"Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities" (via Daring Fireball) — a gambling site based outside the US, using a .com domain registered by a non-US registrar, has had its domain seized by US authorities after prosecutors in Maryland asked Verisign, who control the top-level .com nameservers, to hand… Continue reading A dot com is an American domain
Month: February 2012
Live Passport Net
Microsoft plans to drop Windows Live branding — Microsoft are apparently renaming their Windows Live user account system to "Microsoft Account". They've changed the name of this service a few times over the years. I first found myself with a Microsoft account in 1998 when Microsoft bought Firefly, an early music-discovery social network, and took… Continue reading Live Passport Net
No Refunds
Bogus Pokemon evolves into iTunes smash hit; 2012: The Year Scam Apps Killed the App Store — As someone who used the Android Market before either of Apple's app stores, the thing I found most mind-boggling about Apple's was the lack of any apparent way to get a refund if an application doesn't work. It… Continue reading No Refunds
Comfy headphones
"Before I switched to closed Sennheisers for my primary headphones..." — I think this writer should try the Beyerdynamic DT250 (80Ω version for standard headphone outs). They won't block out as much external sound as some, but they don't radiate much either, they sound clean and balanced, and they're as comfy as an old pair of… Continue reading Comfy headphones
Sad Lion
Mountain Lion may drop support for older Macs (The Verge) It appears that OS/X 10.8 won't work on many Macs more than about three years old. Apparently this is a consequence of cleaning up its 64-bitness, and so losing support for 32-bit EFI bootloaders. (The 10.7 release already dropped support for 32-bit CPUs, such as… Continue reading Sad Lion
The Third Pad
I've become used to thinking of Apple's product releases as falling into two categories: "outreach" or "consolidation". Outreach releases are new products, or products introducing features that users will be unfamiliar with or that are novel enough to be headliners in adverts. Consolidation releases do essentially the same as the previous release, but faster or… Continue reading The Third Pad
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