@chuck07: The purpose of DNS is also to allow shifting providers of a given service. A provider of a web service might shift the service to a new machine, so it's not quite as simple as recording IP addresses. Hardly an insurmountable obstacle, but not one you can ignore entirely.

@Popescu Bogdan: Not really, considering that is Steve Job's alleged response, so it wasn't composed by the person reading it.

@Chip Overclock: I think the failure of logic many people have is that they believe research that doesn't result in a technology is wasted money. It's almost as important to know what doesn't work as what does. Unfruitful research by one scientist can point another in the right direction.

@Snow leopard: You can set your apple portables to only connect when you tell them to or when its a known safe network (check Settings-General-Network-Wifi). If it already knows about a network and you want it to forget, go to above settings page and select the () next to the network you want to forget. At the top of…

@Live N Learn:

@Live N Learn: Yes, they did something extremely similar. By returning the box without the DVD player, which they claimed contained the DVD player, they were claiming they were still the owners of the DVD player and were using that ownership to get money from the store.

@Live N Learn: Once again, the DVD player in my example was NEVER stolen. The store performed a legal sale of the device to the first owner. That owner is legally entitled to sell that device to ANYONE else they choose. Anything else the owner does after that is now disconnected from the ownership of the property,…

@Live N Learn: That's my point though; you're accepting the claim that these qualify as stolen property and I am not.

@taniquetil: I'm going to have to disagree almost completely. People fixated on making money try to pawn off business innovation as more important than it is.

@BarrettB: That's not fiber optics at all. Fiber optics route light from a source to a destination through silicate materials. OLED displays generate their own light through organic compounds: [en.wikipedia.org]

@thebullfrog: + 1

@Soulrider2012: Once you know the answer, the question changes and the answer is no longer correct. It's a cruel universe out there.

@CaffineFreakUs: It wasn't a stolen good; it was a breach of contract. AutoDesk should have sued the company that sold the copies to recover the their claimed losses. Instead, they tried to shift the legal cost onto a consumer who acted in good faith and force him to try to sue the company. They're attempting to pass…

@CaffineFreakUs: I don't see how that is the fault of "Joe" though. If Company A agreed to destroy the copies and sold them instead, that's a violation by Company A, not "Joe". Adobe has the right to sue them from breach of contract, but the right to prohibit the sale is above and beyond that. The breach of contract…

@dallasmay: *ssssshhhh* you place your bet and THEN tell him that it already exists

@dallasmay: That's an odd thought since they've been doing the exact opposite of that for the past 10 years. The mass consumer market makes up a huge percentage of their revenue now and I don't think they're likely to move away from that any time soon.

@dallasmay: it's like just using SIP since that's what iChat A/V uses (and is an open standard).

@Chyfine: HP's market cap is 92.69B and Oracle's is 121.96B, so i don't think HP will be buying Oracle any time soon (have neither the cash nor share value to make such a purchase as far as i can tell). and since Oracle already bought Sun, they don't have much to gain from any merger. no, Oracle's pretty much going…

@taniquetil: you might call that business innovation (although i'd really call it hoping on the bandwagon, since they're pretty much the last ones to the party), but its certainly not engineering innovative. they had to buy another company because they didn't innovate enough to develop that technology in house.

@disstill: Even though I have no reason to reply twice on this thread, but your answer was too smartass to ignore. You don't actually understand computer systems work and should refrain from telling other people they don't know anything until you do (because he was right and the fact that you're using 64-bit Windows…