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Stop It, With Your Silly Communication Medium

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The iPhone vibrates, breaking my concentration.

I smile. Gotta love physical notifications of emails. Definitely need to write a blog post on this… maybe one day, I’ll get a nice little shock through my keyboard… haptic, but more… electric.

Command + Tab over to my Gmail Fluid instance. Hmm, I guess I need a refresh. Command + R.

No change.

Command + R.

What? Nothing? No email? Then…

No. NO.

It’s a text.

Don’t Text Me

Only in the case of emergencies. This is why I haven’t completely shut it off yet.

No, I will not pay the phone companies to perpetuate one of the most ridiculous scam ever. I’ve written on this before, and I’m almost certain I’ll rant on it again.

$.15 isn’t much, but it’s annoying as hell. Stop it.

Hacking The iPhone Through SMS

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The iPhone bug has to do with telling the phone there is a certain amount of data, and then not sending it as much as you said you would. The function that reads the data starts returning -1 to indicate an error, but the other parts of the program don’t check for this error and actually think the -1 is data from the message.

via Exclusive Interview: Hacking The iPhone Through SMS : Introduction – Review Tom’s Hardware.

Always interesting to see the anatomy of a hack.

Why I Hate Text Messages

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Finally, someone put it into words.

The True Cost of SMS Messages

via my ISP: $1 via SMS: $61,356,851.20

Lovely. So think twice before you send out that text. I’m happy I have a lovely 200 text cushion before I have to start paying anything, and I tend to refrain from using if at all possible.

This really isn’t a problem with the users: this is largely a case with the big companies. It shouldn’t have to be this way… I shouldn’t have to pay extra to get the same data, when it costs the phone companies exactly the same. Or at least, very little… I’m sure the actual traffic of text messages against phone calls are nothing, and yet, they’re probably making money hand over fist on texts.

I hate you, big companies that don’t look out for their customers. Jerks.