Honestly, how does this is any way hurt Apple? All it does is get the public more excited about their products. I highly doubt that this kid's website could in any way shape or form be doing any damage to Apple's sales.
The only reason Firebird became Firefox was because another company already had the Firebird name for a product of theirs. So instead of fighting to get it, Mozilla voluntarily changed the name of their product to Firefox.
I realized this two weeks into Everquest's release and went straight back to MUDs. Least its free and I still get to kill stuff. I've yet to find an MMOG that can actually hold my attention. Too much going on, and I'm too limited to where I can play from. IRC, MUDs, whatever have you, they are accessible from anywhere, require any barebones system, and still let a person envision the game and characters in whichever way their mind chooses. People always say the book is better than the movie. The same goes for MMOG's.
It really is a problem that nobody can really devote the time and effort needed to making a 99.99% effective method that will remove ONLY things harmful to children. Because of this, other content and other sites will suffer, and even then, the smut that our nation is trying to protect children from still gets through. Company's like CyberNanny and SurfPatrol will benefit greatly from this act, but at what cost to the sites and people on the Internet that are now wrongfully blocked? Perhaps with the money that these companies will get from this, they can actually develop better ways to filter out the inappropriate material while not blocking any material that should be viewable. Who knows though? Only time will tell right now.
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Honestly, how does this is any way hurt Apple? All it does is get the public more excited about their products. I highly doubt that this kid's website could in any way shape or form be doing any damage to Apple's sales.
The only reason Firebird became Firefox was because another company already had the Firebird name for a product of theirs. So instead of fighting to get it, Mozilla voluntarily changed the name of their product to Firefox.
Maybe one of the effects of these mutations could be better spelling...
I realized this two weeks into Everquest's release and went straight back to MUDs. Least its free and I still get to kill stuff. I've yet to find an MMOG that can actually hold my attention. Too much going on, and I'm too limited to where I can play from. IRC, MUDs, whatever have you, they are accessible from anywhere, require any barebones system, and still let a person envision the game and characters in whichever way their mind chooses. People always say the book is better than the movie. The same goes for MMOG's.
It really is a problem that nobody can really devote the time and effort needed to making a 99.99% effective method that will remove ONLY things harmful to children. Because of this, other content and other sites will suffer, and even then, the smut that our nation is trying to protect children from still gets through. Company's like CyberNanny and SurfPatrol will benefit greatly from this act, but at what cost to the sites and people on the Internet that are now wrongfully blocked? Perhaps with the money that these companies will get from this, they can actually develop better ways to filter out the inappropriate material while not blocking any material that should be viewable. Who knows though? Only time will tell right now.