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That Mac WiFi bug that was supposedly found a year ago has been labeled the most overhyped bug.  They never did manage to produce a single shred of evidence that they weren’t completely talking out of their asses.(via MacUser)

Seriously, what? Eminem is suing Apple because iPods can play illegal downloads of Eminem’s songs.

“Eight Mile and Martin have demanded that Apple cease and desist its reproduction and distribution and Apple has refused,” the complaint alleges.

Reproduction and distribution of what? The iPod? Seriously, I don’t get this at all. Is his career that much in the toilet?(via fsj)

A nine page thread on if 0.999… = 1 or not.  I love the Internets.

A Fox affiliate discovers 420chan in an investigation into the hacker group “Anonymous”.(via wired)

Charles Arthur of The Guardian makes the same point I did. Even if iSuppli got all of the component prices correct, it doesn’t mean that’s what it actually cost to make an iPhone. R&D isn’t free, neither is the talent that created the iPhone.(via daringfireball)

A brief history of Apple(via tuaw)

John Gruber has a piece on the figures iSuppli provides for the cost of the iPhone.  The one item that I think misses is the R&D for the iPhone itself.  I strongly doubt that the model everyone has right now is the first revision.  Apple needs to pay for all of those designs that didn’t work too.