I’m firmly in the men’s rights camp at this point, especially because I’ve seen the way women can profit immensely from crying rape, or winning a man’s hard earned money in a divorce settlement forcing him to work until death or flee to a non-treaty country, simply because she has to leave the marriage to find herself yet can’t bear the thought of pulling her socks up and getting a job.

The new technology allows Samsung’s Smart TVs — including Series 7 and Series 8 sets — to display IPTV services provided by Elion (part of the TeliaSonera group) in Estonia. The solution comes with full support for key linear, recording, catch-up and on-demand features. From a technical point of view this is stupid. Swearing off set top boxes without a standard way to deliver to an IPTV means vendor lock-in at a time when competition is key.

I’ve noted that while a lot of the talk of the UN “taking over the Internet” is American business interest hyperbole, international telcos have been using the upcoming talks about Internet governance to push the international telco dream of forcing content companies to subsidize network builds. It’s a cash grab by government-pampered monopolists, plain and simple. Right now a secretive organization is meeting in private to make this and other decisions that could have a disastrous impact on the economic potential of the Internet and your freedom to use it.

“If Mr. Ford had shown some contrition before the the judge – some minimal respect for due process and the law – he might well have gotten off. But he did not. The judge, by all accounts a man of probity, was scathing and blunt. He condemned the mayor’s “stubborn sense of entitlement,” and he was exactly right. Mr. Ford’s serial abuses of power were trivial, but they were also relentless and profoundly stupid.

Interesting insight into the multitasking model for Windows RT apps. The implication is that desktop apps follow the old model - this is borne out by my experience - after prolonged periods of time in a metro app, upon return to the desktop, nothing has to resume or reconnect. The more I watch these videos, the more I get the sense that Microsoft culture has placed the desktop firmly in the past.

This is a follow-up of sorts to the original post, iPhone. Since having bought an original iPhone, shipped from Manhattan in 2007, a lot has changed. As time rolled on, updates to the iPhone OS, now dubbed ‘iOS’ enabled many of the features I had hoped for in the original post - over the air calendar and contacts sync, third party applications, unlocked iPhones sold directly from Apple, and so on.

Despite Intel’s claims to the contrary, Linux support in their new Clover Trail atom chipset will not come into play where it matters. You will not see a Windows 8 tablet onto which you can install Linux. Graphics and power management drivers will not be provided and are not part of Intel’s open source portfolio. You’ll buy a tablet that can only run Windows 8, and perhaps a second variant that WILL run Android, but the bootloader will be locked, and it will only be sold by phone companies.

“To some, this repetition is now boring. But I think Apple looks at it the opposite way: they’re perfecting their trick.” Refining and perfecting have always been some of Apple’s best methods. Consumers often expect a revolution with every new computing device - Apple takes the appliance approach. This is a device you’ll want to use for the long run, and it shouldn’t change radically until it’s time for change. As for why each subtle refinement costs $500 is a subject of another blog post.

The new iPhone is an incremental improvement over the previous generation. Highlights: A thinner phone with a software update. A 4" screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio, as previously featured by the Sony XPeria line of smartphones Panorama mode within the camera, as previously featured by Samsung and other Android vendors Facebook integration, so they can collect information on what you do with your phone The offensive remark that they know best how to make a comfortably sized phone, and the consumer just doesn’t get it.

Windows 8’s new start screen would likely not affect my workflow a great deal, as I typically run applications by banging the Windows key and typing the name of the program I want to start (this works for me under GNOME 3 and Windows 7 alike). Microsoft’s policy of restriction is what is absurd. They know that if systems administrators were given a group policy to disable the new Windows 8 start screen, or at least push it to the background, they’d do it en-masse.