Not sure what the exact symptoms are, because no one in this thread seems to have actually experienced the issue. If its an issue where you turn the computer on, and all you get is the Apple logo and spinning gear, follow these directions:
If you have access to another Mac that is still working:
1. Put the 'broken' Mac in FireWire Disk Mode (reboot while holding down "T"). 2. Attach via FireWire, the HD shows up on the desktop. 3. Download the 10.4.11 Combo update and re-install it on the "broken" Mac. Make sure its the "Combo" update. Get it by searching for "10.4.11 Combo" at apple.com/support 4. Reboot the "broken" Mac, it should just work now.
If you have a bootable external drive (always good for troubleshooting and recovery!), boot the "broken" Mac to the external drive and follow the above steps from 3.
Its actually really quick and easy to fix. Hope this helps.
I remember how happy I was when my roomates and I could finally afford broadband many many years ago... signing up for an account on slashdot was one of the first things I did:)
Thanks for all the great news, sometimes twice;) And keeping me up to date with all the great internet memes out there.
Scratchable screens - Yes, because all cell phone manufacturers and manufactuerers of other DAPs use completely unscratchable screens. Dude, learn how to take care of your things. I have a 3rd gen iPod and the screen is gorgeous still because I value it, and make sure I take care of it. It ain't hard. Take personal responsibility.
Faulty earjacks - yes, the earphone jacks are built to have their solder joints break on purpose. I'm sure it has nothing to do with tons of pressure being applied to the jack by pushing down or pulling sideways on the headphone jack very hard. Nothing at all. Again - Dude, learn how to take care of your things.
Sealed in batteries - for which there is a very inexpensive battery replacement program, which, at $70 nets you an iPod with a new battery, new case, and new HD, with a 90 day warranty. How many AAA batteries would you have run through in the 300-400 charge cycles of the internal battery? 2 or 3 every 10 hours of playback? Do you have any idea how expensive disposable batteries are over time?
Your arguments are old, clichéd, and well-documented bullshit. Please stop trolling.
you miss the point. By treating a specific group differently, even in a so-called positive fashion, you reinforce the idea that they are not the same, fostering the very division you purport to loathe.
And as a side note, if someone is so self conscious as to limit their job prospects based on how others might percieve them, fuck 'em. When they have enough dignity and self resect to truly not care about other people's opinions and just do what it is they love and/or excel at, the whole argument becomes moot anyway.
I will not under any circmstances support any position that perpetuates the idea that we can treat people differently based solely on gender or race for any reason at all, no matter how noble. All it does in the long run is give ammunition to its detractors and keeps people in separate little groups instead of truly treating everyone as equals, judged solely on their skills and abilites.
this post requires a "short sighted" mod. Its been out just a hair over a month... And the 3rd party app scene is already bustling. Just because you dont have an ounce of imagination or innovation in you doesnt mean that someone else couldn't look at the platform and devise a way to make it work, and work well.
It amazes me how the only people who are voiciferously negative about the iphone are the ones who haven't actually used one... As for myself, having used one extensively, I can absolutely see the potential for expansion into areas not built in to the device as shipped.
about 90% of my slashdot browsing is now on my iPhone. Works like a charm every time.
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I'm willing to bet you've never used an iPhone day to day for any signifcant amount of time.
I've had mine for a few weeks now. I use it for movies, music, my primary camera, and it is also my primary Internet connection because I have moral objections to giving comcast money. It is, of course my only phone as well.
I've never even come close to draining the battery in a single day, even using it to browse for hours while listening to music, or streaming h264 video over wifi, using it as a phone, etc.
Your claims are based entrely on uninformed opinion, and NOT any sort of experience or fact.
Also, the browsing experience is perfectly fine. The ability to easily and autmatically zoom to content negates the claim of screen real estate. Everything can be as large or as small as you like.
In short, you are a well spoken troll, but a troll nonetheless.
If women and men are truly equal, then we can stop worrying about parity between the sexes in any given profession. Much like the failed and misguided notion of affirmative action, to keep track of, and actually worry about, the amount of females vs. males in a given profession is disingenuous and misleading.
For instance, how come we aren't worried about a lack of female lion tamers? A lack of asian sports car drivers? A lack of male midwives?
If we are going to be a truly egalitarian society, we need to stop separating people out into groups based on something as silly and inconsequential as what sex organs somebody has. What's next, an article decrying the lack of green-eyed, brown-haired bellhops?
Women: You're not representing anyone but yourself. Men really don't look at one woman and judge your entire sex based on that one person. That is a misconception you have, its all in your head. Get over yourselves. Just do your job to the best of your ability. Same goes for all you "i'm being held back by my race" people. Maybe if you concentrated on your job and improving your skills, and spent less time worrying about abstract concepts like whether you are being viewed as a representative of your demographic, you'd find more people around you concentrate on your job and your skills.
Where are all the albino theatre ticket takers, anyway?!?!
you consider a MacBook fort knox??!?! its one of the most easy to service notebooks from any company in history. i mean, have you ever tried? known anyone who has? or did you just assume, because its a Mac, that its hard to work on?
now, a 12" PowerBook is another story. THAT was Fort Knox.
But if you can't service a MacBook, your geek card is hereby revoked.
The majority of Americans don't really care if they are getting a good deal or not when it comes to tech, especially not the ever lucrative teenage girl market. They know consumers will buy anything as long as it is percieved to be cool and the best - consider the success of he RAZR, a fairly banal phone at best. Even phones with great features are saddled with lousy interfaces to give end users familiarity, not because its better but because that is what sells.
Short answer: the American marketplace pays little attention to quality, and besides - its not like most Americans even care or keep up with there's of the world. Its a symptom of a much larger problem.
DISCLAIMER: posted by a white male American from an iPhone.
First of all, there's nothing inherently wrong with a process running in the background. Its the purpose of the process and its security, performance, and other factors that determine whether it is good or evil. In the case of the iTunes process, it listens for the connection of devices that communicate with iTunes and uses about 0% CPU time. Sounds fairly harmless to me. Do you also hate puppies and rainbows?
Well, maybe YOU don't like the idea of picking songs, so please, by all means feel free to continue listening to late 70s and early 80s prog rock epics in their entirety. However, the record companies are having a hard time SELLING full albums, hence the return to a singles model that was popular back in (yes!) the 50s. So in this case the market has spoken - mindless automatons who can't bend over to tie their own shoes without drooling all over themselves and listen to garbage top 40 radio don't buy full albums because even they are smart enough to realize that most of the album is crap and only has 1 or 2 good songs. So you listen to bands that have artistic merit. Good for you. Most people don't.
Garbage in your MP3s? Let's consider that iTunes adds functionality to your MP3s by letting you tack on much more information than WinAMP, including album artwork, playback position, expanded tags for TV show organization, different fields for display info and sort info, etc. WinAMP can't TOUCH the massive organizational capabilities of iTunes, which, when combined with Smart Playlists allows you to autogenerate complex playlists based on criteria in your tags, which, if you are as much of a music geek as you think you are, your tags are incredibly intricate and detailed, allowing for more flexibility in autogeneration.
Basically, no one is writing you off as a curmudgeon. We're writing you off as a pathetic, elitist snob who, just because you don't know anyone around your immediate vicinity that meets your standards of musical appreciation, thinks that you are the grand poobah of how music should be consumed and organized.
For the record, by the way, I'm willing to bet that my music library whips the shit out of yours. A lot of my tracks are tagged with information like what studio they were recorded at and on what day. I can autobuild a playlist based on WHAT STUDIO THE TRACK WAS RECORDED IN. Can WinAMP do that? Didn't think so.
No one cares, your arguments are shallow and not applicable on a large scale, and you aren't as cool as you think you are. Which is odd, because you shouldn't really consider yourself cool at all if you're posting on slashdot. and I do include myself in that.
Nothing quite like burning screaming young women alive to get a foreign populace to believe that you mean fucking business and submit to your theological tyrrany!
The U owns the bandwidth, and rents it to students. They get to make the TOS. If the students don't like it, go to a different school. It's the school's prerogative. PERIOD. If they don't want their network flooded with crap so that people using it for academic purposes can have better/faster access, that's their decision.
And before you go hollering about the legal uses of P2P, put a sock in it. You and I both know that people downloading Linux ISOs are in the VERY SLIM FUCKING MINORITY.
These lazy, privileged, criminal kids who think its their RIGHT to have ANY MUSIC OR MOVIE they want WHENEVER THEY WANT IT, for FREE, no less, can blow me. Move somewhere else and go to school at a U that values transitory pop culture products over proper education if its that fucking important.
Let's hear about somebody whose rights are actually being trampled; not some well-to-do frat idiots who can't get free DMB songs.
Pidgin IM? That's the worst thing I've ever seen a piece of software be called. Pidgin. Pronounced like "pigeon?" Pigeons shit on everything, eat anything, will explode if exposed to the right conditions*, are ugly, loud, awkward, and worst of all, ubiquitous in their space. Is that really what they want their software associated with? Why not just called it Useless Trash Eating Shit Machine IM?
*plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a surprise it is to find that birds have no built-in way of expelling that much gas all at once. boom.**
His wiki also states that he had some very racist and unfriendly things to say about Tiger Woods. He's not trying to get that taken out, oh no. He wants references to drug use taken out.
I don't think anything could have proved him to be more of a dinosaur.
Racism, well, that's just fine. But don't let me hear you say I do drugs!
I don't care if your government is democratic, communist, fascist, socialist, or a monarchy - running a modern government requires an assload of elements, systems, and processes to be in sync and dependable.
The ideology has nothing to do with it - the issue is that a complete government switch is taking place, and just because you disagree with the politics has nothing to do with the fact that if linux is suited to run these governments, chances are its well-suited to run many other governments.
Of course, the anarchists would have to do something like switch to an abacus or whatever.
Most of the comments here are of the mindset that the reaction was absolutely justified - that they should have seen it coming - that anyone in their right mind would have assumed those were bombs.
Its amazing to me how this state of paranoia and fear has not only become so widespread, but ACCEPTED even - as if everything really changed on 9/11. Here's a fact for you: NOTHING CHANGED AFTER 9/11. The ONLY thing that is different in America is the amount of surveillance we are being subjected to and the number of rights that are being eroded before our eyes.
More people die every year from peanut allergies or swimming pool accidents than terrorism. Terrorism IS NOT A BIG THREAT. Beyond that, it is IMPOSSIBLE to completely stop. The war on terror is a FARCE and its SOLE PURPOSE is to subjugate a nation enslaved by comfort and convenience - with their consent.
The people who should have to pay for this are the idiots who overreacted. Did you see those signs? THEY LOOKED LIKE LITE-BRITES and had a CARTOON ALIEN FLIPPING THE BIRD. What muslim extremist would use that as their terrifying logo of doom?!?!
HOW THE HELL DID YOU PEOPLE GET THIS WAY!? AREN'T YOU LOOKING AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU?! Don't you see how absofuckinglutely ridiculous it is to consider the reaction to these HARMLESS and FUNNY signs in any way justifiable?
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" - Thomas Jefferson
Hopefully in at least one of them, people won't kill each other over political or religious ideology. Bring on the cataclysm, whatever comes next is sure to be better.
In my experience, Ubuntu has MUCH better device/driver support than Windows out of the box, and it is easier to add programs using the built in package manager. Using Easy Ubuntu gets all the proprietary stuff up and running as well. I agree that with research and trial-and-error, one could find programs that work SORT OF like the iLife suite - but none of them are as tightly integrated, feature complete, or professionally supported, and again - the Mac does all of this out of the box.
I have seen what's out there - like I said, I love linux. But then again, I'm much more tech-minded than most of the people in my family/circle of friends, and most of them don't have the time or inclination to work all these little details out. Plus, you can sit a 6 year old in front of GarageBand and they can make their own music tracks right away without much of a learning curve. None of the linux offerings are that user friendly - music pros may know what to do and how to work it, but novices are still out in the cold, and those are the users that Linux is trying to target, n'est pas?
The only reason that PlaysForSure isn't cracked all the time is because no one really uses it on a large scale. Since Apple dominates the DRM music field, and most DRM'd music sold is from Apple and includes FairPlay, then of course people are going to attack FairPlay more than PlaysForSure. If it were the other way around, PlaysForSure would be just as insecure as FairPlay.
I don't really believe that, of course - but it was nice to turn the whole security through obscurity argument around for once so Windows fanboys could see how freaking STUPID it is.
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Not sure what the exact symptoms are, because no one in this thread seems to have actually experienced the issue. If its an issue where you turn the computer on, and all you get is the Apple logo and spinning gear, follow these directions:
If you have access to another Mac that is still working:
1. Put the 'broken' Mac in FireWire Disk Mode (reboot while holding down "T").
2. Attach via FireWire, the HD shows up on the desktop.
3. Download the 10.4.11 Combo update and re-install it on the "broken" Mac. Make sure its the "Combo" update. Get it by searching for "10.4.11 Combo" at apple.com/support
4. Reboot the "broken" Mac, it should just work now.
If you have a bootable external drive (always good for troubleshooting and recovery!), boot the "broken" Mac to the external drive and follow the above steps from 3.
Its actually really quick and easy to fix. Hope this helps.
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... signing up for an account on slashdot was one of the first things I did :)
;) And keeping me up to date with all the great internet memes out there.
I remember how happy I was when my roomates and I could finally afford broadband many many years ago
Thanks for all the great news, sometimes twice
Cheers!
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Ugh. FUD.
Scratchable screens - Yes, because all cell phone manufacturers and manufactuerers of other DAPs use completely unscratchable screens. Dude, learn how to take care of your things. I have a 3rd gen iPod and the screen is gorgeous still because I value it, and make sure I take care of it. It ain't hard. Take personal responsibility.
Faulty earjacks - yes, the earphone jacks are built to have their solder joints break on purpose. I'm sure it has nothing to do with tons of pressure being applied to the jack by pushing down or pulling sideways on the headphone jack very hard. Nothing at all. Again - Dude, learn how to take care of your things.
Sealed in batteries - for which there is a very inexpensive battery replacement program, which, at $70 nets you an iPod with a new battery, new case, and new HD, with a 90 day warranty. How many AAA batteries would you have run through in the 300-400 charge cycles of the internal battery? 2 or 3 every 10 hours of playback? Do you have any idea how expensive disposable batteries are over time?
Your arguments are old, clichéd, and well-documented bullshit. Please stop trolling.
you miss the point. By treating a specific group differently, even in a so-called positive fashion, you reinforce the idea that they are not the same, fostering the very division you purport to loathe.
And as a side note, if someone is so self conscious as to limit their job prospects based on how others might percieve them, fuck 'em. When they have enough dignity and self resect to truly not care about other people's opinions and just do what it is they love and/or excel at, the whole argument becomes moot anyway.
I will not under any circmstances support any position that perpetuates the idea that we can treat people differently based solely on gender or race for any reason at all, no matter how noble. All it does in the long run is give ammunition to its detractors and keeps people in separate little groups instead of truly treating everyone as equals, judged solely on their skills and abilites.
this post requires a "short sighted" mod. Its been out just a hair over a month ... And the 3rd party app scene is already bustling. Just because you dont have an ounce of imagination or innovation in you doesnt mean that someone else couldn't look at the platform and devise a way to make it work, and work well.
It amazes me how the only people who are voiciferously negative about the iphone are the ones who haven't actually used one... As for myself, having used one extensively, I can absolutely see the potential for expansion into areas not built in to the device as shipped.
the way I've been treated by them as a customer in the past, duh.
about 90% of my slashdot browsing is now on my iPhone. Works like a charm every time.
I'm willing to bet you've never used an iPhone day to day for any signifcant amount of time.
I've had mine for a few weeks now. I use it for movies, music, my primary camera, and it is also my primary Internet connection because I have moral objections to giving comcast money. It is, of course my only phone as well.
I've never even come close to draining the battery in a single day, even using it to browse for hours while listening to music, or streaming h264 video over wifi, using it as a phone, etc.
Your claims are based entrely on uninformed opinion, and NOT any sort of experience or fact.
Also, the browsing experience is perfectly fine. The ability to easily and autmatically zoom to content negates the claim of screen real estate. Everything can be as large or as small as you like.
In short, you are a well spoken troll, but a troll nonetheless.
If women and men are truly equal, then we can stop worrying about parity between the sexes in any given profession. Much like the failed and misguided notion of affirmative action, to keep track of, and actually worry about, the amount of females vs. males in a given profession is disingenuous and misleading.
For instance, how come we aren't worried about a lack of female lion tamers? A lack of asian sports car drivers? A lack of male midwives?
If we are going to be a truly egalitarian society, we need to stop separating people out into groups based on something as silly and inconsequential as what sex organs somebody has. What's next, an article decrying the lack of green-eyed, brown-haired bellhops?
Women: You're not representing anyone but yourself. Men really don't look at one woman and judge your entire sex based on that one person. That is a misconception you have, its all in your head. Get over yourselves. Just do your job to the best of your ability. Same goes for all you "i'm being held back by my race" people. Maybe if you concentrated on your job and improving your skills, and spent less time worrying about abstract concepts like whether you are being viewed as a representative of your demographic, you'd find more people around you concentrate on your job and your skills.
Where are all the albino theatre ticket takers, anyway?!?!
you consider a MacBook fort knox??!?! its one of the most easy to service notebooks from any company in history. i mean, have you ever tried? known anyone who has? or did you just assume, because its a Mac, that its hard to work on?
now, a 12" PowerBook is another story. THAT was Fort Knox.
But if you can't service a MacBook, your geek card is hereby revoked.
depends on who they hire to replace the detectors, doesn't it?
The majority of Americans don't really care if they are getting a good deal or not when it comes to tech, especially not the ever lucrative teenage girl market. They know consumers will buy anything as long as it is percieved to be cool and the best - consider the success of he RAZR, a fairly banal phone at best. Even phones with great features are saddled with lousy interfaces to give end users familiarity, not because its better but because that is what sells.
Short answer: the American marketplace pays little attention to quality, and besides - its not like most Americans even care or keep up with there's of the world. Its a symptom of a much larger problem.
DISCLAIMER: posted by a white male American from an iPhone.
First of all, there's nothing inherently wrong with a process running in the background. Its the purpose of the process and its security, performance, and other factors that determine whether it is good or evil. In the case of the iTunes process, it listens for the connection of devices that communicate with iTunes and uses about 0% CPU time. Sounds fairly harmless to me. Do you also hate puppies and rainbows?
Well, maybe YOU don't like the idea of picking songs, so please, by all means feel free to continue listening to late 70s and early 80s prog rock epics in their entirety. However, the record companies are having a hard time SELLING full albums, hence the return to a singles model that was popular back in (yes!) the 50s. So in this case the market has spoken - mindless automatons who can't bend over to tie their own shoes without drooling all over themselves and listen to garbage top 40 radio don't buy full albums because even they are smart enough to realize that most of the album is crap and only has 1 or 2 good songs. So you listen to bands that have artistic merit. Good for you. Most people don't.
Garbage in your MP3s? Let's consider that iTunes adds functionality to your MP3s by letting you tack on much more information than WinAMP, including album artwork, playback position, expanded tags for TV show organization, different fields for display info and sort info, etc. WinAMP can't TOUCH the massive organizational capabilities of iTunes, which, when combined with Smart Playlists allows you to autogenerate complex playlists based on criteria in your tags, which, if you are as much of a music geek as you think you are, your tags are incredibly intricate and detailed, allowing for more flexibility in autogeneration.
Basically, no one is writing you off as a curmudgeon. We're writing you off as a pathetic, elitist snob who, just because you don't know anyone around your immediate vicinity that meets your standards of musical appreciation, thinks that you are the grand poobah of how music should be consumed and organized.
For the record, by the way, I'm willing to bet that my music library whips the shit out of yours. A lot of my tracks are tagged with information like what studio they were recorded at and on what day. I can autobuild a playlist based on WHAT STUDIO THE TRACK WAS RECORDED IN. Can WinAMP do that? Didn't think so.
No one cares, your arguments are shallow and not applicable on a large scale, and you aren't as cool as you think you are. Which is odd, because you shouldn't really consider yourself cool at all if you're posting on slashdot. and I do include myself in that.
Nothing quite like burning screaming young women alive to get a foreign populace to believe that you mean fucking business and submit to your theological tyrrany!
The U owns the bandwidth, and rents it to students. They get to make the TOS. If the students don't like it, go to a different school. It's the school's prerogative. PERIOD. If they don't want their network flooded with crap so that people using it for academic purposes can have better/faster access, that's their decision.
And before you go hollering about the legal uses of P2P, put a sock in it. You and I both know that people downloading Linux ISOs are in the VERY SLIM FUCKING MINORITY.
These lazy, privileged, criminal kids who think its their RIGHT to have ANY MUSIC OR MOVIE they want WHENEVER THEY WANT IT, for FREE, no less, can blow me. Move somewhere else and go to school at a U that values transitory pop culture products over proper education if its that fucking important.
Let's hear about somebody whose rights are actually being trampled; not some well-to-do frat idiots who can't get free DMB songs.
Pidgin IM? That's the worst thing I've ever seen a piece of software be called. Pidgin. Pronounced like "pigeon?" Pigeons shit on everything, eat anything, will explode if exposed to the right conditions*, are ugly, loud, awkward, and worst of all, ubiquitous in their space. Is that really what they want their software associated with? Why not just called it Useless Trash Eating Shit Machine IM?
*plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a surprise it is to find that birds have no built-in way of expelling that much gas all at once. boom.**
**that's a joke, obviously.
So, wait, I'm confused.
His wiki also states that he had some very racist and unfriendly things to say about Tiger Woods. He's not trying to get that taken out, oh no. He wants references to drug use taken out.
I don't think anything could have proved him to be more of a dinosaur.
Racism, well, that's just fine. But don't let me hear you say I do drugs!
You missed the point entirely.
I don't care if your government is democratic, communist, fascist, socialist, or a monarchy - running a modern government requires an assload of elements, systems, and processes to be in sync and dependable.
The ideology has nothing to do with it - the issue is that a complete government switch is taking place, and just because you disagree with the politics has nothing to do with the fact that if linux is suited to run these governments, chances are its well-suited to run many other governments.
Of course, the anarchists would have to do something like switch to an abacus or whatever.
Most of the comments here are of the mindset that the reaction was absolutely justified - that they should have seen it coming - that anyone in their right mind would have assumed those were bombs.
Its amazing to me how this state of paranoia and fear has not only become so widespread, but ACCEPTED even - as if everything really changed on 9/11. Here's a fact for you: NOTHING CHANGED AFTER 9/11. The ONLY thing that is different in America is the amount of surveillance we are being subjected to and the number of rights that are being eroded before our eyes.
More people die every year from peanut allergies or swimming pool accidents than terrorism. Terrorism IS NOT A BIG THREAT. Beyond that, it is IMPOSSIBLE to completely stop. The war on terror is a FARCE and its SOLE PURPOSE is to subjugate a nation enslaved by comfort and convenience - with their consent.
The people who should have to pay for this are the idiots who overreacted. Did you see those signs? THEY LOOKED LIKE LITE-BRITES and had a CARTOON ALIEN FLIPPING THE BIRD. What muslim extremist would use that as their terrifying logo of doom?!?!
HOW THE HELL DID YOU PEOPLE GET THIS WAY!? AREN'T YOU LOOKING AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU?! Don't you see how absofuckinglutely ridiculous it is to consider the reaction to these HARMLESS and FUNNY signs in any way justifiable?
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" - Thomas Jefferson
Chew on that.
Hopefully in at least one of them, people won't kill each other over political or religious ideology. Bring on the cataclysm, whatever comes next is sure to be better.
In my experience, Ubuntu has MUCH better device/driver support than Windows out of the box, and it is easier to add programs using the built in package manager. Using Easy Ubuntu gets all the proprietary stuff up and running as well. I agree that with research and trial-and-error, one could find programs that work SORT OF like the iLife suite - but none of them are as tightly integrated, feature complete, or professionally supported, and again - the Mac does all of this out of the box.
I have seen what's out there - like I said, I love linux. But then again, I'm much more tech-minded than most of the people in my family/circle of friends, and most of them don't have the time or inclination to work all these little details out. Plus, you can sit a 6 year old in front of GarageBand and they can make their own music tracks right away without much of a learning curve. None of the linux offerings are that user friendly - music pros may know what to do and how to work it, but novices are still out in the cold, and those are the users that Linux is trying to target, n'est pas?
Ahem. This is going to feel mighty good.
The only reason that PlaysForSure isn't cracked all the time is because no one really uses it on a large scale. Since Apple dominates the DRM music field, and most DRM'd music sold is from Apple and includes FairPlay, then of course people are going to attack FairPlay more than PlaysForSure. If it were the other way around, PlaysForSure would be just as insecure as FairPlay.
I don't really believe that, of course - but it was nice to turn the whole security through obscurity argument around for once so Windows fanboys could see how freaking STUPID it is.