{"id":16239,"date":"2012-07-17T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:58:37","slug":"afternoon-roundup-bored-at-work-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/07\/afternoon-roundup-bored-at-work-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Roundup: Bored at work edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So it&#8217;s a few hours after my first post, and I figured I&#8217;d give you another round of things to look at, contemplate or click on and ignore. Your choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KUwjNBjqR-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/threat-intelligence\/domain\/default.aspx?domain=imgur.com\">Imgur isn&#8217;t having the best of luck these days.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a day after Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57473544-93\/facebook-engineer-blocks-imgur-by-mistake-apologizes-on-reddit\/\">blocked all imgur links<\/a>, then recanted (and apologized), the Reddit-born image sharing site has been found to be ranked a &#8220;high risk&#8221; by McAfee, being filed under the categories &#8220;Malicious Sites&#8221; and &#8220;Media Sharing&#8221; in that order. I am not quite sure I understand why it&#8217;s a high risk site, except for the fact that it contains no #NSFW warnings, and can absolutely murder your productivity. This Reddit thread has a bit to say, stating that is serving up malicious code, while siteadvisor.com (run by McAfee) lists it as being ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/ioomnmgjblnnolpdgdhebainmfbipjoh\">Tired of YouTube comments pissing you off?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just install the above-linked extension. It translates the posts into a version of English that directly matches the intelligence of the input. If you&#8217;re brave enough, you can click the comment to see the original text, but bring Asprin: It&#8217;s gonna make your brain hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-artist-for-anti-piracy-ad-120717\/\">Copyright group sued for not paying for music in their ad.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HAHAHAHA<\/strong>. Okay, I&#8217;m done. It appears that&nbsp;Melchior Rietveldt composed some music in 2006 for a one-off anti-piracy ad to be used exclusively at a local film festival. After some legal maneuvering, they offered him a paltry sum, and he chose to sue. They said he was owed 60,000 euros for his music being used on over 71 commercial DVDs, when he calculated it was over&nbsp;164,974 euros. The courts slapped them with a fine, forced them to pay Rietveldt&#8217;s legal fees as well as the rest of the money he was owed. <em>It gets better: <\/em>The copyrights group had a board member (Gerrits) speak to Rietveldt on television, where he offered to help &#8211; assuming the composer would sell the song rights to High Fashion Music, which would get 1\/3 of his royalties. What&#8217;s the problem? Gerrits owns High Fashion. There&#8217;s been talk of corruption (duh), but now Gerrits has resigned and is suing for defamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/7\/17\/3164473\/google-street-view-antarctic\">Google now has &#8220;street view&#8221; of Antarctic huts.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Google has some really cool stuff. They&#8217;ve brought their street view technology to Antarctica (how droll) and put it to amazing use cataloging the interiors of century old huts for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/7\/17\/3164473\/google-street-view-antarctic\">World Wonders Project<\/a>. &nbsp;But that&#8217;s not all you can see: Unlike traditional street view, you can&#8217; just pick an intersection and go, you are limited to where they decided to take shots. Thankfully, they took a bunch of cool shots. Head over to see it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120717\/that-was-quick-viacom-ends-web-ban-for-jon-stewart-and-stephen-colbert\/\">Daily Show and Colbert Report are back on Viacom&#8217;s site.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it appears that they decided everyone took things the wrong way and wanted to make things right. Jon Stewart&#8217;s bit probably didn&#8217;t help them feel very good about it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/18\/technology\/europe-reopens-antitrust-hostillities-with-microsoft.html?pagewanted=all\">Microsoft may be in big trouble in little Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Commission has started to bring new antitrust proceedings against Microsoft over their lack of access to other web-browsers as part of a previous three year agreement. I suppose including Internet Explorer doesn&#8217;t count. While I didn&#8217;t really like MS for being so big and hoggy, reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-07-17\/key-dates-in-eu-antitrust-action-against-microsoft\">timeline here<\/a> makes me think that the EC is a bunch of whiny 10 year olds who don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re yelling about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/technology\/technolog\/update-skype-so-it-doesnt-forward-your-conversations-random-people-889479\">Skype to patch bug that sent IMs to unintended&nbsp;recipients.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Oh, oops. It looks like Skype had a <em>teensy<\/em>&nbsp;problem: it could possibly have sent your IMs &#8211; supposedly private messages &#8211; to other people in your address book. Well, it&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/technology\/technolog\/skype-bug-forwards-conversation-snippets-random-people-887539\">noted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/garage\/2012\/07\/hotfix_for_multiple_skype_clie.html\">fixed<\/a>. To ensure that parts of your messages don&#8217;t go astray, update to the newest version of Skype when prompted. Just make sure to check for <a href=\"http:\/\/intellisites.com\/articles\/articles\/too-many-toolbars\/\">Bing toolbars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/technology\/technolog\/will-carriers-charge-facetime-over-cellular-889498\">Carriers may charge extra for FaceTime.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9to5mac reports on a extremely disturbing rumor: iOS6 beta versions show that FaceTime over an AT&amp;T network will require &#8220;activation&#8221; in the same way the hotspot feature does. Yes, that means a contract add-on, and an additional fee. Dear AT&amp;T: <strong>I already pay you too much for my data. You make profits hand over fist. Stop telling me how I can use my data. <\/strong>Even though I don&#8217;t own a FaceTime compatible device, this irks me. I have a bandwidth cap, let me reach it how I see fit. (PS &#8211; I don&#8217;t have a cap)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2012\/07\/just-wow-steve.php\">The Woz does not travel light.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"356\" data-attachment-id=\"16242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/07\/afternoon-roundup-bored-at-work-edition\/steve-woz-back-pack-s-thumb-550xauto-96157\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?fit=550%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,356\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image Credit: Gizmodo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?fit=550%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?resize=550%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/steve-woz-back-pack-S-thumb-550xauto-96157.jpg?resize=180%2C116&amp;ssl=1 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image Credit: Gizmodo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously: That&#8217;s a lot of stuff. Seven phones (4 iOS, 3 Android), two GPS, two Mifi hotspots, two iPods, two iPads, a Kindle, a MacBook Pro and assorted accessories. Over 50lbs worth of gadgets and chargers and &#8230; <em>stuff<\/em>&nbsp;that I wish I could afford to have laying around the house, much less pay for data on. Still, pretty cool, Woz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to cap that all off, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/slide-shows\/mobility\/240003689\/the-10-coolest-smartphones-of-2012-so-far.htm;jsessionid=4btucMCbAu24yiV5V5oqwA**.ecappj03\">list of the 10 coolest smartphones of 2012<\/a> &#8211; so far. Spoilers: 8 Android phones, the Lumia 900, and a Nokia running Symbian (really?) are the list. Not too unpredictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imgur in trouble, YouTube comments on helium, &#038; copyright group karma! Plus, Google&#8217;s Antarctic chills &#038; Woz&#8217;s tech arsenal. 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