* Posts by John Tserkezis

2242 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007

Self-destructing selfies? Not so fast! Snapchat now offers one-time Replay

John Tserkezis

"Stealthy selfie service Snapchat has added a new feature to its mobile apps that makes it possible for users to hang onto messages for longer than the senders may have intended."

Yeah, it's called facebook, twitter, flickr, dropshots, photobucket, tinypic and freaking hundreds more. Not only do they do a better job (they keep photos indefitely vs a day) they've ALL been doing it for much longer.

Like most of the other comments, here, this is such a massive fail, they're no longer offering a specific service that others' don't, rather than a substandard service that others have pretty much nailed.

British Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

John Tserkezis

Holy crap, are all governments this slow to do anything?

If you were an employee and moved as slow as the governments, you'd get sacked before the end of the day.

If your employer was as slow as the goverments, you wouldn't work there for much longer.

And we keep voting these idiots in, perhaps we should sack them.

No wait, the result would be anarchy.

I'm not saying it's better, but it certainly would be faster...

Official: Apple hooks up with WORLD'S LARGEST MOBILE OPERATOR

John Tserkezis

Re: Want to put money on that?

"From a carrier perspective they couldn't give a damn what type of SIM is takes"

Yeah they do. There's push for embedded sims, great for subsidised phones, and great for the carrier, the user can't possibly change the sim because its function is part of the phone electronics. Even better that SIMs are not carrier-transferrable (not that I know of anyway).

The Ultimate Lock In. The fact it has the Apple logo will test the limits of fanboi-ism, how much are users willing to put up with before they bail?

Gift-giving gotchas: How to avoid Xmas morning EMBARRASSMENT

John Tserkezis

"Check too, especially if you’ve bought presents from overseas, that you have any mains plug adaptors you need"

Whoa! Careful there! Some of us are reading this in Australia. We're not allowed to do things like that - it'll wreck the country you know. Or so the three large retailers keep telling us...

John Tserkezis

Re: Rechargables

"Harsh. I think you should invest in a multi-meter. Just check the voltage and you're done--no need to have elevated stress levels over dumb electronics."

Not harsh at all. It's up to the electronics to continue functioning at a lower volage. Not only do you squeeze that last little bit out of regular batteries, lower voltage regchargables work well to.

With switching regulators for single-celled appliances that can go down to 0.7v, there's no excuse. Except of course for the higher cost, where every joe idiot goes for the cheaper option without checking the specs, then say they can work around it with a $10 multimeter instead of a buck worth of parts.

John Tserkezis

Re: Top Marks for advice

"But the service from FedEx, in my experience, is so far beyond execrable that it needs to see a proctologist as a matter of urgency."

Odd, I've used them a few times, and they're the best of the lot. Though I would expect so, going on their prices.

HP clampdown on 'unauthorised' server fixing to start in January

John Tserkezis

Legal Shemgal: Like that makes a difference.

Back when I used to work in the CCTV sector, anyone could inspect your tapes, even the owners of the tapes, namely because they were the owners of the tapes. Duh.

Along comes a little company called Chubb (yeah, I'm naming names, so bite me) who wanted to pass "law", that only an appropriately appointed and authorised security tape viewing agent (of which presumably Chubb would be self-appointed) could access the tapes, sort out the video and construct smaller sections of the event in question (previously what the owners would do themselves). For a "small" fee of course.

The moral of the story is, if there is an avenue of money to be made, the law (or good sense) will prove no obstacle. To try at least, there's no law against trying.

Fanbois, prepare to lose your sh*t as BRUSSELS KILLS IPHONE dock

John Tserkezis

Re: I don't see the problem

"Bluetooth was a bad joke for the first decade of its existance and has only really come of age foe audio work in the last 3-4 years."

Someone forgot to tell some of the manufacturers of portable keyboards that. I've just thrown out the last of my bluetooth keyboards and mice because the fuckers don't work. Or, not properly and consistantly anyway. The proprietary wireless USB dongles work OK (even from the same manufacturers) though, which leans my reasoning towards a bluetooth structure fault, rather than an inherent design fault of said equipment.

It's for good reason I keep saying that bluetooth was designed by the same idiots who designed the PnP (Plug and Pray) initiative back in the Win'98 days. They couldn't get it right then, they can't get it right now.

I'm guessing the plethora of modern audio based bluetooth gear (that work) is because manufacturers have finally managed to navigate the complete ballsup that is bluetooth.

Downvote away, for you *should* be counting yourself lucky you haven't come across as many badly designed BT devices as I have. And not all cheapies either...

UK payday loaners cop MEGA £175K fine for 'misleading' SMS spam

John Tserkezis

We're dealing with rocket scientists here...

They avoid detection by using unregistered cards, then put their website in the SMS.

This is so stupid I can't think of an analogy, maybe a thief breaks into your house and leaves a card behind saying "I couldn't find any money, so here are my bank details so you can make a donation at your convenience".

Nope, that's not stupid enough.

Sensation: Chinese Jade Rabbit FOUND ON MOON

John Tserkezis

I'm impressed.

A photocopier doing dounuts.

I would have been impressed even if it were in the back parking lot, but the moon, even more so.

'Disruptive, irritating' in-flight cellphone call ban mulled by US Senate

John Tserkezis

Oh bullshit.

This has nothing to do with courtesy, it nips the new allowances in the bud before they're established, and then you'll NEVER get rid of them.

Much like disallowing GPS receivers - can't have the passengers knowing where they are now can we? Or disallowing those newfangled walk-mans, can't have the passengers bopping along to that rock and roll music, when they should be watching the "safety" video that's laced with ads. Won't someone think of the sponsors??

No, they want to nip it in the bud now, otherwise you'll let through other things, like crying whiny babies that vomit, or worse still, the adult crying whiny babies that have consumed alcohol and then vomit.

Next thing you know plane passengers will expect to travel with lugguage - be it leather or be it around your waist.

No, the Senate is saving us from ourselves, and we should be bloody grateful.

Apple iWatch due in October 2014, to wirelessly charge from one metre away – report

John Tserkezis

Re: My watch charges at 93M miles!

"Citizen Eco - solar trickle charged. Had it for over eight years and it has never stopped."

I have a regular bottom-end Casio. Battery life leans towards a decade.

It functions under most normal environmental conditions, including the dark, and underwater.

Best of all, it doesn't whine at me when someone tweets about the latest pimple they've popped.

Massive! Yahoo! Mail! outage! going! on! FOURTH! straight! day!

John Tserkezis

How about that? I was right.

Someone from Google DID infiltrate Yahoo, instill that new interface that everyone hates, and now the planned mysterious mail outage were all designed to drive users back to Google.

Bitcoin cred boosted by $25m cash infusion into Coinbase

John Tserkezis

This is a good thing.

After all, someone is going to need to manage those bitcoins when the system crashes and self-implodes into the bits it was once made of.

US mobile telcos: All right, ALL RIGHT, FCC! We'll redo phone unlock rules

John Tserkezis

"There are an abundance of very cheap unlocking services online;"

Because those abundance of very cheap unlocking services are comprised of some guy in his bedroom with a suite of pirated utilities or lists that serve the purpose.

And if that doesn't scare you, that guy in his bedroom could very well be me. (It isn't, so don't contact me asking if I can unlock your phone, more than likely, I'll just make fun of you for signing onto that contract in the first place. So there.)

Apple fanbois warned: No, Cupertino HASN'T built a Bitcoin mining function into Macs

John Tserkezis

Re: rm -rf /*

"Really? Is this the best they can come up with?"

Welcome to 1983. It appears that some all members of 4chan haven't grown up yet. Or, ever. Whatever.

John Tserkezis

Re: dangers of 'sudo'

"This is why the 'sudo' command is disabled on all my *IX systems."

"That seems a bit OTT, have you disabled 'su' and 'rm' as well ? ;)"

I remember seeing a strong recommendation in an "idiot's guide to DOS" book: Never ever, ever use "format". Explaining it does something you should never ever, ever have to do.

Sure. "idiot's" guide indeed.

NBN Co swoops on Vodafone Oz boss

John Tserkezis

"Vodafone Australia head Bill Morrow has been confirmed as the new CEO of NBN Co"

Wait, this doesn't sound right. He didn't used to be on the board at Telstra? He didn't have a family member on the Telstra board? He doesn't have a distant cousin who worked at Telstra? His next door neighbour's ex-girlfriend's best friend who knew a guy who once had a Telstra landline installed?

You're saying he has no ties to Telstra at all? This is odd, especially since a chunk of ex-Telstra guys are running NBN Co now, I was half expecting they're going to keep it in the family and start poaching real soon now.

I KNOW how to SAVE Microsoft. Give Windows 8 away for FREE – analyst

John Tserkezis

Re: Even then...

"Why would I want a free downgrade that turns my fully functional Windows 7 workstation, into a dumb tablet operating system for listening to music and watching cats on YouTube."

After the 3+Gig download for the 8.1 upgrade, you won't have enough bandwidth left over to watch cat videos on youtube.

Sorry.

John Tserkezis

Re: Not going to give it away for free

"With Office365, now that its a subscription, the turn around for add-on features is quicker rather than slower. In the past, MS had about three years to code and test all their office updates and release them in a big hit. With Office 365, MS is releasing updates and upgrades on a monthly cycle... a considerable difference considering all the compatibility testing they need to do for each change."

Yeah, I know what you mean. I run LibreOffice, and I have to upgrade every so often and that gives me new features. It's really annoying that I have to constantly upgrade though, if only they could automate that somehow. No wait, they already do that. OK, it's annoying that I have to constantly pay for it. No wait, it's free. OK, it's annoying that I have to convince people that buying MS Office through a scammed and heavily limited student copy isn't a great an option as free and legal and you still get your work done.

John Tserkezis

"No, it is _not_ free. It happens that the price that is paid for Windows is included in the price of the computer. Just because you don't see that does not mean it doesn't exist."

Correct, it's not free, but it's not called the "Microsoft Tax" for nothing.

John Tserkezis

Re: I wonder what the Pirate Bay stats are

"No, you call the automated line and get a new key based on the digit string your PC gives you."

I did that once with an early version of office for a family friend.

After punching in dozens of digits on the touch phone, and it insisting my string of digits were wrong, I installed a pirated copy. It worked, and it didn't piss me off.

Nuff said.

John Tserkezis

Re: I wonder what the Pirate Bay stats are

"To be shunned by pirates is the ultimate insult. A sign of a product so rubbish, it isn't even worth stealing."

Just checked (a not very extensive check mind you), it's not that bad, Win8.1 sits at about 70% of the seeds available for Win7. Win8 is marginally better at about 77% of the seeds of Win7.

I haven't factored in available time in the market, Win7 *has* had a good amount of time in the market, but then again, its uptake had been favourable after Vista, which isn't hard to understand considering...

It's still very telling - not that bad - but still telling.

(*) Disclaimer: All statistics are made up on the spot, I have no idea what pirate sites are, where I might find one (or many), I have no idea what the term "seed" means, especially in the context of torrents, of which I also have no idea what a torrent is, what it's used for, or what abomination will grow if you were to grow a seed in a torrent. What I *do* know, is whatever brand of horror that grows into, it can't be as bad as metro. I'm sorry, the "interface formerly known as metro", that's better.

John Tserkezis
Coat

Re: Pah!

"Unfortunately they CANNOT give away Windows 8.x due to all the people who have purchased it already and the refunds involved would cripple their EBITDA / share price. Maybe they should consider it for Windows 9"

Or perhaps they should consider continuing the free upgrade policy to 8.2, which finally fixes the abomination "formerly known as metro"?

Oh, OK, I'll go now.

Oz couple get jiggy in pharmacy in 'banned' condom ad

John Tserkezis

Funny that..

Why is it that the only ads worth watching are distributed on Youtube only?. A far cry from the feeble attempts that do actually air, they're not even trying.

Pretty much expains why I haven't watched live TV, or TV ads, for well in excess of a decade, and have no plans to change.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to buy some condoms. Though, I'll test them at home...

Chinese gamer plays on while BMW burns to the ground

John Tserkezis

I want to know:

How many camera phones in China are monochrome only?

Or, I understand photos get converted to monochrome (among other conversions so they look good) for print, but is that the ONLY copy that gets distributed?

If you want an IT job you'll need more than a degree, say top techies

John Tserkezis

Re: The first hurdle....

"Degree is bullshit, but necessary bullshit to get through the door as an employee..."

A presence of a degree can be hazzardous to employer's health. Or it could be a good thing - you still have to do the legwork.

I remember one time when one (software) degreed guy, assisted by an "in the process" half degreed guy, were trying to install a CDROM drive into a PC, and they asked what DOS drivers were needed (back in the day). I offered to do it, it was barely a 15 minute job, but they wanted to.

They did it. Finally. After a solid hour and a half, and, smoke came out of the PC at one stage.

At another place, had our Novell Certified Engineer bork a setting then piss off to a meeting retreat with other degreed guys. (No idea what they were doing, but they were gone for two days, and were not contactable). The result was, an entire department were locked out, with rights to all their server shares disabled. The only people with admin rights, had the passwords with them, and were tied up at the "meeting". Manager asks if I could do anything about it, I said I could have the department working in 15 minutes, but need physical access to the server room (he had keys), and had to use a "less than officially-Novell-authorised" technique to reset the password.

He declined (understandably didn't want his arse chewed when they came back from their "meeting". The affected department went home, while doing their best at hiding their dissapoinment...

John Tserkezis

Re: The first hurdle....

"Maybe just write the word 'Degree' on your CV, on it's own on a visible part of it."

Scarily, it would probably work, very few that actually READ CVs to verify something like this.

I recall one repair job I was at, testing a landline modem at the time (yes, back in the day when they were still around), and the only number I could recall off the top of my head was my own BBS.

Supervisor looks over my shoulder, point to screen and says "what's that?"

"It's my BBS, I'm just testing this modem".

"Oh, you run a BBS?" Supervisor sounding surprised.

"Er, yes, it was in my CV, you would have known about it".

"Arg, there was a stack of CVs this high, we're not going to read all of them!" He explains.

"Ah yes, but *I* got the job"...

Earlier, upper manager said I got the job because of my technical skills, though, couldn't name one of them...

It was an odd place, great fun, but odd.

John Tserkezis

Re: A time machine helps, too.

"General stuff like this is considered "how to use a computer" so wont feature in any degree course."

That's the problem, perhaps it *should* feature in degree training.

A fair proportion of my job was doing exactly that, and sometimes automating it. You'll be surprised how often "general stuff like this" comes up. It's the grease that keeps the cogs (users, management, clients) quiet.

DEATH-PROOF your old XP netbook: 5 OSes to bring it back to life

John Tserkezis

Perhaps my choice in "the current crop of 12 year olds" wasn't complete.

I asked my two 12-13 year old neices (no idea why I didn't ask them first..) two things: If the choice was yours, would you pick a laptop or tablet, and on brands, Apple or anything else?

Both picked laptop over tablet, citing a laptop can do many more things than a tablet, which is quite limited.

On brands, One picked Apple, the other picked Samsung.

So there you go, either they're sensible, or there's something wrong with them. Or my survey techniques are slightly flawed...

Australian State to sue IBM over $AUD1bn project blowout

John Tserkezis

How about we just go ahead and say that *everyone* invovled, both sides of the government, the councils, the Health Department, Queensland the country and IBM are all equally incompetent.

It doesn't actually solve anything, but at least we feel better. Unless we're health department employees and still wondering when we're getting paid...

Consumer disks trump enterprise platters in cloudy reliability study

John Tserkezis

Re: Enterprise drives are NOT designed to be more reliable

"...potential failures can be identified before they become actual failures..."

Except you can't. Most failures occur without warning, compared to WITH some type of warning. The most reliable _statistical_ way of predicing failure, is knowing one drive out of particular batch has failed - statistically, the others in the batch will fail at about the same time. (perhaps not down to the minute, but over the service life of the drives, batch numbers are a reasonable indicator).

"...and better error handling/correction so they can get by longer in a degrading state to give you time to replace them..."

Enterprise drives are usually built more conservative in nature, which is where the reliability comes from. If it were a mere firmware change to improve error correction don't you think this would bleed down to domestic drives? After all, if you can offer a better MTBF than your competitor for the same price....

Hear that? It's the sound of BadBIOS wannabe chatting over air gaps

John Tserkezis

I don't see how it could work. And no, a PDF doesn't cut it, I want a real-life demo.

I've played with acoustic coupling of various types over the years, along with analogue data recordings, and all of them, bar none, were so flakey I would cheer with joy if it actually worked at all.

And these guys expect me to believe they have it working over 20 metres? Yeah right. I want a real-life demo.

Customs cops shutter 700+ domains in global anti-piracy blitz

John Tserkezis

"...why in the hell are counterfeit consumer goods even on your radar?"

Because they were paid off(*) by the fashion handbag cartels, who's $5000 per handbag gouging is threatened by the $100 knockoffs.

(*) Allegedly. I mean, fucking handbags can't be more important than terrorists, so being paid off is the only answer left...

Bring Your Own Disks: The Synology DS214 network storage box

John Tserkezis

Re: Regret buying one

"Congratulations, you just learned that RAID does not equal backup"

Nor power stability. Lose power at just the right (wrong) moment, and no amount of RAID is going to save you.

John Tserkezis

Re: I use...

"I've been running a DS411j for a few years and Synology issue regular updates to their software. They don't appear to be a company that has problems with long term memory when it comes to supporting their product."

Apparently you've never heard of QNAP. Lots of upgrades, lots of new features, none of the old bugs fixed.

John Tserkezis

Re: Drive sizes?

"To test this I set up a RAID 1 array with two WD Red 3TB disks"

Why the fail? It's probably the drives the reviewer had on had to test. Besides, you don't NEED 4Tb drives to test what's in the specification list anyway, nor to test for performace.

John Tserkezis

"Too much compared to buying an HP microserver, a couple of HDD and putting whatever OS you want on it."

Cost isn't the only or best consideration.

Pre-build NAS boxes are neat, small, relatively frugal on power consumption, *REALLY* easy to deal with trying to work out which drive failed out of your eight (did you number those drives? Oops), and best of all, even if you're so hung over you start looking for sharp things to poke in your eyes, you can still set it up and have it functional very quickly after unboxing.

John Tserkezis

Re: What have I missed?

"...IP Camera function..."

As far as I'm aware, the CCTV camera free software is good for one camera - more and you need to pay. You'll need to read up on it, as there is some discussion that as a camera suite option, there are better choices out there. Sure this one lives on existing hardware - but that's something you need to evaluate if it's critical to your needs.

"...WD Green edition..."

Not suitable at all for an always-on home/office environment. It auto-parks the heads periodically, which makes sense on a desktop, but in a NAS environment it'll kill the drive fairly quickly. The WD Red is a better option - it's basically a Green with modified firmware to not park the heads so it doesn't self destruct as quickly. Yes, you're paying a premium for an option that USED TO BE FREE, but they have to make their money somehow. The WD Enterprise series are even better suited, have a better MTBF, and faster, but the cost is probably not justifed for this lower end NAS.

"...DNS-320..."

This suggestion is cheaper, (I have one as well), and most certainly justified with cheap drives as it only gets used intermittantly so I can travel with bulk data. However, it only works with up to 3Tb drives, the DNS-320L can deal with 4Tb drives, and you're heavily limited on "applications" if that's important to you. The newer Synology DS214 in this article can also deal with 4Tb drives. Do your homework and see if your small NAS can deal with 4Tb drives, as it would not be worthwhile going for a "cheap" sellout early revision if you need to upgrade later.

That toolbar you downloaded is malware? Tough, read the EULA

John Tserkezis

Re: Meh… EULAs

"I doubt that. Instead of killing your first born, try "I owe Microsoft one million dollars for every second I use this product". Giving money is legal, but I don't think it would fly either."

No, you perhaps don't understand. The EULA isn't the place for pricing, nor the licence agreement. But if you said something along the lines of "you allow us to charge your credit card for in-app purchases", and bury the actual prices somewhere else in a two point font that's hard to read because of the background, that's legal.

Take for instance the CandyCrush (children's iPhone and Android game) scam that's being run now on TV. By law, they're required to state their fine print on screen. They do, with an intentional low resolution still image, where the text is so far obscured due to a small font that it's undreadable, in front of a background that makes it even less readable. So you go to their website where EVERYTHING works perfectly as you'd expect - except the "Terms And Conditions" link, which is obscured behind some odd java. Working past that and reading it reveals their host company is a gambling outfit. Yep, they're trying to start them young.

But too late, your six year old badgered you into buying into it - and you didn't read a damn thing.

In Australia, there is provision for getting out of contracts you (technically) agreed to, if you were "badgered" into it. This was primarily to allow for the rouge power retailers and long distance phone setups that became well-known for berating pensioners into buying their wares.

But that doesn't work if your six year old was the one in your ear....

John Tserkezis

Re: Meh… EULAs

"People seem to think that if something is in the EULA, it must be binding. - If you agreed in an EULA to kill your first-born, guess which response would be legal?"

Everything in a EULA is absolutely binding unless there is a constrasting local, state, federal, international or other law or legal allowance. Killing your first born, or, obtaining money by deception is covered. So they *could* in theory put it in there, but it's not legally enforeable.

However, stealing IOPS by deception is not covered by any other law, so they're allowed to do that. The EULA stands. It's slimey, but it stands.

Online shopping tax slug not worth the effort: National Australia Bank

John Tserkezis

"State and federal governments lovingly eyeing off a billion-dollar windfall..."

Even though they've been consistently saying it'll cost more to collect it than the gain is worth? Even though that was the reason they took it out in the first place? No, it is the three big retailers who have been whining about this all along (not mentioning any names, they know who they are).

I'm buying some gear right now that equates to about two-thirds of the local Australian price. And that's accounting for GST too. This has gone far beyond "saving the locals" when you get price differences of hundreds.

So here's to your thinking that you're going to make money by forcing GST (two fingers, and a rasperry sound).

Sick to death of Xmas? Try these explosive gift ideas

John Tserkezis

It's really sad they're not actually available

But what's REALLY, REALLY sad, is that I checked.

Foxtel announces broadband, Australia yawns

John Tserkezis

"Released late 2014, that's a while to wait :| NBN might actually make some progress by then... haha ahh."

Are you kidding? If it's planned for a late 2014 release, there is the time to market the product, increase your customerbase, and, with a bit of luck, actually make money on this long term venture.

It means the NBN isn't going to encroach on their business for at least the next decade. So, the Foxtel people have projected that the NBN isn't going to see widespread rollout till at least 2024.

Sounds about right then!

DON'T PANIC: No FM Death Date next month, minister confirms

John Tserkezis

Re: Radio Silence in Cars ?

"so in other words most buyers of digital radios don't know they have one"

I don't think so. The Radio function built into Digital TV sets here pick up no more than a handful of stations. All of them some flavour of either SBS or the ABC. Tuning them in is part of the TV tuning setup, it is in no way separate. I suspect they're a subset of the digital TV standard that just caters for just audio.

I have a real DAB+/FM radio reciever, and it has many, many more stations, 61 at last count in Sydney (metro area).

REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for iPHONES - even if you DON'T HAVE ONE

John Tserkezis

Wait: "Apple tax"?

Didn't microsoft have prior use of this? Or did Apple just not think to patent the idea yet?

Our irony meter exploded: Apple moans ebook price-fixing watchdog is too EXPENSIVE

John Tserkezis

Expensive, locked in, conservative services...

Apple knows all about that...

Reg man inhales the smooth, non-cancerous, taste of USB nicotine

John Tserkezis

Re: One other benefit...

"The tee-totaller would absorb as much alcohol through evaporation, as you would inhale unabsorbed nicotine from a vaper's e-cig"

This was a concern, and I looked it up and ran some estimations. There's that little nicotine left over, I couldn't realistically be worried about it.

My major concern was the particulate matter of regular tobacco. My sinuses react quite aversely to it, so much so, the smell of tobacco instinctively sets me off as a "precautionary" measure. If the vaporiser is using tobacco flavoured juice, I'm going to react. If it's indoors, you're going to get hurt.

To show this is purely a phsycological reaction, I've been near fruity vapors, and actively sought it out to sniff some more.

But since tobacco isn't going to go away any time soon, I don't see my stance changing. I didn't choose to have a screwed up body, deal with it.

Microsoft Surface slabs borked by heat-induced DIM SCREEN OF DEATH

John Tserkezis

"To be fair it's apparently a software fault."

From their specs:

"Operating temperature. Surface is designed to work between 32°F and 95°F (or 0°C to 35°C)."

That means, it's certified to work within that temperature range with no strings attached. If it's overheating when running flat stick - it's a hardware issue. Intentionally slowing it down to keep it within the temp spec is a piss weak technique - even if it is common practice. (Oh boy, the things I could tell you about some of the gear I've seen that fixed faults in firmware....)

Beastie Boys parody sueball tennis ends after toy firm yanks Girls

John Tserkezis

"while they were impressed with the production value of the commercial and even the positive message behind it, they still didn't want their music associated with something that was designed with the sole purpose of selling a product."

"Girls - to do the dishes. Girls - to clean up my room. Girls - to do the laundry."

I guess they'd rather have their music set the women's movement back 50 years?