PC's don't come with Adobe CC out of the box either, so it's no comparison. iPhoto blows the socks off any photo editing / management app that you can get for free for Windows. By miles. Quite apart from the fact that normal people can use it, it actually manages to organise your photo library in a sensible way without requiring you to dick around with folders.

Whether or not Lightroom is better or worse than Aperture is a matter of opinion. I've used both, and rather prefer Aperture, but Lightroom does have more features. Aperture's organisation of photos is far superior - but it depends on how you like to look after your photo library.

And of course, Photoshop is available for both Mac and Windows, so there's no argument there either.

Seriously?

OS X has sandboxing by default out of the, er, box.

Ha - awesome. You insulted me. Good job.

So the thing is this - the ease with which it's possible to fake your system's credentials to receive support for which you haven't paid is irrelevant. It simply doesn't matter how easy it is - the only thing that matters is whether or not you do it knowingly. If you, with intent and planning, put that number 9 into a registry key with the aim of extending the support beyond its legitimate date, then yes you have committed a crime (*)

Why is this not obvious?

* Now, to be clear, I don't know if it's a crime or just a civil matter or whatever - and it's highly unlikely that you will be pursued for committing this heinous act - but the point I'm trying to make is that intent is the issue, not that it being easy to do makes it ok.

Seriously? Most women you've met fall under two categories? For real? And let me guess, do those categories happen to be slut and not-slut? Let's read on...

Well I'll be. How about that. Your attitude to women is quite frankly pretty shocking, except of course it isn't because I hear it all the time. Listen carefully. Women do not fall into 'one of two categories'. Not even most women. There is no 'they'. I mean, are you trolling or something? Do you really believe this shit? How old are you?

Why do slashdotters find these issues so hard to understand. The law is all about intent. If you intend to access services to which you are not entitled, the ease with which you do so is entirely irrelevant to the discussion of whether or not your actions are legal.

You can type in eighteen "plain text" keystrokes (whatever that means - aren't all keystrokes plain text? Anyway) and log into the Attorney General's gmail account. Well, if you knew the password you could. But the action is trivially simple. And that doesn't matter. And why would it? Would you want the law to be based on how difficult an action is to undertake? It's pretty easy to pull a trigger you know...

OH come on - just because something is easy to do automatically makes it legal. Is that your argument?

If you're not authorized to receive upgrades and/or support, and you knowingly misrepresent your system in some way in order get those upgrades and/or support. Well of course that's illegal.

Do you really believe that? If your life is so special and precious, it shouldn't be something I can so trivially extinguish with this here handgun.
Oops - And I told myself I wasn't going to use analogies, which inevitably end up driving the conversation in the direction of whether or not the analogy holds.
Sigh.

And they say that it's nothing to do with revenge...

Good lord.

Yeah. You'll probably find something upwards of 90% of those people were innocent.

Plus, the general comment seems to be that the children are used to getting their own way, and have become used to immediate gratification of their wishes. Doesn't sound like it's got a whole lot to do with computers to me. It's certainly easier to leave pre-school kids in front of iPads that it would have been to leave them in front of the TV - they have more fun with the iPad than the TV. But it doesn't change the fact that this is simply bad parenting, and not a problem with technology per se.

In The Loop FTW. Now that's a TV series you can get behind.

Silverstripe is great, I've used it quite a bit and it does stand head & shoulders above the competition. But, possibly this is because it's written in PHP, it's dog-slow. Odd that the four comments above are all AC...

It's a problem because insurance cares about who's fault a crash is. If it's your fault, your insurance has to pay up - and they may even refuse to if they can prove negligence, in which case you have to pay up. Bad news all round. If it's the other parties fault, then same story but for them.

BUT - if it's some computer programmer in Silicon Valley's fault.. well, now we're in a whole other area. Do computer programmers need insurance now? It's a whole big liability clusterfuck, and I think it's entirely possible that it might prevent fully-automatic car driving in a general urban type environment from ever taking off, no matter how smart it gets.

Mind you, I thought that about fully-armed drones blowing people up too, and it looks like I was wrong there...

Slight irony, since sound in Windows works fine... ;-)