Like I said, Apple puts these bits of code into their OS to track the hacker community. They're so stupid, the hackers think their doing something, finding an egg that Apple planter.

they could have made it rhyme...

...as gordymac said, these are planted by Apple to see which part of the OS was being tampered with.

The ROM of the original Mac 128 contained the text "Stolen from Apple".

This is too cute.

Hackers, we know you're great. Apple we know you're great. As long as we all f*ck Micrshit, we're all on the same team. So what if Mac OS X runs of a PC. Eventually, the user will buy a Mac when he realizes that the PC is a piece of c***. Mac OS X is still very new to most people; let them warm up to it; they'll buy it thereafter. As long as Microshit dies; everything else is just details.

pc's arent crappy, there is a lot more versatility to the pc market, you can get a lot of different form factors of cases, you can get cheapy models, you can get insanely beautiful boutique pcs, you can make your own, which is what i do as a hobby, and i gotta say its a major conveniance to be able to open up your computer and put a new card in, if, for example you happen to need more than 2 firewire ports or some such issue.

Buying the parts individually makes it cheaper, and gives you more control over your computer, what sucks about that?

i digress though, i am a mac user and do massively prefer mac osx, but i really cant afford to keep pc's and macs up to date, and its a lot cheaper to upgrade a pc than to buy a new mac, so i generally keep my pc's as high end as possible and my macs i buy new ones occasionally. when you do music, you want to be able to keep pace with technology, and pc's are much more convenient for this.

...just playing devil's advocate.

Jarod..you say that osx is awesome and pcs suck. once a user loves osx, they will buy a mac?

Uh, can you please tell me the difference now between a macbook pro and an acer travelmate?

same motherboard, same processor, same memory, same graphics board.....

Your brilliance shines through.

Think indifferent.

The news on this website, is turing into garbage. Seriously, why in the world would you sanction this as an editor?

"Uh, can you please tell me the difference now between a macbook pro and an acer travelmate?"

Mac OS X, duh...

(but not if the h4ck3rs have their way)

the reply from the hackers (while cute) betrays a lack of basic literacy ...

it should be "whom - not who - Steve did not think was a genius"

if these fiendishly clever 'hackers' cant figure out the difference between the nominative & objective cases, then just imagine what they do when it comes to trying to cast types properly or to safely throw exceptions in their code ;-)

still, it's nice to know that the 'easter egg' tradition that steve banned at one point when he returned (in order to try and prevent headhunters from poaching) is back!

maybe a new instaler could be written that only allows osx to be installed on non-apple intel machines if the user can pass some brain teaser.