We who are about to pull our hair out (from our families not listening to the words "Don't go to this site") salute you ....

*addendum*
Oh, and don't get me started on AT&T, I'm sure somewhere in their records from my old DSL account that says "if this guy calls, escalate his call to Tier 2 ... Immediately"

And the FCC is rightfully ticked. The big tech companies are acting like little children when it comes to the newest technology - "I got the gun" "Well then I have a Bazooka" "Well then I have an artillery cannon" "Well then I have a BFG" and so on and so on. The problem is, the parents (read the Gov't) isn't stepping in to stop the problem, instead the neighborhood kids (read 'the consumer') is getting drawn in the middle of the petty fighting. I'm all for deflating Apple's bubble, but then again working in IT, I know that if Apple was to get shutdown then there would be an increase in ammo sales in response to the number of trouble tickets with the words "why don't my icons bounce when the program is loading ?" or "Why can't I find 'mail' anymore ?"

Just cut to the chase and release the right press release ... "We are the Apple, open your wallets and surrender your monies. We will add you Dollars and Cents to our own. Your cash will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." (yeah, its old, but I'm just saying what everyone's thinking)

I find it mildly amusing that this group of movie studios isn't suing TPB on US Soil, no instead these companies have to take their embarrassing freak show of Illegally obtained evidence, overzealous lawyers, and greedy "businessmen" to a country where none of the players reside just to try and "stop the evil criminals". Simply put, enough is enough, I'm not defending TPB, but at the same time I think its safe to assume 3 things - interest in piracy is going to increase even more (stick it to the evil movie companies), America will look even worse in the global view for trying to "police the world" (thank you to those who posted that already), and simply put, if they do manage to stop TPB by some freak coincidence 10 more places will spring up in their place, 'cause you can't stop the signal (yeah ... I couldn't resist the Serenity reference). Instead of wasting time and resources these companies need to learn to stop fighting the new technology and use it to their advantage - DVD's and digital downloads without DRM (com'on how many ways does it have to be broken before these guys learn that its not working !?), CD's that don't lock up and freeze computers (oooh ooh .. how many people remember this Sony Fiasco ??), DVD's that don't remove your ability to skip previews (yes, I actually own DVD's that prevent you from Skipping the previews), the list goes on and on. Oh well, my 2 cents on the topic.

*snaps fingers* Of course .. the Bunnies ... They Multiply like mad and they have a Vicious streak a Mile Wide !

too early for April fools day ? I mean seriously ... the DHS couldn't be that stupid to implement yet another half-assed plan like this.

Thats kinda funny, considering the G5 Mac that I worked on had the Exact same kind of parts as my Pentium D thats sitting on my desk. OSX may be more reliable, but how much hardware won't work on it? (And I'm not completely anti-mac ... but Mac's that don't use the powerpc processors ... might as well be running windows because they're over priced PC's)

Never discount hacking attacks - Estonia '07

enlightening

Uhhh, it might be semantics, but Apple uses "Personal Computer" in their press releases - (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html) and in their own "Get a Mac" ads, while vendors and retailers combine Mac's and everyone else inside of the "PC" category.

Thank you for pointing that out, I used to some work supporting video editors and graphics people and one of the video editors and I used to get into discussions about Mac's Vs. PC's. He would keep telling me about how Mac's were superior and never had problems, but once we established the differences of PowerPC and Intel Processors and the difference between Windows and UNIX (yes Mac fans ... you ARE using Unix), it became a running joke between Apple products and everything else.

Its a start to get rid of the current administrators, however we're left with the same misleading, confusing, and just plain wrong laws that they have put in place (or were in place). The laws that were created by the ignorance of the leaders who either didn't understand the technology (or were paid off to look the other way and rubber stamp things). The US needs some leaders that understand the problems, instead of ones that blindly rubber stamp things based on fear and dollar signs.