Oh fucking God, No! It's Mark "
Alfredo Linguini
" Zucker-Borg's worst freakin' nightmare!
Four freakin' Democratic senators wrote a goddamn freakin' letter - a letter, godammit - not an e-mail - we're talking deadwood, pen and ink, snail-mailed (or FedExed, they can't be that much behind the times) - saying how displeased -
displeased - with
Faveborg
's new policy of sharing user info content with advertisers.
"Social networking sites have become the Wild West of the Internet," Sen. Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) said in a letter he wrote Tuesday with three other senators — Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Al Franken
(D-Minn.).
Really? Jay-zus jumpin' age Key-rist, I mean, when's the last time anybody has compared any part of the freakin' Internet to The
Wild Freakin' West
, what, like,
1999
? Nice way to state your case, Gran'pa Schumer, wunnerful how shakin' your finger anna givin' out the stern warnin' izza gonna' stop ol' Zuckybaby from tryin' to make money from this
humbug Page typesetting machine pyramid scheme social network phenom. Of course all the usual paranoid schizoids with great acronyms are filing this and that with the Federal Trade Commission, my fave being the
Electronic Privacy Information Center
or
EPIC, get it, I knew you would, which is basically some Clydes with an internet connection in a basement who thought
this was for real and got busy writing petitions, writing Congressmen, harassing
Amazon
,
Microsoft
,
Google
,
Rupert Murdoch
and anybody else they think is out to steal their brainwaves for the Matrix. I hate Facebook's slimy ways as much as anybody, but privacy is almost over, in fact, I'm pretty sure by the time I qualify to collect Social Security, which is sometime after
The Singularity
, privacy will be illegal. If you're not on the grid, you will have wished ya' did. Yeah, I know, but
Nipsy Russell
was out gettin' a haircut, and
O.J.'s lawyer
was fertilizing a lawn last I heard, so cut me some slack, 'kay, hmmm?
Back to the saga, anyway. This whole thing got blown way out of proportion more than Google's Buzz snafu, and let me tell you, Schmidtty-boy izza smirkin' anna' gigglin' like a five year old watchin' the class egghead get scolded by teacher in kindergarten. This all started with this stupid
LIKE button. If you go to a website that has signed on with
Faveborg
's affiliate program and you like the content, you can click on this stupid
LIKE button on the website and - poof- all your
Faveborg
buddies would see you dig this website, like this article or know you like whacking off to
forty-five year old Coppertone
ads on the internet and maybe they should keep their kids away from you for about ten or fifteen years. There is a way folks, to avoid this godawful persecution from Zuckybaby-Borg - don't use the
LIKE button, ya' schmucks!
And if there is any other things you don't want Faveborg
to reveal to anybody, learn to navigate your privacy settings, as difficult as it is to manage. You know, some people actually manage to get even Windows to behave, without being super-nerds, 'cos they learn to use their brains. The other option is, of course is to opt out of the Faveborg Collective. Every four to six months there's another cookie cutter story about paranoid schizos, dumbfucks who shouldn't be allowed near the internet and absolute clydes who either dropped out of Faveborg or avoid it like the plague and still use Morse key codes
and Ham radios
to communicate with the outside world. So if you're that paranoid join the trend. How about starting a group on Faveborg, let's call it "Let's See How Many Faveborg Members We Can Get To Leave Faveborg!"
comic right here. Free Open Solaris disc
for best comment that names which OS Dilbert's company is moving to and why. Make it funny
, please.
that Microsoft's Courier project is deader than a stinking lifeless mackerel carcass that only a feral cat would be interested in picking over. I love cats, so of course I'm gonna' pick over this story. Even back at Rabid Fanboy, I always suspected this project was more vaporware animation than a working gizmo, yet if one watches this animated demo, it looks like an awful shame that Microsoft
and H-P didn't pull this off. This looks like a more creative and work friendly iPad
, suitable for working professionals and students. Hell, if I was going to college, I wouldn't mind using this.
saw the tablet as a fun accessory to your life and made it so. The Courier project looks cool but it looks like a tool you use at work or school, and gosh knows, we have more'n'enuff tools in those places. I likes the iPad but I don't see it as a creative tool. Yet. Microsoft and H-P will probably sit and wait and see how well the Chrome OS netbooks
and tablets
available at end of this year.
, snatch a copy on Amazon, either hard copy or Kindle
that Lastangelman sent you and he'll smile politely and say,"Who?" while slowly reaching for the sawed off carbine.
resigned from the board and reduced his stake in the company from 16.9% to 2.5%. Company shares are down at forty cents, but then again, I bought into Blockbuster decades ago when it was going at fifty 1985 cents a share and I had a multiple spermgasms in my chinos when Viacom bought 'em out in early nineties. Since 2002, the company has been seeing its business take a bad hit in value, you'd think it was some penny stock scam.I figured that Ed Lambert from Sears Holding
would swoop in buy them out by now just for the real estate alone. It's still not a bad idea. Robert X. Cringely once felt Apple, of all companies, should buy out Blockbuster and convert them into Apple video stores with video kiosks stations to load up movies and music and sell iPods
, Nanos
, Shuffles
and AppleTV
. Even I thought that was stupid, especially when the iPhone 
and iTouch happened.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs lays it right on the line about why Apple mobile devices (read: iPhone, iTouch and iPad) will not ever be using Adobe
Flash in a direct 1.700 word post on the company website under hot news. That's okay, Jobso, Adobe may throw its lot in with Google
, as Android is going to be the new 
(and PDF 
and Photoshop
...). Not that a merger or sale with Mountainview is in the cards. Perish the thought.
tear a new asshole in the universe right here
returns to You Tube, Slate.com's Farhad Manjoo leads the charge. Sit back and savor the irony. BTW, I like cat videos
.
