give it a few years and ppl will start hating google, too

drain their blood to make black pudding and THEN put them in the canon, silly!

With the Nokia N900, the Palm Pre and an army of android phones waiting around the corner, maybe dear apple understands they're not so special any more! They can't afford being so hoity-toity with three (android, maemo, webos) fully functional multitasking OS's breathing down their necks

since when is ad-supported "free"?

Maybe the machines are erasing the landlines from the matrix to stop humans from going back and forth in the matrix all wily-nily

Maybe he is doing that annoying thing when the person who talks simulates the use of quotes in oral speech with the typical gesture of the arms.

There, fixed that for ya!

sorry for double posting, I need to edit: ...times consisting of just *one person*

Sadly, education has yet to follow this trend. Computer Science and Computer Engineering classes have yet to implement significant group collaboration. And while the hack tenet of "something that has been done once shouldn't be done again" was a conceived by some bright students, educators still give identical tedious projects that have the students complete in isolated groups, many times of consisting by just. There has even been an instance of a student being threatened to fail a class because he posted the source code of his project. How can we expect future developers to collaborate when their education forces a way to work that is very alien to the open culture and resembles that of a proprietary company
Why hasn't the scientific community produced open textbooks, free to re-print, photocopy and distribute (a la Creative Commons license)
Why is it hard for pioneering ideas like that of the state of California trying to open their school textbooks to be implemented?

Yes, but does it run linux?

Gouge out one of your daughter's eyes and install a webcam, pluck one of her ears out and mount an omnidirectional microphone, graft a microstrip antena on her forhead and replace one of her teeth with a GPS module. This system sends encrypted video through the cellular network of your choice that ssh's to your home terminal, which you can access via your favorite portable device. IPhone preferred, there is a relative app on the appstore
Maybe you can hack a python app that automatically notifies you when your child leaves designated areas without proper authorization. And when the brain is analyzed deeply enough, maybe you should think about remotely controlling your child.
Seriously, is there no limit to what people are willing to give up in order to achieve a false sense of security?
Imagine how YOU would feel if your employer installed a GPS tracking system on you to verify if you're really at home or in a hospital when calling in sick. Imagine how YOU would feel if back in the day your parents DID have such a system to track you down. Imagine what happens to a society whose members are taught that constant surveillance is OK by their own family. Seriously, take a chill pill and
think of the children

Yes, it's an SGOD: Software Glitch of Death.

Not quite the same
A physical medium has distribution and (negligible) manufacturing cost, artistic (booklets, special editions) and collective value. What is the value or cost of a ripped mp3?

I agree with the largest part of your retort. The point behind my previous post was that there can be a pretty serious degree of "reasonable doubt" in order to directly correlate content downloaded in an "unorthodox" manner with piracy. And also to note that there are quite a lot of instances where entitlement is actually not a weak excuse, but a very reasonable thing (such as being entitled to an electronic version of a book you purchase). To further relate this discourse to TFA, this is one more argument to vehemently oppose ISP's policing internet traffic, other than the obvious ones (of practicality and of course due process, with ISPs having powers only a civil court should have)