I hope they bought it to deep six it. There is just no use for it other than to let it die. Course thats expensive but could be a huge chunk of advertising dollars. ;)

Now where to put those darned power supplies!

They don't repurpose the bottles, they remake them into other items using energy to do this. Recycling plastics is not a zero energy proposal. People don't seem to mind using the energy in exchange for not putting them in landfills. if you thought there were a bunch of mayans with bottle washers cleaning them with cold water and filling them back up with all natural spring water, your gonna be disappointed.

Actually macs are just not attractive targets by virus and malware writers, its just too small a target. So we mac users simply don't have to worry about it. I mean seriously why take over a few million macs and have them as your legion of doom, when you can pwn a few billion windows boxes with ASLR security technology?

My kids have the LG Xenon and the price for ringtones is $2.49! Zoinks! The whole idea of repaying for songs you already have, for a second purpose is utterly ridiculous. I've made my own mp3's rips that I like to use as notifiers ie ringtones or text notification etc, or sounds like my daughter's cry as a baby. No reason I need to be paying for that and no reason I shouldn't be able to use it. In my mind they are taking advantage of children and teen wonderlust ie the record companies. Now if its your company and you're using the rolling stones to make your company seem hip and cool to the 50 somethings out there then I think you should pay the man, but if you're just a kid who wants to use it on his answering machine or phone then I would like the tell the RIAA, MPAA, Apple, ATT, Verizon, and all the others to SUCK IT and let the creativity grow and fund your intellectual property virally. The corporations are always looking at what the kids are doing and trying to be hip and cool, you can get your money from them. I own the iphone and have lots of my own ringtones that I don't use. ;)

We need a tag where you can mark something as "Funnier than parent". ;)

Curious what you mean by "Local computer shop". I guess this is some sort of authorized apple dealer and not an apple store.

Isn't it scientifically a fact that the earth will always remain the same, so we can be happy?

My friend still does all his accounting on TRS-80's, he runs a printing business and bought 3 units as spare parts supplies so he can have 5 9's uptime ;) Not the oldest but for still being used as a critical app that is pretty darned old.

A lot of folks in our data center get them from pogolinux.com. I know they have various flavors of linux but I can't speak directly to service or support/ etc.

In a previous slashdot article http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/27/144256 Well maybe theres one guy that likes it

Wouldn't the added encryption, actually cause an increase in overall bandwidth. I guess some people haven't fully switched over to the new system yet.

That microsoft's front doors will not be located in the front like the apple stores, instead they will be at the back. Additionally they won't be called front doors, instead they will be called Start doors. So yes Our Strategy is completely different.