Anti-Ratfish

Dotocm and three others were arrested after an FBI-led raid at the mansion, which he leases, on Friday morning. The FBI is seeking to extradite the men to the US to face charges of conspiring to commit racketeering, conspiring to commit money laundering, copyright infringement, and aiding and abetting copyright infringement over the internet through the website Megaupload.

That's the quote, here is the source. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&#...

Exactly. I'm sure the New Zealand taxpayer will cover the difference.

http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/20m-rebate-hobbit-in-first-y...

iPhone and double tap font. There's something amusing about reading this particular article on an iPhone more easily than on a computer. Your right, it reads terribly on the desktop computer next to me.

Have you read the article or used the app? Broken is exactly what it is, and it's a Google product. So yes, I'd assume that's exactly what's being said.

I'm forced to use a windows xp tablet at work. Made by Philips. It's so bad it hurts, and every so often you see the cursor appear that is under your finger when you hit a button. It's buggy and hideous. Used once it could put you off Microsoft for life.

A will?

I pay 33% tax. Ill confess to being jealous of your 3.5%! However I support state subsidised education and the various other state funded systems we have (health for one) but yes, they do cost. It isn't someone else's money though, it's mine.

Costs about this in New Zealand for everyone. State subsidised. Perhaps a touch more. And longer degrees are obviously more. Living costs excluded, although there is a small student allowance to help out.

Making stuff and burying it is very common in archeology according to my (limited) knowledge. Chucking stuff as offerings into springs, holes etc as offerings. Burin it with dead people (anyone under that stone is now 2 dimensional). But I do agree that this seems odd - half burying...

Your giving me Kodak software flashbacks. The software was god awful. Right from login. New password required every few weeks. Can't be related to your previous one, and the 'change password' button that you had to click took you to a page were you had to type username, then new password 2x, then old password (in that strange order). However all the boxes were unlabeled so you had to guess were what went. I emailed Kodak every time just to make a point. It makes me so angry every time I see a Kodak logo now.

I just watched the rugby world cup at a friends house where the TV had a volume bar that honestly looked like a sperm. Wiggly tail and everything. It's not that Apple will get it right, it's that they'll do it less wrong.

He did seem the obsessive type, however given that there is hardware asymmetry (the camera, volume mute etc) I doubt he was.

Yeah. They should have extrodina rily rendered him and tortured the hell out of him. If they can do that to random innocents I'm sure someone as suspicious as this could even be interesting o interview

Not sure if there are more robust bits of hardware about, but my experience of radiation detectors is that they are very sensitive and have to be very carefully handled. And docks tend to be fairly rough environments.

Very good point. Here in NZ much of what I want is literally years away from coming out and paying for it through legal means isn't an option. But paying in the form you suggest is an option. It's annoying to have to resort to illegal measures which actually cost money to get something.

Agreed. Although it would be a brave person who thought they could get a better advertising campaign together than Jobs.

Surely someone can find a better issue than this? What about the lack of any option to dismiss the red circle notifying you that an update is available - sometimes you don't want the updated version.

Not that up with US stuff, but didn't GS get money from the government during the AIG bailout? If so, doesn't that give every one in the US complaining rights?

That's clever. The Forbes story mentions the use of google advertising done directly by dropbox, but noted they found it ineffective. However that probably referred to the uptake of paid subscriptions? "They toyed with advertising. “That’s what you’re supposed to do: hire a marketing guy, buy Google AdWords,” says Houston. “We sucked at it.” It was costing them $300 to hook one sign-up.". http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...

Everyone will need new pants. My pockets couldn't handle that.

You mean "couldn't kill without" I think.

I think that your agreeing with me, but do you know what SODaniel is meaning? Is his/her argument that Apple exploited mature markets? I'd like to understand that idea. Is it somehow meaning that Apple products are for 50+ year olds? That's pretty much the opposite of who I see using them, but that's just anecdata.

It reads well in instapaper! Laughed when I realized why I didn't understand tour comment.

How can you argue that it only works in mature products? The point was about revolutionary rather than evolutionary change. Or am I missing what you mean?

Unfortunately (and without any sarcasm) the answer is yes if youre American. But there are a few more countries where it's ok too. Russia and the polonium saga springs to mind, although responsibility wasn't claimed unlike the UAV hit. Any other recent citizen assassinations spring to mind? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvin...

And he didn't have to increase the use of UAVs or attack more countries.

And no less scary, 15-40% of the time a civilian is hit instead of the correct target. http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker And given the dubious right of the CIA to hit there intended target in the first place, the acceptance of UAV strikes is disturbing to me.

War is becoming much safer. The world is too. Fascinating article on it here. http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker However I'd love to see any evidence showing drones keep deaths down in war. Maybe in the future, but right now they make life very unsafe in places like Pakistan, which given it's allied to America is bizarre. Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to Boltcode.

You beat me to this point and made it better. Kudos.

I hope that British spellings weren't the basis of the UK search. A fair portion of the English speaking world use British spellings. Not that I'm claiming bitcoin for New Zealand.