Your viewpoint is a little close-minded. Just because an app/server/system/whatever doesn't have sensitive data, that doesn't make it pointless to try to exploit. Ever hear of chained exploits? You break into system X, from there break into system Y, from there break into system Z, etc. until you finally get to your true target. Some little homegrown app that nobody gives 2 cents about (especially in regard to software/system security) because it houses no sensitive data may provide just the perfect platform for an attacker to do an initial exploit against. Now that they have their foot in the door, they can utilize that compromised system to launch their real attack that may not have been feasible otherwise. I've seen countless companies where important systems are relatively well defended against the outside and user segments of the network, but are not well defended against other server segments. Hop into the server segment via a poorly coded homegrown app, and you've just bypassed a big layer of many companies' defenses.

I think you're making the false assumption that people will find the iPad so hideously unusable as an ebook reader that it will outweigh the other things it can do.

Please feel free to glue your Kindle to the back of your iPad, but here's a hint: don't apply for a job in Apple's design department :-)

Seriously, apart from the extra cost; the ergonomic problems of having a delicate display on both sides of the device; the need for a different user interface (and probably a whole new API and display manager) in ebook mode ("multitouch" depends on a responsive display) you're talking about investing R&D in a technology which will almost certainly be obsolete or confined to a niche with in a year or two.

My prediction: as soon as a "best of both worlds" display technology comes along that's up to Apple's standards, they'll use it. Sounds like the transflective display doesn't quite cut the image quality mustard yet, but its not vapour.

If its impossible to do your rights have been violated. You may have a right to cross the street but if there is a barricade preventing you to cross, then your rights have been violated.

No. I do not have the arrogance to push my beliefs on anyone elses. As for other beliefs, I listen to what they believe and augment my own if I think it makes sense. I do not pass judgement on anyone elses religious beliefs, since I nor anyone else can positively know the true answer.

You do realize that islam and Christianity all came from Judaism? They all share a common 'old testament' for the lack of a better world?

ALL religions are talking about the same basic beliefs. There is no right or wrong when everyone is talking about the same thing but in different languages.

Just use a damned kleenex. They easily survive a 20' fall, and they're much more sanitary than a digital pick system.

FALSE - there is no such thing as a 'right religion'. To say so implies there is a 'wrong' religion. With so many religions in the world what are the odds you were born into the 'right' one? What constitutes a 'right' religion? Did God himself come down and announce on TV 'Hey everyone, the Purple Striped Lamb of God followers in northern New Zealand got it right. The rest of you all should have known better and are going to hell'.

The world will be a lot better place to live when everyone realizes that there is no such thing as 'my god' and 'your god'. Everyone is really talking about the exact same thing, with the interpretations diverging because people push what they want to believe into the religion.

Want to kill someone? There's a bible or koran verse to justify that. Be vegetarian? Yup. Eat animals? Yup. Hate gays? Yup. Love everyone? Yup. Beat your children? Yup.

If people stop reading what they want to in the message and actually LISTEN to the message, we'd all just get along.

It's only a fetus after 10 weeks. Before that it is an embryo.

Actually it probably wasn't mentioned much. And in the first trimester the woman probably never realized she was pregnant. Before the 1500s, how life develops in the womb wasn't much understood at all.

I seriously doubt that any developer is writing a new application that requires IE6.

It was released last month (still called the 2010 version) and our accounts staff are using it.
The crap MSDOS shareware mentality still pervades the MS application developer community. You'll find a lot of big haystacks full of "strawmen" if you look around. It is a real problem not just one I've made up.

I agree with the guy saying it's nor malice, but I don't think it's exactly ignorance either. I think it's saying what needs to be said to win, the same as any other candidate for public office does.

And I still stand by my vote for Obama, even though I recognize that many things that were promised aren't happening (some of them haven't happened yet, but may still), and that some of his goals don't line up with what I believe is right. I stand by it because I believe that McCain would have been no better, and in fact somewhat worse. His stumbling over dealing with economic issues (before and after the meltdown), his commitment to the bailout, and his selection of Sarah Palin as running mate (who is a serious amplification of all the worst qualities of Obama, but with different political ideals, e.g., worshipped by her following but has very little experience) showed me that although Obama was very much not ideal, McCain was very much worse.

But so? What can you do with it?

This seems as useful as a flying toaster or geothermally powered airplane.

I don't. I think homeschooling can be a great thing. But I also know that exposure to different teachers with different ways of teaching and different beliefs, as well as other children with different beliefs can also be a good thing.

While this should be true, I'd say for the majority it is not. Parents take their kids out of school because they don't like what is being taught. Generally this is not an education standard (parents who care about the quality of teaching would help teach their child at home in addition to that taught in school), but an ideals standard - usually sex, religion or science.

When a parent takes a child out of class because they don't want certain topics taught to them, that is less intellectual freedom, not more. In a public school the parent and child are free to augment that teaching with whatever they like. In a home school environment, there is no such opportunity, for better or for worse.

Does distributing said code to the company's employees count as distribution? I'm genuinely interested in this case as I used to work for a company that used and modified code licensed under the GPL to create an internal backup application that got distributed to all company employees.

I requested a copy of the source code because I wanted to tinker with the code in my own time off work and see what made the program tick. Management and the developers both refused my requests, citing some mumbo-jumbo about intellectual property rights. I didn't want to jeopardize my job at the time, so I didn't press the issue. Looking back though, can they legally do such a thing, refusing to offer up the source code to an employee to whom the program is distributed? Does the program have to be distributed outside of the company to count as real distribution?