Copyright, DRM, even patents and the DMCA are all about one thing, the right of the creators to earn from their creations. Please don't advise piracy unless including a solid solution to paying the creators for their creations. And yes, sure there is a lot of abuse happening to those systems, but I am just sick and tired of people advocating piracy with no thought for the people whom created the content, I personally think anyone thinking like that are leeches, and not worth the time of day.

Apple was seriously considering a switch to ZFS when Oracle's bought Sun, which then put ZFS's status as questionable, which killed Apple's interest in it.

People often forget, that for Freedom of Speech to be truely applied, listeners must have the right to decide what they wish to hear.

The lawsuit is basically saying that doesn't apply to the President, which is the opposite of their intent.

The heaviest power using item on your iOS device is... The SCREEN.

This means when you waste your time force quitting the apps you are in fact using up more battery power than leaving them alone. It also means that since the apps take longer to startup fresh, your screen is eating even more power while you wait for the apps to startup.

As for backgrounding, force quitting apps does NOT quit the background process (if there is one). They all rely on whatever hardware they need to work, and whether the app has the necessary permissions (location services, microphone, background refresh, etc).

And this is 8 years of iOS experience talking.

Warranty work: In the late 90's I was repairing a beige desktop Mac (early PPC), I needed to remove the logic board, and while attempting to pry up the logic board I slipped with the screwdriver, which ripped off a resistor in the process. As it was warranty work on behalf of the manufacturer (I was working for a service agent), all parties agreed it was a mistake that could have happened to any technician, so it continued to be covered.

Destroyed keyboard: I once spilt a Fanta on a white Apple keyboard, the clear plastic base with the full height keys, the last of it's kind before the current flat aluminium keyboards cam in.

Almost lost data: I was click happy once during the process of backing up a laptop for a staff member (planning to upgrade the OS), and instead if hitting backup, I hit erase. I was able to restore the data thanks to hard drive erasing only modifying the first block or two on the disk, instead of going to the time and trouble of erasing the entire disk.

And mine wasn't? I guess we all lack a sense of humour.

True, but RTFS is supposed to help us decide if we want to RTFA, which kinda fails when we find ourselves feeling like we have to when we don't want to.

That still doesn't identify what timezone the source is, and if you RTFA NASA did identify the timezone, coondiggie failed properly repeat that detail.

The article was fine, /. is somewhat more international.

Wow, someone sounds like a typical american, can't tell one side of the world from the other (New Zealand is about as far from Europe as you can get, i.e. opposite side of the planet).

Reading the article, 9am appears to be US Eastern time, and roughly 1300 UTC. As a New Zealander I do find it annoying when people fail to identify the timezone.

>"DOS attacks can be a pre-cursor for a far more malicious exploit. Lose the ignorance, think Sony"

What ignorance ? I have been the target of a DoS attack in the past, so don't assume any ignorance on my part. As for the subject in hand, I agree with Synerg1y's last comment... "Still, I have a feeling this whole situation is going to make the internet a much less free place, start reading on SSL tunnels & off-shore server hosting?"

I forgot to add, and at a rally like a website, you have the choice to go to it or not, a DoS attack blocks that choice but stopping the ability to go to the website.

bad example, at a rally, people are there to hear those on stage, same deal with a website, being drowned out, does not stop the visibility, even for those on stage, a DoS attack stops even the visibility. But in the end that still doesn't change the fact that the DoS attack is a form of censorship.

FYI, a DDOS attack is just a type of DoS attack, as they are acronym's, lets break them down... DDOS - Distributed Denial of Service, DoS - Denial of Service, the word distributed is just a reference to how a DoS attack is performed. There is no point in continuing to describing them as DDOS attacks when most DoS attacks are distributed attacks these days anyway.

>"Only if you consider governments to be people. There is a fundamental difference between privacy in official governmental capacity or (to a limited extent) by a public figure and the privacy of an individual person."

But, a government, any government, is still made up of individual people.

I also have a comment for the group Anonymous, DoS attacks are the opposite of free speech, as it denies free speech from the person/group receiving the attack. So all I am seeing with Anonymous' DoS attacks is support for the very thing they claim to be attacking. Free speech is one thing where being the example to show why something is bad, is actually only working against Anonymous because their DoS attacks are actually showing why censorship is good.