Some are mobsters. When you look at how false antivirus malware proliferates and fleeces the unsuspecting public and even holds their computer for ransom. You can't help but see similarity in how they operate in function and philosophy to organized crime. They will undoubtedly push this through with this in mind. Of course without limits on who is eligible every 12 year old with a LOIC download could find themselves with punishments far in excess of their crimes. Make no mistake many who support this intend to use this on the civil dissidents of anonymous every bit as much as cyber gangs of card cloners or bank hackers. To the detriment of liberty for us all.

It's hard for me to image hating anyone more then BofA and AT&T. IMO this probably has something to do with their perverse campaign to always look for ways around any privacy wishes their users may have and their blatant attempts to circumvent the privacy settings the users have already set.

Phones get stolen. If they're willing to steal your phone then they're willing to break into your house especially if they know when you won't be home. Also if your employer gives you an iPhone then they can make you sync on a work computer which they do have access to.

You're right. I forgot they rolled the app store out for the Mac a few weeks ago. Comment withdrawn.

I have yet to have someone show me a "cool" app on an iPhone that wasn't an applet.

I've been telling all of my non-geek friends that when Apple says application they really mean applet, and the rest is just marketing BS.

Where are the criminal charges? Last time I checked phishing was illegal.

Come on guys ninth isn't so bad. At least compared to where we stand on education, health care, median income, disposable income of working class, access to health care, rate of higher education completion or distribution of wealth. Hell ninth in broadband isn't bad at all.

And so apparently did George Hotz. This the best case you could have against an Anti-Circumvention suit. Really he could argue that all he was doing was restoring features Sony removed from the PS3 (after many customers bought it) and the fact that he took several anti-piracy stances on his website only helps. I hope it goes all the way to the supreme court.

I was totally about to fly off the handle on this one too complete with a call for revolution and painting the streets with the blood of the bourgeoisie. *sigh* Maybe next time. This is actually a pretty common practice and compared to the same copyrights in the US the fees are actually rather reasonable.

This whole software patent thing is completely unsustainable. It's eventually going to get to a point where even the megafirms like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc will simply be unable to do any business at all. I'm hopeful that the whole thing implodes soon.

"Anymore," really? I thought after three decades of high profile penetrations into government systems from every department would have taught them that they were never secure. From the first moment they hooked two computer together on a network one of them got hacked.