Posted by George Hotz on under minor setback, frt, dev team, heart | 
And prepare to meet the program that will jailbreak them all.
Minor setback today, when Chronic revealed the exploit that this will use. For apparently no purpose except to save face in front of their donators. Future reference, never donate until you have a product in hand and working. Look, as much as I fight with the dev team, they always have the community's interests at heart, maybe even more so than me. But chronic just stomped all over what the community wants. Who can actually do something with the info they released? Well, you know,
Apple.
Tagi: minor setback, frt, dev team, heart
Posted by on under slum kids, toothy grin, quiet friend, indian path, science computers, math and science, class kids, chip company, computer company, frt, company computer, jet black, forehead, free time, weren, games |
“I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in front of me turned around, beaming and added in Hindi, “I know computers quite well.” These weren’t middle class kids on the well-trod, parent-driven Indian path to seats at IIT. These were Delhi slum kids, whose families likely live on less than $2 a day. And yet, for the last five years, they’ve spent several hours of their free time every day playing games and learning English, Math and Science on computers. So how have they bridged the much-agonized-about digital divide without a hand out from a chip company, computer company or wealthy philanthropist? A for-profit Indian company called
NIIT.
Tagi: slum kids, toothy grin, quiet friend, indian path, science computers, math and science, class kids, chip company, computer company, frt, company computer, jet black, forehead, free time, weren, games
Posted by on under new zealand government, copyright tribunal, 3 strikes, slashdot, 92a, frt, copyright act, copyright notices, three times, peoe |
An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand government has reintroduced a newly rewritten addition to the Copyright Act which will allow rights' holders to send copyright notices to ISPs, and force them to pass them on to account holders. Section 92A of the Copyright Act will allow rights holders to take people who have been identified as infringers more than three times in front of a Copyright Tribunal. This law will allow the Copyright Tribunal to hand down either a $15,000 fine or six months internet disconnection. The law specifies that the account holder himself is responsible for what is downloaded via the account, and doesn't make allowances for identifying the actual copyright infringer if there are multiple computers tied to an account."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tagi: new zealand government, copyright tribunal, 3 strikes, slashdot, 92a, frt, copyright act, copyright notices, three times, peoe
Posted by on under shower heads, frt, living room |
Visentin's LED shower heads are pretty stunning, that is, until you realize that, not only are you completely naked in front of your guests, but you're also splashing water all over the living room....
Tagi: shower heads, frt, living room
Posted by on under envirment, live camera, natural habitat, frt, alienware, electrics, calamity, bloggers, handful, shout, ces |
To cap off the CES coverage, we'd like to give a shout-out to our partners and also discuss our coverage. We do this for you guys, after all, so feel free to chime in with your opinion on both the show and us. The biggest electronics show in the world is a difficult thing to report as it is with only a handful of timid bloggers, ripped from their natural habitat as it were, and placed in an unfamiliar environment. But to put them in front of a live camera and ask them to provide meaningful commentary for hours on end is to invite calamity. Fortunately, thanks to our great
Livestream team and partners like
Alienware, who provided our rendering computers, I think we did passably well. Impressions and notes on the show and our coverage follow.
Tagi: envirment, live camera, natural habitat, frt, alienware, electrics, calamity, bloggers, handful, shout, ces
