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The New Paedo Porn Google Mobile App for iPhone
THE new Google Mobile App for iPhone. It’s terrific. You say what you are looking for in clear and loud voice and – hey presto! – it appears.
Anorak has been looking at the lastest news on Gary Glitter and paedophiles. “Peado. Glitter. Gary.”
Google has taken our search and revealed the news.
Old Mr Anorak stood on the table at his local trattoria, to get a better signal, and screamed: “Ping-pong. Thailand. Dart sex. Now.”
He now uses his iPhone to call for help from the cells in a central London hospital…
Posted: 24th, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comment
The Government’s Nigerian Porn Warehouse
DIZZY spots “Interesting news in the Telegraph this morning”:
It appears that the Government’s plan to have a large spam warehouse which will record the details of each mail we send and receive may never make it to the statute book by the time of the next election because of basic Parliamentary time constraints.
They’re watching:
Of course, that doesn’t mean it is being shelved but I would bet that it being kicked into the long grass simply because of the inevitable cost it would have and the fact that the Government has never delivered an IT project on time or on budget, thus committing to it and forcing it through may be a bit risky.
Having said this of course, the spam warehouse would only be monitoring the average bod. You’re average techie, hyper-criminal and terrorist will instead be encrypting all their mail with a 256 bit DSA key pair and sending and receiving across an IPSEC tunnel which goes via a server outside the scope and reach of the proposed system and using non-standard TCP ports for extra measure.
Perhaps someone has had a persuasive word in the ear of the Home Secretary and pointed out to her that her little scheme will just end up being a giant and completely unsearchable dump for porn traffic statistics and 419 scam source addresses an recipients?
Ah, porn and politics…
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comment
Social suicide – or how I think I might actually want to own a BlackBerry
There are many milestones in a man’s life. Like the day he discovers that Radio 2 actually has some good presenters who play good tunes as well as libel celebrity granddaughters. Or the moment when the clothes in Burton’s don’t just seem competitively priced and practical, but almost a bit cool. But for me the one I have been dreading has finally arrived. Yes I actually want to own a BlackBerry.
Over the last half decade I have smugly looked on at mates, work colleagues and randoms on buses whose lives are pretty much governed by those horrible little excuses for phones. Smug in the knowledge that, 1 I had a decent handset, usually a Nokia, 2, that my phone did all manner of wonderful things – like take amazing high quality pics and play back MP3s and, most crucially, 3, that I wasn’t checking my phone screen every three minutes in case my boss had emailed me.
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comments (5)
Your Virtual Japanese Tortured Girlfriend
VIA Boing Boing, this gem of a toy from Japan:
Dennou AR girlfriend. Feministing deems her a “virtual torture victim”; Gizmodo declares the 3D webcam hottie “entrancing, if a little perverted.”
A little perverted? NSFW:
Looking Up Girls’ Skirts In Japan
Posted: 14th, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
The Moving Target Toilet
A MR Johnny Henry of Laurel brings to the world the vibrating toilet seat.
Says he:
“I believe in thinking out of the box. I wanted to create something that is a little unusual. This invention is designed to stimulate. It’s to make you feel good while you are there.”
Henry says he wants “to add some life to the otherwise lifeless toilet seat”.
Anorak is of the old school traditionalist on this matter, and prefers a mute and, for wont of a better word, dead loo seat.
Posted: 14th, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Don’t Press The Button: How Many Buttons On Your Remote Control?
ANORAK’S look at remote controls…
Send us pictures of yours and we’ll feature them in our upcoming technology section…
editor [at] anorak [dot] co [dot] uk nad put “remote” in the subject line
Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Technology | Comments (3)
