I can't speak to the obfuscation, but indexing the files provided a huge performance increase compared to other DAPs when the iPod was released. The responsive, intuitive click-wheel interface is definitely the key to the iPod's success and it wouldn't have been possible using a traditional FS based system.

A beowulf cluster being held by Natalie Portman covered in grits.

You don't really think that's a word, do you?

Samsung has a lot to lose by alienating Apple. Apple is a huge customer, very few organizations buy in the volumes that Apple works with. Losing a big account would suck, but Apple pouring billions of dollars into Samsung's competitors to improve their manufacturing technology will make a large impact on Samsung's ability to compete.

Also consider that Apple's order volume enables Samsung to run their factories at higher capacity, reducing overall operating costs by reducing or eliminating downtime. In some cases this could mean that a factory would not be able to operate profitably. Could Samsung's US fab maintain their price points and sustain their infrastructure development plans without Apple as a customer? I have no idea but it doesn't seem like an obvious answer.

Click the wrench icon on your toolbar, navigate through the Tools sub-menu and select "Extensions." You can disable or delete Chrome add-ons from there.

That's the point of money laundering and it works fine with real money too.

I don't think that excludes shitty porn sites. I chose porn because ~70% of malware infestations I've encountered on customer computers appeared to have come from porn-related trojans.

Because reputable pornography vendors don't distribute malware.

I'd wager the majority of the Windows malware "infections" are trojan exes from shitty porn sites.

Samsung manufactures a couple advanced components of the iPhone to spec. They don't make the iPhone, practically or otherwise. I think the only component sole sourced from Samsung is the processor, which Apple designed and owns.

Because the only way to avoid it was to never use your Xbox?

Android just sucks.

But then how will the pastor watch porn on his iPad?

My iPhone has four buttons and a switch. Maybe yours is defective.

I don't have a newish Mac but doesn't Rosetta translate PPC instructions to Intel/x64? I'm not so sure it's really so impossible (though I do think it's unlikely).