And that's up 21% from yesterday's close. This looks like a pump and dump so they can afford lunch.

Bradbury was right on target.

But the firemen don't need to burn paper books, they just need to wipe your kindle (of 1984, if I recall (in great irony)), close down the websites and prevent your iPad from accessing anything outside the walled garden.

How long before Publishers and the RIAA are hunting down camps of vagrants, people who recite to others "I am The Grapes of Wrath" or "I am The Beatles" ?

We are headed for some dark times. They didn't have to burn our books. Instead, they gave us electronic toys, and we burned the books for them.... And they control the electronic toys. So now we are screwed.

Is this not the greatest bit of dialog in the history of cinema?

I agree with the other poster who replied to this. There are no decent women. If they are good looking, they are crazy. If they are fugly, then there's a chance they have a brain, but by the time you find out, you're really not interested. It's a no win situation and what I've discovered after 20 years of dating, is that I'm happier by myself.

Frankly, the sex isn't worth the effort to acquire it. If everything was that much work, nothing in the world would ever get done. Much, much simpler and more effective to pay for services when you're horny, get it over with, and then get back to what you're doing (i.e. work or hobby). If your hobby *is* women, then fine, maybe you're one of those people that prefer the agony.

Now, don't think of me as misogynist, I get along fine with my female co-workers, and I'm very much the gentleman. I've simply made the decision that I'm not going through the "pursuit" process anymore, because the goal isn't worth the effort.

Or your TV won't turn on!

Yeah, this won't be abused by greedy bastards. It's DMCA all over again, but now for electricity. Coming next, Sony demos batteries that charge you by the volt. Want to use your cell phone to make a call? There's a bill for that!

They are gonna "charge" for your "charge"...

The movie takes place in Britain, which is a bit more level-headed than the USA...

Here in America, the police would just mow down the crowd with machine-gun fire and call it a day. Sure, there would be some news reports about police brutality, and some videos would show up on Youtube, but that would be about it.

In this Post-9/11 world, we need to take great pains that individual citizens not have access to corporate data. That's hacking.

And Hacking is Terrorism.

By looking at corporate data, you have violated that companies laws of privacy, which they are entitled to, since they pay off congressmen. You however, as a citizen are not entitled to privacy, and to prove it the government is flying a drone over your house RIGHT NOW, spying on you looking at the data on the hard-drive.

Please sit down and wait for the authorities to arrive. If you are co-operative, they may only pepper spray you, although some are tasered for good measure.

After a few years in Guantanamo you may be released back into the general public, but that's only after you've been properly waterboarded to reveal the names and addresses of any other hackers you know.

Or if I were you... I'd throw that drive in the fire, pack my bags and head to Mexico RIGHT NOW.

And then the government blames the crash on radio interference, and then demands that, in the interest of protecting children, we give up all our electronic equipment that might cause RF interference.

In the meantime, in pirate-land...
"Hey, wanna crash a drone? There's an app for that!"

Dick Cheney, while trying to shoot down a drone over his house, shoots some guy he knows in the face.

The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley sits alone at a cafe...

Or something like that is how the chapter about Steve Jobs started. At the time the book was written, Steve was still running NeXT and was bitter about being kicked out of Apple.

I have to wonder how that chapter is going to be updated, now that Steve is universally hailed as a genius. A lot has happened since the book was written. Pixar, iMac, iPhone yadda yadda.

And with Steve's biography on the shelves and Accidental Empires... well, not, I also have to wonder if this is the author's way of staying relevant, considering that when the book was written the entire concept of mobile computing had yet to be realized.

Carriers are crying all the way to the bank. Anyone selling the iphone has seen their sales jump as people ditch their carriers in a mad scramble to get the hottest phone on the market.

A story came out last week detailing that Apple is now one of the biggest phone makers on the planet. This is from a company who's primary market was computers. Clearly, they are doing something right if everyone wants what they are selling.

If the carriers don't like the iPhone, stop selling it, and watch all your business dry up. That's how the free market works, capitalist pigs.