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Comment Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le (Score 1) 656

by michaelfellis on Saturday October 03, 2009 @09:08PM (#29631649) Attached to: Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync

But again, Apple does offer interoperability, in a documented and supported way.

In a second class, highly crippled way. There is no Sync capability. No playlist support.

The fact that they can not prevent you from drag-and-drop using your computer's operating system hardly constitutes a level playing field.

The grandparent message is correct. Apple offers a documented and supported way getting just about anything you want from iTunes; it's called AppleEvent support. I have written code that employs AppleEvents to access all kinds of iTunes information. For example, I've written a routine that iterates through playlists of all kinds and extracts their contents. I've queried the location of media files. Put simply, everything you need to write a third party app that synchronizes your media with iTunes is right there in the application's AppleEvent dictionary.

EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming 1057

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 27, 2009 @07:50PM from the just-some-random-nutjob dept.

theodp writes "CNET reports that less than two weeks before the EPA formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.' In an e-mail message (pdf) to a staff researcher on March 17, the EPA official wrote: 'The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.' The employee was also ordered not to 'have any direct communication' with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic. In a statement, the EPA took aim at the credentials of the report's author, Alan Carlin (BS Physics-Caltech, PhD Econ-MIT), describing him as 'not a scientist.' BTW, the official who chastised Carlin also found himself caught up in a 2005 brouhaha over mercury emissions after top EPA officials ordered the findings of a Harvard University study stripped from public records."

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