform for sales, nothing more. How people pay and get paid is up to them. If eBay decides to force everybody to use their services and Paypal only, then there's nothing more to do than stop using their service. Not to mention that in several countries, this decision will be legally challenged and most likely deemed illegal.
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010
You'll need the code, a PlayStation 3, and a USB microcontroller in order to open your system. Oddly enough, sales of such devices seem to be in the middle of a spike.Once the PlayStation 3 was hacked it was only a matter of time before the software was made available free of charge; there are simply too many risks involved with selling this sort of thing via a standard storefront, and too many people more interested in the software's spread than profit. It's amusing to see how much effort the industry puts into a technology that gets broken sooner or later anyway.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The Indonesian mimic octopus has the extraordinary ability to pass itself off as many of the toxic fishes or sea snakes that share its habitat.By flattening its head and arms, using a bold brown and white colour display and adopting an undulating swimming technique T. mimicus can fool predators that it is, in fact, a poisonous flatfish rather than a tasty meal. In the human world, this would probably attract a lawsuit about copyright infringement.
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Monday, 30 August 2010
The foundation recently bought about 500,000 shares of the giant biotech company, according to another financial website.Civil society is worried that Gates' interest in Monsanto will worsen the conditions of small farmers in developing countries, and might represent a conflict of interest, according to the Community Alliance for Global Justice. Worst choice ever. Monsanto is known for shady business practises and bullying those who refuse to buy their products.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010
Claiming public safety benefits, the National Association of Broadcasters is proposing a new federal law that would force manufacturers to implant FM tuners in all mobile phones.What Wharton didn't add, probably because it was obvious enough, is that giving radio stations a way to expand their audience--as more Americans turn to the Internet for news and iPods for music--also could yield a welcome increase in audience and revenue. Since this is for public safety, I'm sure that the NAB will refrain from demanding any fees. The FM implementation would be for emergency noticifactions, so charging money would it would be really greedy, would it not? The NAB can be sure that, together with the proposed broadcast flag, nobody will be able to listen to music illegaly.
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Random quote from Carl Zwanzig: Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
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