[MyAppleMenu] Oct 31, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** iTunes 4.7 Disables "iPod Download" Application
<http://www.engadget.com/entry/4071088231142865/>
Phillip Torrone, Engadget

C'mon guys, this is our music, on our iPod.

*** Google Desktop For OS X Misreported By Reuters And Others?
<http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/30/google_desktop_for_o.html>
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

"He made no announcement of actual plans to deliver the product, or even that Google was actively working on it."

*** NSA Security Guide For Mac OS X
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1353206>
Slashdot

[Opinion]

*** Apple To iPod Owners: "Eat Shit And Die"
<http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/30/apple_to_ipod_owners.html>
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Apple is spending money seeing to it that features are removed from your iPod.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Calling The Shots
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/10/31/calling_the_shots/>
Elaine McArdie, Boston Globe

Boston police are facing a surge in violence, the Suffolk County sheriff's office was disgraced by prisoner abuse, and the state prison system needs a drastic overhaul after the death of a convicted pedophile priest. Is it just a coincidence that all three agencies now have women at the helm, entrusted to bring about change?

*** A Death In The Box
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/magazine/31PRISONER.html>
Mary Beth Pfeiffer, New York Times

By the time Jessica Lee Roger was discovered on the floor of her prison cell on Aug. 17, 2002, it was too late. In the 24 minutes since guards had last checked her, she had tied a bed sheet around her neck and, after many attempts over three years in prison, finally strangled herself. When word of Roger's suicide spread through the cellblocks of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility that sultry weekend, two correction officers cried. Fellow inmates were angry. The superintendent, who was away for a few days, was devastated. A mentally ill young woman had died, and she had died in the most stressful and isolating place in the New York state prison system. Jessica Roger, 21, killed herself in the "box," and many thought she didn't belong there.

*** Jon Stewart, Seriously, Here To Stay
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/29/DDGSO9HI5F17.DTL>
Tim Goodman, San Franciso Chronicle

Stewart, once host of a small cable comedy show, has become the most popular late-night talk show host on television. He now has more cachet than David Letterman or Jay Leno. In the parlance of TV industry hacks, Stewart has "popped" -- like a Roman candle.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Free Cab Rides To Holland Village?
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/news/story/0,5562,282388,00.html?>
Debbie Swee and Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times

This is among some of the ideas shops there have come up with to deal with parking crunch.