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They're a successful consumer electronics company trailing a part of the business they hang on to for nostalgia.

Maybe the $5.1B in revenue (17.8% of total revenue) they got from their desktop/laptop lines in the most recent quarter has something to do with it too. Or the 14% YoY growth in units sold. Especially when the industry as a whole grew at just 2.6%.

Note that the $5.1B in revenue is just for Q3 desktop/laptop sales, which almost equal to the entire company's annual revenue 10 years ago.

The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.

before reaching a coclusion, read a better researched article, written by someone who really knows macs firts: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars (warning, 14 pages article)

lion can be burned to a DVD after download, also, in the near future, apple will ofer lion on thumb drives for $69.

the EULA also mentions virtualisation. the hypervisor probably needs to run on a mac OS host, but it is supported as guest, if the EULA is true.

Shhh! Don't go getting your "facts" all over the PC fanboiz Two Minutes Hate. ;)

The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.

before reaching a coclusion, read a better researched article, written by someone who really knows macs firts: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars (warning, 14 pages article)

lion can be burned to a DVD after download, also, in the near future, apple will ofer lion on thumb drives for $69.

the EULA also mentions virtualisation. the hypervisor probably needs to run on a mac OS host, but it is supported as guest, if the EULA is true.

Actually, it's less than that if you're just counting postage ($0.44/envelope/each way). Doesn't take into account labor and physical depot costs, but you're amortizing those over millions of mailings.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/03/the-cost-difference-in-mailing-netflx-vs-gamefly-all-of-gameflys-profits.ars

This was the story in 2007 when they first tried this: New Mozilla working group aims to simplify enterprise Firefox deployment

To me, it's inconsistent for them to be pushing auto-saving/backup/versioning but also have auto-locking.

You clearly haven't thought this through very well. The lock feature goes hand-in-hand with autosave - it keeps you from wasting hard drive space on revisions that are essentially just unimportant changes in scratch work that you never save.

Returning to the title bar pop-up menu, the "Revert to Last Saved Version" menu item returns the document to its last explicitly saved state (i.e., what it looked like the last time the user typed âOES or selected the "Save a Version" menu item). "Duplicate" will create a new document containing the same data as the current document. Finally, the "Lock" item will prevent any further changes to the document until it is explicitly unlocked by the user. Documents will also automatically be locked if they're not modified for a little while. The auto-lock time is configurable in the "Optionsâ¦" screen of the Time Machine preference pane (of all places), with values from one day to one year. The default is two weeks. [You can also turn auto-lock off.] [cite]

Apple's push towards full-screen apps seems like a small step backwards... Apple machines now have too many kinds of applications (widgets, normal applications, maximized applications, these new full-screen applications, plus older 'full-screen apps' like front-row).

You misunderstand. They permit putting an application into full-screen mode. There is not a "new [kind of] full-screen application[]" All this is is OS-level support for what you already do with Firefox. Implementing this in the API rather than having each app provide its own improves consistency. And having the option to full-screen, e.g., the Terminal makes the computer MORE open, flexible, and powerful, not less.

But on a desktop or laptop, I'd rather see the scroll-bars. It gives you something to mouse towards and grab. More importantly, it gives you constant feedback about where you are within a document, as well as information about the size of the document.

The default setting, "Automatically based on input type," will use overlay scroll bars as long as there's at least one touch-capable input device attached (though the trackpad on laptops doesn't count if any other external pointing devices are connected). If you don't like this kind of second-guessing, just choose one of the other options. The "When scrolling" option means always use overlay scroll bars, and the "Always" option means always show scroll bars [cite]

To me, it's inconsistent for them to be pushing auto-saving/backup/versioning but also have auto-locking.

You clearly haven't thought this through very well. The lock feature goes hand-in-hand with autosave - it keeps you from wasting hard drive space on revisions that are essentially just unimportant changes in scratch work that you never save.

Returning to the title bar pop-up menu, the "Revert to Last Saved Version" menu item returns the document to its last explicitly saved state (i.e., what it looked like the last time the user typed âOES or selected the "Save a Version" menu item). "Duplicate" will create a new document containing the same data as the current document. Finally, the "Lock" item will prevent any further changes to the document until it is explicitly unlocked by the user. Documents will also automatically be locked if they're not modified for a little while. The auto-lock time is configurable in the "Optionsâ¦" screen of the Time Machine preference pane (of all places), with values from one day to one year. The default is two weeks. [You can also turn auto-lock off.] [cite]

Apple's push towards full-screen apps seems like a small step backwards... Apple machines now have too many kinds of applications (widgets, normal applications, maximized applications, these new full-screen applications, plus older 'full-screen apps' like front-row).

You misunderstand. They permit putting an application into full-screen mode. There is not a "new [kind of] full-screen application[]" All this is is OS-level support for what you already do with Firefox. Implementing this in the API rather than having each app provide its own improves consistency. And having the option to full-screen, e.g., the Terminal makes the computer MORE open, flexible, and powerful, not less.

But on a desktop or laptop, I'd rather see the scroll-bars. It gives you something to mouse towards and grab. More importantly, it gives you constant feedback about where you are within a document, as well as information about the size of the document.

The default setting, "Automatically based on input type," will use overlay scroll bars as long as there's at least one touch-capable input device attached (though the trackpad on laptops doesn't count if any other external pointing devices are connected). If you don't like this kind of second-guessing, just choose one of the other options. The "When scrolling" option means always use overlay scroll bars, and the "Always" option means always show scroll bars [cite]

As pointed out in the Ars Technica review, the installer creates a small (1GB) new partition on your hard drive without destroying any existing data. It then uses this partition to bootstrap the remainder of the install process. (That's just the sort of approach I took with a Linux system years and years ago, though my reward was a whole weekend spent trying to fix a broken system and finally just erasing the HD).

Well is that the difference between Mac and Linux then: works vs. doesn't work?

For a thorough and interesting review see ARS: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars Even I as a non Mac user find the detail Ars always goes into with a new Mac release entertaining.

As pointed out in the Ars Technica review, the installer creates a small (1GB) new partition on your hard drive without destroying any existing data. It then uses this partition to bootstrap the remainder of the install process.
(That's just the sort of approach I took with a Linux system years and years ago, though my reward was a whole weekend spent trying to fix a broken system and finally just erasing the HD).

I would like some actual details

Here's an almost overwhelming amount of information. Siracusa is amazing.

From the Ars review, the license reads:

(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server ("Mac Computer") that you own or control;

The installer doesn't check, any system that you "own or control" you have a license for. A company system might be a grey are (you control it but they own it, and also control to some degree) but the installer doesn't check and no-one really cares.

From http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/02/6222.ars : "So who is this Michael Pascazi? He was once president of a firm called Fiber Optek, which in 1999 won a US$4 million contract to construct a fiber-optic infrastructure along from Hartford, Connecticut to Springfield, Massachusetts. Fiber Optek attempted to purchase the failed Global Crossing company in 2002 before going bankrupt itself, a victim of the dotcom implosion. Pascazi went on to study law. He also claims to be starting a biotechnology company, although details about this are scarce."

I wonder if he is a card carrying member of the church of scientology?

Two things: firstly, you neglect to provide any source or figures for your claim that it's not reduced piracy. I can understand why you wouldn't provide figures - they're difficult to come by and when you do find them the source is usually biased, but simply omitting them and stating your opinion as fact doesn't make it so. There are plenty of respected sources arguing that DRM actually drives people to piracy.

Secondly, you completely ignored the "at a reasonable price" part of the sentence you highlighted. The fact is, in almost all cases it's as cheap if not cheaper for me to buy a physical CD/DVD/ebook/game burned to a disk or printed on paper from a bricks and mortar store (where its occupying valuable floorspace and requires dedicated retail staff, not to mention the logistics of delivery and the wholesale supply chain all contributing to the cost) than it is to buy a collection of bits over the internet. That doesn't represent good value, not even close. The fact that people are still buying so much music online, even when it represents a poor choice compared to the alternative, shows that people want to spend money, and there are plenty of again respected sources arguing that a drop in digital prices would do more to combat piracy than DRM and ridiculous restrictions on freedom and the internet and bought and paid for laws.

The Nation's article on CIA black sites? I may have been in a bubble, but I don't recall many articles mentioning Somalia until The Nation ran their article about the US Torture camps in Somalia.

Now I see article, after article, about how there is a humanitarian crisis in that country is caused by people the US want to torture/murder and now an article about how climate change research is being hampered by evil people in the area. It all seems a little much.

I really want to stay away from tinfoil hat material but, when a story about torture camps run by the US gov seems to be ignored and then humanization problems seems to appear at the same time, I can't help but wonder if a counter information campaign, like what the hack on HBGary help to expose may be responsible.

Obviously there's no legal protection for the data on your phone - not that there shouldn't be, but your privacy rights only go one way in modern society, so don't hold your breath - but where are the technical measures? We've seen that police use forensics devices that attach the data port on the phone to give them immediate and complete access to the entire file system.

There's always a tradeoff between convenience and security, and it's time cell phones at least gave you the option to choose a bit more of the latter. How about not allowing read access via the USB port when the phone is locked? That's just basic common sense, but phone manufacturers and OS vendors don't take physical security seriously yet. How about cutting power to the phone when the back cover is removed? How about having a power-on password in addition to a lock-screen password, so the phone can't simply be put into recovery mode?

On a PC I can set a BIOS password, a hard drive password, and use full disk encryption of a sort that nobody will ever be able to break. If the machine is running but locked, suspended, or hibernating, even windows will ensure that there's no way to get at my data without actually having the proper credentials. There's no way to recover my passwords or encryption keys from memory, except for the rather technical, obscure, and time-sensitive technique of physically freezing the RAM and trying to read back its contents after a reboot. Compare this to joke that passes for file system encryption on the iphone.

In a lot of ways, smartphones store more valuable data than PCs do, and yet the options for protecting that data are virtually nonexistent.

They are working on it.

Apple's customer base is relatively fixed, and that means that when the cheap-end of the PC market falters, their "percentage" of the market grows without needing any sales growth.

I'm pretty sure all those college kids with their MacBooks weren't using macs 10 years ago. Those are all switchers. Most Apple users I know are switchers (as am I.)

In addition, Apple released a major refresh on their most popular models this quarter (something folks have been waiting on after years of Core 2), so they were able to satisfy a lot of pent-up demand.

While that's true what we're seeing isn't a one time peak. Mac sales have been steadily climbing year after year.

So, this is not some "amazing" milestone, nor is it an indicator of impressive growth for Apple in the PC market. Instead, Apple merely traded places with Acer, and pumped their share a little due to the largest lineup refresh in over a year.

I'd say they traded places with the likes of HP and Sony on the premium end of the market which Apple completely owns. PC makers have basically given up on the high end. Most high end laptops for example are trying to copy Apple, some more blatantly than others.

Phone companies are required by law to allow third party charges even if they are bogus.

Not according to this Ars article.

Cramming could be crammed. Phone companies are under no obligation to pass these charges along, and they can stop working with any third-party biller they wish; many of the payment processors have racked up mountains of complaints. Given that such charges are so often fraudulent, why don't the phone companies cut them off? Committee investigators suggest it's because the legitimate operators like AT&T and Verizon benefit from the scams.

That's the only interesting part though, the rest can be summed up as "Complete asshole behaves like complete asshole". There was nothing technical clever or new about what he did, although he went further than most such incidents I've heard of, but few slashdotters will be at all surprised that that kind of thing is possible. The only surprise is that it doesn't happen more often, more subtly ... or does it?

Reading the TFA from ars, the reason why he was caught was because he wasn't clever at all:

1) The only reason why he was caught is because his malicious actions were intertwined with his normal web traffic (his name in plain text and Comcast packets). He could have used a clean purpose-built computer for his torture, like a laptop, that wasn't configured for his own network at all, and hid it in a safe deposit box or something and they never would have figured out where it's coming from without a long and arduous task with a spectrum analyzer.

2) Ardolf did so much stuff on the target network that it raised suspicion. It's the same thing that happens to regular criminals: they get greedy and keep coming back for more. If he just went right for the terrorist threats and never ever connected again, his neighbors would never have had any reason to suspect external hacking. Even then, his prank emails to coworkers and social network profiles were so out there that they were obvious. There must have been many more subtle ways to do damage that aren't immediately obvious.

3) The neighbor works for a law firm and they were willing to spend the resources to check out his home network and find the unknown device as well as install a sniffer. I don't see a middle-manager working for a sub Fortune-500 company getting that same kind of help, they'd probably sooner call him a schizoid and fire him instead of dealing with that.

If he was a little smarter, I think he very well could have gotten away with it framing the innocent.

Heck, most of the extra resource requirements for Vista were due to the new DRM subsystem.

This is nonsense.

No one pokes more fun at Slashdot than Slashdot, as often its editors and readers behave as if they had fallen off the tomato truck yesterday. Tell them anything, anything at all, regardless of how improbable or insane it may be, and not only will they instantly accept it as Gospel, they'll burn up the Internet proselytizing their myths and fantasies.

Oh, the humanity: Windows 7's draconian DRM? [Posted as a comment by WaltC in 2009]

You're right - I was remembering something else:

"But PADDs were much more powerful than electronic note pads. "We realized that with the networking capabilities we had postulated for the ship, and given the [hypothetical] flexibility of the software, you should be able to fly the ship from the PADD," Okuda said."

Also, the Star Trek TNG Technical manual talks about the same thing.

Have you heard about Apples legal battle revolving around ipod and magsafe connectors?

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/apples-magsafe-lawsuit-tests-limits-of-first-sale-doctrine.ars

f you think OSX is unix, you never used unix.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives-unix-03-certification.ars

I think Mac OS X is Unix because the Open Group that certifies operating systems as "Unix" said so. Despite the protests of random slashdot poster #593017.

Apple never promised a 64 bit version of Carbon

You may find this article interesting. In particular,

During the beta of Mac OS X 10.5, the first version that offered a credible, fully featured 64-bit API, Apple included a 64-bit version of Carbon. Adobe used this 64-bit Carbon to develop 64-bit Photoshop for Mac OS X.

Then a little further...

and though the company had told developers it was going to be one of the features of version 10.5, and though it worked well, the final release of Mac OS X 10.5 didn't include 64-bit Carbon.

Right, just a couple kids: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/07/anonymous-vows-revenge-after-15-arrested-in-italy-antisec-hacks-continue.ars

Nothing, really.

...iPad2 users can finally visit the NYT website without purchasing a broken $20 a month app?

Apple: Site blocked? Don't worry, we have a broken app for that.

I recently read an article on Ars about this and the thought there is that Google will not be doing deduplication in order to avoid lawsuits. Link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/are-google-music-and-amazon-cloud-player-illegal.ars

No, they would not. The examples of substitute infrastructure getting built (in the absence of laws prohibiting it or increasing barrier for its entry) are plentiful.

Show me your examples of redundant competitive water infrastructure, line power, or "plentiful" competitive, redundant line comms.

The idea of "tacit collusion" is absurd.

Why do you find it so? Overt collusion occurs when it can, and would occur pretty aggressively without government intervention. Is it "inefficient" to prohibit monopolies, price fixing, and anti-competitive behaviors, such as business behaviors expressly targeted at putting competitors completely out of business?

Strong players in narrow and unthriving market are quite happy to manipulate that market into an "efficiency" which benefits themselves pretty heavily, at the expense of everyone else. To wit: they aren't very "efficient" if you put the dotted line around the entire market. These parties don't care about the market, though, just themselves. The Invisible Hand is an amazing thing, but let's not commit ideological idolatry, okay?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/technology/13panel.html
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/chipmaker-cartel-fined-331-million-for-dram-price-fixing.ars

Anything which interferes with it (the free free market) introduces inefficiencies.

A free market is not always able to produce an economically effective result. What do you think of the concept of a "market failure"?

You do know that FIOS competes with cable, do you not?

Yes. Well, sorta. FiOS doesn't go everywhere, but be that as it may:

A duopoly (cable vs. AT&T) is hardly a thriving market. You need more than a few players in a market for it to thrive. Two is most assuredly not enough.

You wanna explain how cell phone service keep dropping in price and increasing in quality even though there is only 4 national providers?

Are you confident such a thing would keep happening if there were only 1 national provider? And why are price drops your only measurement of how well the market is doing? Do you think cell service is fungible, like pork, your throughput, quality, or services not to matter?

In any case, it would appear that you regard a market with a vertical monopolist operating in one silo and a very narrow market of nearby substitutes as a "free" one (e.g., municipal water vs bottled water). I do not agree. Conditions need to be changed such that this is not so. My observation is rather generic in nature, as in to say "what we have now sucks, and it shouldn't be merely left there." Additional regulation would be a silly answer; however pretending that privatization will fix everything flies in the face of observed facts. To wit: there are municipalities that have tried privatizing municipal water. As it turns out, the "inefficiency" of government-operating things isn't as bad as the inefficiency of corporately-managed things plus the need to extract private equity return on investment.

It's almost like giving up on your childhood by rejecting its beliefs.

When you assess your own self, how is it that you can be sure that your own mind is that of an adult? Have you ever really evaluated your inner self and asked, or have you never considered the matter?

For example, given the character of your the last paragraph in your message to me, do you find my response here surprising? Is it one you wished me to make? Would have you predicted I would? Was it a desired outcome, or did you lack the foresight to know one was forthcoming? Do you feel wounded by my questions, or introspective, or otherwise? If you feel my response is pointless, why did you bother to generate it? When you wrote an "abrasive" response, did you desire one in return? If not, what would an adult mind have reasonably expected?

C//

How is that a boon to people without fast internet? I've never seen Apple in an area lacking fast internet. Clearly there are going to still be people without it in some of those areas, but are you suggesting that they pick up their iMac and drag it down to the Apple store to install a service pack? Screw slow connections. Let's talk bandwidth capped connections.

Also, they will almost certainly have it cached as the next Time Capsule will include support for cached downloads.

Apple is making a huge mistake if they do not allow people to burn the download to a disc. What happens if my computer fails on the road? Time to install Snow Leopard and then download Lion? Brilliant, Apple. Just brilliant. There goes hours of productivity.

Apple: the new Microsoft. So satisfied with itself that it thinks it can do no wrong, so it is about to get easily trounced by Windows 8: the new Mac OS X.

In my house right now, I have one MacBook Pro, one iMac, and one MacBook. I am typing this on one of the three PCs (one does not really count as it's hooked up to the TV), but does Apple seriously expect me to tote the Macs into my local Apple Store, or download Lion three times? And do they seriously expect that installing should be from a base of Snow Leopard (almost completely asserting that the install is in fact a Service Pack) without exception?

If the answer to either of those is true, then guess how many new Mac's are in my future? If it was zero, then you were right.

You mean like this? Or maybe even like this?

Is this this one?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars

Sounds... awesome?

What a load of crap. You can in fact "prove a negative" just like you can "prove a positive" . For example, you can prove the moon is NOT made of cheese by simply visiting it which we have done. And we do, in fact, have more than conjecture and computer models. We have enormous volumes of data on air and water temperatures, weather patterns, damage costs, solar minimums and maximums, etc.

I know I'm wasting my time here because no amount of factual discussion is going to change your opinion:
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2008/09/does-ideology-trump-facts-studies-say-it-often-does.ars

Interestingly ars technica agrees with you, but clearly states that that is also GPU's weakest link on llano.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/another-look-at-amds-llano.ars

Ars Technica did a write up of this also http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/inside-google-how-the-search-giant-plans-to-go-social.ars/ I read this in their article:

"Right now, Google won't even suggest who should be in your circles. But it has the technology to do so (it's already making suggestions on who you might include on Gmail mailing lists). So in the future it's conceivable that Google might indeed provide plenty of nonbinding suggestions for who you might want it your Circles. "We've got this whole system already in place that hasn't been used that much where we keep track of every time you email someone or chat to them or things like that," says Smarr. "Then we compute affinity scores. So we're able to do suggestions not only about who you should add to a circle, or even what circles you could create out of whole cloth.""

A little concerned over the "things like that"

Google is already facing an inquiry from the FTC. All you need to do is pay attention to the news: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/ftc-launching-antitrust-probe-over-google-search-ad-businesses.ars This sort of thing is not going to look very good to the FTC.

How so? If you send an email with the 'high importance' flag it ends up in your priority inbox the same way as emails from google.

Google is already facing an inquiry from the FTC. All you need to do is pay attention to the news:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/ftc-launching-antitrust-probe-over-google-search-ad-businesses.ars

This sort of thing is not going to look very good to the FTC.

Just for the record OS X Lion server is going to be an App Store download to regular Lion. It looks like you can upgrade Lion to Lion server but you'll be charged for the extra pieces.

You make a good overall point though - the previous product was EOL'd too quickly and the target market was poorly communicated. I remember people were complaining about changes to iMovie at one stage and more recently missing features from a new version of iPhoto but those weren't pro products. You've got to get products to market and aren't software developers always being told the way to do this is by cutting features if you aren't going to make the schedule?

Ars Technica ran this article over a week ago.

The main concern is Trident's performance compared to V8 or TraceMonkey.

I can't help thinking that sponsoring a node.js port to Windows is part of the solution. It's V8 and has threading, if they can hook it into IE for the rendering it might make for a decent platform.

Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET, which Microsoft has been championing for the past decade. Instead, it would use HTML5 and JavaScript.

But he doesn't believe the alarmist hype:

Windows developers want to be able to build immersive applications, and they don't want to have to use HTML5 and JavaScript to do it.

They won't have to. Want to write an immersive application in native C++? That's cool. Want to use C# and Silverlight? That's cool too. Both will be supported. Far from being left behind on the legacy desktop—which was the impression that many took from the presentation—native C++ and managed C# will both be first-class, supported ways of developing immersive, touch-first, tablet-friendly Windows 8-style applications.

(Feel free to write another, better summary. The one given is just completely inadequate for such a long article.)

This article is about spotting trolls. I spotted one. That's on-topic. And also on-topic, with regards to trolls not having many friends - although he likes to claim he has friends - in fact the people who claim to have known him in real life claim he's just as obsessive and unpleasant in real life as he is online (e.g. by stalking gmhowell, tomhudson, damn_registrars, countertrolling, and I'm not sure how many more - talk about off-topic).

(For the uninitiated - APK - The "Ultimate" Collection - it's pretty obvious why he's so hated by pretty much everyone who's had any sort of encounter with him. It's also a hilarious read, if you're not too busy.)

Oh - and as to your "simple question". I answered it. You asked what my problem was. I don't have a problem; I merely wanted to state a relevant fact.

Recall Canada and its big p2p shaping main isp's?
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/03/canadian-isps-furious-about-bell-canadas-traffic-throttling.ars
"... traffic-shaping hardware even on the lines it resells."
Does your Australian isp work on a shared best effort network or have some real dedicated optical 'deal'?
With suburbia filled with RIMs (digital loop carrier ), closed exchanges what one ' cheaper ' isp resells in your area might be sitting on a big clean telco network.
Do Australians admins and networking people have the cash, smarts and equipment to unclean and reclean packets at a local level?
As for opt in/out, how long before its connected to a "National Criminal History Record Checking" system?
ie you can choice the net you want and the gov can note that freedom choice.

A better article with photos of some of the logos is on Ars Technica at http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/02/ask-ars-what-do-the-symbols-on-the-back-of-iphones-mean.ars

All your music is pirated. The copyright holders did not give you permission to rip it from CD, or store it online.

In the UK copyright law does not even allow recording TV shows to watch later, it is merely tolerated. You might be able to argue fair use in the US, except that now you don't buy music or CDs, you buy a license to listen which does not include uses such as this.

you are absolutely right. this is from a few years ago. but the RIAA website still claims the same information http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/10/sony-bmgs-chief-anti-piracy-lawyer-copying-music-you-own-is-stealing.ars ""When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said. "

APK detected. If you Googled the name "Alexander Peter Kowalski" you would find these:

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

A nice bit using APK as an example of how to handle yourself when dealing with people "like these." APK is the poster child for this behavior.

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128

More of the same from other people... complaints mostly and somewhere in there, his home address. Probably moved by now since many complaints about this nuisance date back before the year 2000... quite a career.

http://www.acronymgeek.com/APK/Alexander_Peter_Kowalski/276459

Here he is so infamous that he is registered with an acronym.

I'll skip the crappy registry cleaner utilities. There are hundreds of those all equally useless. And really... engine? Is that what a utility gets called? An engine?

http://twitter.com/#!/klastalov/statuses/2001247938

Here's a link from an APK fan... worth reading

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40

This is beyond awesome.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-33596.html

Yet more indicating his stellar reputation as a contributing member of society who gets along well with everyone.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1010242&start=40

Another sample... these are dated 2001. I mean really. If a person goes a whole 10 years like this and everyone seems to respond to him in the same way, what sane person can believe that he's not the problem and that the rest of the world just wants to attack him for no good reason. This is just a person who will never look at himself as the source of his own problems.

"erroneus" spelled in this way is a kind of loop. Also, it was taken from an error message reported by old IRC server software after a user attempted to change his nick to something that is not allowed -- "erroneus nick change." Oh yeah, I go way back.

What I find amazing is that he replied to my same comment numerous times and then replied to his own replies numerous times. His replies are hilariously like elementary school tactics rather like calling someone "chicken" or in his case "...ran away!" As people go, APK is quite a piece of work and completely genuine I'm convinced. He's literally stuck in a kind of loop somehow. Tracking just what he does on Slashdot alone is quite impressive. He has to track individual targets all over the place checking and rechecking comments and threads to keep his fire burning. And it's not just here. It's other places too. This is probably the most angry and obsessive person I have ever witnessed. I am completely convinced that he's over-the-top mentally ill.

APK detected. If you Googled the name "Alexander Peter Kowalski" you would find these:

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

A nice bit using APK as an example of how to handle yourself when dealing with people "like these." APK is the poster child for this behavior.

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128

More of the same from other people... complaints mostly and somewhere in there, his home address. Probably moved by now since many complaints about this nuisance date back before the year 2000... quite a career.

http://www.acronymgeek.com/APK/Alexander_Peter_Kowalski/276459

Here he is so infamous that he is registered with an acronym.

I'll skip the crappy registry cleaner utilities. There are hundreds of those all equally useless. And really... engine? Is that what a utility gets called? An engine?

http://twitter.com/#!/klastalov/statuses/2001247938

Here's a link from an APK fan... worth reading

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40

This is beyond awesome.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-33596.html

Yet more indicating his stellar reputation as a contributing member of society who gets along well with everyone.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1010242&start=40

Another sample... these are dated 2001. I mean really. If a person goes a whole 10 years like this and everyone seems to respond to him in the same way, what sane person can believe that he's not the problem and that the rest of the world just wants to attack him for no good reason. This is just a person who will never look at himself as the source of his own problems.

"erroneus" spelled in this way is a kind of loop. Also, it was taken from an error message reported by old IRC server software after a user attempted to change his nick to something that is not allowed -- "erroneus nick change." Oh yeah, I go way back.

What I find amazing is that he replied to my same comment numerous times and then replied to his own replies numerous times. His replies are hilariously like elementary school tactics rather like calling someone "chicken" or in his case "...ran away!" As people go, APK is quite a piece of work and completely genuine I'm convinced. He's literally stuck in a kind of loop somehow. Tracking just what he does on Slashdot alone is quite impressive. He has to track individual targets all over the place checking and rechecking comments and threads to keep his fire burning. And it's not just here. It's other places too. This is probably the most angry and obsessive person I have ever witnessed. I am completely convinced that he's over-the-top mentally ill.

Sorry, left out my links:

http://stopthecap.com/2011/04/04/fcc-commissioner-mignon-clyburn-calls-north-carolinas-h-129-a-broadband-barrier/

http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/9345628/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/op-ed-north-carolina-broadband-bill-would-eliminate-level-playing-field.ars

The bill as passed