One place? Which city is it that you want to nuke, Seattle or Cupertino?

...or both. /grin

My freedom is in not watching. Why bother with advertising, DRM, subscription fees in the first place? There's hardly anything worth watching anyways. Do you really view all of that stimulation as an inalienable right? With all of this in-fighting and territorial control by companies over "mindshare", viewership, eyeballs, I take it as a sign we're on the wrong track.

It's a spin on a Yogi Berra quote.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Great post, wish I had mod points. I agree that we need to find a well-defined event, one that is measurable and scientifically derived. However, I fear that it will be a very long time until there is consensus. In my mind this problem is reminiscent of, in AI, defining consciousness in scientific or mathematical terms. It may be that we simply don't have the understanding yet to answer it one way or another, and so are left with the blind leading the blind.

Additionally, thank you for pointing out the obvious. In all my thought regarding other key events such as development of beating heart, brain structure, and birth, etc, I never realized that there was another that occurred so early. Probably because I do not consider an embryo a human, and I was mentally lazy. I like undermining my own prejudices with new information and logic. But opinions aside, formation of unique DNA has a lot going for it, logically.

I believe this is known as Cognitive Dissonance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Thank you for this truly entertaining post.

It just occurred to me what he should have done - emailed Jobs. Cut out the middle man and talk to somebody who would definitely know about the phone's existence. As we all know Jobs does in fact read his email and respond. Did the guy find it in the bar back in March? That is a lot of time with it sitting around (accounting for when the story broke this month, and say, a week or two to settle the deal with Gizmodo) - I wonder how long he really had the phone is his possession before he decided to make some cash off of it.

I would argue that original software from 2003 is Security Through Obscurity. Malware will be targeting bugs in current versions of software.

I'm with you. I don't ever update, run anti-virus, or do realtime anything. My box always runs as fast as the day I installed it. All of my anecdotal evidence tells me that 100's of layers of patched windows dll's slows the system down, even without antivirus/firewall running. The registry and file system themselves are permanently thrashed, no way around it.

If I'm behind 3 layers of hardware firewalls, know better than to click FreePorn.jpg.exe, then I consider it a license to administer my systems however I please.

I liken running realtime antivirus and installing constant hotfixes to getting a daily colonoscopy "just in case".