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In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn’t just undermine “the security of the whole Web”. He’s made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.

As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.” This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you’re violating the license.

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Yellow Drum Machine (google video), one of the robots that you can learn to build via Let’s Make Robots (.com). This little guy finds a surface to tap a beat onto, then taps a beat on it.

Yes

Praise Ceiling Cat, who be watchin yu, may him has a cheezburger.
Wut yu want, yu gets, srsly.
In ceiling and on teh flor.
Giv us dis day our dalee cheezburger.
And furgiv us for makin yu a cookie, but eateding it.
An do not let us leed into teh showa, but deliver us from teh wawter.
Ceiling Cat pwns all. He pwns teh ceiling and teh floor and walls too.

From Teh LOLcat Bible Translation Project.

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When Gary Hall found a teenage burglar in his home, the champion bodybuilder wrestled him to the ground – and his wife called 999.

Assured that officers were en route and just minutes away he pinned the thug down and waited…and waited.

But three hours later, the police called back – to tell Mr Hall they were busy and couldn’t spare an officer after all.

Next time, tell the 999 operator you shot the intruder, they’ll be around in minutes.

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Last Wednesday shares in Halifax Bank of Scotland fell 17% as rumours circulated that the bank, with 20% of the UK’s mortgages, had sought emergency talks with the Bank of England over Easter. A newspaper article would appear on the Thursday, the rumours suggested, which would trigger another Northern Rock-style “run”.

It would seem that these rumours were false. Both HBOS and the BoE have denied any such “emergency talks”. The finger has been pointed at a speculator - as yet unknown - who took a big short position in HBOS just prior to an anonymous email doing the rounds. The trade would have netted 100 million pounds.

While this case may end up being one of fraud on the grandest scale, what is unsettling is the environment which has created the capacity for such a simple deception to be perpetrated for a significant profit. The financial world is in irrational fear mode, and is jumping at every shadow. The world’s central bankers are greatly troubled.

Imagine getting a pyramid scheme scam, where you’re asked to paypal money to the top of a list of email addresses, add your address to the list, and send it on. Pretty classic scam, right?

Now imagine that you forward that mail to “abuse@paypal.com” address. After all, you try to be a helpful citizen, right?

Wrong. Over the past few days, every few hours I get a couple of identical auto-replies like the one below. I’ve had well over twenty so far, and it doesn’t stop, despite several complaints to the “correct” addresses.

So guess what I will think next time I get a scam email that paypal should know about?

Correct: fuck them, I don’t give a shit any more.

Oh, and by the way, Paypal, the method you mention in this auto-reply doesn’t work either. The forms are broken. And now for the bonus question: guess wether I care enough about you now to report that…

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The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the government to carry out “state-sanctioned revenge” against Arabs in order to, in his words, restore Israel’s deterrence.

[..]

In the newsletter, which was distributed to synagogues around the country, Eliyahu proposes “hanging the children of the terrorist who carried out the attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree.”

Sounds like a rabbi who doesn’t know history.

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This is pretty funny. Hillary spokesperson Phil Singer blasted out an email at 11:23 insisting that Obama release his tax returns for back years,

Exactly two minutes later, at 11:25, Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor emailed out word that Obama had posted his tax returns for 2000-2006 on his campaign web site. Turns out the Obama camp has been planning this for some time.

You can view them here.

In pure political terms, this will obviously give more political potency to the Obama camp’s efforts to make Hillary’s failure to release her returns a key issue in the campaign. The Obama camp is now free to beat this drum between now and mid-April, when the Hillary camp has promised to release hers.

What happened over at Time was even funnier: the Obama mail arrived two minutes before the Clinton mail, prompting this:

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the Obama campaign apparently defied the laws of TIME AND SPACE. Next step: Walking on water!

How much ground did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin cover on their Apollo 11 moon walks?

Not that much…

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“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”

Sleep-deprived? Gee, I’m glad you’re not taking any 3 AM calls then…

Take a look at this gorgeous picture of the shuttle, Earth, and the ISS.

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The other thing we evolutionary biologists don’t do enough of, and this stems from the previous point, is make an emotional and moral case for the study of evolution. Last night, I concluded my talk with a quote from Dover, PA creationist school board member William Cunningham, who declared, “Two thousand years ago someone died on a cross. Can’t someone take a stand for him?”

My response was, “In the last two minutes, someone died from a bacterial infection. We take a stand for him.”