And here's another interesting little detail: The HTML div that the copyright details are in on apple.com pages is called <div class="sosumi">

For the love of all that is holy: it's = it is its = its (possessive)

Yet another case of Rise of the Machines (RotM)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/13/satanic_bmw/

Wow the people at OpenDNS are going to be pissed by this.

Still 8.8.8.8 is a bit more memorable than 208.67.222.222

It is impossible to coerce a person into suicide. People have free will and suicidal people are mentally ill, they are not coerced by others anymore than you can blame society for the suicides.

The Id card as proposed by the UK government is not a simple reference document, but it allows connection with any means of electronic media, including computer databases, of course. This opens a huge can of worms: forming a resistance movement against an authoritative power will become very difficult, or even impossible.

Here is an example: suppose that you are interested in the preservation of the environment and the climate change; you don't want to sit on your couch all day, and the next G7 climate change meeting is not far from your country. You take a holiday, and then riding the first plane to the city where the climate change meeting takes place, you participate in the rallies against G7 policies regarding the climate. Sooner or later, you are part of a street battle with the local police that wants you not to rally at all. They arrest you, they get your picture and send it to the London's police department along your ID card data. They open a record for you in the UK criminal database as a possible "environmental terrorist".

You then return home, only to find that you have been fired. Although it hurts your feelings, you try another job. But without luck...employee after employee connect to the UK's criminal database using your Id card only to find out that you are a "terrorist". You are essentially finished...

Why not indeed? Such a system would only be misused if the Government was "fascist".

A nice cuddly left-liberal Government like New Labour (or their "conservative" successors) would only use the system for good.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/aust-03a.html

They haven't rebuilt, and never will. Partly due to disputes with the insurer. Partly due to apathy from government. Partly for the very good technical reason that there is too much light pollution there now.

I will not have biometric ID card, and I will resign over it.

I'm currently writing to my MP, my Union representitive, donating to NO2ID, and looking very seriously at becomming a member of the Pirate Party UK.

That's true but if I were going to die from a Virus I would want a good one ya know fast as hell !, so I will take Ebola Zaire any day of the week fast and effecient although a bit messy but it gets the job done.

R.Morton

The reason why Japan has been in a recession is because Japanese are unproductive workers. It sounds crazy, but it's true:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,395413,00.html

Now what happens the day google makes a deal to get access to those databases?

Lets be real, no one's using 360 Search because it's better than a google search, it just has access to databases hidden behind paid subscriptions. And for searching individual databases, our university has access to about 50 of them. I don't care how they're segmented; that many search boxes is just plain absurd. And what's worse is the people who should be figuring out this is a non-sustainable model, the Librarians, instead look at that number like they're collecting pokemon. They just keep trashing on google, rather than noticing search engine companies have long surpassed them in ability and are currently making significant strides in access to content.

I realize our jobs are partially dependent that artificial barrier between google and the academic databases (I do IT work for a library), but for the greater good, I can't wait for that day to happen.

Your software-marketing juxtaposition fails IMO: you need to coordinate marketing just like you have to coordinate programming. Your overly simplistic view of marketing is hindering your reasoning.

If all of your 'number of suit-monkeys' decide to go to the same magazine, all carrying their own design for the ad, ideas about the target-audience, numbers of the part of the advertising budget that goes to this magazine, you're going have a very ineffective marketing campaign. Just like when you release a can of programmers uncoordinated and they all decide to work on the game-play logics e.g.

I know marketing folks aren't very popular with techies, but they fullfill a necessary role, like it or not.

I think you're missing the point. Apple have approved a streaming service which in some ways directly competes with Apple's own music selling business. This demonstrated a level of maturity which Apple failed to display during the whole Google Voice debacle.

I'm sure there are some architectural reasons why games don't talk, but just think if TF2 was cross platform online play. How bad would XBOX 360 players do vs people with keyboard and mouse. I think they would be at a HUGE disadvantage because they don't have anywhere close to the same control scheme. This destroys all balance to the game. Granted you can buy an adaptor to use keyboard and mouse on the 360, but i don't think that more than the top 2% of hardcore games go so far as to buy a $100 add on to do it.