Terminally Incoherent

Ok Sony, here is how you take a horrible disaster and turn it into a positive PR. Amazon is allowing their clients to return all xpc CD’s, whether they were opened or not.

Now what is the difference between this and Sony’s half assed approach? Amazon took responsibility for selling rootkit laden CD’s and decided to refund everyone that was affected by them. Sony on the other hand, after all this time still tells people to install the rootkit.

Sigh.. There you go… I’m fucking sick of this story

I was browsing around trying to find what bloggers think about the new South Park episode and I stumbled upon a review of some scientology music cd. How did that thing creep into my search results? Well, one of the artists featured on that CD is Issac Hays. I was shocked! But it’s true - Chef is a scientologist

Now I know why Chef was not in this episode! I really don’t care about his music, but Chef is a classic South Park character! I really hope he doesn’t quit the show because of this. It would be a pity to loose him. I hope they gave him a heads up, and that he was cool with it. I would hate to see the rest of the season to be Chef-less…

I’m getting sick of reading about the stupid rootkit every day! At first it was interesting to see this thing evolve. Then it was amusing to see people pounding away at SONY, uncovering more and more crap related to that story. Now it’s just tiresome. Why isn’t SONY doing anything to stop this carnage? They are getting ripped to pieces on every single tech related blog, and message board. Where is the SONY damage control team? What the hell is their PR department doing?

Some institutions already banned use of SONY CD’s on their machines! Even Homeland Insecurity dummies managed to figure out that your rootkit is dangerous - and they are warning people not to use your product! What are you people doing?

Why on earth is this shit still up???? That page should have big red warning saying: do not play this CD on your computer!

Are they really so deep in RIAA pockets that they can’t even apologize for breaking thousands of computers with their rootkits, and clumsy uninstallers? Come on Sony! Apologize, promise not to do it again and release a working uninstaller! That’s the least you can do!

But I guess this shitstorm is a good thing in general. It shows the content providers that DRM is a dangerous business. If you slip up, you are in for a beating. You can be the most beloved, non evil company - if you mess with people’s computers, you will get ripped apart by angry geeks.

So come on people - damage control! Damage Control! Let’s see some of it!

Best South Park episode ever! But they screwed up the history a bit. It was a bombing incident. You can’t skip the exploding megatons worth of hydrogen bombs! Heh!

I think they actually went easy on them. They could have spent more time picking their silly dorctrines appart instead of doing that closet bit. I mean, it was funny, but they could have spent this time ripping on Hubbard and his followers some more.

Still, I think this is officially the best line in the history of TV:

We have an important update. Tom Cruise, John Travolta and R Kelly all just came out of the closet!

Priceless!

They are so getting sued for this. Was that a challenge at the end of the episode? Are they really taunting the church scientology? I love how the end credits are John Smith.

It seems that Google finally figured out how to implement trackbacks on blogger - only they call it Backlinks. Nice! Blogger slowly grows new features - this is good.

Apparently this is done via Google’s Blog Search which has a serious drawback. If your blog is not indexed by Google Blog Search you will not generate trackbacks. But since google seems to scoop stuf from popular ping agregators, any blog that pings something will probably get indexed at some point.

Hm… Now I need to make someone link to me so that I can see how it works