Apple doesn't tend to go down those slippery slopes. They are able to use discretion and judgement.

There seems to be a permanent shift in the younger generation not owning music. I don't know that piracy is the problem. My daughter and her friends (all teenagers) don't pirate but they, with very few exceptions for which those services don't work, don't buy music on a per song or per album basis. Rather they subscribe to services or get ads via. things like Pandora, youtube and Spotify.

My generation which was enculturated to buy music still buys. But I think we are talking about a true cultural shift where younger people see music like TV shows as something they wouldn't own for a lifetime.

Apple does that all the time. They have free music I think every week. This is a higher end promotion where they purchases a premium product not something from an up and coming band.

No it is a "we reserve the right to act in the common interest". Which is something if you actually own an Apple device that they do regularly. You know all those apps your phone came with, you didn't pick them either.

Well first off this wouldn't download except on wife. But that's a stupid expectation. Apple does push out security updates and things like that as needed. Also if you have autoupdate on then you have it on for applications most likely in which case this could be happening as frequently as daily as various mobile apps update.

Purchases over 50m download from wifi. So no this wasn't hitting a data cap at all.

Purchases over 50m download from wifi. This wouldn't have used their cellular data plans.

You are a macpro user. You can move swap where ever you want. Either just hardlink /private/var/vm/swapfile to some other drive or change the path in com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist to point to a directory with a larger drive.

Apple is pretty good about this. For about a decade they've had a sequence of warnings as your drive gets too full. I don't know the exact level they kick in because I give the systems the swap space they need but yes they do warn users effectively.

The album including artwork is 144m. Macmini come in 500g-1t sizes for quite a while now. Which means you are talking .01-.025% or so. If you are running your computers that close to locking up it ain't Apple that is at fault. Besides why would you have an iTunes account at all on work computers or be set to autodownload?

And just to add to that, this isn't the first time. They did it 4x earlier with songs and videos I believe.

Revenues are up almost 50% since Job's years. There have been several successful products launched and Apple is much more heavily embedded in the global mobile ecosystem. So yes.

IPv6 traffic is increasing exponentially and we are already up to 4.42% ( http://www.google.com/intl/en/... ) . My money is IPv6 is the majority of all traffic by the end of 2018 and likely during 2017.

You noticed one problem below. But there is another one. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits not 64 bits. They are (2^64)^2 in size. 2^64 is the size of a IPv6 subnet. Now the universe is still about 10^80 atoms so you still have 2.9e41 atoms per address. So your main point that the original poster was wrong about the relative size still holds.

Mozilla has their own billion dollar corporation, Samsung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

You can't use the product yet but there is major potential there for a Rust based high speed engine built from the ground up for parallelism. They could very easily lag the competition for the next couple of years then leapfrog them.