Xinhua reports that Apple will sell AIDS. Translation mishap I think. The market is not big enough.

Everyone needs to develop the skills to detect frauds.  Especially fraudulent science, which the public general grants an aura of magic.  The Chronicle details seven warning signs of bogus science:

The most important discovery of modern medicine is not vaccines or antibiotics, it is the randomized double-blind test, by means of which we know what works and what doesn’t. Contrary to the saying, “data” is not the plural of “anecdote.”

Apply this skill to sensationalist stories about MacBook’s wireless security.

Apple has filed some patents on touchscreen technology. I think they might make something like the Nintendo DS with a second screen on the bottom that lets you do amazingly cool things.

I wanted to download QuickTime. It appears that iTunes tags along somehow… How annoying.

It’s patentable. No it is not.

Slate has an article detailing the lack of an iTunes customer support number. Two articles, multiple email and phone exchanges later, Noah concludes that Apple does not allow you to talk to a human regarding support for iTunes. You must use the web interface.

If you want to talk to a human, your best alternative is to contact Amy Gardner at (408) 974-2292 with your problem. While you are at it, be sure to express your desire for customer support.

Other phone numbers on the PR Contacts page as listed at the time of this writing are in the extended entry:
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I love my Airport Express because I can hook up my computer to amazing speakers wirelessly. Listening to the music swirl around an expensive surround system is so much better than my tinny PowerBook speakers. The best part is that I don’t have any wires so I can move my computer wherever I want with worrying about breaking the connection!

Sadly, the speakers in this house are not near an ethernet port. I have to choose between wireless internet and wireless music. Whatever shall I do?! Woe is me! But wait! Airport Express to the rescue again! I can set up two Airport Expresses to talk to each other with something called WDS. So now not only am I able to have both wireless internet and wireless music, I seamlessly extend the range of my wireless network in the process. The Airport setup utilities will even configure your remote base stations for you. You just have to connect and set up the main base station and choose the remote stations you want to add. Enter a couple passwords and you’re done!

Read Apple’s WDS setup guide for more information.

From the company goes overboard with lawsuits department (also know as the Apple Desk): ArsTechnica is reporting on a a couple people being sued for mistakenly having the upcoming Tiger OS leaked onto public BitTorrent sites. Apple is suing the pants off a college student who has around $200 in his bank account. He basically says he was sorry and that he only thought it would be distributed to five or six friends in the invite-only MacTKA community. Perhaps he is being dishonest, but he clearly has a poor understanding of what p2p networks will do with hot networks (distribute them everywhere).

Still, as half the Mac development community (including Apple co-founder Wozniak) has testified, Apple is doing more harm than is deserved to this student–and their reputation. A good company would realize the honest confession of his actions as well as the stress he has endured is more than enough for putting a file up for distribution for an hour. Especially given the fact that Apple’s recent stock gains are entirely contributed to illegal downloads of music files. How many 40GB iPods has Apple sold? Far more than the number of people who have purchased 500 albums on CD and MP3. Can Apple honestly say that 8.2 million people own the rights to 60, 120, 250 or 500 albums? They need to be more considerate towards pirates given that they make up the majority of the iPod user (and therefore the Apple financial) base.

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