Were the anti-virus and anti-malware companies simply unable to detect this, or were they complicit in its distribution (by not reporting its presence to users)?

Actually they did. Ebook prices dropped everywhere but Amazon.

Wow. Are you so enamoured with Apple that you have to deny inconvenient facts? From the first paragraph of TFA:

A federal judge on Friday approved a settlement in which Apple could begin paying $400 million to as many as 23 million consumers related to charges that it violated antitrust law by conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices and thwart efforts by Amazon.

See that? It says "raise ebook prices".

I am constantly amazed by the number of people on /. who appear to support Apple in their quest to make ebooks more expensive for consumers.

So why does Amazon get to set the price, and not Apple or the publishers?

There would not have been a problem if Apple had tried to lower the price of ebooks.

£36 can get a weekday travel lodge / premier inn type room

Which makes me wonder why they stayed in Blackpool? It's some distance off the direct route. Did they want to see the tower? The illuminations?

2. Sun owes me $1m for each JDK I downloaded back in the day.

To date I haven't received payment.

You are not so naiive as to think that contracts actually apply to big companies when being sued by ordinary people do you? Contracts only work the other way round in the USA.

The owners of this hotel are no doubt becoming familiar with the Streisand effect right now. OTOH, £36 for a hotel room? What did they expect? I know it's Blackpool, but still, no one should expect much for £36 pounds.

What I see reading that is that the OpenRC was not seriously considered. There are a bunch of claimed requirements that appear to rule out OpenRC, but I don't see those requirements tracked back to any benefits. Perhaps the justification for those requirements is obvious to those who made the decision, but it isn't obvious to me.

Taking the requirements in turn:

* Lack of integration with kernel-level events to properly order startup.

So what? OpenRC has dependency built in and the added improvement of integration with kernel-level events would bring only a very minor improvement.

* No mechanism for process monitoring and restarting beyond inittab.

In my experience, this is solving a non-problem. I don't experience processes dying and needing an immediate re-start without any other action.

* Heavy reliance on shell scripting rather than declarative syntax.

So what?

* A fork and exit with PID file model for daemon startup.

Not sure what advantage this brings.

Perhaps we both should look up the word. While we're at it, let's look up Obama's preferred policy, "single payer". Wouldn't it be interesting if the two terms were synonymous.

Perhaps it would be interesting if the two terms were synonymous, but they are not. Had Obama advocated for all healthcare providers being directly employed by the government, all healthcare facilites owned by the government, that would be socialism. But he didn't. There is a difference between the government directly providing medical care and the government paying private companies to provide medical care. One is socialism and the other isn't.

But you don't care. All you care about is that he is left of your own views and any suggestions that he is not socialist don't fit into your ideology, so they can't be true, can they?

but most Democrats in office today would have been considered moderate Republicans even twenty-five years ago.

Yes, the Koch brothers and others have been successful in moving the center of US politics way to the right. The Tea Party is one of the strategies that they have used to achieve this.

Perhaps they were lost due to NAT.

A VPN that had been working, suddenly quit "due to NAT"? No, there was no NAT involved at either end.

A president who leans socialist

Very funny. Or did you not mean it as a joke? Then perhaps you need to look up the word socialist.

Obama doesn't "lean socialist", he just doesn't lean quite so far to the right as many US politicians.

Full Disclosure: I am a network ops engineer for Comcast.

Please tell me why (a few years ago), Comcast decided to block my VPN ESP packets. Yes, the VPN established a connection, but the payload was never delivered.

What network reason was there for this? Other people noticed it at the time and I can still see reports of this going on.

Clearly, your claim to transport all packets equally has not always been true and may not be true now.

Serious question. Forget about questions of fairness, step back and look at first principles and evaluate whether the regulations are of value to society. Were these rules ever necessary? If so, why? Do the same reasons apply to Uber and Lyft?

Some are clearly necessary. Others not so much. Unfortunately, the regulations around medallions are often abut revenue for the city, which merely pushes up costs for the taxi drivers. In return, the taxi drivers get a limit on competition.

Had the same problem until I started signing my email with DKIM. Suddenly google and friends were accepting it without problems.

I have good DKIM and SPF, and Google accepts my email, but with a fresh Gmail account, it goes into the spam folder. I know that my DKIM and SPF is good because Google sends me DMARC reports saying that my emails passed.