Apple lawyer: "Who clicked the mouse?"

Defendant: [inarticulate mumble]

Apple lawyer: "I'm sorry, the court can't hear you. Your Honor, would you please inst..."

Defendant: [Yells] "I can't take it anymore! I DID! I clicked it! God help me...I did."

Apple lawyer: "Your Honor, I rest my case."

I don't think Egypt and the Arab states should be held out as role models.

They already "work" less than they "vacation" and now they want to have the ability to legislate naked?

Is there anything else they'd like? Cabana boys? Oh, wait, the have pages for that.

Before Rupert & Company came on the scene

When you can bash a household names hardware and have your eatery splashed over the interwebs?

"What does it take to get a patent request rejected these days?"

A lack of payola, pure and simple.

So, in the name of security, Apple XProtects users of Snow Leopard and higher from the evil Java.

In the meantime Oracle's update is only good for Lion or better.

But usage numbers from last month showed 10.6 and lower as being the largest installed base of Mac OS.

I'm not seeing how either action works to the greater good of Mac users, especially since Oracle has updates good for XP.

Lt. [Redacted] : "Where's the abort button?!"
Sound of deep throated rumbling in the background
Sgt. [Redacted] : "It melted, sir"
Lt. [Redacted] : "WHAT?! Why on God's green Earth would it MELT?!"
Fighting to be heard over what is obviously the sound of an rocket lifting off
Sgt. [Redacted] : "It's a safety feature, sir. To preserve the integrity of the mission."
Lt. [Redacted] : "FERCRYIN' OUT LOUD!! WE'RE STILL IN THE LAUNCH T..."
BZZZT!*~

So everyone clinging to Snow Leopard and below (even though they remain the bulk of Mac OS installs in use [OSX version graph], are left hanging in the wind.

GJ Oracle.

This just goes to show, once again, spell check â proof reading.

Watch the news and laugh at the stampedes.

One vendor lockin in enough and with the Copyright Board saying jailbreaking tablets is verboten, one is all I care to have.

Seriously, we moved from a neighborhood that was over-the-top haunted house-everyone decorated-kids roamed in packs 10+ deep, to a bona fide Halloween wasteland.

Unfortunately we didn't know that and decorated like we had for years, garage door sized flaming skull and all, and didn't tweak to why we were being shunned by the "neighbors" for *weeks*.

At least the holiday antipathy is non-sectarian. Christmas is pretty much the same way, so my days of balancing on a rickety ladder to get the LED lights up are over too.

"Finally".

If she's still at 85 this far into the expansion.