• Apple wins $1B damage from Samsung.

• Google says patent litigation doesn’t help anyone and promptly sues Apple.

• Neil Armstrong passed away.

• Germany doesn’t like Facebook allowing auto stalking while Facebook feeds you more ads. Meanwhile Twitter is deuchebaging developers.

• Evolution ? Not in Kentucky you don’t!. Maybe that’s why people can get patented in the US but can’t get AIDS from heterosexual sex. Or why women can’t go to university.

• It’s not so much why Sweden can’t question Assange in UK, it’s about how much US wants Assange. Just like it’s not how much the girls were asses, it’s about how much they pissed of the government. Meanwhile a Portuguese political party deposited one million euros in cash just around the time some germans were corrupting someone in the portuguese govt.

• When copyright law doesn’t work for you work around it. And you push more secret non-legislation.

• Billions into cyber security techno experts ? Just do something about shoddy engineering.

• Rombas with blades. It’s starting!

• Samsung is pulling out stuff like email attachment patents. Meanwhile, Apple shouldn’t laugh as the new guy’s plan seems to be guting the stores. Maybe it’s a cunning plan to avoid MS copying them …

• Twitter has fake accounts too. Oh noes! Can it all be a lie ? Meanwhile, Facebook tries to tap into the pregnant advertising mother load.

• UK, who if memory serves me protected Pinochet, is threatening to go to war with Ecuador over Assange. Does UK still have a foreign ministry ?

• In Vietnam you go to jail or get killed for running a blog critiquing the government. In Russia you go to jail for singing against the government. In USA you to jail for chalking in the sidewalk.

• US CO2 emissions in 20year low. Which is a surprise considering the republicans believe rape doesn’t lead to pregnancy or mostly anything evidence based.

• Turns out Samsung stuff is made by underage workers. Sadly, as there’s no Apple in that story there also no coverage. There’s coverage of the trial though and the funniest things come up in discovery, such as a 140 page document on how to make the galaxy more like the iphone. Still, not as bad as Nokia which in one go sold off Qt to Digia and a bunch of patents to someone involved in annoying ringtones. Digia promises they’ll bring Qt to Android and iOS. If you don’t know Qt, it wasn’t brilliant to start with, Nokia messed it up for a couple of years and it’s basically just a way to create bad apps faster.

• The Internet Archive is seeding its archive. I guess that makes them pirrrates or something. There’s a good chance you won’t be getting them any time soon cause your ISP is throttling torrents. It’s not the ISPs faults really. You see, network vendors come with magic trafic management boxes they promise will use advanced algorithms optimize network trafic and thus save millions. If an ISP doesn’t have a real engineering team management will believe it and deploy bug ridden boxes on their network that do fingerprint analysis and sabotage traffic they recognize as “p2p”. On the other hand, you’re probably using a decent torrent client and your traffic will just sail by. (it’s been nearly 2 years since I’ve been presented such a box, there’s a chance they work better now. also, not all vendor are the same and some actually work)

• Wikileaks published the Stratfor files detailing the mass survailance of innocent civilians going on and by some freak coincidence it got hit by massive DDoS. I’m sure the FBI and the CIA and Europol are working tirelessly to find the culprits and shut them down. What ? Nothing is being done ? Well I guess launching DDoS to hinder the operation of a web site is no longer a crime. Also, considering Google is going to pay a record $22.5M for playing loose with Safari how much will these guys pay ? It’s all happening on the same week US decides it can’t sued for illegal wiretaping.

• The EU is puting 400k EUR into an extrajudicial framework for better censorship. Or “a non-legislative ‘framework’ that consists of general principles and best practices… to counter the illegal use of Internet” as they like to call it.

• Zeus reached Blackberry. I bet you guys were saying, “well, nothing worse can happen to RIM now!” And it’s sucking to be Microsoft too with their fail security. But hey, they might even figure out how to configure an IMAP server.

• US can’t work with Mexico to bust up the drug cartels but it sure can get Ukraine and Mexico to arrest some demonoid guys in what will probably turn out to be a dotcom grade screw up.

• Google payed 1.5% tax in UK last year. The US Republicans think that’s too much cause according to plan Mitt Romney would pay about half that. Maybe that’s why they taped someone whose name sounds like Ron Paul for VP. Who’s next ? Lincon Abrami ?

• The funniest things happen when you manage to deposit a spam check.

• Powder based 3d printer. New much more efficient type of gas engine. Exciting summer!

Where it comes to phone storage there’s basically 2 camps, all onboard and mostly off board via memory cards. Mostly the all onboard camp is composed by the iPhone while the mostly offboard camp is populated by the Androids. People like slamming the iPhone for not being expandable and forcing you to go all in at purchase time while Androids (and symbians before that) let you get more storage space when you needed it. Surely the all onboard approach is a planed obsolescence tool, it helps you decided when to get a new iPhone. But it’s also a ver y sound engineering decision.

Android users are familiar to this scenario: you pop a shiny new 16G card on your phone and it still tells you there’s no more space for apps. How can that be ? There’s 10G free right there. However, the OS can’t trust it. It’s formatted using a subpar filesystem and the user might pop it out at any time. It’s no place to store apps that might even be running and suddenly disappear. So apps are limited to a bit of the small onboard storage that’s reliable. On the other hand the iPhone users can use all of the limited onboard storage for apps cause it’s all first class. So what you win in flexibility you lose in flexibility. And then there’s windows phone were you get to use a crappy slow card for apps that you can’t actually remove without breaking the phone.

(written shortly after hacking around with apps2sd on ICS to get more app storage)

• The court battle where Samsung defends most of it’s phones with a bumper on don’t like the iphone rages on with some silly claims, fud about apple copying sony and desperate moves that turn out poorly. Also, IBM and MS don’t want the world to know what patents they are licensing to Samsung. My guess is “none remotely interesting.”

• Facebook admitted to 8% fake users. My guess is “higher than 30%”.

• NASA can bungee drop a one ton robot on another planet but it can’t put a video on youtube without being copyright trolled.

• I’m not a big fan of Qt but I believe Nokia buying it screwed it up even more.

• A Swedish band felt it needs to tell its fans how to unblock TPB. It’s all about saving the artists! Mostly, saving them from idiocy like Hadopi which will probably die. Meanwhile MPAA says tvshack broke the law in both US and UK which, I’m sure, is considered libel in UK but hey, it’s not like someone is going to sue the RIAA.

• This is hell-u-va cool!.

• Iran is going offline to protect itself from attacks which is very like the original plan of going offline. So I guess the terrorists won.

• The Olympics have always been at war against WiFi.