...installing linux on the new iPod is out of the question?

I've heard this is the best way to make a good hash.

My old 5 gb iPod just jumped in value.

Not that I'd sell it.

I thought Apple had embraced open source

I heard cannabis brownies were the way to go.

...iPod Genuine Advantage?

I just emailed Apple a few days ago asking for a Linux version of iTunes. No wonder I didn't hear back from them.

Can I vote this to be the most obscure "In Soviet Russia" joke ever?

This revolutionary new tool [tigerdirect.com] allows any audio device with a 3.5mm stereo output jack to dock with any other audio device with a 3.5mm stereo input jack.

Careful! The last time I even suggested that Apple was not an open source friendly company here on Slashdot, I was modded down as "flamebait." Of course, I also reminded everyone that Apple's developers did not invent the mouse, object oriented programming, the GUI, and that those developers were also not capable of producing a preemptive scheduler, and the presence of those features in OS X represents Apple's team simply borrowing ideas from other people without contributing anything back.

Mix the beef with the cannibis oils and get Corned Beef Hashish!

I don't know if I should smoke it or serve it up with eggs.

Great. So now not only the audience has to read the TFA before posting, but the author has to read it as well before publishing? You're going to ruin the whole system here.

here, let me take care of that with this firmware update.

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It is a proprietary format for encoding troll posts.

I would have modded you up from that flamebait if I hadn't posted quite a few anti-iPod-posts myself already :(

I can't believe Microsoft did this! What a bunch of evil, coporate money grubbers. M$ will use every trick in the book to make sure they protect their systems and force people into drinking the Kool-Aid. What a bunch of...what? Apple? Oh! Good for Apple protecting their rights and systems. Damn Linux pirates should respect the fact that the iPOD is Apples proprietry knowledge. I can't believe that Linux users thought they could get away with it...

..and gained about a hundred in the time it took you to post this.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Yea i got one as a gift too... What a POS! Itunes totally took over all my file types, & I have yet to find a way to remove the damn thing completely (have to kill it from taskman on every boot, even though its been "uninstalled") What a fucking nightmare! The one saving grace was the hacked winamp plugin i found, but now thats blocked too?

Why does apple intentionally hamstring everything they make?

Anyway, i was actually quite relieved when the damn thing got stolen & i could go back to using my sandisk without the wife getting upset that i hated her gift.

They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market. Force is very strong on them.

I didn't even know Apple had a Directory Access Protocol implementation that they were selling. That's... so... uh... X.500 of them.

What's a VCR?

They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market.

They can have the Double Anal Penetration market, I want no part of it!

There was nothing sick about GP's comment. It was just plain funny. As for yourself - sounds like you are not a sick bastard at all, in fact wimpy dork is the term that comes to mind.

Mod parent -1 Yuck.