I see no contradiction. Windows doesn't crash because your processor executed instructions out of order, or a bit flipped in ram. No, It's because a bunch of ugly bags of mostly water wrote bad code that makes the computer crash. Then, the politicians, marketers and lawyers stepped in...

It's impossible to say what percentage of files on The Pirate Bay is illegal for two reasons: 1) It's subjective. What's illegal in one country might be legal in another, and what's legal before one judge might be illegal before another. 2) files are constantly being added. For example, try and determine what percentage of videos on YouTube contain cats doing something hilarious.

However, there's a surprising amount of content on TPB that is definitely legal, Linux ISOs of various vintages, books and video in the public domain, as well as content uploaded by it's author.

There's also a lot of content of questionable legality - is a No CD patch/crack legal? After all, it's just a series of instructions to change certain bits in a file matching a specific hash. How about a keygen? That's essentially a random number generator, unless you have the program it makes keys for. Probably depends on the laws in your country.

'Fake' files are likely also legal to download, as they tend to be random data and/or uploaded by (agents of) the copyright holders.

You would be right in saying that little of that has to do with the name Pirate Bay, though.

No they're not. They're a computer solutions company. Apple has said this before "We make the whole widget".

Nobody would buy an iPhone if it ran Android or Windows Mobile (never mind that android would hardly exist today if it weren't for the jolt the iPhone has provided to the 'smartphone' market)
Nobody would buy their wireless hardware (AppleTV, Airport Express/Extreme) if it didn't integrate seamlessly and effortlessly with their OS and applications
Their laptop line could probably stand on it's own (the unibody MacBooks have the best build quality of any laptop I've used) But even here I suspect Apple makes most of the profit from software integration (Selling MobileMe accounts, itunes music and apps, 'premium' software like iWork, Final Cut, Logic Studio, Aperture, etc)

Apple's business model (and the value consumers get from buying an Apple product) comes from the hardware AND the software, as one inseparable product.

What's with all the unnessicary bolding that seems to occur ever three or four words. It almost seems like their word processor is trying to speak like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.

That's actually pretty cool, and not at all scary (at least, no scarier than the bunker buster sized bomb they'd be dropping on the target anyway)

The other 190+ comments with Robocop/Terminator jokes (and the discussion thereof) is, however, far more entertaining.

If I had a nickel for every time someone proposed a hypothetical cure for cancer, why, I'd have enough to start my own research facility for creating hypothetical cures for cancer!

Just think of the unlimited profit opportunities!

Hmm, what's the difference between a single-shot radiation hardened FILM camera built in the 1940s designed to take pictures of ENORMOUS & insanely bright things (Nuclear explosions) and a 'camera' that records interference patterns in light to film CELLS at 6 million frames per second?

Gee, I dunno, they sound pretty similar to me.

This new one only has an imaging area of 50x50 pixels - the film in the Rapatronic can surely beat that!

A webcam can't track with that kind of 3d accuracy. Especially not without sticking some kind of marker(s) on your hand. Also, it looks like this method for tracking could easily be expanded to a whole desk, wall or floor just by adding more sensors (they seem to be spaced about 1 foot apart in each direction)

Seamless multi-camera tracking is definitely not trivial.

Everyone has been focusing on the how easy/difficult it would be to reverse this hypothetical algorithm that would determine based on your use of a webpage if you're human or not... ...I see a more fundamental problem. This is on the internet, so they have basically 3 options on how to implement this.
1) server side. The only variable you could track is time between page requests. Don't see how that could possibly be enough information
2) Client side JS. Simple, just modify the JS to return &isHuman=true
3) Client side JS acting as a keylogger, sending back for server side verification. Harder to defeat, but you'll lose my business, the business of all of my friends, and have a horde of angry nerds picket your offices.

Also, this doesn't take into account any edge cases, for example if I've already been to your site, surf straight to /contact.html and paste in a email I previously wrote in Word(err, excuse me, OOo)

About the same way slashdot does.

If you're that worried about how you're going to get porn when the terrorists cut all the fiber to your city, you might want to watch this video. These gentlemen have done some amazing research on the subject.

The only truly secure computer is one that has been powered off, disconnected from any and all networks, encased in a 1 inch thick lead box, then buried under 25 feet of concrete inside a guarded military compound.

While an anti-gravity pod fulled by love and gravy would be nice, I'll be buying the model that's powered by animosity and trans-fats. Sure, it's not as nice to look at, but you can refuel in many more locations.