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David Letterman destroys Paris Hilton

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In the yesterday's show David Letterman destroys Paris Hilton during an amazing - and pretty bastard, too - interview. Must see.

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Sunday 30 September 2007 at 12:07 PM

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VOIP on your DS: a killer app?

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This software could be definitely a killer app for your Nintendo DS: SvSIP is a client for VOIP services out there using the standard protocol SIP.

I've yet to test it because I've no VOIP account using that protocol: as you know Skype uses definitely a closed protocol.

UPDATE: Now I do have a VOIP account with SIP Protocol. I opened an account on voipbuster. I tried to call my landline phone trough the Linphone software, a SIP client available for Linux (just apt-get it!). Here are the instructions about how to use linphone and voipbuster.

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Saturday 29 September 2007 at 6:38 PM

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David is coming back!

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According to Gizmodo (who can fill the Hoff's Leather Pants?), it seems that Knight Rider (in Italy aka "Supercar") is to return to fill our countless spare hours... Are you going to wait in front of your tv, aren't you? You should...

it's not sure who is going to replace our Hero - as Gizmodo pointed out-, but anyway I would remember our beloved David when he was in his best shape.

 

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Saturday 29 September 2007 at 4:00 PM

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hasselhoff, knightrider, omg, supercar

sicuri di voler cambiare management??

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Cosa succederebbe se nelle grandi aziende lavorassero solo internet-addicted tipo i commentatori di Digg ??

Splendido video.

LOL

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Friday 28 September 2007 at 7:46 PM

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History should repeat itself

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whooo, take a look at this picture.

ATT hackers-wozniak and steve jobs

Wozniak and Steve Jobs, back in 1975, with the BlueBox device, a phreaking tool used to obtain free calls from ATT framework. Jobs solded those devices to his friends in Berkeley.

Kinda interesting to see now (thanks Woz who uploaded the picture in his blog at woz.org) that Apple is locking his iphone to use only the ATT network; indeed (according to Gizmodo, seems) Apple is also trying to make more difficult and dangerous to unlock the iphone, denying technical assistance (and blacklisting them) to unlocked iphones.

UPDATE: Apple is not only denying assistance to unlocked iphones... they say that the next firmware update (coming in this week) will brick the evil iphones! The Apple statement:

Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed. Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update, containing many new features including the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (www.itunes.com), later this week. Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not covered under the iPhone's warranty.

UPDATE2: DVD John explains some details about the evil Apple and the _will_ to brick the unlocked iphones. Isn't in any way necessary: firmware is not magic: as the hackers can replace the original firmware with a different one without SIM verification, Apple could restore the original firmware with his update.

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Monday 24 September 2007 at 10:47 PM

Posted in pop

apple, att, hack, iphone, jobs, unlock