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Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?
marksilverman writes "Steven Levy at Newsweek is reporting that his iPod Shuffle seems to favor certain songs. Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none." Less neurotically, both CNet and PCWorld have discussions of the Shuffle's interior spaces.
The iPod shuffle decoder chip can decode WMA files. For some mysterious reason however, this feature is not enabled on the iPod shuffle, even though such a feature would be an obvious benefit to those who would like to purchase music online from someone other than Apple.
Forget it, the editors don't read the comments, hell the editors don't read SLASHDOT...
Just look at the number of story dupes, the opinion pieces submitted as news stories, and the "worse than awful" (if I may quote Starbuck), sentence structure, grammar, spelling and general mangling of the English language that comes FROM the so-called "editors".
You might as well ask a religious fanatic to have a logical and thoughtful discussion regarding the non-existence of God.
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Who ever is in charge of hiring the editors would probably staff a condom factory with hedgehogs.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
This is slashdot, they probably get paid money for every time they mention Apple or an Apple product in a headline.
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Flamebait! You guys need to unbury your senses of humor. There was no ill intention behind that at all. =(
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