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From: Jim on 17 Apr 2010 16:14 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: > > > In article <hqckes$rsf$1(a)pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, > > richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > > > > > Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. > > > > Also its censorship of the app store, with this ban for a prize winning > > cartoonist: > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/15/mark_fiore_rejected_from_app_stor > > e/ > > Except they didn't, in the end, ban his work. Except they did, then asked him to re-submit it. It was still banned for a while. <http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/16/cartoonist-apple-backs-down-afte r-denying-iphone-app/> Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Richard Tobin on 17 Apr 2010 16:27 In article <1jh3za4.gw5i4h12elt8gN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: >Except they didn't, in the end, ban his work. They realised that the ban was a publicity disaster, so they pretended it was a mistake. -- Richard
From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Apr 2010 20:45 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > Richard Tobin wrote: > > Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. Today a Mac Rumours > > article describing a change in the format of Mac serial numbers > > has been "Removed at Request of Apple". No reason is given. Easy: the data was released without proper internal authorisation, and this was discovered, so it was removed. Apple's as bad as spies when it comes to that sort of thing - nothing which is not cleared for release may be released. It's just Jobs' SOP. > > Perhaps they'll demand Google remove this posting from its archive... > > > > -- Richard > > Welcome to the dictatorship. Commercial firms *are* dictatorships. What else did you expect? Big firms in the USA tend to think that the government ought to do what its told by its paymasters - i.e., the big commercial firms. So the USA is more like an oligarchy than a dictatorship. Apple's shown its true colours some time ago - when it explained to the EU that it was right for Apple to break the law in Europe by denying cross-border purchases to EU residents, and it was right because Apple wanted to do it. The EU corrected Apple's mis-understanding of what law *is* - law does not exist to be a convenience for commercial firms, law exists to regulate society including commercial firms like Apple. But Apple's attitude is the conventional one from a big US firm. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: David Empson on 17 Apr 2010 21:12 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 17/04/2010 17:38, David Empson wrote: > >> > Anyone with a Mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro care to confirm whether your > >> > computer's serial number is 12 characters long, and if so, what > >> > characters are in the third, fourth and fifth positions? (Alleged date > >> > code, using an alphanumeric coding system.) > > Sorry, off by one. Should be fourth, fifth and sixth positions if the > > MacRumors article had the details right. > > > > Off by one year as well. :-) Eh? The MacRumours article claimed the 17" Mid 2010 MacBook Pro (just released) is the first to use the new serial number format. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Steve Firth on 17 Apr 2010 20:59
Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <1jh3za4.gw5i4h12elt8gN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > >Except they didn't, in the end, ban his work. > > They realised that the ban was a publicity disaster, so they pretended > it was a mistake. Uh huh, of course you can prove this? |