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Of course most customers will use this as is. I'm thankful that HP isn't so paranoid of what their niche customers might do. The right of people to tweak products to suit their needs is a right that needs to be preserved.

No kidding - I've no need of organizations that exploit an ignorant public

I think you misspelled oppress above. People do not chose to live in China, inadequate state education, or to be the targets of RIAA attacks. Please do not insult people stripped of their homes and political prisoners with such trivializations. These thugs punish innocent people.

Banks are covered by specific laws.

Online services are barely covered and privacy policies are wobbly at best. (They can't even statuate if EULAs are binding contracts for fuck's sake)

Not every user is going to be a developer, that's why developers need to listen to the critics, because the critics don't have a developer's hat.

THAT is one of the things that makes OSS great.

LinuxHater's blog is aweseome, and I say this as someone who deeply loves Linux and GNU and all that is based on them. His criticisms are very well thought-out, not just stupid name calling, but clear, effective, technical, and explicit complaints about everything that is wrong with free software. He coats it with sardonic and bitter vitriol, yet beneath that tough exterior, there are the complaints of someone who has evidently spent a lot of time poking around the system, down to its gritty internals, and has found everything that could be improved about it.

Even Miguel de Icaza loves LinuxHater's blog. I recommend that any free software enthusiast spend some good time reading the blog. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder how you can make it all better.

For a person who spends his time getting first posts on Slashdot, they might as well be.

No he was not. As far as I can understand it he leaked material from the warez scene onto P2P.

Most (except probably a few unrespected crap groups) do not upload their material to P2P networks and don't want their material getting there. It is a security risk and it is exposing the scene.

These so called Uploaders on P2P torrent trackers are mostly people who have access to scene material in one way or another. Maybe just a crappy courier that isn't contributing or maybe someone who pays for leech or is hosting a server. Anyhow they are usually not respected individuals within the scene and upload things to P2P for either ideological reasons or just to get a bigger epenis.

Sorry for my rant but someone had to say it.

10 years in prison? I realize that's a maximum, but the reality is he's done nothing that should be even closely considered to being a danger to society.

This hangup about defending our bullshit economy which truly only services the "haves" in the first place is being taken to extremes and I'm getting tired of it.

I say pirate everything, convince your friends, family, etc. Let's see what they do when EVERYONE is downloading their shit. Are they going to throw us all in jail? Then where will they be?

Fuckers.

I beg to differ. Prince Omadeke has been very forthcoming with all the bank details, officially signed documents, and necessary guarantees to ensure our secret transaction is carried out according to all successful modalities.

His post's got Prince in it. That counts as goatse x 2 in my book.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The iPhone SDK has reportedly been pwned by the team that brought you AnySim. The new 'Pwnage' utility uses flaws in low-level iPhone functions to run unsigned code. Once the phone has been pwned by the utility, though, you can simply install custom .ipsw files via iTunes. Downloads should be available soon."
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/03/iphone-dev-team.html