So, Amazon should pay Apple 30% of its profit from all sales generated by the Amazon App? I mean, without the app there would be lower sales, right? Amazon clearly provides a service. You pay, stuff shows up at your door. The point is that in this case the app has in-app purchase for upgrades, the publisher pays Apple 30% of that revenue. Taking money from recipients that have no contractual relationship with Apple (the teachers in this case) seems like theft.

You know, life is filled with uncertainty and uncomfortable situations, but through all that, we manage to grow up to a point where we *CAN* use the objectionable words in any context that we see fit. I would respect your school system much more if there was no filtering, but instead a very low key meaningful way to forward an email to a guidance counselor or parent to say hey, this one bothers me a lot, can you help. The system is too stupid to sensor effectively, it will be laughed at by the students, you will be laughed at for thinking it works. Instead, if your policy was, "say whatever you like within the boundaries of the constitution and laws, be considerate, don't say anything you wouldn't want someone else to say to you, and if you or your email is reported as inappropriate by another student or staff here are the possible consequences...." Perhaps, just perhaps, you would have the respect of both parents and students and dare I say, maybe much less abuse. Think about it.

Well given that wikileaks provides torrents for the large releases, and the new release is to be a big one full of diplomatic cables and such, then this may not be too far out there. They probably know that they can't stop the leak, so they may try to slow the dissemination, one way is to try to make it hard to find the torrents. This is a full blown information war, people associated with wikileaks are being detained and their laptops are being searched, they're applying all types of pressure to wikileaks (financial, political, personal, legal). If none of that is working then they may try big broad strokes and couch them as something else. At no time will they appear to be in a panic over wikileaks, but it probably is a panic at this point -- must be a juicy leak -- and once it gets off wikileaks servers then they have no hope of containment.

Dear Senator Ford,

Apparently you need to get a fucking clue and read the god damn constitution, why?

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/61.htm

In my opinion this guy is on drugs if he thinks that either bill can pass constitutional muster. He would make it illegal for families to drive through South Carolina at night with children in the car -- insane.

Hmm, I stand corrected, according to the USPTO the number of patents is 6723, with another 9713 published applications that have not as of yet issued.