Rest in peace, Steve Jobs

Apple says Steve Jobs has died – MSNBC

Apple’s Steve Jobs Dies – Bloomberg

Whether you agreed with his corporate philosophies or not. He was a still a brilliant 56 year old fellow human being who has finally lost a terrible battle with cancer. On the plus side, he co-founded Apple, Inc. and several other companies of note while he was away from Apple, then came back and pulled Apple out of it’s economic doldrums to become a technological giant in first the mobile devices arena and has begun to play catch up on the desktop/laptop arena as well.

I definitely didn’t agree with a lot of his philosophies, corporately or patently, but he did bring about some great innovations. I would love to have seen Apple move the other direction to keep up their old revolution persona from 1984, but that was obviously not to be in this corporate environment.

Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. No one deserves to battle or lose the battle with the demon called cancer. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors (Yahoo News/Business Wire)

RIAA Declares Using Brain to Remember Songs is Criminal Copyright Infringement (satire)

Thought Crime Satire! ROFL!

RIAA Declares Using Brain to Remember Songs is Criminal Copyright Infringement (satire)

(NewsTarget Satire) On the heels of the RIAA’s recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they’ve purchased to their computers (or iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that “remembering songs” using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. “The brain is a recording device,” explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. “The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback.”

In the paraphrased words of Bill Cosby, “Pick your brains up off the floor! Have you lost your mind!?!”

ROFL!