* Posts by Bounty

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Exoplanets dubbed 'Vulcan', 'Romulus' and 'Female Pigeon'

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silly

Everyone shold know that once you start getting into massive numbers of planets, that you only give the interesting ones unique names. Same thing for stars.

Crypto spares man who secretly video taped flatmates

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Crypto spares man who secretly video taped flatmates

I call bullshit. How the frak do you know for a fact that the crypto spared him? That encrypted file might be embarrasing christmas photos of the guy dancing nakid and making secret love with a table. The only thing you know legally, is what he's admitted.

The End.

UK fatties demand 'hate crime' status for lardo-baiting

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interesting

Everything is discrimination, it's how we make choices. We are not obliged to ask a fat person to dance for every skinny person we ask. What if I don't like short people.... or gang members, they get official discrimination. Laws are not there to be fair, they are there to solve problems. I don't see this as a problem that needs to be solved with laws.

Neanderthal woman could whup Schwarzenegger

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So easy a cave man could do it.

Sure she could beat some chumps in arm werstling, but how does she compare with this chick?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/intimate_world_record/

ESA proposes ion drive Sun-dodge Mars commsat ploy

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inclined orbint around sun?

Why not just put a relay in an inclined orbit close to, and around the sun? The delay would be short. Only need 1 sat. As a bonus, it could work as a relay for all planets. (Something like Venus to sun relay sat to Earth would be better than bouncing it off of the Mars sat.) I think the chances of Mars behind the sun and an inclined relay sat in a close orbit to the sun transiting or also being behind the sun are like, super rare.

GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?

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Real licenses v.s. contracts

I write a program. I copyright it. I can give the binaries to whoever I want, any way I want.

If I license it under the GPL I can't do that unless I give them source. I call that a restriction. They've taken my right under copyright, to distribute as I see fit. There sure are a lot of contracts going around these days pretending to be licenses.

Super 'sun-hot' plasma rocket in fullbore bench test triumph

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race!

I say slap on some large solar panels, load er up and set on running figure 8's around the inner solar system and see if we can set a speed record (and a fianl trajectory leaving our system.)

Packing heat gets you shot, say profs

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huh?

This makes no sense, from the abstract.

"After adjustment, individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (P<.05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession." ( I am completely ok with this part.)

"On average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault."

A higher percentage of people with guns getting shot, says nothing about guns protecting or not, people who are assaulted. They're not related.

A higher percentage of people with guns getting shot, says that people who are in danger of getting shot know that, and therefore carry guns. Gang bangers, cops, nice people who have to work in the wrong part of town. If you want to measure a guns ability to protect, you really do need to include people who were not shot. (Also known as, a gun saved their ___)

Pluto still a planet, says Ronald McDonald

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doh

Laurel Kornfeld, I like your definition of hydrostatic equilibrium + orbits star. Mainly because it's scientific. Except, what if you had 2 objects the size of Mercury (same size) orbiting each other and the sun at the same time? Or Ganymede? Now what if you have Ganymede orbiting Mercury? Do we pick larger one by volume, mass or diameter to be "the planet" and the other(s) moons, or?

Intel 'Light Peak': not an Apple idea after all

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hmmm

Perhaps they mean, they're not suprised now. An hour ago they were, but now that they've had breakfast, it seems completely reasonable (especially now that they know the truth.) Either way, it's a great way to push out articles. "Confirmed! Microsoft releases source code for Windows 7" shortly followed by "Microsoft obviously didn't release source code for Windows 7"

Clown blasts off for ISS

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Alien troll

Look you damned Martians have no right calling humans "Retarded?" At least we have a basic grasp of capitalization and English sentence structure!

Oxygen-from-Moon-dirt passes vomit comet test

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huh?

You don't have to dial a electromagnetic catapult to 11, just make the runway longer. A linear motor could work from the moon just fine, w/o killing the occupants.

Pull the plug on Pandas, declares BBC man

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pandas and bees

Bees are not picky, they land on all kinds of flowers. They also breed quickly, I generally see thousands of them in a hive. Breed the pandas with the bees, problem solved.

Japan gets to grips with train-grope websites

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Coat

I have the solution

Bobby traps.

Perhaps they could be like mouse traps, or perhaps finger cuffs. Then when you call the police, they have to find the perp with throbbing or fingercuffed fingers.

Japan hurls first space freighter at ISS

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reuseable does not necessarily equal better

In case you missed it in the title, reuseable does not necessarily equal better. I'm not saying reusable can't be better, I'm just saying it's not necessarily better. We don't go around collecting burnt fireworks and reconditioning them.

German Pirate Party MP charged in child porn case

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CP images on phone.

I'll bite. How exactly does keeping child porn on your phone help fight child porn? If I wanted to fight child porn, I'd immediately report any child porn URL I found to the FBI, cybertipline.com or some other legal agency. Then delete the damn image. What's the point in keeping it?

Super-soldier exoskeletons ready for troop tests in 2010

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dirt bike or jeep

dirt bike or jeep. Or if you're not of the first world variety, any old 4wd pickup will serve the same purpose only better.

India's Reva to pitch 'invisible' e-car reserve battery

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invisible power!

They tell you about the glass key that opens the floor. Yabba dabba do!

Man remanded for extreme porn offences

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Grenade

Stawman is always wrong.

@Sarah Bee and the others making some interesting arguments... leads me to this

Posession of a nuke shouldn't be a crime. Merely posessing it doesn't hurt anyone. Same thing for shooting towards you, as long as I don't actually wound you. " Attempted murder. Now, honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry? "

Also, I like how " there can be a kind of escalation " has turned into "EVERYONE WHO EVER THINKS ABOUT ANYTHING BECOMES COMPLETELY OBSESSED WITH IT" You guys really need to escalate his/her comment to bash them over it.

"unhealthy interest" would probably be the point where they guy started obsessing over it to the point he started making child porn, but that's just my guess.

Also Sarah, you seem to be advocating that it's ok to posess child porn "b) what possible harm owning or ooking at a picture" is ok. Along your line of reasoning, what difference is selling that picture you posess? So now we're at selling child porn is ok. How far should we go down this kind of reasoning until you would be satisfied? I do believe there should be a line, and it should be well defined.

Arms biz: Your taxes mainly go on our fat salaries! Ha ha!

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AC 12:38

AC 12:38

Google is good, but you probably need to spend more than 5 seconds with it.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.html

Osama is respnosible. Even before 9/11 for other bombings. It's not like we said hand him over, ok no? then started dropping bombs. We've asked the Taliban to hand him over since at least 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

Owning a pit bull that attacks your neighbors and saying, no you can't go in and get it, makes you responsible for everything that happens after that. Offering the officer "Ok I'll find him for you." after the cops have knocked down your door and pinned your a$$ to the floor isn't really an option. I only regret that we didn't put more effort into stomping him out.

The only reason we're still there is because we're nice, and would like the place to do well. That place has been controlled by warlords for so long it's taking a while to do the job right.

Boffins render full HD million-point animated hologram

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5cm by 5cm by 5 cm?

can someone explain this to me, or are we really looking at a grasshopper sized image?

"An Aurora Systems ASI6201 was used as the reflective LCD. The size of the LCD is

M = 1,920×1, 080, and the dot pitch is p = 6.4μm. The distance between the LCD and the

reconstruction image is 1 m, and the viewing angle is approximately 5◦.

http://www.aurora-sys.com/products01.html looks like a .55" diagonal

Also in the PDF, "The size of the reconstructions is approximately 5 cm × 5 cm× 5 cm." So do I walk in the room and see a grasshopper sized "holograph" somewhere, or do I need to go stand in front of some lense and look in at the little fella.

US women protest for the right to bare

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But does the standard apply to all ages?

But does the standard apply to all ages? Just curious if there is any divide in the pro-breast camp.

Japan torture flick sickens UK film censor

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sensorship

/ "think of the children comment"

"oh come on you whingers, how can it be sick, unless they did actually torture people"

That is a good argument for making "fake" child porn, "fake" 'this is how I'm going to capture and torture Paris Hilton" books/films legal. Anarchist / terrorist how to movies. Jihad propoganda. Might work as an argument for all conspiracy charges as long as you haven't commited the crime yet. Or any other attempted, but failed crimes.

/ end "think of the children comment"

Then again, almost all video games are simulated murder so whatever. I'm probably torturing you now with my (lack of) logic. Maybe things are not black and white.

Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

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Which carries a longer sentence?

What's worse destruction of evidence or not turning over they keys? Which carries a longer sentence? "Yeah, sorry I gave you the self destruct key, now I would prefer the 2 year destruction of evidence sentence instead of holding me for 14 years for contempt. Thanks."

What if it's a two person passcode? "My mistress, the neighbors wife, knows the rest of the password. This is where we store our favorite home movies."

What if the key is stored in RAM? "Yeah, just open truecrypt and press ctrl+v. What you turned it off...?" Would that be destruction of evidence? What if all data was in RAM, say you use a boot CD?

What about biometrics?

Anyways, contempt of court = eternal damnation is a violation of double jeopardy laws in my mind. I've almost forgotten pin numbers to seldom used ATMS. I don't remember any combinations to any combination lock I've ever used.

How about this. If Bob made an encrypted volume 5 years ago, it's totally possible he forgot the password, or that he even made it. Bob plays with all kinds of software all the time. Hell, lets say Bob is a criminal. Bob hacks consoles or something, and he has experimented with HDD encryption, and at some point makes a volume and put some mp3's in there to test but he forgot the password. He tried to get all secure and fancy, and made the password too hard to remember. Instead of a 2 year total sentence for console modding, he gets 14 years for withholding keys he can't remember?

Autistic trucking scam hacker jailed for 55 months

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misc thoughts

@ northern monkey

Obsession with what? "It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand-down on September 11 last year...I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels" Hacking government computers to disrupt at the highest levesl, may be an obsession, but it's not one I'm willing to ignore. Stealing some money isn't as dangerous as trying to disrupt the U.S. military.

@ Baying Lynch Mob

See the quote above. I think you're wrong if you think he was just curious about UFO's. If that was the case, he woulnd't be leaving threatening notes about 9/11 on computers. I'm not sold yet that he's a 'terrorist,' but he's not some innoncent guy who didn't know messing with military computers was a bad thing. If all other details were the same, but this guy was in/from Pakistan imagine how things would be different.

Orbital refuelling stations could rescue NASA Mars plans

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use a different fuel then

How about using non cryo fuel and oxidizer then? The launch tank and the refueling tank don't have to be the same tank. Maybe Nitric Acid + kerosene or the modernized versions of them. Why overengineer it?

If you want, since we're talking about space, the space motors don't have to be aerodynamic, so the lifters can lift complete engines, funky shape or not, already fueled. So you don't have bubbles etc. in the fuel from refueling in space. Then they just have to dock with the motor(s) and go.

73% of Brits too shagged for a shag

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context

How do we know if that is bad? Is there a survey of France that says they screw like rabbits to compare this with? How many Austrailians run to catch a bus? Why the hell would anyone ride a bus anyways? I wouldn't walk to catch a bus, sit to catch one or even allow myself to be lifted onto one. We all know there is nothing on the other channels so why get up to change it? Or we could get lots of exercize like all the farmers back in the 1860's who only lived util they were 40.

AES encryption not as tough as you think

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@Ken

Dedicated hardware? how about your video card. http://www.elcomsoft.com/edpr.html I don't even know if you can tackle these kinds of keys with GPU well, but the point is watch out, hardware can sneak up on you quick. 30 years with current hardware could be 15 within next year, 7 years a pair of years later, 3 a year after that. If someone keeps up on their hardware, 30 years could actually be 5, less if you're a little lucky, much less if you're very lucky.

Ridley Scott signs up to direct Alien prequel

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Paris Hilton

"Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?"

Space marines or maybe company scouting/mining ship v.s. alien ship = no more marines and broken alien ship on LV426 + distress signal. Perhaps "Alien" was the second attempt for the company. Finally realizing how tough the bugs are, they send marines the third time.

Aliens 5: "The boarding party"

Paris.... How about some more of that Arcturian poon tang!

AVG update gags iTunes

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Chumps

Only chumps reformat thier PC at the first hint of a virus. If AVG was beloved, then it took care of the problem, move on. Sometimes it's better to have a second opinion from housecall.trendmicro.com or kaspersky.com's free online scan, or the free version of avast! Also that's why there is a virus valut in AVG, isolate it there, then the next day you can read news about how it's ok to restore those files.

Is server virtualization delivering for you yet?

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@BlueGreen

25 apps on the same OS install, with overlapping ports, libraries, web servers, drivers.... one vunerability on 1 app and a hacker has all of your infrastructure, nice. Need to do a hardware update, no VMotion, just your entire business down while you re-install 25 apps. Have a poor app with a memory leak = crash entire business for a wihle, instead of 1 app down. There are probably a hundred other reasons why vmware is better than 25 apps per 1 physical box.

Government defeats Tories in 'McKinnon' extradition vote

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Black Helicopters

why so emotional?

John the dancer, even with 99% of us dumb, signing that treaty with us doesn't seem very bright. I'm all for fixing it though. Then we can send you the evidence and get on with it.

AC 13:08, then why have extradition treaties? Also, your argument is flawed. Hacking military computers is not legal here or there, so try to come up with some other examples to make your point. Maybe an example would be that a visiting American arson lit a big fire causing significant property damage to a UK data center (to prove UK datacenters are insecure and to destroy locally stored communications with UFOs.) However we just didn't bother with prosecuting him for some reason. In that case I'd be glad to send the arson away.

IT admin sentenced for sabotaging employer's network

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also

Another interesting article on this http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/79618,hacking-damages-routinely-overstated.aspx seems to indicate that you need $5,000 in damages to extradite, and the # for McKinnon seems to be around 5,000 per pc he affected. Either way, while I believe the damages should be closer to say $40,00 to 80,000, any way you figure it, it's way over $5,000.

Robot land-steamers to consume all life on Earth as fuel

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Pint

Old school tech

My wife and I made 2 of these already, took us about 20 min. for the initial prototypes. Ongoing programming and upgrades are costing us, but we imagine we should have 2 fully working field tested samples in about 14 years.

New boffinry: North Atlantic could be massive CO2 sink

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Thumb Up

no no no

What we need to do is genetically engieer the plankton to fly, then they can fly to the iron or whatever else they needed. DUH!

$1m for seethrough vidspecs in DARPA VR war-graffiti plan

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awwww

come on.. it's not 'augmented reality' it's a "realitied display"

Toyota preps plug-in Prius for mass production

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v.s. the Volt?

Now the competition with the Chevy Volt will be interesting, since this looks like it could be a fair bit more expensive with less plug in range.

Chickens could 'power hydrogen cars'

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Chicken cannon

Were the chicken feathers compressed to 5000 psi to get that 75 Gallon tank rating? Also, do you need to keep the shaft of the feather, since it takes up volume and may not have any H2 useful properties?

The best memory config for a Core i7 CPU

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synthetic

Any review based on PCMark as your main "real world" test sucks. Also, DDR3 1600 at loose timmings is cheaper than 1333 at tight timmings, and about the same price as good 1066 memory. Plus it's slightly 'real world' faster than both as well. Also (I'm guessing here) it probably has more range when overclocking (speed, voltage and latency.)

Brit firm stops anti-tank warheads with cloth

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Paris Hilton

that much lighter?

We're talking about tanks here, they can move a lot of weight... I'm guessing you would still need a top and bottom rail to hold the cloth up and away from the armor. So the only weight this is saving is the middle part of the cage, which I believe they can make out of aluminum anyways... So I don't really get how much weight they are saving. 40lbs... on a tank? It's still in you way as far as maintenance etc. Although it would make a nice pet project I guess? Maybe 40lbs is worth whatever extra this stuff costs, I'm no military strategist.

Obama weighs into Raptor stealth superfighter fracas

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Actually

Wouldn't you want to have a few F22's to enable air space for your F35's to work or something like that. I wonder if we'll ever end up with just kickass radar and surface to air and surface to ground missiles. We already have 'Xbox flyers' + autopilots... skip the flying plane part, and just have them play missile command all day.

MPs slam 'disgraceful' Type 45 destroyers

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the question is....

... but can you hit a satelite with it?

"This high-powered (four megawatt) radar is able to perform search, track and missile guidance functions simultaneously with a capability of over 100 targets." Not sure how that's allocated though. commander_mike, you seem to have good details on those systems, do you have a internet reference you can share? I like looking at random stuff like that.

-Bounty

Iranian hacktivists hand-crank DDoS attack

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actually

"I tend to think putting basiji snipers on rooftops to shoot kids down in the street means the Iranian government is not especially concerned about public relations at this time."

I think they are exactly concerned with public relations. Shooting citizens, but not openly on TV means the news spreads by word of mouth. It will spread and it will bring fear. But you can't prosecute based on word of mouth, plus it has the element of exaggeration. The other countries are afraid to do anything, and soon the local Iranians will be to afraid to protest as well.

Boffins: Bebo interstellar spam aliens don't exist after all

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Lost

"to pull excess carbon from its atmosphere and confine it in rocks to prevent runaway greenhouse warming"

followed by

"Our model predicts that tides may contribute only one-quarter of the heating required to make the planet habitable"

So what is it? Too cold or too hot. They have no f#@&ing clue yet, so they should stop trying to sound authoritative with wild conclustions about the conditions there. They have no idea when the last large meteor hit it which would = internal heating, possible isotope decay + magnetosphere + tectonics + land mass + volcano and earthquakes. I'm pretty certain they have no way of knowing if it has a large moon(s), the wobble would be too small.

Gather more data first.

US brain-computer interface gets live human trials

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802.1brain

Wireless for mild jerking around, or go wired for full bandwidth 4D (5D?) internet pron.

Crypto attack puts digital sig hash on collision course

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Hey Tom,

No it doesn't magically fix the algorithms, but I I'm not sure that was what he was implying. I'm not sure about Chris's actual suggestion, but a file encrypted twice by 2 techniques does force you to break both which adds time. Also, you don't always know if an algorithm is (or will be) broken. If the CIA know about a bug in AES, you'll be damn smart if your hard drive is encrypted with AES+serpent or some other cipher. If it's trivial to implement multiple techniques then it is usually better than 1.

Juniper: 'We beat Cisco to 100G Ethernet'

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I must have missed a step

I'm still waiting for these guys to make 10 gig Ethernet that's not astronomical in price.

Carnalpedia: PR possibly premature

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put downs as a fetish

"a cute redheaded with a low-cut top having a quiet sniffle is probably likely to make better grumble-fodder than your overweight aunt maude with snot all down her face."

What, because getting off on aunt maude with snot all down her face would be wierd or something? You mean, marginalizing persecutor you. Sorry, but mocking things is normal and good unless it's done specifically in a mean way (to be mean.)

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"Chaos is boring when it's not competing with order."

YouTube flooded with porn

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If it was up to nature we'd all get screwed ASAP.

... but it's ok if it's a nearsighted girl giving a stick shifter a blowjob... or an asian girl going down on a bowl of noodles.

Apple snips Nine Inch Nails app

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Flame

It may suck balls, but at least it LETS YOU SUCK BALLS

Trent is apparently a trendy pussy then....

" I will still use them because they work 1000X better than the competition. This is not a debate, it's a fact. The iPhone is THE most elegant, modern smartphone at this point in time and it's perfect for what we want to do with the NIN app"

His app does not work at all currently, so it's not perfect, not 1000X better and not a fact. The iPhone is THE most evil, orwellian mind control device at this point in time. Want proof, Trent still loves Apple. Free Your Mind

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