There was a time when all your text messages were included on your phone bill, or at least mine... but this was also 8 years ago...

and here I was going to say "The Anarchist's Cookbook".

WRONG!

They are going to use the 'prisoners' in Gitmo to do 'harvesting' in WoW and other MMOs...

THAT is going to be the single determining factor. IF, when you were hired, there is ANY documentation indicating that during your time with the company, whether on or off the clock, all the code that you produce belongs to them, unless there was some kind of exemption, then you need to suck it up and move on. Of course, you can go the legal route. But you first may need to get a lawyer that will take the case AND tell you that you actually have a valid case.

I was thinking that the joke was NMCI (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet).

So the primary focus of most any company putting out a product is not to make a profit?

I'm thinking that you might need to re-think that...

It's possible. Think of it like this: If they have a warrant to search and seize your residence, then they can check everything that they have a warrant for. However, if you do not know where they keys are to something, then they would have to use their own resources to remove the locks. I think that the same principle would apply here. Most places won't have the resources required to crack certain levels of password protection. Rather than circumvent the technology by adopting a better system (as their is always a better system) then they feel it is easier to circumvent rights and require you to provide the keys...

First, people have done it before the advent of the internet and world wide web were popular. Of course, it has become so ingrained into our society that there are things that you might miss out on if you disconnect from the grid...

Second, my wife and I did that before the birth of our son. We did it for six months. We got rid of cable, internet, and cell phones and stuck with only a landline. Possible, yes. Inconvenient as all hell? Better believe it.

We wound up going back to all three and ditching the landline. Cable has better entertainment choices, especially adding in Hulu and Netflix. Internet adds tons of possibilities for reference, entertainment, news, etc.

Just remember, those above you in a company, may have a clause that indicates something along the lines of "As long as the company shows a profit, ANY profit, then you will receive your obscene bonuses..."

Greed is a motivator.

So, people are saying that Apple won't do something that would infringe on their income (re: iTunes). Others have said that they won't do something to screw over their userbase. The whole problem is going to be in the EULA that comes with iCloud and whether or not by accepting the EULA that you can have your files reviewed to see if they contain pirated material. Proving that you are in legal possession of copyright material will be YOUR responsibility, not Apple's. Factor in that RIAA probably realizes that more money is to be had from sales from Apple and that they have probably had some prior collaboration prior to iCloud. Otherwise, if RIAA pisses off Apple, could Apple not just say "screw it. We're closing iTunes store to all members of RIAA. Everyone can just download their pirated stuff for free." or they could offer a monthly rate that might screw RIAA over.

I think that the RIAA is not going to fight with Apple. Not that the RIAA is smart, they aren't. But, taking on Apple is kind of like SCO taking on IBM.

Everything is debatable, given the right lawyer(s).

Are you kidding? The airlines will blame anyone they can in order to defer their incompetence unto another party, ESPECIALLY United.

The last thing that an airline wants is for the public to lose confidence in them, so they'll blame lulz or anonymous or the Chinese... whichever will get them the most sympathy from the public.

When their ban includes every existing programming language and these guys can't play their Farmville...

Except that a gesture used to interface with a touch screen is a process. It's a process to interface with the system.

This is news? Isn't this the same as the US admitting the existence of Delta Force, Seal Team 6, or Area 51? I mean really?

Rah, rah, the Chinese have a "computer commando" unit... big freaking deal. A "blue" team the same as a US "red" team? Great, so it's a pen-test team, maybe with other duties. Like the US doesn't have anything like that in the government or private sectors...

/., it's too early to be wasting my time on this...