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Apple Sics Lawyers on SomethingAwful
bheer writes "Apple has sent a threatening letter to SomethingAwful about a post in its forums that describes how to fix the overheating in some MacBook Pros by applying thermal paste properly, according to a post on Gizmodo. The post includes a brief excerpt from Apple's Service Source Manual which Apple wants removed. Gizmodo continues: 'the real problem [is] that the image shows the extremely sloppy manufacturing process that is causing the MacBook Pro to run at temperatures as high as a 95 degrees Celcius under full load.'"
I showed my father the service manual picture. He said (and I quote) "Holy moley! Nobody uses that much thermal grease!"
Yep, Apple fucked up this one.
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is it ok to hate Apple now?
So, if I say anything bad about Apple computers, their crack (cocane) team of lawyers will sue me? Well, in that case, I think I'll do something to tick them off as well...
*stands on soap box* Apparently, their voice command program which requires the ESC key to toggle the microphone interferes with any vim commands that require you to escape back into command mode when you are using Darwin, Apple's version of xterm.
Come and get me you lawyer bastards!!!!
PS: Macs are ghey, eat babies, and kill kittens!
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
So does Slashdot.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
You can have my mac when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
well, from the sounds of it if you've got a MBP, those hands'd be pretty damned hot. Hotter than any electronics should ever be
Apple is going to sue now that /. has a link to a page containing a link to the picture!
English is easier said than done.
Posted anonymously to avoid accusations of karma whoring :)
Karma slut.
The last time I was serviced with that much thermal paste it cost me 50 bucks and I was sore for a week.
Hmm, I was thinking the opposite. Lawyers are like managers. Engineers needs to understand what they're doing, otherwise they'll ruin the company.
After all, it wasn't engineers that ran HP into the ground.
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Files are never hosted on the forums, so Apple should be going after the person who is hosting the material. Apple doesn't understand how teh intarweb works.
The really interesting thing is that the Apple legal department uses Microsoft Entourage as an e-mail client. Lowtax posted the headers in his response (posted above by someone else).
Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22])
by mx3.somethingawful.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4981B523C
for webmaster@somethingawful.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:38:35 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from relay8.apple.com (relay8.apple.com [17.128.113.38])
by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k432cUP8027258
for webmaster@somethingawful.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 19:38:30 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [17.193.14.216] (unknown [17.193.14.216])
by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 5CB7E17B;
Tue, 2 May 2006 19:38:30 -0700 (PDT)
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.3.060209
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:38:28 -0700
Subject: Urgent Legal Notice from Apple Computer
From: Copyright Agent copyrightagent@apple.com
To: webmaster@somethingawful.com
Message-ID: C07D65B4.1430E%copyrightagent@apple.com
Thread-Topic: Urgent Legal Notice from Apple Computer
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"Lowtax versus Jobs.
Sounds like Econ 101 class."
What they have done is blasphemy and of course they should take it down and apologise. To insult Apple believers in this way is not acceptable, religious insults are not acceptable and only serve to fuel hatred.
Praise Jobs the Enlightener, the Finder,
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I work in a law firm, thanks.