Gotta love quantum news posts: meaningless and meaningful at the same time, like a newspaper written by Schroedinger's Cat.

that is outrageous! this would never happen in a civilized country ... like Canada.

oh wait.

Only those of us living inside Taco's head.

No, that's what we call "a potential customer".

Mr. Smarty Pants (aka The Fin) disagrees, chum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq483GRQWnk&feature=related (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_r6XCRfXE&feature=related (part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqPq_pnMrfw&feature=related (part 3)

"If you throw enough Linguini at the wall eventually something will stick."

Unfortunately, it'll still be garbage.

If you have the talent, you should write a filter to generate an inverse waveform that subtracts the allegedly infringing music but leaves everything else intact. :)

I've purchased two Dell laptops, and both of them have had issues.

However, they have both been relatively low-end models, and the issues have been minor. I suspect they take a lot of shortcuts to get the price down, so I'm not really outraged about it ... the lesson is just not to buy cheap crap :)

My tower at work is a Dell Optiplex running Vista - *VISTA* - and it hasn't had any issues at all.

-1, Moronic
-1, Missing the point
-1, Fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism

"Your own means" is theft from the credit card company, not theft from Apple. It will only lead to your own balls getting kicked. (Again, if you count getting conned into buying a first-gen iPhone 4 as getting kicked in the balls; which, unfortunately, is increasingly looking like the correct interpretation of it.)

Uh, isn't this credit card fraud?

I suppose, if you had to pick *any* industry or group of companies larger than Apple to piss off, that would be a good one. However, I don't think it will end well for you if you give it a try.