Bullshit. Apple is "saying" that they're doing it for personal data reasons, but the real reason is that they want to OWN the relationship between the consumer (you) and them (the company).

No, the real reason is liability.
If you sell the machine and believe it to be secure and sell it as such with out the review & audit, and then it's proven to be insecure, fine, unknown bug.
If you audit the machine with white hat hackers, they tell you of issues, you sell the machine anyways, it's hacked, you're on a very big hook.

But... They wouldn't have done their best.
You'd never want your lawyer to short your appeals- that would be grounds for another appeal (they didn't do everything possible) and be a career suicide for your lawyer (who'd want to hire someone who didn't do everything possible for you; bar sanctions; plus a law suite when you sue for failing to do everything possible all come to my mind).

You want this case battle tested to the very, very, very bitter end. Each of these scars give armor and defense to Linux and GNU.
Anything less would not do.

Would it be possible to create an emulated disk layer which would handle the request?

Now just wait for a data center to be scheduled to close in some Congressman's home district and see how big of a block is put into place.

Strong correlation between the time window and sequence of films in the queue would ID the students.

Thanks for the correction.

On your line to a for film school- NF would notice a group in a zip code or a short distance from one another all selecting the same films- adding external data sources to this should be able to determine if someone is in school and if so what classes they are taking (see the ability to tie movie reviews to facebook data sets).
Further, the longer someone rents from NF the larger the dataset is, so a more complete idea of what the person likes and dislikes should pop out, and something like a film school course rentals would become noise.

Actually, from a movie studio's point of view, I'd want to data mine the NF data set to see what types of movies actually do well, cross broad demographics, and so on, and then make the crappy movies based on that criteria.
I'm sure the investors would demand that.

But, now depending on your movie selections a good system will be able to defer those bits of information.
Data leakage happens; just computers made it easier to do the grunt work.

Tim,

Please read the story yourself;
It's not Firefox that Vista tries to change but IE8. Google's toolbar caught the action in IE8 and alerted him to the change. He then said that there was no alert option offered in Firefox's Google toolbar.

Try a local gym, take a group class and start off by trying to memorize everyone's name in the class. From there, just start talking with people and making friends, give them your Facebook profile (if you have one), and start going to social gatherings.

I would also suggest a local bar- regardless if you drink or not (and if you do, I strongly suggest joining the gym to burn off the extra calories that you will be consuming). Some bars have a vibe about them that bring out the eccentrics- find one and try it out. (I can think of a few here in Boston where half of the people on a Saturday afternoon are reading books along with their beers; or talking philosophy, glass blowing, and IT security).

My final thoughts are: Library - volunteer your IT skills (plus Library girls are cute & hot); join a museum and see if they have singles night (always great).

Also, don't be afraid to make a few guy friends. They can be great wingmen and people to talk to about bad dates / breakups.

One of my friends from college was a game tester for Sega back in the day (still in the biz). I remember the conversation about the oddest stuff he saw during his tenure and his response was "Barney (for the Megadrive / Genesis) would self play" if there was no input from the user after a minute or so.

I wonder if that prior art is listed?

Fueldump, with two trick jumps, 2m23s.

Now, what I really want is ET to be updated so it can take use of the multi-core CPUs that I have and not bog down with large open spaces.