Sorta but not quite. This is all directed at Amazon. Apple has always delivered really well engineered premium products. It's just that the latest batch has a built-in distribution system. So now that they have a ton of customers they're going to try abusing their near-monopoly position. There's also some collateral damage to other companies who are doing business via Apple's platform. Where are they gonna go, The Blackberry App Store? It's not so different from what Amazon has been doing the whole time, but it was 100% closed. Would you expect to see the iBooks app on the Kindle 4? Nah, probably not.

Except it's not quite a monopoly. The positive outcome from this will be that Amazon (and others) will be forced to go with Android if they wish to avoid the Apple tax. Which they must do because their margins don't support giving 30% to Apple. It will suddenly become necessary to make Android just as popular and polished as iThings. I would expect to see some large resources devoted to Android evolution happening real soon, maybe forks backed by some deep pockets.

My next bet is Kindle prices drop down to around $99 by next Christmas. I bet Amazon wishes now they'd dropped the price much earlier. Then they would have the near-monopoly to abuse.

That little quote will cost you $0.99 royalty. $0.29 will go to Apple, $0.687 to EMI and $0.013 to Pink Floyd. Pay up!

The answer is of course, product placement in-line with the text. They could do this pretty easily on the back end of many books automatically.

"... all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as he opened forth his Pepsi-Cola, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."

Since FB is so heavily load balanced I would expect that they're using SSL dedicaetd modules on their load balancing solution and still running their servers HTTP. Since they didn't care about privacy enough to use SSL until it became a PR issure, I doubt they care too much about encryption on their internal network.

I use it to bug the shit out of people. There's nothing quite as irritating as a dozen smiley icons in a row.

At some point isn't it easier to just buy the software?

It is a ridiculous idea that will never work. But, it might be fun to use just to piss off Facebook.

Many generations of our elders had no Internet, TV or radio. Consequently, they spent a lot of time socializing and discovering delicious liquor combinations. No reason we can't leverage some of that good info.

So turning a software free market into another Apple walled garden is an advantage? Maybe they should call it "Apple Genuine Advantage."

Shit, I just found it. How'd we miss this before?

        if (Password == "JOSHUA")
        {
                printf("Greetings Professor Falken");
                godmode = true;
                return;
            }

Whatever, so long as it brings back the TURBO button I'm buying one!

You don't really need a weapon at all. Just turn on any electrical device that gives off an RF signal while the plane ascends. Then watch that fucker go up in a firey fireball of death!

The Google business-class apps are encrypted, private and sync with Android out of the box. And the best part - since Google says you can trust them, it means you have nothing to fear! Of course, you would have to stop using your desktops and switch to Google Apps for your calendaring and email.

Since we know that gravity = acceleration, we should make the phone work only in zero gravity. Problem solved. NEXT!

If you don't know any details it's OK to say nothing.