The guy who made Smozzy replied to a bunch of questions on HN There is no encryption between the phone and his service (yet)

I am an extremely cheap person and I want to develop iPhone apps

Every so often I go through my spam folder, it's pretty funny. I've noticed lately that a lot of them don't even have links, it's like they're just trying to annoy us. For example, I received this yesterday:

Forge your huge love sword

and that was it. No link, no pictures. My theory is I have a really good friend who goes through a whole lot of effort just to make me smile. Either that, or it's an insult on my manhood designed to make me feel inadequate.

Forgive the youtube link, but a British TV show called "The IT Crowd" did a pretty good anti-piracy warning.

Dear sir or madam, I would like to inform of a new courtesy drug ranging in 50% off! Help protecting swine flu from child or pet!

Computer to phone line. Dial up to a north american ISP. They'll have a hard time filtering web content through what shows up as a phone conversation. I'd be willing to pitch in for the bill, though I doubt many companies would charge for that. Someone set up a netzero account for these people or something, I only have $6.75 in my checking account (and no credit card). Either that, or http://www.i2p2.de/ for an encrypted tor-like connection.

I'm in hoboken, and I didn't see any of this. Thanks for gluing me to my computer, slashdot.

http://www.archive.org/ maybe

"not to the point of hardware failure"
I don't think apple has the power to get away with pushing updates that would destroy hardware

I guess you're right, I've been thinking about buying a license to 10.5 just because I believe pirating software is wrong, I just enjoy the novelty of "I paid $800 for my 2.6Ghz dual core mac!". I don't blame apple either, but I really do wish they would just put out a version of OSX that would run legally on a PC. I don't care if I don't get support. Literally all they have to do is stop bricking my machine with quicktime updates and I would shell out the $129 instantly

I've had my osx86 machine bricked by updates, not to the point of hardware failure, but to the point of unrecoverableness. There's actually a .kext file that they put in called "dont_steal_macosx.kext" or something similar, but I guess that's a risk you have to take with this kind of software