Correct, but it'll still fail because you don't need to be authorized because there's no central resource like a master server that your gaming depends upon. You merely need your copy to stop bothering you. (Hooray for single-player and p2p games.)
Even if it's a complex procedure involving auto-updating code and hot-patching, on-the-fly decryption of executables, etc, it's still just copy protection and will fail in the same way. At some point the game decides you've failed the check - that's usually pretty obvious, as are the two code paths it takes from there. NOP out one, or cause the check to fail, and continue until you find the next problem.
Who cares? He proved the system was crap, whatever his motives.
What did he damage? The election was obviously untrustworthy so spoiling it didn't hurt anyone. Anyone legit should welcome an insecure election being demonstrated to be that way.
rtechie: And how do you propose they do this? [hard to identify] Do I care? It merely is racial if they consider biological factors. They could look for your flippers and shoot you if you aren't a Dolphin, it'd be racial.
It's racial discrimination even if they can't tell, but would discriminate if they could.
rtechie: There is no such thing as an "agnostic Jew".
Wikipedia: Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who were born to a Jewish family regardless of whether or not they follow the religion,... So sorry, but you're wrong. Try to use the standard meanings of words.
Ohh, the old "Criticism of an anti-Semite is always unwarranted" argument!
But, poorly done. He stated a fact which refuted an earlier claim, you need to try to answer this at least, even flippantly, before resorting to your argument.
You're so intellectually dishonest. Try answering some questions instead of merely attacking me over a perceived mistake, as if it would change my question.
I repeat, how exactly is Psystar forcing Apple to do anything. Could Apple not tolerate the resale of their products much as every other company does?
Now, onto your mistakes. Apple's strategy, as outlined by Jobs, is to use software updates to brick hacked hardware, and hardware updates to prevent those hacks.
He was speaking mostly of the iPhone, but the same actions can be seen in the iPod, OS X, iTunes, etc.
Apple starts by engineering their own platform, EFI as you mention, the ipod hardware, etc, but when these aren't enough to stop people reusing their OS or hardware they institute checks specifically designed to stop those uses.
The iPhone is hardware and apple controls the software (to connect to AT&T), so they use opposite methods than with OS X or iTunes where they don't control the software (you can crack it) but they control the authorized hardware (Macs, iPods, etc). But it's exactly the same tactic.
How is Apple forced to do pretty much exactly what Microsoft was doing to them, that they bitched about for so long? (Designing hardware and software to maximize incompatibility and destroy their competition's products.)
Yeah, I know race in humans is used socio-politically and not taxonomically.
But if you can become Italian by moving to Italy, you can become Jewish by embracing the religion. And how else has Italian come to mean what we mean than by interbreeding of various (non-racially chosen) people?
People are always hating on the Jews, even if any given Jew is agnostic. So it's not religion. If someone's willing to kill you because of your biological relation to something else, that's racial. Even if not along tidy taxonomic lines.
I think this is subjective. If you believe you die during sleep, then what you call you did die as you see it. It was the awake consciousness of the day before. Maybe a lot like you today, but still as different as a taped and replayed clone.
I agree that no number of braintapes (alone) is going to make me immortal. It may be used to create clones who believe that they are the original me who would feel as if immortal, but who would individually be mortal. You're right, it's not immortality. But the clone will feel like it was, and the clone will think it's me.
I think it comes down to your motivation. If you're afraid to die, braintaping is not immortality because current you will die. If you're afraid to die without completing something, braintaping is immortality because you'll survive to accomplish it.
As for me personally, maybe I am (just a collection of memories). As in, what is your personality except learned responses to stimuli? I don't believe it's qualitatively different. No soul or anything. So what am I except my stored programming?
Are you sure "you", the conscious feelings, aren't just rebuilt when needed from your memories? Maybe you are only the bias between what could be done and what your memories incline you to do.
You might be right that I don't have a specific consciousness but instead merely create a running dialog in my head of what I'd have had to be thinking to justify my actions.
1) eat something 2) ask why people eat -> hunger 3) tell myself I was hungry and therefore ate
At that, I could "die" every time I'm "swapped out". When my brain is working on walking it's not constructing this running narrative. Do I exist during this? My brain-stem is probably enough to keep me walking until I reach a corner.
If I'm merely a pattern of solutions to problems then 'I' am no more alive than a database. But then you get into the lisp questions. If Data can contain programs, is it only data or is it frozen programs? Do I not exist (the data/program dichotomy) or am I merely swapped out (data/program similarity)?/ramble
Well, there are further security issues like people locating your hardware from outside, traffic analysis, etc. Usually not an issue...
The biggest threat is that wireless is a network jack for the attackers. While the regular traffic might be encrypted it's usually fairly easy to spoof an existing host. If all non-VPN traffic isn't dropped it's a matter of exploiting some machine remotely and gaining access - likely to a machine on the VPN.
How big was the $50k room? That's almost your cost for an IT guy for a year and I could wire a HUGE room in a year.
Do you mean that you then converted that room into wireless with the six APs for under $10k?
What sort of APs are you using? (At $1k+ each I'm guessing they aren't Linksys WRT54Gs.)
Was this Wireless-A, or G? I'm assuming A because there aren't that many non-overlapping G channels...
Most, but I found it less so than Linux. Admittedly I've used OS X less than ten hours.
As for 'can be turned into XML', so could the Windows registry. The point that is that its native format isn't human readable. You can use these tools, but then you're trusting the tools like trusting the GUI.
If you'd made a case, or even tried, I wouldn't have mocked you. But instead you stated your guesses as facts and made conclusions based on them.
The Mac Pro's price is really close to where it should be. Should? God determined this? Or maybe you mean, the price is reasonable for you, considering the value the machine provides to you?
The PsyStar? Probably going to have massive down time Really? You know something about the parts? Is their hardware more likely to fail than any middle-of-the-road PC hardware?
so I might get 4 billable hours per day as opposed to 7 or 8. Ahh yes, because if computers fail they mysteriously run half-time, instead of releasing the magic smoke and never working again.
So, we have you not understanding the likely failure modes, not knowing anything about the relative hardware differences, and not being able to distinguish your opinions from universal facts.
As for "big boy" phrases, I mean ones that you use to think you're a big boy.
Everyone understands that lower quality parts might break sooner. But you've got to say it in a pompous "consider the big picture" sort of way. You also make the mistake of saying it like a law. Cheaping out *may* cost you in the long term, but it's far from guaranteed. Also, this assumes that Psystar is cheap - maybe Apple is expensive instead and Psystar is normally priced.
It's as if you think your opinion doesn't carry enough weight if you simply say "I think the Psystar is going to suck" so you dress it up by adding more words until it's unclear that it's still just your opinion - but you don't actually consult any studies or cite anything that would make it more.
Yes, I do know the *rules* of debates. Did you see a debate anywhere? You made no arguments, boldly stating your opinions as facts, and when called on your mistakes - perhaps rudely - you jump for any excuse instead of actually addressing it. Your fanboy attitudes and unwillingness to investigate the actual issues mean that you are not debating - you're lecturing.
Neither am I though. I'm merely pointing out your failure. I'm not trying to score, just disrupt your game. Your argument, or debate, that you thought you were having is on the floor in shambles. It was before I came along. I merely laughed at you and pointed out the specific flaws.
I'm not trying to prove that the Psystar will rock. What possible proof could I have? Yeah, as much as you. None. Neither of us could successfully make any argument that depends on knowing anything about the Psystar, because neither of us do. I understand that, you apparently do not.
Dreamhost is fairly good - they fix their problems, refund overbillings politely, respond to email. You should be able to find a "promo code" for the first year almost for free.
Certainly, Apple could sue Psystar senseless *if* Psystar fails to make it perfectly clear that this is a modified product.
But I think they've been pretty clear about it. They're proud of what they've done.
This isn't a counterfeit trying to resemble an Apple, this is Apple OS X welded into a cheap computer like a Porsche engine in a VW Bug. But if it's what you're looking for...
Did you agree to the EULA? Do you consider it binding?
Why?
If you bought a toaster and it had a post-sale (hidden like a EULA) "contract" that purported to control the brand of bread products usable, would you accept that limitation or ignore it and use it as a brand-agnostic bread heating machine?
Did you know that US Copyright law specifically says that using a copyrighted computer program (even where copying (to HD, RAM, etc) is required for that use) is totally legal. It's part of the required steps to use it, and what possible justification would there be to sell a product you didn't intend the customer to have the right to use.
You'd have an implied license for anything you did need to do (if the law didn't already fully grant you this right) because Apple couldn't legally sell a product they knew was unusable in the condition they sold it. If you needed the EULA, it wasn't a sale, and if it was a sale you don't need the EULA.
You own OS X when you pay for it. At that time Apple loses all rights to control what you do with it.
(They do lose all rights - copyright law restricts ME, it doesn't empower them. The government has a list of things I cannot do, it's the same with OS X as with a newspaper.)
Everything they sell is 100% based on parts from other companies. They spec good hardware, yes, but they don't make any of it.
What you Apple people fail to see is that anyone can spend what Apple does and buy nice hardware. That's not magical, it's just not buying the cheapest thing. Personally, I've never had an problems with PCs (of my own) but I buy specific parts that review well on sites I trust.
Why? If I buy a Ford car and add a nitrous system I'm still allowed to call it a Ford. It's not stock, but it's a Ford.
Psystar isn't misleading anyone - they bitch about having to hack OS X to install it - everyone knows this is modified.
Selling things means you give up your right to control them. Even trademarks. I could take the trademark off of an Apple computer and legally put it on a truck, or another computer. I couldn't use it for trade dress for a non-Apple product, but I could even sell it as what it is - an Apple trademarked symbol. Apple's copyright doesn't help, because Psystar isn't copying OS X, they're modifying their copy which is as legal as highlighting in your textbooks.
Nobody is being mislead. There is no crime. Except fanboys. Crimes against nature.
I think the GP poster meant for stability. Hell, GS/OS from '88 looked nicer than Windows until fairly recently. But you could crash OS9 as easily as Win95 or Win3.1 - only OS X has taken the Mac past Windows and into the realm of real stability.
It's because they don't use human-readable files as the basis of everything. Say what you will about Linux's CLI usability, the GUIs are very simple and rarely cause problems as Windows and Mac ones do. In Linux the GUI merely makes a change to the config file - the same one you could edit directly if you wanted.
In Windows/Mac, the GUI isn't just a front end. If there's a bug in the GUI it's not going to make correct setting and there's nothing you can do.
Trying to get dual monitors working (playing DVDs) in Windows was this way. Theoretically easy, but there was a bug. Setting the right settings wasn't enough. First you had to set some, then apply, then the rest, then apply, then go into and come out of settings, then make the next change. Otherwise even with everything looking correct it just wouldn't do whatever it needed to do.
Linux was harder, as in it required actually editing files, but easier in that all the difficulty was right where it was expected. I didn't have to diagnose GUI bugs at the same time as trying to make the video work.
GUIs are easier, if they work, but not building a human-readable layer underneath means that it'll be far harder to do anything not explicitly planned for.
Easier for casual users does not translate into easier for advanced users.
You think you sound smart, because you're using big-boy phrases like "Cheaping out up front to save a few bucks will ultimately cost you far more money in the long run."
Instead, you're a pathetic follower repeating what your fanboy friends have said.
The PsyStar? Probably going to have massive down time which eats into my hourly billing rates, so I might get 4 billable hours per day as opposed to 7 or 8. Massive downtime? How? The parts are going to melt?
You have no idea how computer downtime occurs. If it works, it'll work constantly. If it fails it won't provide any billable hours until the smoking hardware is replaced.
And, just maybe, have any of you pompous fuckers stopped to consider that the people buying Psystar's might not be looking to do exactly what you do?
You're an idiot. Sorry, but it's true. Someone had to tell you before you spent your whole life being one.
Fuck Psystar for making them do this. Ok, we'll go over this slowly.
Psystar is making Apple do what precisely?
Apple could just keep selling the machines that fanboys insist are the best, and those fanboys presumably buy these machines so nobody should even notice.
So if Apple does so anything, who will be making them?
Apple of course. They're responsible for their own actions, like everyone else.
If they shit all over their OS just to keep people from exercising their legal rights - fuck them. Seriously. They sell a product and are already messing it up (hardware detection) so that it has less value. (What if your legal Mac got hit my a power surge and you tried to build a Hackintosh to rescue your data - Apple would prefer that you could not.)
And you blame this on Psystar? Did they get a time-machine and go inject Jobs with Assholium back in the late 90s?
I think you should really examine the actions taken by all the players and try to see who's intending to fuck over everyone else and who's just playing the game legally.
Psystar is doing what Apple, and all other companies, do - buy a product (HD, OS, Video card) and resell it. Legally. Apple has no more rights to the OS post-sale than Hitachi does to your hard drive post-sale - both contain copyrighted programs. Selling something exhausts all your legal rights to it. Hitachi doesn't feel the need to be jerks - claiming rules don't apply to them.
Sure, that's the way copyright law has always worked. And sales. But Apple finds that annoying? Oh my god, well we'd better totally overhaul the whole fucking system then? We should probably just make Steve Jobs king of the fucking world while we're at it.
Try supporting someone other than Microsoft2 you sycophantic losers.
Fuck all you idiots for continually blaming the wrong people and for freaking out whenever Apple yanks your chains. You're the stupid reactionary element that make our society so sad.
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Correct, but it'll still fail because you don't need to be authorized because there's no central resource like a master server that your gaming depends upon. You merely need your copy to stop bothering you. (Hooray for single-player and p2p games.)
Even if it's a complex procedure involving auto-updating code and hot-patching, on-the-fly decryption of executables, etc, it's still just copy protection and will fail in the same way. At some point the game decides you've failed the check - that's usually pretty obvious, as are the two code paths it takes from there. NOP out one, or cause the check to fail, and continue until you find the next problem.
Never. They're always trying to stop you from running non-Apple software on YOUR hardware.
iPhones, iPods, etc. If Apple can break a hacked device they'll do it.
Or, that if you already have the camera and want more quality, that raw could provide it.
Once the election is shown to be rigged you have to do it over again anyways.
Who cares? He proved the system was crap, whatever his motives.
What did he damage? The election was obviously untrustworthy so spoiling it didn't hurt anyone. Anyone legit should welcome an insecure election being demonstrated to be that way.
It's racial discrimination even if they can't tell, but would discriminate if they could. rtechie: There is no such thing as an "agnostic Jew". Wikipedia: Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who were born to a Jewish family regardless of whether or not they follow the religion,
Ohh, the old "Criticism of an anti-Semite is always unwarranted" argument!
But, poorly done. He stated a fact which refuted an earlier claim, you need to try to answer this at least, even flippantly, before resorting to your argument.
You're so intellectually dishonest. Try answering some questions instead of merely attacking me over a perceived mistake, as if it would change my question.
I repeat, how exactly is Psystar forcing Apple to do anything. Could Apple not tolerate the resale of their products much as every other company does?
Now, onto your mistakes. Apple's strategy, as outlined by Jobs, is to use software updates to brick hacked hardware, and hardware updates to prevent those hacks.
He was speaking mostly of the iPhone, but the same actions can be seen in the iPod, OS X, iTunes, etc.
Apple starts by engineering their own platform, EFI as you mention, the ipod hardware, etc, but when these aren't enough to stop people reusing their OS or hardware they institute checks specifically designed to stop those uses.
The iPhone is hardware and apple controls the software (to connect to AT&T), so they use opposite methods than with OS X or iTunes where they don't control the software (you can crack it) but they control the authorized hardware (Macs, iPods, etc). But it's exactly the same tactic.
How is Apple forced to do pretty much exactly what Microsoft was doing to them, that they bitched about for so long? (Designing hardware and software to maximize incompatibility and destroy their competition's products.)
Yeah, I know race in humans is used socio-politically and not taxonomically.
But if you can become Italian by moving to Italy, you can become Jewish by embracing the religion. And how else has Italian come to mean what we mean than by interbreeding of various (non-racially chosen) people?
People are always hating on the Jews, even if any given Jew is agnostic. So it's not religion. If someone's willing to kill you because of your biological relation to something else, that's racial. Even if not along tidy taxonomic lines.
But isn't the Windows registry just a tree structure? Couldn't it be reduced to XML in just as trivial a fashion?
I think this is subjective. If you believe you die during sleep, then what you call you did die as you see it. It was the awake consciousness of the day before. Maybe a lot like you today, but still as different as a taped and replayed clone.
/ramble
I agree that no number of braintapes (alone) is going to make me immortal. It may be used to create clones who believe that they are the original me who would feel as if immortal, but who would individually be mortal. You're right, it's not immortality. But the clone will feel like it was, and the clone will think it's me.
I think it comes down to your motivation. If you're afraid to die, braintaping is not immortality because current you will die. If you're afraid to die without completing something, braintaping is immortality because you'll survive to accomplish it.
As for me personally, maybe I am (just a collection of memories). As in, what is your personality except learned responses to stimuli? I don't believe it's qualitatively different. No soul or anything. So what am I except my stored programming?
Are you sure "you", the conscious feelings, aren't just rebuilt when needed from your memories? Maybe you are only the bias between what could be done and what your memories incline you to do.
You might be right that I don't have a specific consciousness but instead merely create a running dialog in my head of what I'd have had to be thinking to justify my actions.
1) eat something
2) ask why people eat -> hunger
3) tell myself I was hungry and therefore ate
At that, I could "die" every time I'm "swapped out". When my brain is working on walking it's not constructing this running narrative. Do I exist during this? My brain-stem is probably enough to keep me walking until I reach a corner.
If I'm merely a pattern of solutions to problems then 'I' am no more alive than a database. But then you get into the lisp questions. If Data can contain programs, is it only data or is it frozen programs? Do I not exist (the data/program dichotomy) or am I merely swapped out (data/program similarity)?
Well, there are further security issues like people locating your hardware from outside, traffic analysis, etc. Usually not an issue...
The biggest threat is that wireless is a network jack for the attackers. While the regular traffic might be encrypted it's usually fairly easy to spoof an existing host. If all non-VPN traffic isn't dropped it's a matter of exploiting some machine remotely and gaining access - likely to a machine on the VPN.
How big was the $50k room? That's almost your cost for an IT guy for a year and I could wire a HUGE room in a year.
Do you mean that you then converted that room into wireless with the six APs for under $10k?
What sort of APs are you using? (At $1k+ each I'm guessing they aren't Linksys WRT54Gs.)
Was this Wireless-A, or G? I'm assuming A because there aren't that many non-overlapping G channels...
Most, but I found it less so than Linux. Admittedly I've used OS X less than ten hours.
As for 'can be turned into XML', so could the Windows registry. The point that is that its native format isn't human readable. You can use these tools, but then you're trusting the tools like trusting the GUI.
So, we have you not understanding the likely failure modes, not knowing anything about the relative hardware differences, and not being able to distinguish your opinions from universal facts.
As for "big boy" phrases, I mean ones that you use to think you're a big boy.
Everyone understands that lower quality parts might break sooner. But you've got to say it in a pompous "consider the big picture" sort of way. You also make the mistake of saying it like a law. Cheaping out *may* cost you in the long term, but it's far from guaranteed. Also, this assumes that Psystar is cheap - maybe Apple is expensive instead and Psystar is normally priced.
It's as if you think your opinion doesn't carry enough weight if you simply say "I think the Psystar is going to suck" so you dress it up by adding more words until it's unclear that it's still just your opinion - but you don't actually consult any studies or cite anything that would make it more.
Yes, I do know the *rules* of debates. Did you see a debate anywhere? You made no arguments, boldly stating your opinions as facts, and when called on your mistakes - perhaps rudely - you jump for any excuse instead of actually addressing it. Your fanboy attitudes and unwillingness to investigate the actual issues mean that you are not debating - you're lecturing.
Neither am I though. I'm merely pointing out your failure. I'm not trying to score, just disrupt your game. Your argument, or debate, that you thought you were having is on the floor in shambles. It was before I came along. I merely laughed at you and pointed out the specific flaws.
I'm not trying to prove that the Psystar will rock. What possible proof could I have? Yeah, as much as you. None. Neither of us could successfully make any argument that depends on knowing anything about the Psystar, because neither of us do. I understand that, you apparently do not.
Dreamhost is fairly good - they fix their problems, refund overbillings politely, respond to email. You should be able to find a "promo code" for the first year almost for free.
Because the lock failed to provide security before. Replacing it with a nearly identical part isn't going to do much in the long run.
Certainly, Apple could sue Psystar senseless *if* Psystar fails to make it perfectly clear that this is a modified product.
But I think they've been pretty clear about it. They're proud of what they've done.
This isn't a counterfeit trying to resemble an Apple, this is Apple OS X welded into a cheap computer like a Porsche engine in a VW Bug. But if it's what you're looking for...
Did you agree to the EULA? Do you consider it binding?
Why?
If you bought a toaster and it had a post-sale (hidden like a EULA) "contract" that purported to control the brand of bread products usable, would you accept that limitation or ignore it and use it as a brand-agnostic bread heating machine?
Did you know that US Copyright law specifically says that using a copyrighted computer program (even where copying (to HD, RAM, etc) is required for that use) is totally legal. It's part of the required steps to use it, and what possible justification would there be to sell a product you didn't intend the customer to have the right to use.
You'd have an implied license for anything you did need to do (if the law didn't already fully grant you this right) because Apple couldn't legally sell a product they knew was unusable in the condition they sold it. If you needed the EULA, it wasn't a sale, and if it was a sale you don't need the EULA.
You own OS X when you pay for it. At that time Apple loses all rights to control what you do with it.
(They do lose all rights - copyright law restricts ME, it doesn't empower them. The government has a list of things I cannot do, it's the same with OS X as with a newspaper.)
Apple, a hardware company? What a joke!
Everything they sell is 100% based on parts from other companies. They spec good hardware, yes, but they don't make any of it.
What you Apple people fail to see is that anyone can spend what Apple does and buy nice hardware. That's not magical, it's just not buying the cheapest thing. Personally, I've never had an problems with PCs (of my own) but I buy specific parts that review well on sites I trust.
Why? If I buy a Ford car and add a nitrous system I'm still allowed to call it a Ford. It's not stock, but it's a Ford.
Psystar isn't misleading anyone - they bitch about having to hack OS X to install it - everyone knows this is modified.
Selling things means you give up your right to control them. Even trademarks. I could take the trademark off of an Apple computer and legally put it on a truck, or another computer. I couldn't use it for trade dress for a non-Apple product, but I could even sell it as what it is - an Apple trademarked symbol. Apple's copyright doesn't help, because Psystar isn't copying OS X, they're modifying their copy which is as legal as highlighting in your textbooks.
Nobody is being mislead. There is no crime. Except fanboys. Crimes against nature.
I think the GP poster meant for stability. Hell, GS/OS from '88 looked nicer than Windows until fairly recently. But you could crash OS9 as easily as Win95 or Win3.1 - only OS X has taken the Mac past Windows and into the realm of real stability.
If you listen to Apple that's not true.
Of course, they seem to have some bias...
It's because they don't use human-readable files as the basis of everything. Say what you will about Linux's CLI usability, the GUIs are very simple and rarely cause problems as Windows and Mac ones do. In Linux the GUI merely makes a change to the config file - the same one you could edit directly if you wanted.
In Windows/Mac, the GUI isn't just a front end. If there's a bug in the GUI it's not going to make correct setting and there's nothing you can do.
Trying to get dual monitors working (playing DVDs) in Windows was this way. Theoretically easy, but there was a bug. Setting the right settings wasn't enough. First you had to set some, then apply, then the rest, then apply, then go into and come out of settings, then make the next change. Otherwise even with everything looking correct it just wouldn't do whatever it needed to do.
Linux was harder, as in it required actually editing files, but easier in that all the difficulty was right where it was expected. I didn't have to diagnose GUI bugs at the same time as trying to make the video work.
GUIs are easier, if they work, but not building a human-readable layer underneath means that it'll be far harder to do anything not explicitly planned for.
Easier for casual users does not translate into easier for advanced users.
Instead, you're a pathetic follower repeating what your fanboy friends have said. The PsyStar? Probably going to have massive down time which eats into my hourly billing rates, so I might get 4 billable hours per day as opposed to 7 or 8. Massive downtime? How? The parts are going to melt?
You have no idea how computer downtime occurs. If it works, it'll work constantly. If it fails it won't provide any billable hours until the smoking hardware is replaced.
And, just maybe, have any of you pompous fuckers stopped to consider that the people buying Psystar's might not be looking to do exactly what you do?
Psystar is making Apple do what precisely?
Apple could just keep selling the machines that fanboys insist are the best, and those fanboys presumably buy these machines so nobody should even notice.
So if Apple does so anything, who will be making them?
Apple of course. They're responsible for their own actions, like everyone else.
If they shit all over their OS just to keep people from exercising their legal rights - fuck them. Seriously. They sell a product and are already messing it up (hardware detection) so that it has less value. (What if your legal Mac got hit my a power surge and you tried to build a Hackintosh to rescue your data - Apple would prefer that you could not.)
And you blame this on Psystar? Did they get a time-machine and go inject Jobs with Assholium back in the late 90s?
I think you should really examine the actions taken by all the players and try to see who's intending to fuck over everyone else and who's just playing the game legally.
Psystar is doing what Apple, and all other companies, do - buy a product (HD, OS, Video card) and resell it. Legally. Apple has no more rights to the OS post-sale than Hitachi does to your hard drive post-sale - both contain copyrighted programs. Selling something exhausts all your legal rights to it. Hitachi doesn't feel the need to be jerks - claiming rules don't apply to them.
Sure, that's the way copyright law has always worked. And sales. But Apple finds that annoying? Oh my god, well we'd better totally overhaul the whole fucking system then? We should probably just make Steve Jobs king of the fucking world while we're at it.
Try supporting someone other than Microsoft2 you sycophantic losers.
Fuck all you idiots for continually blaming the wrong people and for freaking out whenever Apple yanks your chains. You're the stupid reactionary element that make our society so sad.
Thanks a lot assholes.