This is correct. In the late 1990's Sheryl Crow had a song with the lyric Watch out sister/Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each other/with a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores. It was banned and to this day the album isn't available in stores (or online). It is available on their download site here. Go figure. For details on the controversy, see here.

As for the story at hand. I've learned to mostly avoid the App Store and the entire iTunes store. It isn't worth it anymore.

With an enthusiast site like that, you might be able to ask for donations if you give a good explanation.

Sounds like you just love griping. Cox has the highest customer satisfaction rating among cable providers.

There are free newsgroups on the internet, go use one of those instead. They're not blocking NNTP traffic, they're just no longer running their own server.

Since upgrading, I've been having a problem [launchpad.net] where x.org sometimes fails to start up when I boot.

Actually, X does start but I there's a run condition in their Upstart configuration that sometimes cause the the VT to stay on the VT1. You can just press [ctrl] [alt] [F7] to get to the X session for now.

I dunno about any button issue, but a couple of versions back they pulled the very nice update widget from the system tray, and replaced it with a horrible Apple-style distracting popup and a 'notification area' which is a usability nightmare (big black popup every time my network status changes, for instance, which hovers for about 30 seconds right over my eyespace but is not clickable to say 'yes I know stop bugging me').

Lots of people flagged these 'upgrades' as bugs, explicitly requesting reinstatement of the old, working, behaviour, but Mark himself came on the bug system to say 'no, we're doing it my way'.

It's not an isolated incident. It's a pattern.

Vorbis and Theora as both tributes to characters in Terry Pratchett novels.

Tell me was that on after the piece on Aliens, or before their piece on Bigfoot?

Sex drives people, but porn does not determine which technology wins or loses.

Thank you for your comment. I purchased this book because of it.