is why the mysterious Pamela Jones and the rest of the open-source community has identified Apple as The Great Satan. What has Apple ever done to hurt them? Complied with the GPL? OK. Guilty as charged. People who love their Apple devices get derided as fanbois. People who hate, without ever being harmed, are the good guys?

I can't remotely log in to my Linux machines and do programming on my iPad. I can't create presentations on it. I can't do photo editing or drawing. I can write papers for grad school.

No. wait. I can do all of those thing on my 1st gen iPad.

Nevermind.

I say if Mathgen can get three such articles accepted this year, then it should get tenure.

I had a report of problems with a web sites from users who may or may not have been using IE9. So, I fired up my Windows 7 VM to check and it was still running IE8. What? No problem. That is why I installed it this VM. I just searched for "ie9" in my IE8 browser. Bing couldn't find a download link for IE9. It was Google's top hit.

The patent system is designed to facilitate copying. It gives the patent holder a temporary, legal monopoly to encourage innovation. After the patent expires, it's fair game. The idea of patents is great, but everyone acknowledges the system needs reform. Maybe this case will make that happen. Would that be so bad?

What we need is a company that stands up for small developers. Someone that frees them from credit card merchant companies. Someone that will go to court and defend small developers against patent trolls!

Oh wait. That's Apple.

Never mind.

Funny how people went ballistic when Apple wanted to charge either $1 or 25 cents for Firewire, but now 2.5 % is considered "reasonable".

I think one of the reasons for the re-wording was to remove the word "viruses" since it so obviously confuses people who don't know the difference between viruses and trojans and think the handful of Mac malware in 12 years is equivalent to over 17,000,000 for Windows. Sorry, but market-share doesn't account for that discrepancy.

It is precisely those unequivocal words like "nothing" that get people into trouble. Let's just say that there is only one thing more secure about MacOS X than Windows - the architecture.

This is just the typical "Apple effect". Apple uses industry standard marketing tactics and gets in trouble. Everyone conveniently fails to notice that that the "non-4G" iPad3 is 6 times faster than the old iPad. Any other company would have gotten away with marketing just that as 4G even without LTE.

We shouldn't read Florian Mueller because he takes money from Oracle. OK. Does that mean that we shouldn't listen to the FSF and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society because they take money from Google?

I have a book in the iBookstore. I set the price on it. Apple sells it for that price and gives me 70%. I have the same book in the other bookstores. I have no control over the price. They give me what they want, which is half of what Apple gives me. I have no choice or say in the matter. And the Department of Justice sues Apple? That's just wrong.

Like many Dreamhost customers, I have used many other hosts over the years. None has even come close to Dreamhost. Many companies try to project an aura of professionalism but are really mickey mouse operations on the inside. Dreamhost is the opposite. I think they make a point to act like clowns only to scare off the clueless, high-maintenance market.