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I'm a boy, and I've met girls who I'm better at math than.

Therefore boys are better at math than girls.

Heh, stupid girls probably can't even follow simple basic logic like that ;-)

Only wimps use optical media, _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Uhh... and how would Mac owners upgrade to the latest OS? Download how many gigabytes of files that make up Leopard?? Oh yeah... I got hours to sit around and wait for that to complete.

Think before you post.

Well obviously you'd put an RFID chip on the scanner as well. Christ, do I have to think of everything around here?

Legal (in many countries) iTunes DRM removal has for a long time flourished and been available using tools from the Hymn Project website (myFairTunes7, QtFairUse6) but on the 20th Apple sent a Cease and Desist note to their ISP forcing the site admins to remove all download links. It is speculated that this is due to a new tool (Requiem) being created that attacks FairPlay through cryptographic means instead of copying the unprotected music from memory while being played, but since the tools are no longer available (and there are still after several days a lack of public mirrors ...) discussions around this has died out. Many users buy music from the iTunes store and rely on DRM removal to be able to play the content on their mobile phones. Is Apple on dangerous grounds here, since those users might now start checking out competing services?
http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17241#17241

Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is set to feature several new enhancements to Spotlight, Apple's desktop search, according to ComputerWorld. These include searching across multiple networked Macs, parental search snooping, server spotlight indexing, boolean search, (sorely needed) better application launching, and quick look previews.

Two stories in the news offer contrasting approaches by Web companies to questions of free speech. First YouTube: reader skraps notes that the Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs; but when he turned his attention to Islam (mirror of Gisburne's video by another user), YouTube pulled the plug, saying: 'After being flagged by members of the YouTube community, and reviewed by YouTube staff, the video below has been removed due to its inappropriate nature. Due to your repeated attempts to upload inappropriate videos, your account now been permanently disabled, and your videos have been taken down.' Amazon.com provides a second example of how to react to questions of free speech. Reader theodp sends along a story in TheStreet.com about how Amazon hung up on customers wanting to comment on its continuing practice of selling animal-fighting magazines. The article notes that issues of free speech are rarely cut-and-dried, and that Amazon is doing itself no favors by going up against the Humane Society.
Update: 02/11 04:25 GMT by KD : updated Nick Gisburne link to new account.