People who believe that their "personal information" isn't being sold are just being ignorant. These are probably the same people who believe that ALL the money they deposit is sitting in the vault at the bank.

... but most of all, samy is my hero.

Read: This money is going to pay our legal fees as we try to save our asses!

Oh yeah, because Ubuntu has never had remote exploit. Ever.

Who mods this crap?

You're actually correct in that the human eye cannot tell the difference between 1080p and 720p at a certain distance.

I read an article many moons ago when the format war was still in high gear on Audioholics (link) which was titled "1080p and the Acuity of Human Vision". It's an interesting article because it cuts through all the marketing and gets down to the science of HD and if it ACTUALLY matters.

A good summary line from the article would be:

"Put bluntly, from 8 feet away while watching a 50 inch plasma TV, the human eye is generally incapable of reliably distinguishing any detail finer than that shown on a true 720p display!"

Most "quality" differences people see between the formats (unless they're sitting in the first row of their home movie theater) come from richer colors and cranked up contrast and brightness on sales displays.

No?

Apple is a hardware company first and a software company second. They want you to buy their hardware so you can use their software.

Hardware first, Software second.

If you didn't have to buy their hardware to use their (free) software.... how do they even make money?

So no, Apple should not open source anything (and nor should they!)

I am one of your support customers. Thing is, I'm not comfortable saying much else because we were told the 10th was the magic day, and it leaked 2 days early. To be clear, the patched BIND worked the way it's supposed to, and I'm sure it's going to work fine for most customers. With the news that you have patched versions that address the issues with heavily taxed servers, probably almost all of them. We jumped the gun because that's what we do. : ) And I'm sorry I was critical on BIND. It is still the industry standard, and the original daemon that made it possible to get rid of enormous host files. There's a degree of comfort in running *the* DNS daemon, and we were doing it even though my organization is decidedly anti opensource. That speaks volumes.

See http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ - a great javascript/css/widget lib with far better support, cross-browser compatibility, and breadth than things like prototype.js will ever get.

How long before we have more active Grey IC - Tar Babies (similar to today's honey pots), Tar Pits, Blaster - and ultimately, Black IC - seeking out the source of the intrusion and in turn, destroying the origin of attack?

Is that name serious? "Tar Babies"? I ask because it is also a racial slur intended as a play on the dark skin of black people. An older slur, but nonetheless still used (my redneck former boss used it frequently.)

Call me a p.c. asshole if you want, but if you grew up in the south you'd understand... I'm sure this use of the name has nothing to do with that, but yikes. That's a horrible choice.

I only recognized two or three of those names, and of those two or three, only one can actually contribute anything to a speech.