How is the Mac EFI "inaccessible"? Just put your EFI extensions (for example rEFIt or an EFI shell) on any disk with an EFI partition or a HFS+ volume with the appropriate blessings. The disk can be CD, USB or FireWire.

Of course, it is not often you need to do this, since it's very rare to see a Mac that doesn't boot OS X from any device. In out Mac cluster at work, we can almost always netboot the machine and diagnose from there, when the OS X install DVD won't boot.

It has an easy access temporary disable feature for this reason. Also, during office hours it will be automatically disabled anyway, so try to keep your work hours sane and you'll be fine. :-)

It works for me in Finland, Sweden and many other European countries I've been to. I can't recall having tried it in other parts of the world, though, but I wouldn't be surprised it worked in most urban areas.

SSL uses domain names for verification, but it does not rely on them for authentication. If you hijack an SSL-enabled website, you would also need to steel their private key.

I tried and failed (googling iphone and sexy doesn't really give the results I want in this case). Care to hand out a link or two?

Your state has invented the IRL EULA. Congratulations!

Wow, you're angry. But it makes me curious - what troubleshooting options have you tried? Booting from installation media? Reset PRAM? Booting from an external hard disk? Putting the computer in Target Disk Mode and examining the logs from another computer?

Mind you, they don't necessarily need access to the device internals to detect that it's running malware. There are products for ISP's that detect traffic patterns that indicate an infected computer, and then isolate the computer in question in a sandbox network where all HTTP requests go to a support page with cleanup tools and links to anti-virus vendors. I guess you can employ a similar strategy for wireless networks.

(My employer used to have such a product, I think it's still in use in some Finnish broadband companies.)

While this used to be true, it isn't anymore (try installing iWorks, iLife, XCode ...). For complex software (say, you want to be able to run code post install, or install several packages at once), Apple recommends using PackageMaker to create pkg or mpkg bundles that are installed using the OS X Installer application. Also, OS X has package management that keeps track of what you have installed and what files belong to which application. See man pages pkgutil(1), installer(8) and packagemaker(1) for more information. Also, read Apple's Software Delivery Guide.

I pay €55.50 per month - about $82.30 - for 100/5 Mbps, using the most common cable provider in the Helsinki metropolitan area (Welho). So while it's cheaper here, it's not by orders of magnitude. (I'm sure there are cheaper providers available, but these are the kind of prices most people are subject to.)

I'm reading at +4 and right now there are 7 (or 9, depending on how you count) posts very critical of Apple, while 2 posts are trying to downplay the bug as not a serious issue. So you're not exactly going against the current here...

I'd say that this community is appropriately critical in this case. No pitchforks, but lots of angry voices (and very few apologists).

This is interesting to me. Does a personal bankruptcy in the US result in that the debts are cancelled? In many (well, some) European countries personal bankruptcy is different from a corporate bankruptcy in that you do _not_ automatically get rid of your debts. Instead, you lose access to all your finances, anything you earn will be under the control of a "good man" who will take care of all your money for you, giving you a weekly allowance for living expenses (and you are not allow to buy anything other than the bare necessities) and then using the rest to pay off your debts. This will go on for as long as needed, or, if it's clear that there is no chance that you'll ever pay off your debt, you may be eligible for debt reduction (after having lived for many year on the allowance only).

Unless you're building Vista or a full Linux distro you should be building several times per day, and certainly not on a weekly basis. Preferably on each commit. My team produces tens of builds on a busy workday. Naturally, testing should be done automatically as well, as a part of the team's standard continuous integration system.

How is it a conspiracy? To me it sounds more like a company meeting the demands of a (big and important) customer.

I still have not seen one single artist that actually made a career this way.

I could easily think of two Swedish artists that made it to the local top charts (and several foreign) after starting out only by putting their music online for free (not P2P, but Myspace and personal homepages): Basshunter and Miss Li.

I'm pretty sure it's possible to find more examples with a bit of research.