You seem to have a different definition of acknowledgement. They mention clearly that the court ruled as such. I would say that is a pretty clear acknowledgement.

What you're wanting is for Apple to say and admit they were wrong; in other words you're wanting submission. That's a matter of opinion. In the legal world, yeah, Apple lost, but in the hearts and minds of the people running Apple, the courts were wrong and no order or ruling will change how they feel about that. If the court really ordered that (which they did not), how would you enforce that? You would basically be ordering Apple to lie about their own feelings and then you would be ordering them either forever or for some length of time to never contradict those statements.

Regarding time: I don't think you have to build the entire thing all at once. You could construct it over the course of centuries or millennia while still benefiting from the incremental energy output gains you achieve as the build is in progress.

There is no such requirement in America either.

Google closed down their China office because of government harassment, what makes you think that they wouldn't do it in Brazil?

I don't think Google Brazil *can* comply. If Google Brazil is set up anything like how my employer's international entities are set up, they are actually separate and distinct legal entities from the parent company (which is HQ'd in USA) that the parent company has 100% ownership of.

The guy who is in charge of the Brazil office can't effect a decision at the home office.

Brazilian law may deliberately hold executives of foreign subsidiaries responsible for their parent's actions, but from a legal perspective, Brazil has no way to go after the company who actually can effect their demands.

Why didn't Apple negotiate a new deal with Google then?

Did Google refuse to negotiate with Apple or did Apple refuse to negotiate with Google?

It will take far longer than 6 months to catch up to Google. If that's all long it takes, Apple would have got it right it during the beta.

That's a strawman. Nobody says that the 3D deformations are what makes Apple Maps suck, and even if they did, you still haven't proven that Apple Maps are better in this area than Google Maps, you've only established that Google Earth has some examples of similar problems but for all we know they're at a much lower frequency.

There is a whole laundry list of problems that people have been talking about since the iOS 6 beta - things like cities being in the totally wrong place, a lack of detail (such as the Bowling Green University example; Google Maps shows pretty much every building and drive on campus whereas the Apple Maps shows very little by comparison), and frequently inaccurate data all around.

This is a browser plugin so it doesn't use the browser's webpage rendering faculties to display the image. Right-click or disabling javascript wont do anything.

Not saying this can't be defeated, just pointing out you don't understand how this works.

Tapes are easy to move offsite.

So are drives. A 3.5" drive is maybe 1.5 times larger than a tape.

Tapes don't consume any power when not in use.

Neither does a drive.

Tapes are much more resilient than hard drives against environmental factors (mechanical, temperature etc.)

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You seem to be confused. YesIAmAScript claims that there are many books in the Apple book store that mention Amazon. If YesIAmAScript claims this then he must have knowledge and thus can tell us which books make mention of Amazon.

You can if you tell them you had sensitive medical information stored on your PC...

DBAN is a bootable CD/USB key. Unless IT has locked down the BIOS and locked down the boot options menu, he can run it regardless of what security measures are in effect in Windows.

I don't think the concept of a union is necessarily bad. I know the long history of the workers rights movement and how badly employees were treated.

However, the states that have the highest rates of union membership tend to be the places that are the most liberal and tend to swing towards being very supportive of workers' rights and interests. Unions have not declined in those states and these are the places where out of control unions are seen the most.

Any mission critical datacenter is going to have refueling contracts with multiple fuel providers to keep their generators fed during an outage.

The logistics of how to maintain fuel service during an extended crisis is left to the fuel provider, but diesel can be hauled across long distances from a non-affected area if needed and brought to the fuel depot where it is in turn loaded onto a refueling truck that goes around to these datacenters every few days to refuel them.