Apple Embeds Message to OS X Hackers

zentechno writes "Apple has confirmed it embedded a message in the form of a poem to those who would hack its version of OS X on Intel hardware." From the article: "The embedded poem reads: 'Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don't steal Mac OS!/Really, that's way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc.'Apple also put in a separate hidden message, 'Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext,' in another spot for would-be hackers."

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WTF??

[Hurricane78]

PLEASE, come on... this is slashdot! You CAN'T write this here, because itS' simply WRONG! I feel insulted from it! Please do:

s/hack/crack/i

on the posting.

Thank you!

ATTENTION: Appler users answer me this

[Anonymous Coward]

You always claim Apple is better. Pre-OS X you claimed Mac OS was faster because it wasn't Windows and wasn't on Intel. OS-X PPC era, you claimed Apple was faster because it wasn't Windows and wasn't on Intel. Now that Apple is on Intel you claim Apple is faster.

How can that be. It seems your opinion's are more shapped by marketing than actual results.

You claim that OS-X has the best designed GUI in the world. However, on large wide screen s users have to scroll more to get to menus that are all on the upper-left side of the screen when their windows are on the right side. How is that a better designed GUI. It is like putting the gas peddle of a car in a fixed location above the dash-board because a committee decided that that was the best place to put it.

Then, you claim that Apple is better than anything else period. Now, when Apple goes and does stupid shit like this /. article you blame the hackers for wanting to try something new and telling people about it.

IMO, Apple is not better and in some ways worse than Microsoft.

Welcome to mid-January.

[ninja_assault_kitten]

This is *really* old news. I'm surpised this isn't a dupe from Jan.

-1 off topic response to your sig

[mrraven]

Gfunk said in their sig:

"Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up."

Yet your chance of getting "blown up" by terrorists thus far

equals 3000/2,400,000 x 100= .0125%

meanwhile your chance of having a heart attack = 480,000/24000000 x 100=`20%

Source the American Heart association:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?ident ifier=4591

Thus your chance of having a hear attack is 2500 times greater than being "blown up by a terrorist." And the terrorist attack was a one time event where as heart attacks are ongoing. Over ten years that means you are 25,000 times more likely to die of a heart attack than from a terrorist attack. Perhaps what we need is a war on Burger King and not a war on terror.

Please THINK before you mindlessly spout off in favor of surrendering our civil liberties based on the neo-cons fear mongering in your sig, MM K?

And yes I do have karma to burn.

Re:-1 off topic response to your sig

[mrraven]

I don't even know what that means. Care to elaborate?