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This product is not "merely" a phone, and the success of conventional unlocking techniques can't be relied upon indefinitely. Just look at the multitude of copy-protection (i.e. anti-interoperability) techniques that various industries are legally allowed to implement (even legitimized by laws like DMCA) and you will get some whiff of the disgusting things that Apple could put into a software update.

Sure, workarounds for these things will happen, but it won't exactly be easy, and it'll keep the users who take advantage of them at a disadvantage for purposes of (legitimate) software maintenance.

There's considerable precedent for the law allowing phone owners to use their phones however they wish, so I don't think that is worth worrying about.

If you want to worry about phones, the real issue is that you don't know what they're doing. I think that phones are going to become THE poster-child for the risks of proprietary software, in a way that makes concerns about desktop operating systems, printer drivers, etc, seem trivial and superficial. The need for open and trustworthy phones is extreme, even if Joe Schmoe doesn't get it yet -- and the government is helping us quite a bit these days, in revealing that urgency.

Collecting bonus money from activations isn't really in Apple's business model. So why should they even bother with trying to hault cracking of the iPhone? The product has already been sold. Apple made their official dollar off of it. Their interests should really die there. It's not like crackers are replacing the Apple components of the software; just defeating the AT&T parts.

Here's an article that better explains my point of view because I'm an ineloquent rambling idiot.

According to the link Seagate is ready to cover their bases. I remember reading a Forbes article several months back with the CEO of Seagate talking about jumping in the flash game.

I agree that the iPhone Google Map app is great (both for directions and as a better 411)... but even with the driving directions, without you have to put in your starting location.

If you're in a strange city and get a hankering for calamari, you can't just type in "seafood" and expect to get a list of restaurants without telling the phone (at least roughly) where you are (and if you don't live there, you might have trouble narrowing that down).

You don't even need full-fledged GPS either - just getting a rough location from the towers would go a long way.

If Boost can do it, I've got to think that Apple could too (and I have no doubt that they eventually will).

I know of people, myself included, who have been after Apple for years to support OpenDocument. (Yeah, it's been that long already.) As far as I can tell, the way their bugreporter is set up it's not possible to view other people's bugs. That means that all requests for supporting open standards get blown of as "duplicate" without being able to see the original or its status.

It'd be really interesting to know the real reasons Apple's still failing to support formats like OpenDocument and Ogg. Ogg entered the double digit marketshare two years back. OpenDocument is recommended by governments around the world for a few years as well. It can't be that M$ is threatening withholding its applications from the platform, because there aren't any left to speak of. Productivity software was the last piece, but faster, better, cheaper, more stable, more interoperable software can be had from everyone else -- again since a few years back. So, what's the hold up at Apple about open formats?

So how many bad pixels do I need before they'll exchange this thing? http://news.com.com/2102-1041_3-5579493.html?tag=s t.util.print

For example, if voter A arrives at 5:15 and voter B arrives at 5:17, but voter B knows all about voting and blows through the ballot in 1 minute while voter A has never voted before and takes 4

The timestamps are on the machines themselves and include an ending time stamp. If voter A gets there at 5.15 the machine will indicate they started voted then and, indeed, that voter A took a full 4 minutes to vote whereas voter B only took a minute voting from 5.17 to 5.18.

The graph in the article explains this well.

Googles Ad supported Video phone After reading about Google : 1) Controlling large amounts of the worlds dark-fiber. http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1 034_3-5537392.html 2) Google said that it's willing to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming wireless spectrum 700MHz band auction and pay the minimum reserve of $4.6 billion. http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747716-7.html http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_battle_for_wire less_spectrum 3) Google hires Andy Rubin, founder of Danger and the " Sidekick" http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_produc ts/for_google_phone_rumors_press_1_for_more_google _phone_rumors_press_2.html 4) Google & Sprint collaborate on WiMax mobile Internet services. http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=17560 This all came together in a epiphany I had this weekend. I predict that Google will soon launch a Free Ad supported Video phone some time next year.

Googles Ad supported Video phone After reading about Google : 1) Controlling large amounts of the worlds dark-fiber. http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1 034_3-5537392.html 2) Google said that it's willing to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming wireless spectrum 700MHz band auction and pay the minimum reserve of $4.6 billion. http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747716-7.html http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_battle_for_wire less_spectrum 3) Google hires Andy Rubin, founder of Danger and the " Sidekick" http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_produc ts/for_google_phone_rumors_press_1_for_more_google _phone_rumors_press_2.html 4) Google & Sprint collaborate on WiMax mobile Internet services. http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=17560 This all came together in a epiphany I had this weekend. I predict that Google will soon launch a Free Ad supported Video phone some time next year.

"I can't wait to sit through a dozen commercials while I try to waste some free time."

Well, it's a good thing you don't have to, because the ads are overlaid at the very bottom of the video. There's no "waiting". E.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcGUKtzBCbA Similar to when a television station advertises another program while you're watching one. Not to mention, you can close them (wish I could do that with the television advertisements).

Of course, you would know this if you read the article. Or did a little research with other news sites (CNET has a good overview here: http://news.com.com/YouTube+tests+10-second+ad+for mat/2100-1024_3-6203802.html?tag=nefd.lede). But I guess it's just easier to toss the article up there and throw in a stupid comment. All about the page views, right?

Take a look at the diagram that was made here.

The closing time stamps allow you to figure out when voters take unequal lengths of time. In the example of that diagram, the first voter of the day takes so long that the voter who voted after them was voter #6. But the time stamps allow you to decode that.

You'd be right if there was only an opening time stamp.

They have enough of a monopoly to dictate much of how things are produced. Musicians know that if they want to be successful, they have to be sold at Wal-Mart, which severely influences the music market, believe it or not. If Wal-Mart says "jump", anyone wishing to have their stuff sold at Wal-Mart will do so, because not doing so can be very costly.

I always enjoy interviews with Jon Von Tetzchner - he comes across as a very forthright, positive, motivated CEO - and he's pretty good natured to boot. Contrast that with recent interviews with Linus, who's opinion on certain matters everyone respects but comes across a bit too sassy to make an enjoyable read, or major company CEOs, who sound more like company brochures than people.

I used to use Firefox over Opera because I could install Firefox with one command under Linux. Now that Opera is available in the same way, I find that I still choose Firefox, mostly because it's what I'm used to. I feel like Opera is just a tad too late to the party to really take off in a big way - had they made their product as easy to get and as visible as Firefox way back when (what with a website that auto-detects the correct package and provides a big easy-to-click button, prepackaged binaries for Linux, advertising, etc.) the bite marks in IE could be twice as big as they are now. Of course this doesn't mean that Opera has no chance - the world is plenty big enough for three or four major browsers - and they're certainly making a dent in the off-PC market.

Good luck to them, and the next time Firefox fails to download quite as promptly as I like maybe I'll give Opera another go! In the meantime, just keep getting interviews like this one out there and visible and Opera will keep growing.

Back in the day, with the Scalectrix that I had, I had a couple of circular "mechanical computers" that looked alarmingly like that navigational aid from TFA. They were speed calculators, from what I remember, but they were simply a circular slide rule, of sorts.

Basic, but functional. Even if the power went off you could work out how fast the cars might go ;)

Post links to second page; first page at http://news.com.com/A+trip+down+computer+memory+la ne/2100-1042_3-6203311.html and almost-ad-free print version at http://news.com.com/2102-1042_3-6203311.html?tag=s t.util.print

Go on. Read the article. You know you want to. You'll find out why the museum has to be packed up every winter, and learn that Apple had a portable music player as far back as 1979. And more!

Post links to second page; first page at http://news.com.com/A+trip+down+computer+memory+la ne/2100-1042_3-6203311.html and almost-ad-free print version at http://news.com.com/2102-1042_3-6203311.html?tag=s t.util.print

Go on. Read the article. You know you want to. You'll find out why the museum has to be packed up every winter, and learn that Apple had a portable music player as far back as 1979. And more!

Don't know if yours is one. North Dakota does well for sunshine, an average of 5 peak equivilent hours per day

You do know that there are locations with effectively double this, right? Also, our sunlight generally isn't as intense as down south. We're also oddballs in that we hardly ever need to cool our homes, but the heating demands are intense. So we need the most energy when sunlight is the least available.

Right now those members of my family that are living in Florida could make much better use of any solar panels than I could. Heck, I'd recommend solar water heating, if nothing else. Much cheaper and more efficient.

Wind is actually the cheapest right now even compared to hydro.

With or without the subsidies?

Solar wins in terms of competing with delivered electricity despite installation costs. This is why the commercial sector is adopting it so rapidly. In terms of new construction in California: http://news.com.com/Solar+industry+targets+new+hom es/2100-11392_3-6187964.html.

California also offers some of the heaviest subsidies coupled with some of the highest general electricity costs in the nation. ND doesn't have that much in the way of subsidies, combined with some of the cheapest electricity in the nation.

There are two utilites in North Dakota where you could save money with solar. Don't know if yours is one. North Dakota does well for sunshine, an average of 5 peak equivilent hours per day. At least for Calvert Cliffs, the estimated cost for the new reactor is $2.50/Watt. Perhapshttp://www.tva.gov/news/releases/julysep07/ wbu2.htm you have been looking at delayed plant completion costs. On the other hand, solar and wind come in at about $1.30/Watt plus transmission for wind and inverters for solar. Nuclear also needs transmission plus fuel plus regulation costs (currently discounted). Wind is actually the cheapest right now even compared to hydro. Solar wins in terms of competing with delivered electricity despite installation costs. This is why the commercial sector is adopting it so rapidly. In terms of new construction in California: http://news.com.com/Solar+industry+targets+new+hom es/2100-11392_3-6187964.html.

Especially where air conditioning is used, utlilities get a big benefit from net metering. This is when thier whole sale costs are above their retail rates. So, their net metering customers are providing electricity at a discount and reducing costs for everyone. The cost of wind and solar is falling while the cost of everything else is rising, even hydro since its resource is coming in for more demand as water alone. The current situation on the Tennessee River is an example. It may still be a while before your utility catches on, but I expect you'll be seeing quite a lot of solar when it does.
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Improve you power: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Seems like a lot of speculation to me. As for the small fraction of the internet being firefox users, I can vouch for the fact that everyone I know that use firfox do a considerable amount of shopping online, as for the IE people...most of them stick to Ebay. But that is just my personal groups.

However on a different note seen here (old article 2004 sorry) http://news.com.com/Firefox+users+ignore+online+ad s,+report+says/2100-1024_3-5479800.html

Yes Firefox users click on ads less...it isnt because they use firefox or ad blocker, it is because in my experience firefox users arent click happy, how many of you out there have spent hours removing viruses and spyware and malware because of a click happy IE user.

Many many many projects out there make plenty of cash without advertisements what is the big deal with this site?

I am fine with the site blocking firefox, they simply wont get my business or the business of any of the corporations purchase for, this amounts to a couple hundred grand a year, but what do I know, I am only one lowly firefox user.

Did you not read this at all?

They say that they're going to track your every move, and your response is, "Well, at least I don't live in that other place where they track my every move..."?

Maybe in England they're saying, at least I don't have to check the undercarriage of my car for GPS devices planted by the police without a warrant. (Of course, that's old news, so we've probably all forgotten about it by now.)

Besides, even if things are much worse in England (they're not), is that supposed to be some kind of justification for the gross invasion of privacy taking place? If our government starts deciding to randomly kill a bunch of its citizens just to demonstrate its power, would that be okay because there are other governments out there that randomly kill more of its citizens? Would you still say, "At least I don't live in that other country..." instead of actually feeling a bit of outrage?

No wonder this country is going to hell. With rationalization like that, our government will be able to get away with pretty anything it wants to.

Office and Windows are what is keeping Microsoft alive, and they know it.

Read, and read.

I'm not going to rag on the writer of TFA since he makes it clear he's presenting things from the perspective of a developer, but from the business side, no way. Ever.

We'll see if this gets further than Woz' last hobby.

http://news.com.com/Wozniak+shuts+down+Wheels+of+Z eus/2100-1047_3-6050677.html

They were in a canister, but worms managed to survive the space shuttle Columbia explosion & subsequent crash to earth at high speeds:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/01/04/03342 19.shtml
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6016657-7.html

OK, so you believe that by posting as anonymous, that there is no way it could be tracked back to me? And you believe this in context to a story on a people tracking system?
Dude, spend less time jerking off, your brain needs more exercise.
Every ISP tracks and maintain logs of IPs, and dial in times for dial up customers. Many countries are introducing or have passed laws making it a legal requirement. Many (most?) ISPs are already doing it out of courtesy to law enforcement (wouldn't want to piss off the cia or interpol now would you?).
Some quick unfiltered results from a google search for those who are challenged in using a tool like google;
http://www.sage.org/lists/sage-members-archive/200 2/msg01352.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156948.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3871
http://safari.oreilly.com/0130454966
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5748649.html

A quote from the last article;
A 1996 federal law called the Electronic Communication Transactional Records Act regulates data preservation. It requires Internet providers to retain any "record" in their possession for 90 days "upon the request of a governmental entity."
So brave man go ahead, post any classified secrets you know of as AC on slashdot and see if anybody is listening - that is IF you know of anything classified, somehow I doubt that you do.

we're looking at the many-pages bills (a non-issue that I'm sure at&t will fix very soon, given the waste of paper etc.), while others are looking at whether they want to send in their iPhone for a long repair, or just wing it with a slowly dying touchscreen; http://news.google.com/news?q=iphone+screen

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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008165081
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41629
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf50 0/200708100542DOWJONESDJONLINE000374_FORTUNE5.htm
http://news.com.com/8301-13579_3-9757844-37.html
)

Summary: Apple purchased the touchscreen tech from a Finnish company that had plans for a similar type of device but was in serious financial trouble. At the time of purchase, the Finnish company made it clear that one of the issues was that the heat-activated chemical yadda used would deteriorate, rendering any area where it has done so completely unusable. The problems described / etc. so far appear to be this particular issue, meaning that Apple possibly hasn't completely solved this issue since the purchase. If this is the case, then many more cases are likely to follow. As the iPhone has no buttons, it effectively becomes a brick, meaning that 'winging it' has to be done with broken wings. At least Apple 'fixes' them as fast as they get them.. but if the replacement simply gives you the same problems, well...

No, they actually really, really knew there was no such code, period.

http://news.com.com/SCO+e-mail+No+smoking+gun+in+L inux+code/2100-7344_3-5789132.html

"The e-mail, which was sent to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride by a senior vice president at the company, forwards on an e-mail from a SCO engineer. In the Aug. 13, 2002, e-mail, engineer Michael Davidson said "At the end, we had found absolutely nothing ie (sic) no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.""

SCO has been extensively funded for the last few years by Microsoft-brokered "business partnerships". There are lots of articles on it, such as http://news.com.com/Fact+and+fiction+in+the+Micros oft-SCO+relationship/2100-7344_3-5450515.html. It's a good way for Microsoft to fund SCO and cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt on Linux software licensing while maintaining plausible deniability. Microsoft offers the other partners involved handsome licensiing terms or lucrative software fees to get them to deal with SCO.

If you've never been to one of those corporate software sales deal or partnership meetings, I highly recommend going, and taking really good notes on how much is done by reading between the lines andn by subtle "encouragement". It's fascinating to watch, and it explains a lot of corporate software purchases of mediocre or even bad software that serves some "business plan" that may not even come from your own company.

Microsoft cannot be safely seen to fund SCO directly, for lots of reasons. The nasty reaction of employees like yourself realizing just how evil their employer can be, as a matter of blatant fact, would be very expensive and would probably cause people like yourself to leave and be replaced by less skilled, untrained employees. And you can lose your best people this way, such as when Jeremy Allison resigned from Novell in the wake of the Novell/Microsoft patent deal.

You're working for a company that's been caught at far, far worse skullduggeries. This one is nasty, but minor by comparison.

Paying the license fees could indicate that Microsoft simply believes SCO's Unix ownership claims have merit. But doesn't arranging the BayStar investment reveal Microsoft's ulterior motive? After all, why would you want to help prop up a company that is demanding millions in royalty fees from you?
That may not be far off the mark, according to a key BayStar executive.

"Microsoft obviously has an interest in this, and their interest is obviously in keeping their operating system on top," says Larry Goldfarb, managing partner of BayStar.

Without naming names, Goldfarb explained that BayStar received a call from a "senior" Microsoft employee, but not Chairman Bill Gates or Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. "When they started telling me what it was, I wasn't shocked (that) this was something they'd like to see prevail."

(yes, there's Linux, there's MacOS, but what company would switch?)

Ernie Ball
Wotif.com
Burlington Coat Factory
Peugeot

Just to name a few.

And of course IBM and Novell, but they don't count, as they are strong GNU/Linux players.

Of course, Siemens was a bit off in their prediction of 20% market share by 2008. But I'd say there's the chance we might make 20% some day.

Very quickly.

You must be new here, so I'll try and enlighten you.

You see, Microsoft is a lot like the smelly kid in 3rd grade that
used to drop a load in his shorts and not say anything while
everyone wandered around trying to figure out what died, where.

After a few of these episodes, whenever there was a strange smell,
it would come to pass that the smelly kid dropped another load.

Now, to make matters worse for the smelly kid, imagine him running
around telling everyone that he has solved the problem*. People are
relieved for a while until, guess what? The smelly kid drops another
load. How can this happen, isn't this supposed to be fixed?

This insane cycle of disappointment/re-assurance causes people to
get cynical very quickly and as a result, causes people to start complaining
very quickly.

[*] - http://news.com.com/Allchin+Buy+Vista+for+the+secu rity/2100-1012_3-6032344.html

You might do some reading about U.S. Copyright Law "First Sale Doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine. For software, there are conflicting court cases, so legally it's not quite as cut and dry as either of us are trying to act like it is. As for MP3 files and the like, nobody really knows the answer, because it isn't something that has gone to court yet. This article discusses the legality a bit: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071108.html

This was the big news from Philips/LG last year. Did they score another patent on this or is it the same one?

Thus spake Chairman Bill:

• "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." — 1998
• "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," — 2007

So if Chairman Bill has called his poodle in the East to heel and to have his people pirate MS products -- oops, I mean -- pirate MS products, many of those will be outdated versions with junk like IIS on by default or modified variants of new versions with junk like IIS on by default.

So what will happen is that basic users will figure out how to turn of unwanted services like IIS. Advanced users wanting a web server will quickly discard IIS in favor of one of the more flexible, secure and easy to mantain ones.

Thus spake Chairman Bill:

• "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." — 1998
• "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," — 2007

So if Chairman Bill has called his poodle in the East to heel and to have his people pirate MS products -- oops, I mean -- pirate MS products, many of those will be outdated versions with junk like IIS on by default or modified variants of new versions with junk like IIS on by default.

So what will happen is that basic users will figure out how to turn of unwanted services like IIS. Advanced users wanting a web server will quickly discard IIS in favor of one of the more flexible, secure and easy to mantain ones.

Thus spake Chairman Bill:

• "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." — 1998
• "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," — 2007

So if Chairman Bill has called his poodle in the East to heel and to have his people pirate MS products -- oops, I mean -- pirate MS products, many of those will be outdated versions with junk like IIS on by default or modified variants of new versions with junk like IIS on by default.

So what will happen is that basic users will figure out how to turn of unwanted services like IIS. Advanced users wanting a web server will quickly discard IIS in favor of one of the more flexible, secure and easy to mantain ones.

Mystery solved: 'Fake Steve' blogger comes clean See CNET's reprint of the NYT article there.

The 6 laws of persusuasion (negotiation or not, consider it office grooming) is getting teased in your approach here.
See: Global Knowledge

The doctor may not recommend drug x over y, but only becuase drug y had their reps in the other day giving a free lunch. Yeah it happens all the time. As a network admin for a group of clinics I rarely had to buy my lunch.

Fair trial by a jury of his peers depends on where you're from - despite being a novel, A Time to Kill comes to mind. Think surreptitious here, much like ones approach to persuasion should be.

With regards to getting with the times, some of the best things are products of the past. Most importantly, you are hard-pressed to find a unique thought lately except for this guy: Ludwig Wittgenstein

To the parent, the only way to convince management or anyone in 'business' for that matter is to give them business numbers. Get together some analysis to back up your opinion (be prepared to be wrong as well) by looking at man work hours for a given technology, the cost of converting to a new technology in this case, the cost of employee moral because of technology devotion, and plug those in with various sub-points.. run a magical spreadsheet that proves why moving to tech y isntead of staying with tech x is a bad business decision

New York?

Kansas?

New York again?

Indiana?

New York?

Kansas?

New York again?

Indiana?

I wish Canada's courts would have this much sense.

1. People who would have bought the product, but didn't because they downloaded it.
2. People who wouldn't have bought the product, but downloaded it and liked it enough to buy/recommend it to their friends.
3. People who wouldn't have bought the product, but downloaded it and didn't like it enough to buy/recommend it to their friends.

In the fourth quarter a year ago [end of 2001], the company reported a net loss $545 million, or $1.53 a share, on sales of $972 million. For 2001, Amazon reported a net loss of $567 million, or $1.56 a share, on sales of $3.12 billion. The company ended 2001 with $996 million in cash and marketable securities on hand, compared with $1.1 billion in 2000.

Hard to find data on eBay but you're probably right that they were making a profit then.

According to another article it is saving the $250M over 5 years, predominately from reduced running costs

Google has recently said it would bid on the 700MHz spectrum only if the FCC guarantees certain open-access principles, including open access for companies wanting to buy wireless capacity wholesale. Does this mean that Google won't bid on spectrum if the rules aren't adopted?

Sacca: To be clear, what we said was not exactly that. What we said was that there had been some concerns that somehow imposing these openness principles on the spectrum might diminish its value at auction. And we wanted to reassure the FCC that embracing a path of full openness in the interest of users and the interest of consumers would not reduce the total revenue of the auction. And we wanted to put our money where our mouth is, and we are putting our money where our principles are. So we committed to spending a minimum of $4.6 billion in the auction, if they adopted all four principles.

So it's not out of the question that Google would participate in the auction, even if the FCC doesn't adopt all four principles?

Sacca: We are deeply committed to changing this industry for the benefit of end users.

Google has recently said it would bid on the 700MHz spectrum only if the FCC guarantees certain open-access principles, including open access for companies wanting to buy wireless capacity wholesale. Does this mean that Google won't bid on spectrum if the rules aren't adopted?

Sacca: To be clear, what we said was not exactly that. What we said was that there had been some concerns that somehow imposing these openness principles on the spectrum might diminish its value at auction. And we wanted to reassure the FCC that embracing a path of full openness in the interest of users and the interest of consumers would not reduce the total revenue of the auction. And we wanted to put our money where our mouth is, and we are putting our money where our principles are. So we committed to spending a minimum of $4.6 billion in the auction, if they adopted all four principles.

So it's not out of the question that Google would participate in the auction, even if the FCC doesn't adopt all four principles?

Sacca: We are deeply committed to changing this industry for the benefit of end users.

Suing Apply now saying they should be paying his publishing company and not the record labels only: http://news.com.com/Report+Eminem+sues+Apple+for+c opyright+infringement/2100-1030_3-6199888.html?par t=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news "All the publishers are rankled that they have to go after the record labels to collect their fees," Sloan said. "Sometimes these fees may not be accounted for properly. The publishers would prefer to collect directly from the source instead of the labels."

Here's some more, oh grand poobah:
http://news.com.com/8301-13574_3-9751315-40.html

And even NASA is advising, LOL:
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/200 7/07/02/daily25.html

I'll take off the tinfoil hat, when you take out the earplugs.

Hello, are you retarded, or just dense?
Does the phrase "Industrial sabotage" mean anything to you? Come on!
There was just an article on /. earlier about how someone snipped some wires in a NASA computer (FNAR). The fact of the matter remains that a MAJOR AEROSPACE CORPORATION bought out a MINOR AEROSPACE CORPORATION, which everyone with two brain cells to rub together knew said minor aerospace corporation would give the public a chance to reach near orbit. NASA, from the very beginning, has been vocally outspoken against space tourism. NASA, the very same organization that is a primary outsourcer to companies such as Northrop Grumman, the company that built a goodly sized chunk of every space shuttle in orbit.
The explosion came as part of a "routine test", and, as I may add after two days, now is exhibiting the exact same results as I predicted:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/27/scaled_com posites_mojave_spaceship_two_explosion/
http://news.com.com/8301-13574_3-9751315-40.html
http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_ id=530d01a7-2215-4ee1-9568-6edcc3904343
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070728/NEWS02/707280333/1006

Classical case of short-sightedness.

The possible impact of nanotech on health extends much beyond just food and medical categories. Whenever life comes into contact with engineered nanostructures, there is a risk of unwanted interactions. Act now.