Apple is getting rich off you. Reporting results for its fiscal third quarter of 2010, Apple's revenues surged to record levels driven by iPad and Macintosh sales. Net profit was $3.25 billion on revenue of $15.7 billion. Both profits and revenue dwarfed last years takings of $1.83 billion in net profit and revenue of $9.73 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg no longer owns Facebook. Or at least he no longer owns 84% of it. That portion is claimed by Paul D. Cegila, who has filed a lawsuit saying that he is due that share of the company under a contract signed in 2003. Cegila says he signed a contract with Zuckerberg in April 2003 to develop a website that later turned into facebook. His fee was $1,000 and a fifty per cent share in the company. Under a clause in the contract, The Seller and Purchaser agreed additional interest of 1% per day after January 1st, 2004 until the website was completed.

The Lord of Censorship, Stephen Conroy, has decided to delay the switching on of a freedom squashing firewall until after the next election. We first wrote what a moronic decision this filter was back in December, 2009. Showing his true colors, he had refused to delay it for technical reasons, concerns that the system was wide open to abuse or even moral considerations. But when it came down to votes, Conroy ran for the hills and kicked to touch on the issue.

Does the National Security Agency (NSA) ever watch films? If they had, they'd know that in I, Robot (2004), a supercomputer called VIKI begins to control man's freedom for his own safety. Only one tough talking paranoid detective (Will Smith) with an addiction to sugar loaded coffee manages to save us. If there was one lesson to be learned from The Matrix trilogy, it was not to trust machines. Heck, the Matrix informed us that machines already control our reality.