Android is for Porn [Steve Jobs Parody]

Whether you worship Steve Jobs or damn the man to hell, you’ve got to admit he can sure draw a crowd. With that attention comes good, bad, and amusing criticism. A video mocking Steve Jobs and his “Porn is for Android” comments — funny. We won’t go into the whole anti-adult iPhone polices other than that it provides a great backdrop for some good ‘ol fashion YouTube humor. Step inside for the parody video, “Android is for Porn”…

Squeaky clean “kiddie” version of IE 8 set loose. Kiddie porn, baddie, and nasty free.

Keeping kids safe on the internet these days is nothing short a chore. With literally millions of sites flooding the net with porn, violence, and BS calls to end piracy, traversing such a place as a small child can be daunting and frightening. Who doesn’t want to look out for the little one’s though?

That same feeling of helping the little ones is what no doubt drove Microsoft to team up with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and develop a special version of IE 8 with special features to further protect children from objectionable content online as well as making reporting said content several grades easier. So how good is it really?

If you really want to read past all the lines and cut through the crap, this new Kiddie edition of IE 8 isn’t anything too special at all as all of the filtering, searching, and other CEOP related features are nothing more than add-ons and shortcuts of some sort or another.

Regardless of how “separate” it really is, any preventative measures to keep those little eyes “little” a short while longer are more than welcome. Parents, curious readers, and those with nothing else better to do: care giving it a shot?

ArsTechnica

About that Pirate Bay/Google snafu…it was just a glitch

The interwebs were in a tizzy late last week when The Pirate Bay was taken down and removed from Google search results. Many started speculating almost immediately (myself included) that the end was near for the once great site that defied common laws in countries around the globe. However it appears as if TPB has escaped outright death in the near term. Apparently the whole snafu was nothing more than a simple error on Google’s part. The DMCA takedown notice that was responsible for TPB’s downtime and removal centered around apparent infringement on porn copyrights. After the dust settled and the smoke cleared, it was found that thepiratebay.org address was wrongfully included in the takedown notice, or as it quickly was coming to be known — the prophesied end of the world. Cooler heads have prevailed and TPB lives on for now. Google meanwhile has since apologized for the glitch.

While it may seem like a sigh of relief is appropriate, TPB is currently on weak legs and has a grim outlook. With the potential buyout looking less and less like a finished deal and instead turning into a form of real life “vaporware”, how much longer will TPB remain relevant? Hypothesizing aside, it’s back up. Enjoy those torrents folks.

The Register

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