FSJ: Damn, I am so busted, yo

Well it had to happen. Honestly I can’t believe it’s taken this long. But as you may have heard, I’ve been busted by a newspaper reporter. My cover has been blown. Guy named Brad Stone, who works for the New York Times. Have you heard of him? Well, tip of the hat to you, Brad Stone. You did the sleuthing. You put the pieces of the puzzle together.[...] Thanks to Jeffrey903 for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1259Diggs).

What other users say about this:

erdorf: It is a pity that Brad’s Wikipedia has not been updated to include the new meanings of his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Stone_%28journalist%29

mikeuram: I am just waiting for someone else to say that they guessed it right too. No one saw it coming.

tjreck: Bummer

Aeric: This is the dumbest shit ever. Stupid fanboys. I want 1 minute of my life back and 1 top 10 story replaced.

asw66: Dugg for the word “mangina”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

shoonya: dugg for the mug shots of the dog

rogermugs: buried because this is obviously the work of one of those “bust digg” thingys…
lamo

2oonhed: what a stupid blog….how was this news?….you could have saved me some time by saying “The title says it all”……then I could have just read the stupid title & moved on…except, nowhere in this stupid blog did I see the word “yo”…or even “what up”…..so imparting a somewhat hip hop tone in the title to a story that has absolutely no Hip Hop references in it, whatsoever, is misleading. dugg down for stupid title & stupid non news blog nonsense.

VitriolAndAngst: I’m an Apple fan — and I think Lyons was far from making Apple look bad. I liked his fake Steve Jobs and I think it was more of an outlet for having to stuff in his shirt at Forbes. Some really funny writing with quite a bit of insight. I don’t think he was any harsher on Open Source than he was on Microsoft — but I suppose I could go back and look for that slant. It was just funny to read his attack on premadonnnas.

However — I would be unhappy if he was the standard; “bash the intellectual elitist (who is himself a corporate elitist)” which wouldn’t be a stretch working for Forbes magazine– God knows this country has suffered enough from the Assault on Reason (or Modernity, for that matter). But you can’t go after someone just because he was good or hard on a particular point of view. He didn’t drag his company into it, and he didn’t benefit from any relationships. So his comments live or die on their own accord — which is perhaps, a fairer form of writing. For instance, I might have put forth the same writing, or I could have been really anti-Microsoft. Does it make it any less right or more right that I’m not working for Forbes?

I’m kind of a fan of free expression. You don’t get “owned” by a corporation. So if you express opinions on your own — it should be your concern.

I’ll miss his writing, regardless.

VitriolAndAngst: Wow, good to know that Reporters can do investigative journalism when they want to.

Now go out there and get some news that matters — rather than 10,000 reporters chasing Brittany around.

skyfire1: My cat, FBG, cannot stop laughing.

importjap: Down with the NYT on this one. Go find something worth writing about like taking some US congressmen to task, rather than ruining a good thing.

Zalyster: What’s with no one knowing who FSJ is?
I thought the URL in my address bar read http://digg.com…

CraigJ: Meanwhile if anyone can think of a cool way to use the name “Brad Stone” (all or part) as a verb, let me know.

Maybe this:
brad, v.i.:
1. To bust a fellow filthy hack without mercy and spoil the fun for everyone, in a quest for personal aggrandizement.
2. To urinate in a pool.

Atomic1fire: Busted forizzy on the hizzy

TUAW releases iPhone Voice Recorder app

Secret undocumented AVRecorder class allows you to record audio using AMR format. VOIP is now realistically within sight![...] Thanks to SillyMamma for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 599Diggs).

What other users say about this:

ComposCary: Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

GuptaChadwick: Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

pr5owner: why does this iphone crap always end up on the front page, why do fanboys always bow down like its the 2nd comming of christ when apple adds STANDARD out of the box functionality to their crippled products?

voice recording? gimme a fucking break, its not that great of a feature but it should be one that comes with the iphone OUT OF THE BOX. with any other pda phone you can even record to whatever format you want (MP3 OGG FLAC etc), hell out of the box my tytn can record my phone calls!!! (in a phone call hit notes > record)

pishi: If it wasn’t impossible to install, I’d consider it.

saadghauri: Ohmygod! Voice Recording! The iPhone can now do something that other cellphones have been doing for 5 years! What a crazy invention, maybe they’ll think of adding a thing called ‘mms’ on this brilliant machine!! Though video recording is obviously too much to ask for, since no other cellphone can do it

mmxtreme: Notwithstanding very unlikely VOIP software, the voice recorder all alone is great and it shows what the hackers can do with the API at this point. I’m pretty sure that by the end of august the API will be fully documented and we’ll see some pretty amazing stuff.

listrophy: I’d really like the ability to record my phone calls so I can prove in court that my cable company consistently lies to me. I suppose it’d be cooler to bust AT&T in a similar situation, but I personally do not have a beef with them. Yet.

jgarland79: VoIP on the iPhone is as far away as compiling freeswitch with the iPhone toolkit. freeswitch.org

zweben: I’m surprised how fast they’re progressing with this.

Does anyone know if the knowledge and practice that the hackers are getting on iPhone programming would apply to an official Apple API at all?

I’m pretty convinced that Apple is going to release an official API soon, they’ve hinted heavily towards it in their statements on the matter, and it seems like a waste if hackers are going to start making all these apps if they’re going to become obsolete as soon as Apple choses to open the platform.

DCMacHead: Neat stuff, but I’m a technotard so I’ll wait until I’ve either got time to learn it or a GUI install program comes out.

mikesbaker: VOIP on a cell phone? WHY?

JamesWilson: Port Skype, and a SIP app.

TheSavageNation: It’s so sad that this phone is not 3g.

dlcarter: The iPhone is slowly becoming an even more brilliant machine, thanks to the hackers.

dmpapwor: It doesn’t come with one for $600?

1977 – Introducing the Apple II (Vintage Ad)

(JPEG Image, 700×1017 pixels) – Scaled (57%) – more at: http://www.macmothership.com/[...] Thanks to spinchange for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1354Diggs).

What other users say about this:

anarchytv: so, are these things worth anything today? i paid like $1000 for mine with monitor and drives and all that jazz, and the Apple salesman told me it was an investment in my future, and would only appreciate in value. that was like 30 years ago, so i’m thinking this baby is worth a small fortune! what an awesome investment

/sarchasm. don’t buy any damn apple products. if you understand calculus, i’ll put it this way. their value always depreciates until it approaches zero. silicon snake oil salesmen, all of them. i would say, 90% of the the apple product line is total junk today and of 90% of their products throughout history, you couldn’t pawn them off on ebay or at a flea market for over $50 bucks. we’re talking about $1000 – $4000 computers here.

larrywsm: Hay! That was the second computer I was trained on using Apple basic and CP/M and Word Star

saturn5: More here including the next page. 1 MHz processor and up to 48K RAM!

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/14/introducing-apple-ii/

TFeuer: Nice picture of an Apple on the wall. Good touch.

Jaakob: 1977 called, they want their ad back.

nklepper: Dugg Down for OLD NEWS…..

inoverthe: It’s like looking into the future.

fastang: I see things haven’t changed much for MAC in the past 30 years.

justmy15cents: damn its annoying that the “monitor” (TV?) is not aligned better with the keyboard… bad ergonomics there

Billions: “As soon as she leaves I’m loading up ‘Lemonade Stand’ again and beating Tony’s score…”

aduzik: Christ, even in 1977 Apple didn’t believe in articles: “Introducing *THE* Apple II”. Modify your nouns, dammit!

ffemt300: Ha! Apple on the wall in the kitchen….

Semprini: So, that’s what happened to Sandy Duncan..

Meursault: “Oh, shit. Honey, I think I just crashed the NY Stock Exchange”

MrPotato: Back in the day I typed with me left hand and drank and wrote with my right. Everything was working out well until one day, out of the blue, my wife says “honey, don’t you want to upgrade to the new model?” Since I bought my compy they went and added a freakin’ number pad to the keyboard forcing me to type with my right hand. Bastards!

iPhone Hacked and Used With European Sim

We’ve had countless fakes, but now the iPhone has been hacked for real by Senad, a 28-year old hacker from Macedonia, enabling the phone to function with European SimCards. Senad talks about hacking and the iPhone.[...] Thanks to Smiffy for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 698Diggs).

What other users say about this:

JeradQuaranta: Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

crosssourceing: iphone unlock WORKS ! ! ! just unlock it after some time my provider shows thanks
and why do u all greeks are piisst off coz a macedonian professional do this and how can u claim macedonia as greece and how can alexandar or filip be a greek name, u only can be a dickosulos or name like cuntosulos cmoon its 2007 even your ambassador talks in public bout this and get kicked from mkd… makedonija do solun Senad idemo dalje….

senih: FYROM or Macedonia it doesn’t matter, our guy did this not some gay from Greece

arangel: And i was taught in school that there is no country called Greece, only FOPOG (Former Ottoman Possession of Greece)… hm.. strange…

You lost the battle for the name my not so good neighboor, admit this to yourself, bury the axe and come over I ll buy you some rakija, it’s better than that white sh*t you drink.

All the best now.

jpetrov: these greek guys are giving me a headache.

deepdark: thx to all good and bad comment’s its a hack or is not a hack ????? only i can say is that OUT of USA if you want to use your iphone you must do this…..that all folks have a nice day/night

livevil: Not only do you get your iphone unlocked you also get a suitcase full of money that has been exchanged after the president of X country has lost it’s power via a local banker. Only for $96.

danny951: Burried – Inaccurate

aliguana: actually, its more like : Our speed limit is 150mph, but your flashy sports car will only do 50mph, so tough. Cue laughing from bashed-up Beetle owners who pass the iFerrari in the slow lane. Seriously, a web-phone without 3G? Thats like a Macbook with a 36k modem… jeez

skellener: > Deepdark: Yes, but you can’t sell a car and then say to the buyer,
> “hey listen, you must drive 50kmh”. It’s so stupid.

Uh, dude, they do that all the time, it’s called a speed limit. I am totally in favor of hacking the iPhone, he just made a terrible analogy. A better one would be … it’s more like selling you a car and telling you you must only drive on rodes provided by AT&T. You aren’t going to do that. You are gonna take the ones you wanna take.

emirhan: That means full unlocking of the iPhone is coming in the next couple of days. Don’t get adventurous and wait for a couple of days until they unlock the full algorithm

osage: Hack or no hack. What the hack.
Apple Iphone – i want it

halvertos: macedonia is greece

D14BL0: I read the name as “Sinbad”. I am severely disappointed.

SteveNojobs: Yet another reason to get iPoor

http://digg.com/apple/iPoor_is_the_real_iPhone_Killer

Debunk: punk kid tries to dupe gadget blogs with phony Apple rumor

Those who published the rumor obviously weren’t in touch with Google’s Tom Oliveri, else they might have realized they were getting their information from a 16 year old Australian kid who shares Oliveri’s name (and obviously not his Google-genius-like sense of grammar). Woops. Full email published after the break.[...] Thanks to LuciferChaos for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 560Diggs).

What other users say about this:

RashadBiehl: You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

acidbass: Wrong use of the word *punk* in th title grandpa.
Hes called an “Asshole” or a “Dickwad” or if you’re pc, “Prickface”

edwartica: But will we be able to cook them in the oven and still start them up?

tubeblender: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up…

AutoTom: hey guys, its the real tom oliveri here…

i love gizmodo, feel bad about the damage to their credibility…

any questions – email me tomoliveri(at)gmail.com

superpixel: actually it just says a lot about Gizmodo. the “antsy 13-yr old waiting to touch his first boobie” of the tech blogosphere.

oh, and Alex2: in 2 days.

mattmollysdad: Will the real Tom Oliveri please stand up. Please stand up. Please stand up.

miniboss: The problem with even these “known to be bogus” rumors is that on Digg then even a debunked rumor will get reposted every hour and hit the front page.

SBeckstrand: even if it WAS wrong apple rumors are fun

idioteque1025: seriously can we quit with the “after the break” crap

wikimart: hmmmm

Alex2: Everyone knows that the next mac will have dual playstation3’s for its processor, timelord technology to make the inside smaller than the outside, WiMax, and be powered by dilithium crystals, and will be brushed titanium.

edstate: Seems like he was pretty successful little douche bag

btipling: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/updated/next+gen-imacs-and-more-coming-tuesday-new-ipod-mid+september-286112.php

Gizmodo got owned. :/

Chicken001: I’m bored…

What will Apple transform next?…Why not Medicine or Space Travel?

As you might guess, the theories sometimes veer into absurdity. That doesn’t mean I’m not game to participate. I am. I was wowed by the iPhone; I haven’t really stopped thinking about the ways its touch- screen interface may change all sorts of digital devices. Neither have a bunch of other technophiles…[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 23Diggs).

What other users say about this:

Next-Gen iMacs and More Coming Tuesday, New iPod Mid-September

“Someone close to the Infinite Loop Mothership just sent us a tip of what to expect at the Apple event this Tuesday: according to him/her/it, Steve Jobs will announce newly-designed iMacs —as expected— but apparently there will be a lot more.”[...] Thanks to arbiterofcool for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 867Diggs).

What other users say about this:

fishbert: So, this inaccurate story is 13.5 hours old, still has more diggs than the 11.5 hour old story that debunks it… and the kicker: it’s still on the front page, with no notice about possibly being inaccurate.

The ‘bury’ buttons… they do nothing!!!
Digg is broken. Time to tweak the algorithms.

NeoRicen: Buried as inaccurate.

toetagger: But why did Gizmodo say, “as expected”…? As if they already KNEW it to be so…they are part of the problem.

phlp: new iMacs will be released this week and take time to ship. that’s what i’ve been told from a close friend.

socoolisme: I can’t wait for the new imacs.

kahlessreborn: Confirmed to be totally untrue.

Zinator: Buried because this article is pure crap.
To these untrue rumors: NO DIGG FOR YOU!

stang966: Fanboy tools have been pwnd!

bondapher: well lets hope the new ipod will be coming sooner than sept cuz im planning to get one.

kerrybreyette: why on earth is this still being dugg?

sdubois92: very bad journalism. you do not post something unless you are 100% sure it is true.

Valhalla: even the link itself says it turned out to be BS

DigitalN: why is this still on the homepage?

WelshSage: buried…false

gmorse81: How many people actually go to the link and visit the site? This is a hoax and yet people still digg it.

Hackers Extract Main Key to iPhone Unlocking, Freedom Closer than Ever

After uncovering the secrets of the iPhone’s communications core, the iPhone Dev Team has achieved the next big milestone to free the iPhone from the AT&T network: they have extracted the full content of the S-Gold2 chip’s NOR memory. Bluntly put, these are the plans for the fucking Death Star and “is the main key to achieve true unlocking.”[...] Thanks to yokozuka for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1154Diggs).

What other users say about this:

HenningsJaxon: The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic eli

slapded: buried. still wont ever be able to work with sprint

iburl: http://ironburl.tripod.com/animated/deathstar.gif

Wasyu: The US carriers truly suck in their business practices and support.
I wish someone would show up and provide a good non shitty service or the two big carriers get broken up by the supreme court as land line service never improved until AT&T was broken up.
It took foreign competition for big three domestic manufactures to start making good cars again etc.

jimlau: Our only hope is that when the data’s analyzed a weakness can be found.

digitallysick: isn’t their a law that they have to unlock your phone if you request it??

wcbzero: No HD-DVD Key comment?

redwoodtree: wow!!! YEah, unlock the iPhone so in the U.S. we can go from a crappy provider with a shitty, overhyped network (ATT) to an OK provider with a pathetic data network… (T-mobile). Wow, I’m so excited. Wow, I can’t control my enthusiasm.

+digg points to the people talking about open platforms and so forth… but since the providers will never allow it, who cares….

Hate the phone companies, not apple.

fruhbuzz: I will NEVER use any (mostly apple) device which restricts my freedom. Fuck the iphone, the ipod and S.J. I’m sick of the marketing machinery and the fanatics supporting this company. belch.

omarciddo: I love it. Even though it’s relegated to just AT&T, since it’s from Apple people just say “oh, well that’s ok, we’ll just hack it eventually”. If it were made by Microsoft, people would be saying “FUCK YOU M$! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!1!1!!1!1one!!!!”

klipseracer: Title is innaccurate. the baseband NOR has been retrieved. Nothing more. But this will lead to the real unlock. And no, its not a death star plan. Its the Chuck Norris & McGyver plan.

skooma: iphone Hackers? On steroids? It’s more likely than you think.

chubbybubba: First of all…I’m sick of everyone using the “plans for the Death Star” reference… anyone who really knows the truth knows that the death star was blown up by an inside source…. the rebels were only a distraction!… It was a conspiracy….. Do you really think a war machine the size of a planet could be destroyed from a singular central source…. let alone have it printed on a plan. Stop propagating misinformation…. The Truth will set the Galaxy free.

p51d007: The last phone I purchased a year ago was an UNLOCKED Sony Ericsson W810i. If/when I can afford it, any new
phone purchase will be an UNLOCKED phone, or I will buy an unlock service. I hope some day, that the USA finally
gets it together with regard to cell phones. Just look at the flood of cell phones out in the world market, with features
that some would love to have, but, since the USA cell phone providers “require” locked & crippled phones, we don’t
get them. I got my W810i almost 6 months before it was “available” to the USA market. Sony was having problems
with the “cripple” features that were messing up the phone. That is another reason to avoid locked phones. You don’t know what it will do to the phone. You can’t use all the features, such as bluetooth file transfers on some because they want you to download/transfer files via the providers online service $$$.
Kuddos to the hackers, making our lives a little more free.

alciadanet: buried for “Freedom Closer than Ever”.
Is the ultimate ‘freedom’ that no gadget like the iPhone will be made at that price because all systems that bind you by contract to certain conditions get hacked?

Old Mac Keyboards No Longer Shipping, New Ones Coming

The plot is thickening: it has yet to be confirmed, but it seems that Apple and Best Buy stores are no longer going to receive old Apple keyboards. This confirms that new keyboards may be released after next week’s Apple event, as expected by most.[...] Thanks to yokozuka for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1139Diggs).

What other users say about this:

PetreaMatteo: Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top — or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.

st3vo: Good, now I can finally get the older one for a cheaper price.

chuckpenzone: It might be cool if the iMac screen was configurable… essentially eliminating the need for a mac mini at all. You could order it with
or without a screen.

jLadd5: I am so excited to see what the new iMacs will be like. I mean Apple has taken pretty dramatic changes with each iteration of the iMac, and done very well with each new model. So I am definitely looking forward to the 7th.

BayAreaKing: Anyone else think they should’ve waited before buying their first Mac?

Shirt: What’s so great about a new keyboard?

… It’s just a keyboard. Media buttons have been around forever and The slim style looks like it’ll feel like a laptop keyboard… that’s not a good thing. IMO, this is like a step backward for keyboards.

So, is there some mystical feature I’m missing that earned this a front page spot that will revolutionize keyboarding, or are Mac-addicts just that weird?

dagreatone: “keeping my fingers crossed…”
“i cant wait for new accessories…”

only an apple fanboy would be getting a hard on over accessories…

diecastbeatdown: macs suck cock.

shawnblanc: Sell your old ones now.

omarciddo: “It has yet to be confirmed but…this confirms that new keyboards may be released after next week’s Apple event, as expected by most.” Way to describe it.

rotorrocket: who the HELL CARES!!!!!

TekJansen64: If you need a new keyboard why don’t you just get a G15? It has an infinite number of things you can program it to do, and it’s comfortable to use. Then again it’s pitch black so i guess it won’t match your bracelet or earrings.

arbulus: Please everyone mark anything that comes from Gizmodo or Engadge as spam, and eventually digg will block submissions from these sites.

They’re just fucking rumormongers. You cannot believe anything about any “upcoming” Apple product until you see it on Apple’s website. This is just fucking blogspam.

maineman99: Whoop-ti-freaking-do.

bradwilki: I just hope that these new keyboards dont gather up as much crap as the old ones do. It gets on my nerves every time I look down to see the pile of grime left right underneath the keys. Also, they best sort out the Caps Lock button light so we can see it.

Very very fanboy-ish, but hey I need a new keyboard!

WebSE – System 7 Simulation In Your Browser

Wow, how far we’ve come![...] Thanks to theblooms for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 865Diggs).

What other users say about this:

Panda200x: This is fucking old.

sopaman: How far we have come indeed…very cool… brings back loads of memories!

Zphilippos: WOW!
nice work…

vista…hmm… for what???

vault: Very impressive

symes101: I thought you were talking about the new Windows 7 system (I’m tired), this would be a great start for Microsoft, they would get some publicity if they had Windows 7 look like Mac OS 7(LOL.)

elementfire: NSFW warning: Don’t click IMAGES in Netscape.

gruz: Where’s Dark Castle? =(

brianhuangbh: lol you actually hear the dial up dialing thing

jayssite: Very unresponsive to most of my clicks.

encognito: Makes me want to break out my old LC II.

SpazticChips: Netscape-> Click Images -> lolwtf pr0n

compgeek: that was pretty well done

sixlaneve: if you want it in your pc/mac, try vMac (google for it)

cgseller: Old, and not really worth a digg. Digg is current news – this has not new current relevance ?

nonzer0: This Flash simulation made me smile! For more smiles, try this Mac emulator http://basilisk.cebix.net/