Month: June 2016

These chests of drawers really are unsafe.

These chests of drawers really are unsafe.

The so-called safety mechanism is a wire you’re supposed to attach from the back of the unit to the wall behind to prevent it from falling over. This is needed because these units is intrinsically unbalanced with too high a centre of gravity and too small a base. Without the safety wire, they are an accident just waiting to happen.

What percent of purchasers have actually attached this wire? I’m willing to bet not all that many.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/29/ikea-australia-will-not-follow-us-lead-and-recall-chests-of-drawers?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=179546&subid=16790678&CMP=ema_632

Looks like somebody’s being told to “pay up”.

Looks like somebody’s being told to “pay up”.

Apple relies heavily on growth in the Chinese market to bolster its bottom line. Apple is learning, as every other Western corporation learns eventually, that there’s no free lunch in China. Eventually you are going to be competing with some princeling’s son-in-law.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-17/apple-s-iphones-found-to-have-violated-chinese-rival-s-patent

There’s not much that can be said about Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.

There’s not much that can be said about Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister. Unfortunately that still makes him a massive improvement over his predecessor who was a genuine threat to the stability of this country.

Originally shared by Joseph McDermott

He was wanting to fight conflicts in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and West Africa. Why not the Mexican drug cartels too?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/federal-election/analysis/federal-election-2016-inside-former-pm-tony-abbotts-chaotic-misguided-military-deployments/news-story/7977fa6e3d073f6130fc4bf954944768

A pathetic group of marketers breaks ranks with the digital surveillance community and publicly demonstrates how…

A pathetic group of marketers breaks ranks with the digital surveillance community and publicly demonstrates how abusive mobile phone technology can be.

Normally Big Data types don’t like to show their hands like this. They prefer to see their steady accumulation of power and influence over ordinary people go unnoticed. This rogue group is taking a piss in the punch.

Ad-block now. Uninstall privacy busting apps. Easier said than done but the fight back has to begin.

Via James Lamb​​​

https://rewire.news/article/2016/05/25/anti-choice-groups-deploy-smartphone-surveillance-target-abortion-minded-women-clinic-visits/