Now knock and run can cost you a small fortune.

I think it is interesting that even academics and museum curators are interested in the cultural and architectural meanings in the compound eg. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/blog/index.php/2011/05/osamaslair/

I wonder if it will eventually become a tourist destination...

I don't mean corporates, I mean the Govt. agencies themselves that are currently using cookies, I bet they are the one of the first ones that work around it AND bill the tax payer for the effort of outsourcing the work to a foreign multinational. Yay! In the end it won't change squat.

Have they costed how much it will be to make their own sites compliant?

It sounds to me that with all the economic problems, the increased cost of living (petrol etc.) and since music is a discretionary spend people are just living within their means more. If they can listen to it for free then they will. I am getting tired of "luxury" business using slow economic times as proof that they need more govt. intervention or protection - maybe you are just selling the wrong type of good?

Oh and the ever decreasing "talent".

I used to buy between 10 and 12 CDs a year five or so year ago. Now I buy one or two songs. Times are tough and the product is rubbish. Music industry - do your homework, quit your whining, change or die.

This is at the heart of the issue. I personally know 3 different devs that have now halted building their apps for idevices, even the ones that weren't intending to build in a subscription model in the first iterations (if at all) are saying its too risky because if Apple are willing to do this what will they change next? In my conversations with them they all seemed pretty unwilling to hand over yet another business lever to Apple. They are switching to msites and android now.

Does this mean now we have a baseline for glamor photoshopping to be "keep it 67% real"?

Every few days I go to a presentation that some hot shot decides to run off their iPad using that dongle. They almost always end up apologizing for attempting it when the refresh rate is poor, the color is off and there are update issues when you rotate the devices. Even iPad wielding (and loving) senior management have pretty much ceased using it as a presentation device if there is anything else available to use. Having said that, for a 2 or 3 person show around a desk, it still punches above its weight.

+1 Literary

Internet still hell bent on filtering Conroy.

This might be true in Europe, but in Australia it will be priced similarly to the iPad. I have been told by Samsung that all the rumors about pricing out there are basically wrong, pricing hasn't been released. "No pricing has been announced and it’s not yet known if it will be sold outright as opposed to being tied to a telecommunications company like Telstra or Optus on a subsidised plan. McGee said the pricing would be "competitive" to Apple's iPad." http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/samsungs-ipad-rival-debuts-20100903-14rvg.html

RMS doesn't have allies, he has disciples.

I was at a conference when I overheard the head of AFACT talking to a senior person in APRA... it was a truly scary experience to hear them talk about how they have to "educate the public before they (the public) try to make torrenting legal" and how they want to ensure that they get a cut of every "performance" and they were using the most liberal definitions of what performance meant. They were portraying copyright enforcement to be the highest good. True believers (AND bad dressers!).

Won't that just mean that the cost of buying a spam campaign increase by $0.01 a message? The only way to stop spammer is to stop businesses paying them for it. There is of course the problem of spamming viruses.. this approach might make people more dilligent about keeping patched though?

I've participated in a wavelet writing hack-a-thon and was impressed by the scope of the collaboration that it provides. I saw it as an email, shared docs, blogs, instant messaging, photo sharing in one protocol. It certainly wasn't perfect and some parts were rather underwhelming but overall it seemed like the beginning of a new way of doing things. I was talking with one of the devs in the Sydney office and he said that they use it internally and are surprised by the way that the more they used it the more they discovered new ways to use it. I took that as a good sign that it was a technology/protocol that was at the beginning of the discovery rather than one that is released with every usage known. Would I use it commercially - not yet, but I can imagine it becoming a core tool to organising/interacting my social circle. I could easily see it being a great tool for collaborative programming and/or a new generation of remote role playing (build a dice rolling tool, a mapping tool etc.)