Agreed...

I use rsync to keep an iPhoto library mirrored between two macs. It's the easiest and fastest method I've run across. I did have to make a symbolic link to the library using a name without spaces but it "just works."

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -azvE -r --exclude '.DS_Store' --delete --verbose --progress /Users/otherdude/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary/ somedude@macbook-pro.local:/Users/somedude/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary/

Doomed? The PolicyKit API isn't even stable yet. Doomed might not be a strong enough word.

Jackass decisions like this is why I left DeadRat in the dust a decade ago.

You know... That's a really good idea.

Signed IP swapping somehow... Reverify those IP addresses as valid.

It would only require transferring them to a host processing site.

Then, they could be removed from block lists and be reallocated.

It would be a fuck load of record updates, though.

The idea is...

Once you learn to type this one cryptic password it's pretty secure and hard to forget. Typing it becomes second nature.

1 \/\/r4p 411 my p455w0rdz 1n d07z 4nd u53 13375p34k.

I pick a meaningful word to myself. Perhaps something like "Pathfinder," which is one of my favourite Vox amps.

This becomes: .p47hf1nd3r.

Why so defensive?

Because I've seen this argument 10 billion times on Slashdot. It was dumb then, and it was dumb now. There's nothing "artificial" about limiting the product line. It helps prevent consumer confusion. It has been a tremendously profitable decision for Apple-and not just in the computer line.

  Take the iPod vs. Zen, where Zen used to have myriad different players with different specs (5GB, 10GB, 15GB, some with FM radio, some without, etc). iPod's product line is getting increasingly convoluted, but it's still not nearly as bad as Zen. There's other reasons behind Apple's success besides flashy marketing, but few on this site seem to realize that.

First of all, you know what happens when you assume...

Secondly, if I go to a hotel restaurant and they assume I am a guest and only charge me the guest rate, am I stealing? I don't think so. If I falsified documentation to pass myself off as a hotel guest, then I am actively committing a fraudulent act.

Apple does not require the consumer to show proof of Mac ownership when purchasing the software, so you are not fraudulent in acquiring the software nor are you stealing. You are just making a retail purchase. Your argument does not hold up.

Sure, I agree that backups shouldn't duplicate unchanged data in every backup snapshot. But that would only happen if your "backup software" were literally imaging the drive and storing the images. Nearly every decent piece of backup software already does incremental snapshots, and imo it makes a lot more sense for that functionality to be in the backup system than as part of the filesystem.

i'd love to see the **entire** Asmoverse as a series on Sci-Fi. Give it a BSG budget, be true to the 50's look (like Sky Captain).

Yep, I have one of those boxes too. I don't seem to remember a computer being shipped with the DVD inside the box.

Really? That has nothing to do with this. Bobbs-Merrill Co. vs. Straus says that the creator cannot limit resale. Thats it. I can license a book, so that I will always retain the ownership of the book, but the licensee will have possession of the book under certain terms. The licensee has the right to sell his license to someone else under the same terms, yet he can not sell the book, since I retain the ownership of the book.

I just broke Slashdot rule 5, no criticism of Apple allowed, so I expect the fanfoys will mod me to oblivion.

Criticism of Apple gets you -2, but claiming that criticism of Apple gets you -5 gets you +6.