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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    I didn't mean to send those messages to underage girls - the iPhone did it!
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    07/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: LOL
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    I wonder if the messages were sent to a coho or trout AIMbot. Anyone get harassed by those stupid things?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    I am confused, its sending the messasges TO jailbroken IPhones or are JBIPhones receiving them? I rarely use AIM, but if there are juicy, gossipy or hot, private messages there, I will certainly open it up to see them.
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    Image of scriptcypher scriptcypher
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    Why don't any of my comments post?!?!
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    Curves approved this comment scriptcypher was starred scriptcypher was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    07/21/09

    @scriptcypher: Because someone has to approve them, which I did, as my Good Deed for the Day. Thankfully, now that its off my list, I can go back to normal behavior.
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    Image of jrghoull jrghoull
    07/21/09

    @scriptcypher: if you click on the "show all comments" at the bottom of the page then you'll see every single posting (including your own)
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment jrghoull was starred jrghoull was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/21/09

    @michael haendler: No Scriptcypher is one of those "red" commenters, I believe. Which explains why he has no comments but this ludicrously retarded bit of gristle right here. Only star commenters can see/approve them.

    Curves, don't do that anymore. That's NOT a good deed.

    By the way, Scriptcypher, I'll assume you're reading this: that sort of comment will never, ever get you commenting privilieges on any of the Gawker media sites. You should re-think your life.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/21/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I only did it so that he would know what the issue was and didnt try and "fix" it. Henceforth, I will concentrate on good deeds only for the deserving and feel no pity for idiots. (When I get these "helpful" moods, I do all kinds of useless and unappreciated things, the lessons from which I never learn.)
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    07/21/09

    @michael haendler: So - I hate the new comment system. Can I please see all freakin' posts all the time, like God intended? Thanks!

    I don't need a nanny to decide for me which are good and which are bad. I am old enough.

    If a comment doesn't interest me, or seems stupid, I have the amazing ability to glance it over and skip past it in a fraction of a second. I know - not everyone is that gifted. Apparently Giz readers are retards and need to be treated as such.

    /rant
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment orthorim was starred orthorim was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/21/09

    @Curves: Well, it's okay to do it. But next time make fun of him homorously, okay? That's the internet way.

    THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/21/09

    @orthorim: PRO TIP: adding something like the "/rant" tag might SEEM to mollify your comments, and make you seem like some sort of good-natured, jolly, fat belly laugh shakin' party animal. But in reality, adding that after you've called people "retards" just makes you look like an insecure douchebag who's unwilling to accept the tone of what he's saying.

    It's like saying "no offence". "No offence, but your mother's an ageing whore who's bounced from bed to bed for the past 40 years." See, the "no offence" thing doesn't work. Just like /rant. /rant is for losers.
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    Image of glamajamma glamajamma
    07/21/09

    @scriptcypher:
    Ewwwwww he is all covered in red.
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    Image of ddaq89 ddaq89
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    One more reason not to screw around with something that is not broken. I have been using my iPhone for a while now and still have not seen a reason to jailbreak my phone.
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    Image of Lupus_Yonderboy Lupus_Yonderboy
    07/21/09

    @ddaq89: There used to be plenty of reasons (especially back in the 1.0 days when that was the only way to get new applications), but most of them have been fixed with 3.0 (copy/paste, soon MMS, etc.). I still jailbreak and probably always will (if my next phone is an iPhone, that is) because of Themes (don't like the stock look of the iPhone icons, I prefer to use something a little flatter & less glossy).

    Just updated to 3.0, so tonight/tomorrow/this weekend I'll probably be re-jailbreaking and re-theming it back to what I used to have, A8stract.
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    07/21/09

    @Lupus_Yonderboy:Do you make up cool new icons for every app you download too or do your subsequent pages all look like lame old iPhone icons?
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment Justin Paulson was starred Justin Paulson was unstarred
    Image of Lupus_Yonderboy Lupus_Yonderboy
    07/21/09

    @Justinpaulson: You can handle that in a few ways-there are a lot of home-made icons floating around that you can replace stock icons with-just put it into the theme in the Library, and a lot of people will make icons for different applications if you ask them to. You can also make your own (I made one for the Songbird remote app using Gimp because I couldn't find one that I liked). There's also, at least for the theme that I was promoting above, a little utility that will format existing (Apple-approved) icons to look like the ones in the theme with no editing on your part (for instance, it turns the rounded corners on a normal icon into the pointy/rounded corners that A8stract uses, and flattens out the glossyness). All in all it's not too hard if you want a unified look on your phone-you just have to spend a little time.
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    Wait, so even if I'm sending messages through AIM via iChat on a mac to people that are using unlocked iPhones my message may go out to God-knows-who? That is really messed up...So do I need to keep track of which of my friends are using unlocked iPhones and which are not?
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment Justin Paulson was starred Justin Paulson was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/21/09

    @Justinpaulson:

    well AFAIK this only pertains to messages sent FROM JB’d iPhones, and the only people who will get them is other people with JB’d iPhones – sending a message TO a JB’d iPhone shouldn’t present any risk, but it’s a bug, so there’s really no telling.
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    07/21/09

    @nutbastard: Then what the heck does this mean...."Here's a screenshot the random receiver of my msgs sent me back http://twitpic.com/b3bct I used iChat on a Mac #iPhone #push #security #hole"
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    Warning: You may literally be labelled a homo sending a sexually loaded comment from your jailbroken/unlocked iPhone/iPod Touch. Expect angry return messages from guys reading "No ASSHOLE, I will NOT 'stroke' your 'ego' "
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    Image of Ben Zvan Ben Zvan
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Gosh... being called a homo would be the worst thing evar!
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment Ben Zvan was starred Ben Zvan was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @Ben Zvan: If you're not homosexual, then why, yes, it would be. Just like someone calling me a 'ginger' (I'm black) would be...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I imagine that being labeled a serial rapist or child molester would be just slightly worse.
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Really? You must have some issues. If somebody calls me gay, I find it slightly amusing - that is, I find it amusing that the other party thinks gay is something bad.
    While I am hetero, I have many gay friends. If I were gay - so what? I'd be into guys instead of girls, I don't really see what the big deal is. Some are into girls, some are into guys, some watch internet porn all day, and some are into S&M sessions - who am I to judge any of it?
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    Image of shopperciti.com shopperciti.com
    07/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: CHIMO: PRISON TERM FOR CHILD MOLESTERS.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment shopperciti.com was starred shopperciti.com was unstarred
    Image of shopperciti.com shopperciti.com
    07/21/09

    @orthorim: Well lets see if what you say is true, GAYLORDFOCKER.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment shopperciti.com was starred shopperciti.com was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Why would a sexually loaded message from me to another guy (grown man, mind you) be construed as a rapist or child molester implying comment?
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    TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @orthorim: Dude, you're acting like being friends with gay guys is a novel thing. These days, EVERYONE has gay friends, its not a big deal. Ive known a guy since he was hitting on me in high school TaeKwonDo (guess how many times HE'S seen me naked) and we're still friends today.

    The point is, whenever someone calls you something you're not, it's *USUALLY* to offend you. That's the whole point.

    Regardless, 'twas a silly joke. If you guys don't wanna laugh it off, so be it.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: The other guy posed a question of whether being labeled homosexual would be considered the worst thing ever ("evar"), to which you gave an affirmative reply. My reply states belief that there are worse labels to be stuck with, in general.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: "Worst thing evar!!!" is usually just sarcastic internet slang for 'bad'. By affirming his sarcasm, I didn't mean to say "YES, THAT WOULD LITERALLY BE THE WORST THING EVER TO BE CALLED IN MY LIFE." But if I were to read "worst thing evar" strictly at face value, I completely understand your reply. No worries.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Yeah, I know. I wasn't really being serious.
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:This long thread got completely off topic and my relevant post can't get promoted? :( I miss the old days where I actually felt like I wasn't some second-class commenter. Oh and I'm a ginger and take offense.. That is OUR word dammit! You shouldn't just throw it around like that....it hurts.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment Justin Paulson was starred Justin Paulson was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @Justinpaulson: Hahaha. Sorry for the ginger reference. Was just making an example. But I'll find you post and promote it! First I gotta put on my night vision-goggles.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:


    Well, it’s a LOT more common to have gay friends if you live on either coast of the US. Texas? Not so much.
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    nutbastard was starred nutbastard was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/21/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:

    yeah that's really insensitive. gingers already have it bad - is it not enough that they have no souls that you have to use that awful slur?
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    07/21/09

    @nutbastard: I'm just gonna go cry now...
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    Image of Dillinger23 Dillinger23
    07/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Well this little thread here is just a giant case of communication fails, joke explaining and latent peter panism.

    Good stuff.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @nutbastard: LMAO. Gingers are soulless? There's something I didn't know.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/21/09

    @Dillinger23: Exactly. Thank you all! Thank you! I'm here Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday nights!
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    07/21/09

    In reply to iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People
    Meh, I tried that excuse when my girlfriend came rushing up to me asking why I sent her instant messages about "last night" and how "good it was" not to be around "that horrible bitch" that I normally "am stuck with" as if I were in some "sort of jail, and she was the warden, just waiting to rape my brain of all joy in the world".

    She didn't buy it.
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    Image of glinden9 glinden9
    07/12/09

    In reply to The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses
    Thanks for the Windows Phone love, Giz.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/12/09

    @glinden9: Indeed!



    I'm digging all the cool stuff i can do with my WinMo phone.



    -far more than I expected as a former PalmOS enthusiast.
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    07/12/09

    In reply to The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses
    Huh, that Searchme looks fairly interesting. I'll have to tell my Winmo friends 'bout it.
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    Image of teexcue teexcue
    07/12/09

    In reply to The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses
    All of them are so ugly.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/12/09

    @teexcue: So true.
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    TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of SysRq SysRq
    07/12/09

    @teexcue: WinMo is just about the ugliest thing ever. I've never understood how anyone can justify it visually. Then again, there are many reasons WinMo is trash. This article outlines one of those reasons: the apps suck.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/12/09

    In reply to The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses
    Good ol' Skype.



    Works great on my i910 Omnia.

    -and YES I'll be flashing it real soon.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    07/12/09

    @strider_mt2k: Yep, my daughter goes go school in Eastern Europe, and Skype has been great for keeping in touch with her.

    As a programmer, I really like my Omnia. Windows Mobile is very hackable. What are you going to flash? 6.1 or 6.5 beta? Cooked?

    Edit...Why are my comments still not showing up without "show all"?!? Edit again...At least it let me promote my own comment! Ha!
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/12/09

    @CSX321:



    I have no idea. I'm a bit out of my depth because i haven't hunkered down and read everything yet.
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    06/22/09

    In reply to iPhone AIM and Beejive IM Apps With Push Notifications Are Live
    nice. just went live. bout damn time. better late than never i guess :)
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    Image of tsvb tsvb
    06/22/09

    In reply to iPhone AIM and Beejive IM Apps With Push Notifications Are Live
    Beejive is live. Check for updates in iTunes.
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    Image of Jason Chen Jason Chen
    06/22/09

    @tsvb: Not for me yet!
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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/03/09

    In reply to Six Technologies That Passed America By
    Nokia's West Coast US headquarters is about five minutes from my house. I always wonder what they're doing in the that huge building, since their phones are mostly off the radar here in the US, except with the geek crowd.


    And I would love to have the e-wallet here.

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