There are two countries you don't invade:

• Afghanistan
• Russia

The Germans, the French, the British, etc. But did the USA learn ANYTHING from this? No. Stupid USA.

You arrogant little piss ant!

There are people I know personally that I am willing to bet the contents of my 401K that are WAY smarter then you are and they could give a shit less about repairing, hacking, or twiddling with the i[whatever] because that is not their interest.

Just because you get a woody playing with hardware like it was a blow up doll, does not mean the rest of the world does.

Now go sit in your mothers basement and have a great big huge glass of shut the fuck up.

YOU are geeks / nerds / techies / whatever label you prefer. Apple does not even count you as part of their customer base.

Apple is selling the coolest tech for largest market segment. You buy an apple device and it JUST FUCKING WORKS out of the box. and like it or not that is what people want. They don't want to have to do what you love to do and they HATE doing.

They want a device that just does what they need to do, and like it or not apple devices do just that.

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Wrong Answer -5. If TPB was a database of pointers to great articles, great proponents of free speech everywhere, databases full of public information, etc. then I would have no problem with them wrapping themselves in the flag of "freedom of speech and access to information" and I would be cheering for them.

If they did not point to, cracked software program repositories that are for sale NOW, Copies of Movies that are for sale NOW they would not exist, period.

The best example of this is that their main page lists: Audio - Video - Applications - Games as their search categories. NOTHING there about looking for great speeches about freedom. Look under audio for Martin Luther King and you see a grand total of 6 entries. Search for The Beatles and there are thousands. Search under Video for Martin Luther King and there are 7 entries, search for the Beatles there are over 160.

TPB about "freedom of speech and access to information"? Really? No, TPB is about a bunch of fucking free loaders who think they don't have to pay for anything because they have a fucking internet connection.

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Wrong answer -5. IF TPB was about "freedom of speech and access to information" they would have long ago stopped pointing people to places where they could steal the work product of legitimate businesses eg: Music companies, Movie companies, Software companies, et. all.

You forgot the $20,000.00 engine overhaul monthly contribution.

Oh how I dream of an annual where nothing was found to be: chafed, worn, broken, bent, misaligned, out of spec, to dim, to bright, to loud, to soft, to loose, to tight, overinflated, under inflated, corroded, pitted, to smooth, not smooth enough, smelled like gas, didn't smell like gas and the cute girl in the front office of the FBO handing me a bill for well over $1500.00

While you make come good points... Consider the following...

1080P video has 2,073,600 pixels per frame (ppf). If the color depth (cd) is 24 bits, then that is (cd * ppf) places to hid a SINGLE bit!

At 24 FPS 10 minutes of video = 14400 frames. Divide that by 8 gives a message of ~1800 words ( if not using unicode ).

Each BIT of the message is hidden in 1 of 49,766,400 bits.

Careful analysis will hide that bit in boundary regions ie: an area where color is blending into another color since the color variations are already randomized a bit to make the blend appear as seamless as possible, so setting a specific bit and then storing that location as part of the key, will, I would argue, make a statistical analysis for all practical purposes, impossible.

Consultant for 15 years and just accepted a full time position at a UC, the offer was to good to turn down. I turn 53 at the end of the month.