I have MDN in my feed list, yet find myself reading the site less and less. Even before I owned a Mac, I browsed the site to see what was going on with “the other” side of computing.

Now, I am finding it hard to stomach the ridiculous bias and fanboi’sim that exists with the editors. You will be hard pressed to find anything negative about Apple on the site, and when there is an article that paints the company in a negative light, you have the editors adding in comments in the article. Sometimes they are just stupid and wrong, other times outright pathetic and sick.

Take this article…

It’s simply natural selection in a modern age. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a brilliant self-made billionaire. Corner wino Ralph is a drunken self-made ward of the state. One has more means at his disposal to help him legally secure the liver transplant he needs to live than the other. One just has a better shot at living than the other. Some may not like it, considering it somehow “unfair,” but at its core, excluding blind luck, that’s how this world has worked since life began.

Yes, we know: Replace Ralph the welfare wino with little six-year-old doe-eyed orphan Annie who’s liver is failing without ever having processed a drop of wine. It’s very sad, but it’s still natural selection. Today, money is muscle; wealth means strength. And the strong are still the ones who tend to survive.

That’s a pretty sad take. Yet regardless of feelings, I guess I was wrong in my assumption of MDN being a news site rather than a propaganda machine. There have been some past articles that I would like to mention, yet I don’t want to search through all the articles to find them. And luckily these articles only dealt with technology rather than social issues.

Starting today I am done reading the site. And I hope anyone else who reads this site does the same. Perhaps they will only care when their ad revenue drops to insignificance. Yet I doubt this since they obviously live on another planet.

So I just wrote about the update to the white MacBook. Well, now the unibodies have been updated. And now I am really upset. This is a pretty substantial upgrade and looks like I missed it by a month or so.  :-(

Apple, let me exchange?

Remote-Exploit has released a hardware/software solution to sniff wireless keyboards as they are used, and can log the keystrokes. A very very cool project, and another reason I do not use wireless keyboards.

Currently support is for MS keyboads, but Logitech is coming soon. Since this is more than a software solution, you would need to build your own board or wait till they offer the sale of prefabed solutions. And as of right now, you cannot even download the source for the software, but will be able to soon.

It would figure that a few weeks after I get my MacBook aluminum, that they would upgrade the lower priced white model. My number one consideration is usually CPU speed, and now the lower priced model has .13 GHz on me. Although this only adds 5% according to some tests, and that may be mainly academic, is still miffs me. But such is life in the computer industry, there is always something better shortly down the road.

I guess my question really is, why upgrade a model priced lower than your next bump up, make it faster, and still cost less? For $300, what do you get? LED backlighting, DDR3, laptop frame? Only one that I really get into is the backlighting.