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"display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "locked"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"9669899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was going to leave a comment, but I don't have a license. And even if I did, you could only read it on 5 computers...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_17:03:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "4700ee89da67d3bd6fda009301817a15", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mike, you know why i hate it when people get all emotional about something and then back down?<br><br>because at that point, it's like they lost their passion, they were afraid of raising a stink, and they get boring.<br><br>When Mike Bartosh died, I used a quote from Mel Brooks in the post I did on it, because it described him:<br><br><i>''Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at [the] very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.'' </i><br><br>if you think something's stupid say so. Don't tiptoe around it, afraid to hurt a feeling. Speak boldly and bluntly. If you find out you're wrong, accept that gracefully, but never give into the people who counsel passivity.<br><br>If someone can't handle that, then instead of you apologizing and shoring up their self-esteem, maybe they need to question why they need others to feel good about themselves. So someone calls you an asshole.<br><br>So what?<br><br>I mean it.<br><br>So<br><br>What.<br><br>Maybe you were. Maybe you didn't mean to be, but you were. What, you're supposed to run and hide, or stop being who you are because someone didn't like it? You're supposed to judge yourself on what random people you don't know think? [waves dismissively] pfeh. Doesn't make you a bad person, it just makes you human. Everyone's an asshole throughout the day. It's unavoidable.<br><br>In many ways, being an asshole is how you stand up for yourself. Disagreeing is an inherently offensive thing to do. You're telling someone \"I think you're wrong.\" It's your inner asshole that gives you the strength to do that, to ford your own course when everyone else says \"No, do it OUR way or you suck\".<br><br>Bah. If you cannot say what you feel, if you cannot say what you mean, then why bother speaking at all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_16:59:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn\u2019t control them anymore. Drat!</i><br><br>Pixar never directly sold a film in its life. They made them. Disney was the distributor. Disney made that decision, not Pixar.<br><br><i>Excuse me for having an opinion on his Godliness.</i><br><br>Oh lord, Robert's having Man-PMS. Someone get him a midol and some chocolate.<br><br><i>Like Michael Markman - and thanks for raising this - I can\u2019t believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble. If you\u2019ve got an argument, it will have more intellectual force if you leave out the bile, either that or be exposed as a feebleminded knee-jerk word jumble.<br><br>I don\u2019t agree with Robert on lots of things, but I\u2019m prepared to bet that if we met, he\u2019d be a perfectly civil, normal human. I won\u2019t say anything here I\u2019m not prepared to say to his face. Hmmm - I reckon there are one or two here who would and wouldn\u2019t care. Tortured souls.</i><br><br>You're forgetting an important point: Robert wants this reaction. He is <i>quite</i> deliberate in his regular fomenting of extreme reaction. It gets him what his career is based on:<br><br><i>attention</i><br><br>He has to pull this PMSy crap so that other people write about it, and get his link counts up to where they need to be.<br><br>What's the easiest way to do this? Well, we already know, as does Robert. So, on a regular basis, he Dvoraks the readers of his blog with some outrageous bullshit post, and his hit counts and more importantly, link counts go up. He used the perfect word in the title of this post...he's a <i>linkbaiter</i>. He just happens to do it in the most incendiary way possible.<br><br>So, since he's fishing for furor, I go with the advice a friend of mine gave me:<br><br><i>It's my job to feed people's addictions for my own amusement.</i><br><br>it's fun too!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_07:39:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BTW Robert: \"MS could have done better than Apple\". When is the last time it happened ? ;) Don't get me wrong : I respect MS and billg, but if you at the History (and at Vista), you realize MS is mostly copy pasting... Wow wow wow... Flames are coming ;)<br><br>ps to the one flaming me : Listen to my Podcast ;) I'm not an Apple Extremist ;) I get flamed by Apple fellows for being too nice with MS ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_07:24:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "9981f3741b151a7a2a635a4d03d697f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow :) I was the first one to post :) Even tough Robert and I were both on CET, in the middle of the night ;) While I was doing ASP.NET with VS.NET on my Mac Pro (under Mac OS X...). Hey Robert NeXt time we meet what about a Scoble Show about Pomcast ? :) Or do I have to drop a mail @hotmail ? :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_07:14:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "9981f3741b151a7a2a635a4d03d697f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C Welsh strikes me as a coward.  Anyone else agree?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-10_17:42:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6eb8469d82e512808019f3c23f83ac0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, with regard to the kind comments by Gerald Buckley, they could apply to your blog as well.  Unfortunately we seem to be getting more poop and less gems these days.<br><br>To echo what many readers have already said, jobs doesn't care about .99 a song.  He cares about itunes.  iTunes is Apple's killer app and their beachhead in the Windows world.  You need itunes to do just about anything with the ipod and soon the iphone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_06:37:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e3f88c4059a31301ca18cda13535af0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "On the DRM debate itself, since DRM is not meant to stop piracy by any stretch, I keep wondering about why there is so much \"DRM vs piracy\" rants out there.<br><br>DRM was designed to create new business models which restrict what a consumer can do with a digital file or stream.<br><br>In a world where everyone routinely copies files or streams over across devices, it's just an artifical limitation. It's anti-consumer by design.<br><br>That's why it's flawed. Not because Steve Jobs says blablabla, or Microsoft says blablabla, or Hollywood says blablabla or the record labels say blablabla.<br><br>And I am surprised to see that not so many people out there don't seem to see that the Windows Genuine Advantage check is in fact DRM as much as WindowsMedia DRM. One of its goals is to limit virtual machine scenarios as much as possible, because as one starts seeing the benefit of it, less copies of Windows are sold.<br><br>It's no surprise that the Windows Genuine Advantage check is also anti-consumer by design.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_06:03:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f4b051052d30e7850f497e794bc9cf5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why Brian?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-11_19:31:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "86a3f650caba64e04893df88a3bd506e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He camps out here firing cheap shots in someone else's blog.  It's always easy to find a glass half full in anyone's arguments, but it would be better done on their own blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-12_23:35:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6eb8469d82e512808019f3c23f83ac0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble,<br><br>It would be great to have a T-shirt with just<br><br>J, J, Shift-S, J, J<br><br>on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_19:32:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c9bbbf2935a01d2c3513b04f95afd29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No Jeff, he really isn't.<br><br>Note how, while he's all over everything Apple, he avoids tons of MS silliness. Why?<br><br>Not because he's a shill, but because Apple gets him hits and links in FAR greater numbers than MS.<br><br>Scoble: He's the new Dvorak<br><br>At least he's not Enderle, that would require lithium and a straightjacket, 'cause that man is KAH-RAAAYYY-ZEE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-08_08:25:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stefane is absolutely right, and it's a point almost all of you are missing: DRM isn't about piracy, it's about restricting fair use. It's about limiting customers, revoking rights guaranteed by law in order to create new \"revenue streams.\" It's about enforcing the bullshit end-user licenses we agree to whenever purchasing a copy of an album, movie, software, etc. It's about being anti-consumer. And to succeed, it will have to balance the annoyance with benefits so it can achieve wide adoption.<br><br>The DVD is a good example. How annoying is it that you can't make a backup of a tiny plastic disc prone to scratches without violating the DMCA? Or in a non-trivial manner? How many dead DVDs do you own, scratched to oblivion--or just enough that the movie stops halfway through? I own VHS cassettes from the 80s that still play perfectly today; a good number of the DVDs I purchased in the 90s are gone, and can't be copied on new VHS VCRs.<br><br>The Zune is also classic. An hypothetical unrestricted MP3 that you squirt--maybe you own it, maybe you wrote and recorded the song yourself--gets a bullshit DRM layer that causes it to explode. DRM restricting your legitimate rights.<br><br>The record companies know exactly what they're doing. And Steve Jobs is trying to change the conversation and make it about the customer again. That's something Apple is very good at.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_19:10:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "f61190ed8c2750ed799d00b2c7602756", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Schlammschlacht - that is the german word for this sort of legal battle.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.out-law.com/page-7689\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.out-law.com/page-7689</a><br><br>They say their products are declared illegal in Norway. The concept they are dicussing is \"contract law\". They violate the basics of contract law. Just for the record, I listen to no musik anymore. This is much better to watch and relax :-)<br><br>Just a joke - what is a stock market bubble?<br><br><a href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJI&amp;t=5y&amp;l=on&amp;z=m&amp;q=l&amp;c=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&amp;t=5y&a...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_17:27:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "a261234544ef78fef81e45070d8516f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669913": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damned, I better shut up an improve my english :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_17:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "a261234544ef78fef81e45070d8516f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Apple doesn\u2019t control the rights to the music is sells, the record companies do. Same with the Zune music store, and it has even MORE restrictions. Furthermore, MS is paying a BRIBE to Universal for every Zune it sells in order to get the muisc at all!\"<br><br>Yeah, I must've missed Scoble's scathing retort to that DRM clusterfuck...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=robert+scoble+Zune\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=robert...</a><br><br>Ah, the results speak for themselves. If that preening Mac vs. PC retard-o-fest video didn't prove you're still a technically incompetent Microsoft fanboy, this does.<br><br>Scoble's Modus Operandi:<br><br>1. Damn [insert company he works for or used to work for] with some minor quibbles.<br><br>2. Bask in an artificial impartiality.<br><br>3. Shit all over the nearest competitor like a rabid dog with diarrhea.<br><br>4. ???<br><br>5. Profit!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_09:56:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a107565a34d6086bc47a55506edc40b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Best post of all goes to Chuck.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_09:40:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3fcba70e3f628c73d1fb8ca44e988aad", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Steve Jobs sells DRM even on music that music companies don't require DRM on. This proves that Steve jobs is just trying to put himself in a position where he can tell himself that he had something to do with the end of DRM. It's a well known fact that the record companies are all discussing removing DRM. Steve probably knows more about this, and he's making a power play here just to make it seem like he had something to do with it.<br><br>I can see Steve Jobs sitting with Al Gore in a few years. Al says, you know Steve, I did some critical research, which is responsible for the internet, without which your great safari browser, would just be browsing the local hard drive!! I know Al, Steve says, but I did put an end to that nasty DRM! Yeah, you are great Steve, Al says. Steve says, I know Al, we both are great people!.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_09:50:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "39314b9561ab4752a37c3370fbf6ee5d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not attacking you by calling you an ass, I'm calling it like I see it. I have nothing against you. If I did, I wouldn't read your blog. That's simple.<br><br>Here's how I see it: Someone you don't like to agree with (for whatever reasons) publicly speaks about something you agree with, benefitting your stance. All you can say is that  he's being an opportunist. But that defies logic.<br><br>How is DRM beneficial to a technology company? It's not if you're Apple because it's that much more work for you to support it. Also, it limits your market: if someone has a Zune, they can't buy songs from iTunes, and if someone has a huge library of PlaysForSure, they might not buy an iPod (where the money is) because they'd have a bunch of useless music they couldn't use on it. Of course they couldn't buy a Zune either, but that's for another time.<br><br>Apple has never needed or liked DRM. The music industry required it. <a href=\"http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1039/\" rel=\"nofollow\">I address this on my own blog...</a><br><br>But that doesn't prevent everyone who doesn't like Apple from spreading FUD about their stance on DRM. Steve clarifies, and it's opportunism. But, wait, even if it were opportunism, isn't that what a for-profit company is supposed to do? Find opportunities in the market? But what's really being said here is \"our product is best, the market is backing us up, and we don't need artificial barriers to restrict competition. Bring it on.\"<br><br>My point to my first reply, and this reply is simply, \"Don't come from the John C. Dvorak and Rob Enderle school of FUD and yellow journalism. Don't post stuff that's blatantly wrong just to get hits on your blog and stir up commotion.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_10:59:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "136cf6f3cb92ac715ad301cdee0918a2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I can\u2019t believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble\"<br><br>Considering that 99% of his blogpost was a personal attack against Jobs, it seems rather fitting. I've never seen a grown man act like such a little bitch until now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_08:20:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a107565a34d6086bc47a55506edc40b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Buy a record company. Who cares what their deal was with Apple music. \"<br><br>There is some speculation that, since this has now been settled (this week) that that is exactly what they will do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_08:34:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "d30325f3854529569688df2b037167af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's so funny... There is ONE of the big guys trying to make the Record Companies move a bit their ass and some people are still bitching at him :) What's up with billg, Zune without DRM soon ? ;)<br><br>ps: Even without DRM nobody will buy them :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:35:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "9981f3741b151a7a2a635a4d03d697f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "StuFF: we agree there. Microsoft blew a real opportunity to provide something that was different (and better) than an iPod. Sigh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:39:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669923": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Seeing how much of the blogosphere is treating Steve's word as gospel, I decided to write 3 blog posts with some analysis:<br><br><a href=\"http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-on-music/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-...</a><br><a href=\"http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-misleading-statistics/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-misleadin...</a><br><a href=\"http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steve-on-licensing-fairplay/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steve-on-licensi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:44:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "e2107a7f4868244625d1ab05016af4e6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, Steve Jobs is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand he has benefited from the DRM iTunes to iPod lock-in. On the other hand, several European countries are raising anti-trust issues and threatening to ban iTunes/iPod sales in their countries unless they open it up. Of course the record labels would cut Apple off if they discontinued the DRM.<br><br>BTW, Bill Gates agrees that DRM is broken. I wrote a blog about the DRM issues and ironies today. See <a href=\"http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/02/steve_jobs_blam.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/...</a><br><br>Don", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:45:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e7dc9a5d12305bd71cc7b390c653c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "By the way..It isn't the first time Jobs has criticized the music industry. Here's a quote from 2002:<br>\"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own,\"<br><br>From the MacWorld article \"Jobs: Record companies should loosen their grip\"<br><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/03/04/jobs/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/03/04/jobs/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:46:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "4c9853e1b90bc2b869a54fee29c2df70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Looks like your readers shoot first and read your blog post later, Robert :-D", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_08:59:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c0c403fb4afc369ea18717961f46a050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmm. Pretty nasty stuff here. I'll just mildly add that I don't see what the complaints about SJ's letter are about. Apple doesn't control the rights to the music is sells, the record companies do. Same with the Zune music store, and it has even MORE restrictions. Furthermore, MS is paying a BRIBE to Universal for every Zune it sells in order to get the muisc at all! So, it is pretty clear that it is the \"they still don't get it\" record companies that are the cause of the problem.<br><br>The European complaints about ITMS are ridiculous, blaming Apple for a problem that they cannot control. Furthermore, the ITMS music is portable....burn it to a CD and do with it what you will.<br><br>I think Apple just said that they are willing to compete the iPod against all other music players in the world once the record companies wake up to reality in the 21sth century. I'd like to see MS come out with a similar statement for Zune!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_09:04:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "636200e38adc83ce74f5b857d734cced", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BC: and why did he wait until now to do it? Cause it's clear iTunes sales per unit are going down.<br><br>That's not leadership, it's opportunism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:21:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, and BC, what is it about Apple fans that gets them to pull out the ad hominems for people who don't see the world they do? Why call me an ass? Does that help your point of view? Does it make you feel better? Are you being paid by Apple to say that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:27:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert why are you running around going \"Boo Hoo\" like a little Windows girl?<br><br>So what if you bought 3 iPods?  Did Jobs put a gun to your head and force you to buy them?   Did Jobs force you to buy music form the iTunes Music Store?  Why did'nt you just buy CD's and rip them?<br><br>Get you panties unbunched and wash the skid marks out of them.  No need to be a little Windows girl.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:28:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "9da3441e8188a5e0699c766c20b31025", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh lord, it's the evil Scoble. Jobs says something point blank that if the record companies agree, hurts the Zune FAR more than it would hurt the iPod, and Robert of course, pissed that he can't be first, has to say a buncha stupid shit:<br><br><i> Let me get this straight. He sells my family three iPods that have DRM on them, then he turns around and says \u201cthat game is over.\u201d</i><br><br>Stop posting when you're full of german hops, it makes you more full of shit than normal. The iPod has firmware that can deal with FairPlay. This is <i>exactly</i> like the Zune and plays for sure. However, <i>unlike</i> the Zune, the iPod doesn't ADD DRM to songs, (coughsquirtingcough).<br><br>However, saying that software that can handle DRM'd content is having DRM on it is...yes, that's it, stupid. You can own your iPod forever, and not only never have a single iota of DRM'd content on it, but <i>unlike</i> Microsoft's offerings, you can have EVERYTHING the iTunes store has to offer on your iPod and never have to reconnect it to your computer to \"revalidate\" that DRM'd content.<br><br>Secondly, he didn't say \"that game is over\". Not even close. But then, you're all whiny and shit that you're the last one to read this, so better to post something stupid I suppose. He said that DRM doesn't work, and really has never worked, and that if the majors would allow it, Apple would happily move the iTMS over to unDRM'd content.<br><br>Reading Robert, it isn't just for schoolkids anymore. But lets continue:<br><br><i>Meanwhile we all forget that the iPhone isn\u2019t open to third-party developers and that the iPod has near-monopoly-status marketshare already.</i><br><br>Ah, the famous Scoble in whiny bitch mode \"I have nothing useful to say, so let's set up a straw man\" trick. If only you didn't suck at it.<br><br>First, the iPhone is a strawman here. I know you're unused to points that aren't on your head, but DO try to stay on this one. You don't know the iPhone is not open to third-party developers. You don't know that it is open to third party developers. Why? Because IT'S NOT RELEASED YET. Not only are you badly strawmanning, but you're doing it over vapor. Jesus, a retarded monkey could do this better.<br><br>Jobs did NOT say \"All the software on the iPhone must come only from Apple\". He said \"We are going to carefully control this process.\"<br><br>As well, considering that unlike Palm or Microsoft, Apple isn't going to put a crippled - assed browser in this, there is indeed a way for third parties to get software onto the iPhone: Ajax. And before you start whining that doesn't count, well, if it doesn't, then Microsoft is spending a shit-ton of money on stuff \"that doesn't count\" and your precious \"Web 2.0\" doesn't count either.<br><br>The numbers for the iPod's marketshare have no bearing on this, unless it's to give MORE weight to Jobs' comments. I don't recall BillyG ever wanting to make Windows more open until he was, literally, forced to.<br><br>Not only do you suck at strawman, but one of your examples disproves the point you were trying to make. Are you sure you didn't write this in an Amsterdam whorehouse's coffee shop, because it's kinda close to stoner logic.<br><br><i>So, why is he doing this? Maybe he noticed that most iPod users don\u2019t buy many songs from iTunes. Why? We\u2019d rather get a CD from Amazon, rip it ourselves so it doesn\u2019t have DRM, thus denying Steve Jobs his rightful $.99 a song.</i><br><br>Gee, you mean <i>like he said in the memo</i>? Come on Snap-On, stop being a tool just because you're late to the party. Here's one...maybe lockin isn't the only reason people use iTunes. Maybe there's other reasons. Oh wait, that would require more thought than \"DUDE! MORE BEER!\"<br><br> <i>But, like I said, I\u2019m not a cynic. And, in case you\u2019re already sick of Steve\u2019s DRM memo, I only put three things onto my link blog about it with dozens of other things that aren\u2019t on TechMeme or Digg.</i><br><br>Only you are. Quite a few people are glad someone with the kind of pull Jobs has said it the way he did.<br><br>If you'd have not been all whiny and flamebaiting about it, you might have had a better post.<br><br>Oh yeah, you were trolling for it this time dude, so suck it up princess, and eat that shit sandwich you so smugly ordered.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:33:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669932": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A link blog? This is not a link blog. You republish full content of others.<br><br>Sometimes, by making so much effort to redefine words, I wonder if you are still a Microsoft employee.<br><br>Let me give a hint if you want to appear as a cool guy : open link blog.<br><br>Sexy isn't it? ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_02:52:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f4b051052d30e7850f497e794bc9cf5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, for the record, I have seen pointed out in places that Apple faces troubles in Europe for their \"lock-in\" strategy.<br><br>That can't be from France (controversial DADVSI law, transposition of the EUCD directive), where a Microsoft lobbyist \"Michel Thiolliere\", member of the senate, made sure that Apple is not required to open up by adding amendments to said law.<br><br>Those guys...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_02:54:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f4b051052d30e7850f497e794bc9cf5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669934": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Like Michael Markman - and thanks for raising this - I can't believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble. If you've got an argument, it will have more intellectual force if you leave out the bile, either that or be exposed as a feebleminded knee-jerk word jumble.<br><br>I don't agree with Robert on lots of things, but I'm prepared to bet that if we met, he'd be a perfectly civil, normal human. I won't say anything here I'm not prepared to say to his face. Hmmm - I reckon there are one or two here who would and wouldn't care. Tortured souls.<br><br>Maybe I'm just farting in the wind, or is it compulsory now to go out of your way to insult anyone with whom you disagree, and thus expose yourself as the hapless victim of a brain cell time-share scam? Oh crap, did I just insult anyone?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_03:15:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5a6a61d6c9c44c4d03ae82a5be176db", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is a fourth way: open source and open standards based DRM ... <a href=\"http://podslug.com/blog/?p=88\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://podslug.com/blog/?p=88</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:50:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae0d6164f8fe6e21e33d6b902b075306", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "[...]You want to get to his Godliness? Don\u2019t talk about his devices, his software, or his store. Talk about his movies. He\u2019s placed the ball in the court of the music companies, asking them to step up and give him permission to drop DRM.<br><br>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn\u2019t control them anymore. Drat![...]<br><br>I agree, but Steve does not quite have the leverage required to bring this about, regardless of his shareholding in Disney. Yes he is \"one of the club\" now, but the movie industry is well aware of the situation regarding music and does not wish to be painted into the same corner, hence the reason why only 2 studios have signed up so far. Steve's power (and the content producer's quandry) comes from the fact that he is seen in business as someone who was able to propel the online music business model from fag-packet to ubiquity, albeit with the largest benefit inuring to Apple.<br><br>This is crucial for the DRM point and it makes the timing of his statement somewhat puzzling, regardless of its merits. How could he possibly convince the studios about stripping away DRM when there is effectively no meaningful sales data?<br><br>As an aside, I agree that the one thing that needs to be stripped away right now is the abuse and invective being poured on Robert.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_05:05:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5f92aa64eb658ae473e347339e7dd28", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, you are trying just to hard devil's advocate here. You're acting like that annoying dorky kid in high school who has to challenge everything a teacher says in class, preventing the whole class from moving forward. There are times to express criticism and dissent, but this is one time where the snarkiness and cynicism is just plain tiring.<br><br>Come on, be honest - do you really think Steve Jobs could have proposed a DRM-free solution before he sold 100 million iPods and 2 billion songs? You really think even Bill Gates could have talked the record industry into releasing DRM-free music 5 years ago? And if so, why has Microsoft been spending more and more resources developing ever convoluted DRM schemes that allow things like 3 day/3 play timebombs, download-to-device-but-no-burn-to-CD, or exploding music rentals?<br><br>Thankfully, Steve Jobs is a better businessman than you. I'm trying not to be too harsh on you, but please, is it so hard to see that when dealing with the record companies, he has always played from a position of strength? Even flat pricing for songs is something that burns up music company CEOs to no end, but guess what? When that initial iTunes licensing contract was up, iTunes was still the only successful online music store out there, which allowed Jobs to force the labels to re-up on $0.99 per song.<br><br>The point is, Jobs could not be advocating DRM-free music until today. iTunes is clearly too important for the music industry to ignore or resist, because if they pulled their catalog, the music business would be in a freefall because the only thing that kept it healthy was iTunes' growth.<br><br>So instead of trying to cut Jobs down just because you apparently don't like his modus operandi, why don't you recognize that this is an opportunity to direct the pressure where it deserves to be aimed - right at the heart of the big 4 labels.<br><br>Otherwise, you only look a member of the witless Germanic tribes who basically kept on stealing defeat from the jaws of victory every time Spartacus  had conquered a vast Roman army on the field. Stop arguing for the sake of arguing because when arguing is mere squablling,  it does not make you sound more intelligent.<br><br>Gawd, if only some bloggers dedicated as much time and energy to rail against the music label CEOs as they've spent trying to bring Jobs down because of the options backdating....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c5d16fde6d201c740570c8f04fc996b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;&gt;Larry: You have to admit you don\u2019t have this same passion re your old employer, at the most you hit them with a shadow of the negativity that you do Apple.<br><br>In the past year my family has spent more than $10,000 on Apple products. How much in Microsoft products? Probably about $1,000.<br><br>So, if you notice that there's passion it's cause that's where the action is. Apple is building more interesting products for consumers lately.<br><br>Excuse me for having an opinion on his Godliness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_01:09:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble has finally gone over the deep end.<br><br>Man, if you honestly think that DRM is why Apple owns this entire fucking market, you need to give up your Nerd Cred card and start blogging about wiener schnitzel or something...<br><br>...oh wait.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:57:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a107565a34d6086bc47a55506edc40b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Scoble, no, the iPod has no DRM in it. None. Not a bit. You should at least understand the technology before you criticize it. Neither does the iTS. No DRM there, either.<br><br>The DRM layer is all managed within iTunes itself, and the song is validated and \"decoded\" (your term, not mine) before it is placed on the iPod. The iPod needs no DRM capability because music that is placed there has already been authorized. It's a brilliant design that clearly allowed for easy removal of DRM when the time came (only change necessary will be to iTunes).<br><br>As for Jobs, he has publicly decried DRM before, and is attempting to use his clout to get some help in this regard. Instead, what he gets are bloggers who do nothing but look for reasons to criticize his actions because, well, I guess that's what they do best. Heaven forbid they should contribute anything significant to the debate.<br><br>Meanwhile, Gates talks down DRM while building a much more restrictive one into Zune and also embedding one within Vista itself.<br><br>Whatever. Have a nice day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:03:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "90931c95a3c20f7ef28ba82d290bae7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's just the way the world is. You just have to learn to accept it. As we were reminded this week, and as Bill Gates finally realized and admitted, Steve Jobs invented the world. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:07:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "df679bd3d287a21d5ed6020bae384e17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Only joking when I said \"Apple fans, attack!\", Robert. But we know they will... and are.. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:39:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "df679bd3d287a21d5ed6020bae384e17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "According to the Zune team, DRM is a good thing too.<br><br><a href=\"http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/02/07/thoughts-on-drm.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/02/07/thoug...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:22:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "df679bd3d287a21d5ed6020bae384e17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jobs is leading. Get it?<br><br>First, he gets the Industry to allow people to download music and gets the industry to allow use on several machines as well as unlimited iPods. Nothing like it at the time. And first, it only happened with Mac users (since there are so few of them....uhhhh). Then it opens up to Windows users and bam, all goes nuts.<br><br>Now, after selling craploads of iPods and music from the store, it is pretty easy to see that DRM does absolutely nothing to stop people from pirating or downloading their own CD's onto MP3 players. Plus, Europe is having a COW over DRM.<br><br>Jobs has the muscle and public opinion (popularity) to lead this issue. MS  would never do something like this. Apple is about the consumer and trusting the consumer. That is how he struck the deal in the first place.<br><br>Scoble, you really surprise me on this one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "3fcba70e3f628c73d1fb8ca44e988aad", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Although, this post comes a close second for link baiting. Apple fans, attack! :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:29:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "df679bd3d287a21d5ed6020bae384e17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If there is anything Machavellian in the open letter is that a DRM-free iTunes Store would effectively kill the whole music subscription business.<br><br>I mean, if you're paying $15 to subscribe to Zune music or Napster or whatever, that's $180 a year. That's 180 songs you can buy DRM-free on the iTunes Store, songs that you could freely move around and even play on your Zune (if you're using Windows). After 10 years, that's at least 1800 songs that you can keep for the rest of your life or pass on to your kin. Suddenly, the music subscription makes even less sense.<br><br>And guess what, Robert? People will still keep buying iPods even if the iTunes Store goes completely DRM-free, which would crush this silly idea that \"iTunes lock-in\" is what is responsible for the iPod's success.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_00:33:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c5d16fde6d201c740570c8f04fc996b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>IMHO, Your screed here is largely without merit. I won't rehash the arguments well made above. (Though there would be some value to restating them without the ugly invective and personal insults that some readers enjoy throwing your way. Maybe incivility is an inevitable part of naked conversations.)<br><br>You want to get to his Godliness? Don't talk about his devices, his software, or his store. Talk about his movies. He's placed the ball in the court of the music companies, asking them to step up and give him permission to drop DRM.<br><br>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn't control them anymore. Drat!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_01:17:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael: excellent point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_01:23:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm right there with you-- what you mean when you say you \"bought iPods with DRM\" is that you bought the iPods so that they could all play all the crap you downloaded from iTunes.<br><br>It was only a matter of time until Apple was forced to make this move.  We're all about sharing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_11:02:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "42b817823d9ca5e716c7fb27eada96e3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I haven't posted because Scoble was late to the party, and I knew John C. would take care of it, but here are two points:<br><br>1. Scoble bitches about Apple and Jobs not blogging for more than 2 years, and when Steve does a direct communication with the web audience, he is labeled a \"linkbaiter.\"<br><br>(This alone, on multiple levels, disqualifies Scoble and anyone who agrees with him from using anything close to a hypocrisy argument.)<br><br>2. The iTS has surpassed Amazon on the list of the largest music distributors. People do not prefer to buy non-DRMed CDs from Amazon over the iTS anymore. Please check for facts if you want to make such silly arguments. WalMart, yes. Target, yes. Amazon, no.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-08_13:51:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@62. Confession of guilty pleasure: On principle I oppose ad hominem invective. But, John C. Welch, I love your style. I guess I need ethics counseling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_14:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "[...]Yeah, losing the money pile that is Norway would really kill the momentum that the undisputed market dominator has with its culturally-defining device.[...]<br><br>How about France, Germany, Denmark and Norway? These aren't some fly-over states inhabited by people who've only just discovered the combustion engine...<br><br>And spare us the sexist rubbish.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_12:34:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5f92aa64eb658ae473e347339e7dd28", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"How about France, Germany, Denmark and Norway?\"<br><br>I think the UK sells twice as many 'tunes as all those countries combined.<br><br>Yawn.<br><br>\"And spare us the sexist rubbish.\"<br><br>Spare me the tech chicks saying unbelievably stupid things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_12:41:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a107565a34d6086bc47a55506edc40b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Steve Jobs sells DRM even on music that music companies don\u2019t require DRM on. This proves that Steve jobs is just trying to put himself in a position where he can tell himself that he had something to do with the end of DRM. It\u2019s a well known fact that the record companies are all discussing removing DRM. Steve probably knows more about this, and he\u2019s making a power play here just to make it seem like he had something to do with it.</i><br><br>What the music companies sell elsewhere has no bearing on what they license to Apple for iTunes.<br><br>Hell, you can't even get ONE license from Sony or Universal for all countries. You have to do them separately. Lame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_13:41:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"It was only a matter of time until Apple was forced to make this move.\"<br><br>Yeah, losing the money pile that is Norway would really kill the momentum that the undisputed market dominator has with its culturally-defining device.<br><br>I guess those 2 billion iTunes downloads and the dominant market share among players really backed Jobs into the corner.<br><br>Thanks for proving the old addage: \"Girls are dumb.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_11:32:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a107565a34d6086bc47a55506edc40b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No you're not Robert, unless by \"questioning\" you mean that pile of whine you posted here.<br><br>Maybe you should start reading your <i>own</i> posts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_21:25:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert -- do you and Thurrott call each other and collectively decide when to say stupid BS about Apple?    Is that part of keeping your MS/Windows street cred intact?  What gives?<br><br>You're better than this Robert. Way better.  I expect this sort of shit from Thurrott, but not you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_23:31:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "098f9c10011f20ee8427ae8cc869c9aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669958": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmm. You've spent too much time in Europe. With the wrong people, obviously. How else can you take such a stance against common sense?<br><br>Two weeks before Vista was launched, most people would have said that DRM was bad; two days after Vista launched and we have Vista inspired DRM scandals left right and centre - FAR worse than anything Apple has had anything to do with.<br><br>Yet when someone comes along and rocks the Microsoft boat by saying \"The Emperor has no clothes\" and castigates the content providers for their DRM restrictions, you suddenly change position.<br><br>Are you now saying that \"DRM is good, after all, Microsoft has it, so it must be, right? I used to work there!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_20:08:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "b618062a25161d80789e7fefb0337396", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The motive you suggest it totally off base.  Check out this article reguarding the iPhone and DRM<br><br><a href=\"http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/2007/02/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-huge-news.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brent Schlender is getting paid far too much.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_16:42:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "de20227786857f29c34bdb292e5f6479", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "fifthdecade: where have I said above that DRM is good? I think it's pretty clear that I agree with Steve Jobs but just am questioning his motivation for doing this now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-07_20:30:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Finally... an industry leader who thinks DRM is idiotic and evil. Finally.<br><br>Let's see...<br><br>Buy CDs &gt; Rip into Ogg Vorbis &gt; share and share alike :)<br><br>Anyhoo... it's about time Steve is thinking like this. Can we also pray he sees the light and releases OS X under the GPL?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:07:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "62e243a3f26aafa0eacb0371c4170a49", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Paul: actually every iPod has DRM-decoding software in it. Without it you wouldn't be able to play songs you purchase from iTunes.<br><br>Matt: I think you missed EVERYTHING I wrote. I appreciate what Steve is saying very much. I wanted a world without DRM a long time ago (even called Microsoft's DRM team \"the most evil\" at Microsoft).<br><br>But to wait until after we all had purchased an iPod seems a bit funky, to say the least.<br><br>Here's my video of \"most evil team at Microsoft:\" <a href=\"http://scobleizer.com/2006/09/01/the-most-evil-team-at-microsoft-the-wave-team/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://scobleizer.com/2006/09/01/the-most-evil-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:20:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're not a cynic, just an ass. Finally, one of the world's leaders in technology publicly stands up on an issue <em>you agree with</em>, someone who can actually get some action on this possibly, and all you can do is attack him?<br><br>Weak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:19:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "136cf6f3cb92ac715ad301cdee0918a2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are an idiot.<br><br>1.) Apple doesn't make money selling the music.  That $1 - it pretty much goes entirely to the record companies and to bandwidth costs.  So why would Apple dump the lock-in they benefit from to sell more songs WHEN THEY DON'T MAKE MONEY SELLING SONGS!?<br><br>2.) iTunes sales are not slowing.  You know this isn't true because you saw the Macworld keynote.  So I can only conclude that you are spreading FUD.  iTunes sales are in fact accelerating!  Again, this has nothing to do with bolstering Apple's own music sales.<br><br>3.) Funny how you love to throw the word monpoly around when it comes to Apple but never utter it when discussing Microsoft.  Do you even understand what a monopoly is?  A monpolist WOULD NEVER open FairPlay.  It is the equivalent of Microsoft opensourcing the Win32 API.<br><br>4.) Nice attempt at subtly trying to suggest that older iPods wouldn't work in a non-DRM world.  In fact, they would work just fine.<br><br>Your analysis is both shallow and weak.  It's clear you don't understand the economics of this business or economics in general.  I'm quite sure there are self-serving motives driving Steve to do this now, but trying to drive volume to iTunes is not one of them.<br><br>I can't believe you are arguing for DRM.  Is there anything to your argument besides despising Apple?  Grow up tard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:59:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "3423bdecedb1e74120350de4e40c7acf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"He sells my family three iPods that have DRM on them\"<br><br>Just to clarify a bit, last time I checked, the actual iPod device does not contain DRM -- it can play any non-rights-protected file that you'd like, as well as interface with non-Apple players on Linux with not much effort.  If you actually <em>read</em> the memo, you'll also gain a bit more insight into why the current DRM-restricted online music play is a necessity.<br><br>\"Meanwhile we all forget that the iPhone isn\u2019t open to third-party developers\"<br><br>Somewhere <em>you</em> must have forgotten that just because the iPhone is [currently] closed to 3rd-party developers, that does not mean that it contains DRM.<br><br><br>Be a cynic all you'd like, but there's really no reason to unjustly bash Steve's memo, especially when you seem to strangely equate DRM == iPod == iPhone.  The way I read the memo, it seemed more of a plea on behalf of all of us to the music industry -- that their DRM protection schemes actually do not perform the function they would like (deter piracy), and that online sales could <em>really</em> take off if they were to license DRM-free files to iTunes and the other online stores.<br><br>It also appears as though you don't even understand what the letters \"DRM\" actually mean, and are just waving them around, applying them to everything. iPod? DRM! iPhone? DRM!<br><br>Please. The <em>least</em> you could do is read the memo, and then maybe you could appreciate his \"DRM-free\" industry plea.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:11:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "6cd1d049c434fc9ee1107fce820317d7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert..lemme see if I understand.. you would have preferred Apple not make the iPod until Jobs was successful in lobbying for no DRM?   Granted the timing is interesting,given what is threatening to happen in the EU market.  But, short of just complaining about the timing, I'm not sure what you think they should have done. .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:49:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Steve's words and actions aren't lining up:<br><br><a href=\"http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-on-music/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_22:11:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "43163881039987342924accba2efbfaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's funny, because my iPod didn't come with any DRM. In fact, I have 4000+ songs on there, any it still doesn't have any DRM. Weird, huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_21:58:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "80f0a9ed4204f7b60cb7cbf21b52a0d2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, Apple could release music with no DRM. Buy a record company. Who cares what their deal was with Apple music. They have the money to defeat the overly-rich litigators with their own overly-rich litigators.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:09:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "62e243a3f26aafa0eacb0371c4170a49", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "God Robert, when it comes to Apple or Steve Jobs you really have negative passion.  It's kind of creepy actually...<br><br>You have to admit you don't have this same passion re your old employer, at the most you hit them with a shadow of the negativity that you do Apple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:20:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "ee17d0018d258f96d8d0a5009ad6ad8a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, I linked to the letter, even though II AM a cynic.  But there was basically no new info in the letter.  Apple didn't invent DRM, and I believe them when they said it was a condition imposed by the music companies.  I run iTunes, own an Apple computer and have a couple of iPods, but I also run Linux and have investigated what how much trouble it would be to replace the iPod software (both on the computer and the iPod itself) with something more open.  I'm prepared to do that at some point if Apple viers off into some direction I don't like.<br><br>Apple plays a lot of lock-in tricks just like Microsoft does so I don't trust either one of them all that much.<br><br>That said, Job's letter was an excellent statement of the anti-DRM position.  It covered all the salient points without delving into so much detail as to put you to sleep.  I have no idea whether he actually wrote it or commissioned its writing, but the craftsmanship of the piece alone was worth a link, and if BillG's name had been at the bottom I would have linked it just as quickly.<br><br>As I said there was really nothing new in the letter, and I won't be holding my breath while waiting for anything to change.  But all the attention it got (including being reproduced in the morning WSJ) may move the conversation along a little bit, as did the Sony fiasco a while back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-06_23:22:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "macbeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well,<br><br>thanx for nice post :D made me laugh a bit<br><br>the answer to that is quite simple and most of us know it prefectly well - no one wants to pay extra buck if he has a chance to save some ;)<br><br>Hope you know what I mean..<br><br>Best of luck to all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-07-24_11:26:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c403f30b816d53195846f333f087b9d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Link baiting is a new and progressive method of increasing link popularity.<br>You can easily create quality content on Link Bait .once it is online people will come to know about your views and wouls automatically link to it. It is more or less anything you create anywhere on the Web that inspires other people to link to it.<br>Link baiting involves a list of 6 hooks thar are generally known as<br>News<br>contrary<br> attack<br>resource<br>humor<br>fear<br><br> are the hooks every avid link baiter must master.<br><br>The above given points are very useful but it involves a lot of hard workwriting high quality content and proper popluarity.palcomonline is a web design development and hosting company based in noidawe provide expert seo services.<br><a href=\"http://palcomonline.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">palcomonline.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-12-07_04:38:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "814d6f1e16d810175f851655dc6ee8da", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9669975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't like Apple at all i think their platform is technically very bad and uncomfortable, special safari browsers issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-06-18_13:44:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "62bb07af7e891309dce77e31a83fd096", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "14773848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition <a href=\"http://www.disneyactingauditions.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">disney acting auditions</a>  is an enhanced remake of The Secret of Monkey Island for the PC, Xbox Live Arcadeand iPhone/iPod touch developed internally by LucasArts and released on 15 July 2009.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-08-13_08:44:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "elizabethdhill", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18352082", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -2228544645565752122}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18352082, "num_posts": 76, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">76</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18352082" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18352082/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9669921">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669921" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669921" href="http://www.pomcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">StuFF mc</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669921" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669921" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s so funny... There is ONE of the big guys trying to make the Record Companies move a bit their ass and some people are still bitching at him :) What\'s up with billg, Zune without DRM soon ? ;)<br><br>ps: Even without DRM nobody will buy them :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9669922">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669922" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669922" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669922" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669922" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669922" class="dsq-comment-message">StuFF: we agree there. Microsoft blew a real opportunity to provide something that was different (and better) than an iPod. Sigh.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9669923">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669923" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669923" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669923" href="http://nanocrew.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jon Lech Johansen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669923" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669923" class="dsq-comment-message">Seeing how much of the blogosphere is treating Steve\'s word as gospel, I decided to write 3 blog posts with some analysis:<br><br><a href="http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-on-music/" rel="nofollow">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-...</a><br><a href="http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-misleading-statistics/" rel="nofollow">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-misleadin...</a><br><a href="http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steve-on-licensing-fairplay/" rel="nofollow">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steve-on-licensi...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9669924">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669924" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669924" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669924" href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/01/microsoft_not_h.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Don Dodge</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669924" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669924" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, Steve Jobs is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand he has benefited from the DRM iTunes to iPod lock-in. On the other hand, several European countries are raising anti-trust issues and threatening to ban iTunes/iPod sales in their countries unless they open it up. Of course the record labels would cut Apple off if they discontinued the DRM.<br><br>BTW, Bill Gates agrees that DRM is broken. I wrote a blog about the DRM issues and ironies today. See <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/02/steve_jobs_blam.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/...</a><br><br>Don</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669925">Ole</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669925" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way..It isn\'t the first time Jobs has criticized the music industry. Here\'s a quote from 2002:<br>"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own,"<br><br>From the MacWorld article "Jobs: Record companies should loosen their grip"<br><a href="http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/03/04/jobs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/03/04/jobs/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669969">Paul</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669969" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s funny, because my iPod didn\'t come with any DRM. In fact, I have 4000+ songs on there, any it still doesn\'t have any DRM. Weird, huh?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669968">A</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669968" class="dsq-comment-message">Steve\'s words and actions aren\'t lining up:<br><br><a href="http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-on-music/" rel="nofollow">http://nanocrew.net/2007/02/06/steves-thoughts-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669966">Matt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669966" class="dsq-comment-message">"He sells my family three iPods that have DRM on them"<br><br>Just to clarify a bit, last time I checked, the actual iPod device does not contain DRM -- it can play any non-rights-protected file that you\'d like, as well as interface with non-Apple players on Linux with not much effort.  If you actually <em>read</em> the memo, you\'ll also gain a bit more insight into why the current DRM-restricted online music play is a necessity.<br><br>"Meanwhile we all forget that the iPhone isn’t open to third-party developers"<br><br>Somewhere <em>you</em> must have forgotten that just because the iPhone is [currently] closed to 3rd-party developers, that does not mean that it contains DRM.<br><br><br>Be a cynic all you\'d like, but there\'s really no reason to unjustly bash Steve\'s memo, especially when you seem to strangely equate DRM == iPod == iPhone.  The way I read the memo, it seemed more of a plea on behalf of all of us to the music industry -- that their DRM protection schemes actually do not perform the function they would like (deter piracy), and that online sales could <em>really</em> take off if they were to license DRM-free files to iTunes and the other online stores.<br><br>It also appears as though you don\'t even understand what the letters "DRM" actually mean, and are just waving them around, applying them to everything. iPod? DRM! iPhone? DRM!<br><br>Please. The <em>least</em> you could do is read the memo, and then maybe you could appreciate his "DRM-free" industry plea.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669964" href="http://recently.rainweb.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">~bc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669964" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re not a cynic, just an ass. Finally, one of the world\'s leaders in technology publicly stands up on an issue <em>you agree with</em>, someone who can actually get some action on this possibly, and all you can do is attack him?<br><br>Weak.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669963" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669963" class="dsq-comment-message">Paul: actually every iPod has DRM-decoding software in it. Without it you wouldn\'t be able to play songs you purchase from iTunes.<br><br>Matt: I think you missed EVERYTHING I wrote. I appreciate what Steve is saying very much. I wanted a world without DRM a long time ago (even called Microsoft\'s DRM team "the most evil" at Microsoft).<br><br>But to wait until after we all had purchased an iPod seems a bit funky, to say the least.<br><br>Here\'s my video of "most evil team at Microsoft:" <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2006/09/01/the-most-evil-team-at-microsoft-the-wave-team/" rel="nofollow">http://scobleizer.com/2006/09/01/the-most-evil-...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669928" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669928" class="dsq-comment-message">BC: and why did he wait until now to do it? Cause it\'s clear iTunes sales per unit are going down.<br><br>That\'s not leadership, it\'s opportunism.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669929" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669929" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, and BC, what is it about Apple fans that gets them to pull out the ad hominems for people who don\'t see the world they do? Why call me an ass? Does that help your point of view? Does it make you feel better? Are you being paid by Apple to say that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669967">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669967" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert..lemme see if I understand.. you would have preferred Apple not make the iPod until Jobs was successful in lobbying for no DRM?   Granted the timing is interesting,given what is threatening to happen in the EU market.  But, short of just complaining about the timing, I\'m not sure what you think they should have done. .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669965">Mujibur</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669965" class="dsq-comment-message">You are an idiot.<br><br>1.) Apple doesn\'t make money selling the music.  That $1 - it pretty much goes entirely to the record companies and to bandwidth costs.  So why would Apple dump the lock-in they benefit from to sell more songs WHEN THEY DON\'T MAKE MONEY SELLING SONGS!?<br><br>2.) iTunes sales are not slowing.  You know this isn\'t true because you saw the Macworld keynote.  So I can only conclude that you are spreading FUD.  iTunes sales are in fact accelerating!  Again, this has nothing to do with bolstering Apple\'s own music sales.<br><br>3.) Funny how you love to throw the word monpoly around when it comes to Apple but never utter it when discussing Microsoft.  Do you even understand what a monopoly is?  A monpolist WOULD NEVER open FairPlay.  It is the equivalent of Microsoft opensourcing the Win32 API.<br><br>4.) Nice attempt at subtly trying to suggest that older iPods wouldn\'t work in a non-DRM world.  In fact, they would work just fine.<br><br>Your analysis is both shallow and weak.  It\'s clear you don\'t understand the economics of this business or economics in general.  I\'m quite sure there are self-serving motives driving Steve to do this now, but trying to drive volume to iTunes is not one of them.<br><br>I can\'t believe you are arguing for DRM.  Is there anything to your argument besides despising Apple?  Grow up tard.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669962">Peter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669962" class="dsq-comment-message">Finally... an industry leader who thinks DRM is idiotic and evil. Finally.<br><br>Let\'s see...<br><br>Buy CDs &gt; Rip into Ogg Vorbis &gt; share and share alike :)<br><br>Anyhoo... it\'s about time Steve is thinking like this. Can we also pray he sees the light and releases OS X under the GPL?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669970">Peter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669970" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, Apple could release music with no DRM. Buy a record company. Who cares what their deal was with Apple music. They have the money to defeat the overly-rich litigators with their own overly-rich litigators.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669971">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669971" class="dsq-comment-message">God Robert, when it comes to Apple or Steve Jobs you really have negative passion.  It\'s kind of creepy actually...<br><br>You have to admit you don\'t have this same passion re your old employer, at the most you hit them with a shadow of the negativity that you do Apple.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669972" href="http://blog.macb.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">macbeach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669972" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I linked to the letter, even though II AM a cynic.  But there was basically no new info in the letter.  Apple didn\'t invent DRM, and I believe them when they said it was a condition imposed by the music companies.  I run iTunes, own an Apple computer and have a couple of iPods, but I also run Linux and have investigated what how much trouble it would be to replace the iPod software (both on the computer and the iPod itself) with something more open.  I\'m prepared to do that at some point if Apple viers off into some direction I don\'t like.<br><br>Apple plays a lot of lock-in tricks just like Microsoft does so I don\'t trust either one of them all that much.<br><br>That said, Job\'s letter was an excellent statement of the anti-DRM position.  It covered all the salient points without delving into so much detail as to put you to sleep.  I have no idea whether he actually wrote it or commissioned its writing, but the craftsmanship of the piece alone was worth a link, and if BillG\'s name had been at the bottom I would have linked it just as quickly.<br><br>As I said there was really nothing new in the letter, and I won\'t be holding my breath while waiting for anything to change.  But all the attention it got (including being reproduced in the morning WSJ) may move the conversation along a little bit, as did the Sony fiasco a while back.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669930">xtd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669930" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert why are you running around going "Boo Hoo" like a little Windows girl?<br><br>So what if you bought 3 iPods?  Did Jobs put a gun to your head and force you to buy them?   Did Jobs force you to buy music form the iTunes Music Store?  Why did\'nt you just buy CD\'s and rip them?<br><br>Get you panties unbunched and wash the skid marks out of them.  No need to be a little Windows girl.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669931" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669931" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh lord, it\'s the evil Scoble. Jobs says something point blank that if the record companies agree, hurts the Zune FAR more than it would hurt the iPod, and Robert of course, pissed that he can\'t be first, has to say a buncha stupid shit:<br><br><i> Let me get this straight. He sells my family three iPods that have DRM on them, then he turns around and says “that game is over.”</i><br><br>Stop posting when you\'re full of german hops, it makes you more full of shit than normal. The iPod has firmware that can deal with FairPlay. This is <i>exactly</i> like the Zune and plays for sure. However, <i>unlike</i> the Zune, the iPod doesn\'t ADD DRM to songs, (coughsquirtingcough).<br><br>However, saying that software that can handle DRM\'d content is having DRM on it is...yes, that\'s it, stupid. You can own your iPod forever, and not only never have a single iota of DRM\'d content on it, but <i>unlike</i> Microsoft\'s offerings, you can have EVERYTHING the iTunes store has to offer on your iPod and never have to reconnect it to your computer to "revalidate" that DRM\'d content.<br><br>Secondly, he didn\'t say "that game is over". Not even close. But then, you\'re all whiny and shit that you\'re the last one to read this, so better to post something stupid I suppose. He said that DRM doesn\'t work, and really has never worked, and that if the majors would allow it, Apple would happily move the iTMS over to unDRM\'d content.<br><br>Reading Robert, it isn\'t just for schoolkids anymore. But lets continue:<br><br><i>Meanwhile we all forget that the iPhone isn’t open to third-party developers and that the iPod has near-monopoly-status marketshare already.</i><br><br>Ah, the famous Scoble in whiny bitch mode "I have nothing useful to say, so let\'s set up a straw man" trick. If only you didn\'t suck at it.<br><br>First, the iPhone is a strawman here. I know you\'re unused to points that aren\'t on your head, but DO try to stay on this one. You don\'t know the iPhone is not open to third-party developers. You don\'t know that it is open to third party developers. Why? Because IT\'S NOT RELEASED YET. Not only are you badly strawmanning, but you\'re doing it over vapor. Jesus, a retarded monkey could do this better.<br><br>Jobs did NOT say "All the software on the iPhone must come only from Apple". He said "We are going to carefully control this process."<br><br>As well, considering that unlike Palm or Microsoft, Apple isn\'t going to put a crippled - assed browser in this, there is indeed a way for third parties to get software onto the iPhone: Ajax. And before you start whining that doesn\'t count, well, if it doesn\'t, then Microsoft is spending a shit-ton of money on stuff "that doesn\'t count" and your precious "Web 2.0" doesn\'t count either.<br><br>The numbers for the iPod\'s marketshare have no bearing on this, unless it\'s to give MORE weight to Jobs\' comments. I don\'t recall BillyG ever wanting to make Windows more open until he was, literally, forced to.<br><br>Not only do you suck at strawman, but one of your examples disproves the point you were trying to make. Are you sure you didn\'t write this in an Amsterdam whorehouse\'s coffee shop, because it\'s kinda close to stoner logic.<br><br><i>So, why is he doing this? Maybe he noticed that most iPod users don’t buy many songs from iTunes. Why? We’d rather get a CD from Amazon, rip it ourselves so it doesn’t have DRM, thus denying Steve Jobs his rightful $.99 a song.</i><br><br>Gee, you mean <i>like he said in the memo</i>? Come on Snap-On, stop being a tool just because you\'re late to the party. Here\'s one...maybe lockin isn\'t the only reason people use iTunes. Maybe there\'s other reasons. Oh wait, that would require more thought than "DUDE! MORE BEER!"<br><br> <i>But, like I said, I’m not a cynic. And, in case you’re already sick of Steve’s DRM memo, I only put three things onto my link blog about it with dozens of other things that aren’t on TechMeme or Digg.</i><br><br>Only you are. Quite a few people are glad someone with the kind of pull Jobs has said it the way he did.<br><br>If you\'d have not been all whiny and flamebaiting about it, you might have had a better post.<br><br>Oh yeah, you were trolling for it this time dude, so suck it up princess, and eat that shit sandwich you so smugly ordered.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669939">Dr. Internet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669939" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble has finally gone over the deep end.<br><br>Man, if you honestly think that DRM is why Apple owns this entire fucking market, you need to give up your Nerd Cred card and start blogging about wiener schnitzel or something...<br><br>...oh wait.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669940">Tom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669940" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Scoble, no, the iPod has no DRM in it. None. Not a bit. You should at least understand the technology before you criticize it. Neither does the iTS. No DRM there, either.<br><br>The DRM layer is all managed within iTunes itself, and the song is validated and "decoded" (your term, not mine) before it is placed on the iPod. The iPod needs no DRM capability because music that is placed there has already been authorized. It\'s a brilliant design that clearly allowed for easy removal of DRM when the time came (only change necessary will be to iTunes).<br><br>As for Jobs, he has publicly decried DRM before, and is attempting to use his clout to get some help in this regard. Instead, what he gets are bloggers who do nothing but look for reasons to criticize his actions because, well, I guess that\'s what they do best. Heaven forbid they should contribute anything significant to the debate.<br><br>Meanwhile, Gates talks down DRM while building a much more restrictive one into Zune and also embedding one within Vista itself.<br><br>Whatever. Have a nice day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669941">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669941" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s just the way the world is. You just have to learn to accept it. As we were reminded this week, and as Bill Gates finally realized and admitted, Steve Jobs invented the world. :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669937">Paul</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669937" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, you are trying just to hard devil\'s advocate here. You\'re acting like that annoying dorky kid in high school who has to challenge everything a teacher says in class, preventing the whole class from moving forward. There are times to express criticism and dissent, but this is one time where the snarkiness and cynicism is just plain tiring.<br><br>Come on, be honest - do you really think Steve Jobs could have proposed a DRM-free solution before he sold 100 million iPods and 2 billion songs? You really think even Bill Gates could have talked the record industry into releasing DRM-free music 5 years ago? And if so, why has Microsoft been spending more and more resources developing ever convoluted DRM schemes that allow things like 3 day/3 play timebombs, download-to-device-but-no-burn-to-CD, or exploding music rentals?<br><br>Thankfully, Steve Jobs is a better businessman than you. I\'m trying not to be too harsh on you, but please, is it so hard to see that when dealing with the record companies, he has always played from a position of strength? Even flat pricing for songs is something that burns up music company CEOs to no end, but guess what? When that initial iTunes licensing contract was up, iTunes was still the only successful online music store out there, which allowed Jobs to force the labels to re-up on $0.99 per song.<br><br>The point is, Jobs could not be advocating DRM-free music until today. iTunes is clearly too important for the music industry to ignore or resist, because if they pulled their catalog, the music business would be in a freefall because the only thing that kept it healthy was iTunes\' growth.<br><br>So instead of trying to cut Jobs down just because you apparently don\'t like his modus operandi, why don\'t you recognize that this is an opportunity to direct the pressure where it deserves to be aimed - right at the heart of the big 4 labels.<br><br>Otherwise, you only look a member of the witless Germanic tribes who basically kept on stealing defeat from the jaws of victory every time Spartacus  had conquered a vast Roman army on the field. Stop arguing for the sake of arguing because when arguing is mere squablling,  it does not make you sound more intelligent.<br><br>Gawd, if only some bloggers dedicated as much time and energy to rail against the music label CEOs as they\'ve spent trying to bring Jobs down because of the options backdating....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669943">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669943" class="dsq-comment-message">According to the Zune team, DRM is a good thing too.<br><br><a href="http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/02/07/thoughts-on-drm.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/02/07/thoug...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669944">brock</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669944" class="dsq-comment-message">Jobs is leading. Get it?<br><br>First, he gets the Industry to allow people to download music and gets the industry to allow use on several machines as well as unlimited iPods. Nothing like it at the time. And first, it only happened with Mac users (since there are so few of them....uhhhh). Then it opens up to Windows users and bam, all goes nuts.<br><br>Now, after selling craploads of iPods and music from the store, it is pretty easy to see that DRM does absolutely nothing to stop people from pirating or downloading their own CD\'s onto MP3 players. Plus, Europe is having a COW over DRM.<br><br>Jobs has the muscle and public opinion (popularity) to lead this issue. MS  would never do something like this. Apple is about the consumer and trusting the consumer. That is how he struck the deal in the first place.<br><br>Scoble, you really surprise me on this one.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669945">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669945" class="dsq-comment-message">Although, this post comes a close second for link baiting. Apple fans, attack! :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669946">Paul</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669946" class="dsq-comment-message">If there is anything Machavellian in the open letter is that a DRM-free iTunes Store would effectively kill the whole music subscription business.<br><br>I mean, if you\'re paying $15 to subscribe to Zune music or Napster or whatever, that\'s $180 a year. That\'s 180 songs you can buy DRM-free on the iTunes Store, songs that you could freely move around and even play on your Zune (if you\'re using Windows). After 10 years, that\'s at least 1800 songs that you can keep for the rest of your life or pass on to your kin. Suddenly, the music subscription makes even less sense.<br><br>And guess what, Robert? People will still keep buying iPods even if the iTunes Store goes completely DRM-free, which would crush this silly idea that "iTunes lock-in" is what is responsible for the iPod\'s success.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669942">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669942" class="dsq-comment-message">Only joking when I said "Apple fans, attack!", Robert. But we know they will... and are.. :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669935" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669935" href="http://podslug.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erik Herz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669935" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669935" class="dsq-comment-message">There is a fourth way: open source and open standards based DRM ... <a href="http://podslug.com/blog/?p=88" rel="nofollow">http://podslug.com/blog/?p=88</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669938" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669938" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;Larry: You have to admit you don’t have this same passion re your old employer, at the most you hit them with a shadow of the negativity that you do Apple.<br><br>In the past year my family has spent more than $10,000 on Apple products. How much in Microsoft products? Probably about $1,000.<br><br>So, if you notice that there\'s passion it\'s cause that\'s where the action is. Apple is building more interesting products for consumers lately.<br><br>Excuse me for having an opinion on his Godliness.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669947" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669947" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>IMHO, Your screed here is largely without merit. I won\'t rehash the arguments well made above. (Though there would be some value to restating them without the ugly invective and personal insults that some readers enjoy throwing your way. Maybe incivility is an inevitable part of naked conversations.)<br><br>You want to get to his Godliness? Don\'t talk about his devices, his software, or his store. Talk about his movies. He\'s placed the ball in the court of the music companies, asking them to step up and give him permission to drop DRM.<br><br>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn\'t control them anymore. Drat!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669948" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669948" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669948" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael: excellent point.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669932" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669932">Stephane Rodriguez</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669932" class="dsq-comment-message">A link blog? This is not a link blog. You republish full content of others.<br><br>Sometimes, by making so much effort to redefine words, I wonder if you are still a Microsoft employee.<br><br>Let me give a hint if you want to appear as a cool guy : open link blog.<br><br>Sexy isn\'t it? ;-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669933">Stephane Rodriguez</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669933" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, for the record, I have seen pointed out in places that Apple faces troubles in Europe for their "lock-in" strategy.<br><br>That can\'t be from France (controversial DADVSI law, transposition of the EUCD directive), where a Microsoft lobbyist "Michel Thiolliere", member of the senate, made sure that Apple is not required to open up by adding amendments to said law.<br><br>Those guys...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669934">Bob Zurunkel</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669934" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669934" class="dsq-comment-message">Like Michael Markman - and thanks for raising this - I can\'t believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble. If you\'ve got an argument, it will have more intellectual force if you leave out the bile, either that or be exposed as a feebleminded knee-jerk word jumble.<br><br>I don\'t agree with Robert on lots of things, but I\'m prepared to bet that if we met, he\'d be a perfectly civil, normal human. I won\'t say anything here I\'m not prepared to say to his face. Hmmm - I reckon there are one or two here who would and wouldn\'t care. Tortured souls.<br><br>Maybe I\'m just farting in the wind, or is it compulsory now to go out of your way to insult anyone with whom you disagree, and thus expose yourself as the hapless victim of a brain cell time-share scam? Oh crap, did I just insult anyone?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669936">Roastpotatoe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669936" class="dsq-comment-message">[...]You want to get to his Godliness? Don’t talk about his devices, his software, or his store. Talk about his movies. He’s placed the ball in the court of the music companies, asking them to step up and give him permission to drop DRM.<br><br>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn’t control them anymore. Drat![...]<br><br>I agree, but Steve does not quite have the leverage required to bring this about, regardless of his shareholding in Disney. Yes he is "one of the club" now, but the movie industry is well aware of the situation regarding music and does not wish to be painted into the same corner, hence the reason why only 2 studios have signed up so far. Steve\'s power (and the content producer\'s quandry) comes from the fact that he is seen in business as someone who was able to propel the online music business model from fag-packet to ubiquity, albeit with the largest benefit inuring to Apple.<br><br>This is crucial for the DRM point and it makes the timing of his statement somewhat puzzling, regardless of its merits. How could he possibly convince the studios about stripping away DRM when there is effectively no meaningful sales data?<br><br>As an aside, I agree that the one thing that needs to be stripped away right now is the abuse and invective being poured on Robert.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669906">Stephane Rodriguez</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669906" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669906" class="dsq-comment-message">On the DRM debate itself, since DRM is not meant to stop piracy by any stretch, I keep wondering about why there is so much "DRM vs piracy" rants out there.<br><br>DRM was designed to create new business models which restrict what a consumer can do with a digital file or stream.<br><br>In a world where everyone routinely copies files or streams over across devices, it\'s just an artifical limitation. It\'s anti-consumer by design.<br><br>That\'s why it\'s flawed. Not because Steve Jobs says blablabla, or Microsoft says blablabla, or Hollywood says blablabla or the record labels say blablabla.<br><br>And I am surprised to see that not so many people out there don\'t seem to see that the Windows Genuine Advantage check is in fact DRM as much as WindowsMedia DRM. One of its goals is to limit virtual machine scenarios as much as possible, because as one starts seeing the benefit of it, less copies of Windows are sold.<br><br>It\'s no surprise that the Windows Genuine Advantage check is also anti-consumer by design.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669905">Paul Roundy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669905" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, with regard to the kind comments by Gerald Buckley, they could apply to your blog as well.  Unfortunately we seem to be getting more poop and less gems these days.<br><br>To echo what many readers have already said, jobs doesn\'t care about .99 a song.  He cares about itunes.  iTunes is Apple\'s killer app and their beachhead in the Windows world.  You need itunes to do just about anything with the ipod and soon the iphone.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669903" href="http://www.pomcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">StuFF mc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669903" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow :) I was the first one to post :) Even tough Robert and I were both on CET, in the middle of the night ;) While I was doing ASP.NET with VS.NET on my Mac Pro (under Mac OS X...). Hey Robert NeXt time we meet what about a Scoble Show about Pomcast ? :) Or do I have to drop a mail @hotmail ? :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669902" href="http://www.pomcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">StuFF mc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669902" class="dsq-comment-message">BTW Robert: "MS could have done better than Apple". When is the last time it happened ? ;) Don\'t get me wrong : I respect MS and billg, but if you at the History (and at Vista), you realize MS is mostly copy pasting... Wow wow wow... Flames are coming ;)<br><br>ps to the one flaming me : Listen to my Podcast ;) I\'m not an Apple Extremist ;) I get flamed by Apple fellows for being too nice with MS ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669901" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669901" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>OK, then let him set an example by selling Pixar films without DRM. Oh, wait. He sold Pixar to Disney. I guess he doesn’t control them anymore. Drat!</i><br><br>Pixar never directly sold a film in its life. They made them. Disney was the distributor. Disney made that decision, not Pixar.<br><br><i>Excuse me for having an opinion on his Godliness.</i><br><br>Oh lord, Robert\'s having Man-PMS. Someone get him a midol and some chocolate.<br><br><i>Like Michael Markman - and thanks for raising this - I can’t believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble. If you’ve got an argument, it will have more intellectual force if you leave out the bile, either that or be exposed as a feebleminded knee-jerk word jumble.<br><br>I don’t agree with Robert on lots of things, but I’m prepared to bet that if we met, he’d be a perfectly civil, normal human. I won’t say anything here I’m not prepared to say to his face. Hmmm - I reckon there are one or two here who would and wouldn’t care. Tortured souls.</i><br><br>You\'re forgetting an important point: Robert wants this reaction. He is <i>quite</i> deliberate in his regular fomenting of extreme reaction. It gets him what his career is based on:<br><br><i>attention</i><br><br>He has to pull this PMSy crap so that other people write about it, and get his link counts up to where they need to be.<br><br>What\'s the easiest way to do this? Well, we already know, as does Robert. So, on a regular basis, he Dvoraks the readers of his blog with some outrageous bullshit post, and his hit counts and more importantly, link counts go up. He used the perfect word in the title of this post...he\'s a <i>linkbaiter</i>. He just happens to do it in the most incendiary way possible.<br><br>So, since he\'s fishing for furor, I go with the advice a friend of mine gave me:<br><br><i>It\'s my job to feed people\'s addictions for my own amusement.</i><br><br>it\'s fun too!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669919">Dr. Internet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669919" class="dsq-comment-message">"I can’t believe some of the personal attacks aimed at Scoble"<br><br>Considering that 99% of his blogpost was a personal attack against Jobs, it seems rather fitting. I\'ve never seen a grown man act like such a little bitch until now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669920" href="http://www.bandkbroom.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669920" class="dsq-comment-message">"Buy a record company. Who cares what their deal was with Apple music. "<br><br>There is some speculation that, since this has now been settled (this week) that that is exactly what they will do.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669926" href="http://www.stephantual.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Stephan Tual</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669926" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like your readers shoot first and read your blog post later, Robert :-D</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669927">Chuck</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669927" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm. Pretty nasty stuff here. I\'ll just mildly add that I don\'t see what the complaints about SJ\'s letter are about. Apple doesn\'t control the rights to the music is sells, the record companies do. Same with the Zune music store, and it has even MORE restrictions. Furthermore, MS is paying a BRIBE to Universal for every Zune it sells in order to get the muisc at all! So, it is pretty clear that it is the "they still don\'t get it" record companies that are the cause of the problem.<br><br>The European complaints about ITMS are ridiculous, blaming Apple for a problem that they cannot control. Furthermore, the ITMS music is portable....burn it to a CD and do with it what you will.<br><br>I think Apple just said that they are willing to compete the iPod against all other music players in the world once the record companies wake up to reality in the 21sth century. I\'d like to see MS come out with a similar statement for Zune!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669915">brock</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669915" class="dsq-comment-message">Best post of all goes to Chuck.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669916" href="http://geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason B.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669916" class="dsq-comment-message">Steve Jobs sells DRM even on music that music companies don\'t require DRM on. This proves that Steve jobs is just trying to put himself in a position where he can tell himself that he had something to do with the end of DRM. It\'s a well known fact that the record companies are all discussing removing DRM. Steve probably knows more about this, and he\'s making a power play here just to make it seem like he had something to do with it.<br><br>I can see Steve Jobs sitting with Al Gore in a few years. Al says, you know Steve, I did some critical research, which is responsible for the internet, without which your great safari browser, would just be browsing the local hard drive!! I know Al, Steve says, but I did put an end to that nasty DRM! Yeah, you are great Steve, Al says. Steve says, I know Al, we both are great people!.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669914">Dr. Internet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669914" class="dsq-comment-message">"Apple doesn’t control the rights to the music is sells, the record companies do. Same with the Zune music store, and it has even MORE restrictions. Furthermore, MS is paying a BRIBE to Universal for every Zune it sells in order to get the muisc at all!"<br><br>Yeah, I must\'ve missed Scoble\'s scathing retort to that DRM clusterfuck...<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=robert+scoble+Zune" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=robert...</a><br><br>Ah, the results speak for themselves. If that preening Mac vs. PC retard-o-fest video didn\'t prove you\'re still a technically incompetent Microsoft fanboy, this does.<br><br>Scoble\'s Modus Operandi:<br><br>1. Damn [insert company he works for or used to work for] with some minor quibbles.<br><br>2. Bask in an artificial impartiality.<br><br>3. Shit all over the nearest competitor like a rabid dog with diarrhea.<br><br>4. ???<br><br>5. Profit!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669917" href="http://recently.rainweb.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">~bc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669917" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not attacking you by calling you an ass, I\'m calling it like I see it. I have nothing against you. If I did, I wouldn\'t read your blog. That\'s simple.<br><br>Here\'s how I see it: Someone you don\'t like to agree with (for whatever reasons) publicly speaks about something you agree with, benefitting your stance. All you can say is that  he\'s being an opportunist. But that defies logic.<br><br>How is DRM beneficial to a technology company? It\'s not if you\'re Apple because it\'s that much more work for you to support it. Also, it limits your market: if someone has a Zune, they can\'t buy songs from iTunes, and if someone has a huge library of PlaysForSure, they might not buy an iPod (where the money is) because they\'d have a bunch of useless music they couldn\'t use on it. Of course they couldn\'t buy a Zune either, but that\'s for another time.<br><br>Apple has never needed or liked DRM. The music industry required it. <a href="http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1039/" rel="nofollow">I address this on my own blog...</a><br><br>But that doesn\'t prevent everyone who doesn\'t like Apple from spreading FUD about their stance on DRM. Steve clarifies, and it\'s opportunism. But, wait, even if it were opportunism, isn\'t that what a for-profit company is supposed to do? Find opportunities in the market? But what\'s really being said here is "our product is best, the market is backing us up, and we don\'t need artificial barriers to restrict competition. Bring it on."<br><br>My point to my first reply, and this reply is simply, "Don\'t come from the John C. Dvorak and Rob Enderle school of FUD and yellow journalism. Don\'t post stuff that\'s blatantly wrong just to get hits on your blog and stir up commotion."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669949" href="http://www.yourcauseismycause.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kristen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669949" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m right there with you-- what you mean when you say you "bought iPods with DRM" is that you bought the iPods so that they could all play all the crap you downloaded from iTunes.<br><br>It was only a matter of time until Apple was forced to make this move.  We\'re all about sharing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669955">Dr. Internet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669955" class="dsq-comment-message">"It was only a matter of time until Apple was forced to make this move."<br><br>Yeah, losing the money pile that is Norway would really kill the momentum that the undisputed market dominator has with its culturally-defining device.<br><br>I guess those 2 billion iTunes downloads and the dominant market share among players really backed Jobs into the corner.<br><br>Thanks for proving the old addage: "Girls are dumb."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669952">Roastpotatoe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669952" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669952" class="dsq-comment-message">[...]Yeah, losing the money pile that is Norway would really kill the momentum that the undisputed market dominator has with its culturally-defining device.[...]<br><br>How about France, Germany, Denmark and Norway? These aren\'t some fly-over states inhabited by people who\'ve only just discovered the combustion engine...<br><br>And spare us the sexist rubbish.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669953" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669953">Dr. Internet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669953" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669953" class="dsq-comment-message">"How about France, Germany, Denmark and Norway?"<br><br>I think the UK sells twice as many \'tunes as all those countries combined.<br><br>Yawn.<br><br>"And spare us the sexist rubbish."<br><br>Spare me the tech chicks saying unbelievably stupid things.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669954" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669954" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Steve Jobs sells DRM even on music that music companies don’t require DRM on. This proves that Steve jobs is just trying to put himself in a position where he can tell himself that he had something to do with the end of DRM. It’s a well known fact that the record companies are all discussing removing DRM. Steve probably knows more about this, and he’s making a power play here just to make it seem like he had something to do with it.</i><br><br>What the music companies sell elsewhere has no bearing on what they license to Apple for iTunes.<br><br>Hell, you can\'t even get ONE license from Sony or Universal for all countries. You have to do them separately. Lame.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669951" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669951" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669951" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669951" class="dsq-comment-message">@62. Confession of guilty pleasure: On principle I oppose ad hominem invective. But, John C. Welch, I love your style. I guess I need ethics counseling.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669959" href="http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Evan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669959" class="dsq-comment-message">The motive you suggest it totally off base.  Check out this article reguarding the iPhone and DRM<br><br><a href="http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/2007/02/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-huge-news.html" rel="nofollow">Brent Schlender is getting paid far too much.</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669900" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669900" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669900" class="dsq-comment-message">Mike, you know why i hate it when people get all emotional about something and then back down?<br><br>because at that point, it\'s like they lost their passion, they were afraid of raising a stink, and they get boring.<br><br>When Mike Bartosh died, I used a quote from Mel Brooks in the post I did on it, because it described him:<br><br><i>\'\'Look, I don\'t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you\'re alive you\'ve got to flap your arms and legs, you\'ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at [the] very least think noisy and colorfully, or you\'re not alive.\'\' </i><br><br>if you think something\'s stupid say so. Don\'t tiptoe around it, afraid to hurt a feeling. Speak boldly and bluntly. If you find out you\'re wrong, accept that gracefully, but never give into the people who counsel passivity.<br><br>If someone can\'t handle that, then instead of you apologizing and shoring up their self-esteem, maybe they need to question why they need others to feel good about themselves. So someone calls you an asshole.<br><br>So what?<br><br>I mean it.<br><br>So<br><br>What.<br><br>Maybe you were. Maybe you didn\'t mean to be, but you were. What, you\'re supposed to run and hide, or stop being who you are because someone didn\'t like it? You\'re supposed to judge yourself on what random people you don\'t know think? [waves dismissively] pfeh. Doesn\'t make you a bad person, it just makes you human. Everyone\'s an asshole throughout the day. It\'s unavoidable.<br><br>In many ways, being an asshole is how you stand up for yourself. Disagreeing is an inherently offensive thing to do. You\'re telling someone "I think you\'re wrong." It\'s your inner asshole that gives you the strength to do that, to ford your own course when everyone else says "No, do it OUR way or you suck".<br><br>Bah. If you cannot say what you feel, if you cannot say what you mean, then why bother speaking at all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669899" href="http://iainmackinnon.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Iain MacKinnon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669899" class="dsq-comment-message">I was going to leave a comment, but I don\'t have a license. And even if I did, you could only read it on 5 computers...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669912" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669912">Anton2000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669912" class="dsq-comment-message">Schlammschlacht - that is the german word for this sort of legal battle.<br><br><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-7689" rel="nofollow">http://www.out-law.com/page-7689</a><br><br>They say their products are declared illegal in Norway. The concept they are dicussing is "contract law". They violate the basics of contract law. Just for the record, I listen to no musik anymore. This is much better to watch and relax :-)<br><br>Just a joke - what is a stock market bubble?<br><br><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJI&amp;t=5y&amp;l=on&amp;z=m&amp;q=l&amp;c=" rel="nofollow">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&amp;t=5y&a...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669913" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669913">Anton2000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669913" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669913" class="dsq-comment-message">Damned, I better shut up an improve my english :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669911">sam</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669911" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669911" class="dsq-comment-message">Stefane is absolutely right, and it\'s a point almost all of you are missing: DRM isn\'t about piracy, it\'s about restricting fair use. It\'s about limiting customers, revoking rights guaranteed by law in order to create new "revenue streams." It\'s about enforcing the bullshit end-user licenses we agree to whenever purchasing a copy of an album, movie, software, etc. It\'s about being anti-consumer. And to succeed, it will have to balance the annoyance with benefits so it can achieve wide adoption.<br><br>The DVD is a good example. How annoying is it that you can\'t make a backup of a tiny plastic disc prone to scratches without violating the DMCA? Or in a non-trivial manner? How many dead DVDs do you own, scratched to oblivion--or just enough that the movie stops halfway through? I own VHS cassettes from the 80s that still play perfectly today; a good number of the DVDs I purchased in the 90s are gone, and can\'t be copied on new VHS VCRs.<br><br>The Zune is also classic. An hypothetical unrestricted MP3 that you squirt--maybe you own it, maybe you wrote and recorded the song yourself--gets a bullshit DRM layer that causes it to explode. DRM restricting your legitimate rights.<br><br>The record companies know exactly what they\'re doing. And Steve Jobs is trying to change the conversation and make it about the customer again. That\'s something Apple is very good at.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669909" href="http://christianburns.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christian Burns</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669909" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669909" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble,<br><br>It would be great to have a T-shirt with just<br><br>J, J, Shift-S, J, J<br><br>on it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669958" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669958" href="http://fifthdecade.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">fifthdecade</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669958" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669958" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm. You\'ve spent too much time in Europe. With the wrong people, obviously. How else can you take such a stance against common sense?<br><br>Two weeks before Vista was launched, most people would have said that DRM was bad; two days after Vista launched and we have Vista inspired DRM scandals left right and centre - FAR worse than anything Apple has had anything to do with.<br><br>Yet when someone comes along and rocks the Microsoft boat by saying "The Emperor has no clothes" and castigates the content providers for their DRM restrictions, you suddenly change position.<br><br>Are you now saying that "DRM is good, after all, Microsoft has it, so it must be, right? I used to work there!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669961" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669961" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669961" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669961" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669961" class="dsq-comment-message">fifthdecade: where have I said above that DRM is good? I think it\'s pretty clear that I agree with Steve Jobs but just am questioning his motivation for doing this now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669956" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669956" class="dsq-comment-message">No you\'re not Robert, unless by "questioning" you mean that pile of whine you posted here.<br><br>Maybe you should start reading your <i>own</i> posts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669957" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669957" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669957" href="http://gracefulflavor.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeff Ventura</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669957" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669957" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert -- do you and Thurrott call each other and collectively decide when to say stupid BS about Apple?    Is that part of keeping your MS/Windows street cred intact?  What gives?<br><br>You\'re better than this Robert. Way better.  I expect this sort of shit from Thurrott, but not you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669910" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669910" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669910" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669910" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669910" class="dsq-comment-message">No Jeff, he really isn\'t.<br><br>Note how, while he\'s all over everything Apple, he avoids tons of MS silliness. Why?<br><br>Not because he\'s a shill, but because Apple gets him hits and links in FAR greater numbers than MS.<br><br>Scoble: He\'s the new Dvorak<br><br>At least he\'s not Enderle, that would require lithium and a straightjacket, \'cause that man is KAH-RAAAYYY-ZEE!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669950">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669950" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t posted because Scoble was late to the party, and I knew John C. would take care of it, but here are two points:<br><br>1. Scoble bitches about Apple and Jobs not blogging for more than 2 years, and when Steve does a direct communication with the web audience, he is labeled a "linkbaiter."<br><br>(This alone, on multiple levels, disqualifies Scoble and anyone who agrees with him from using anything close to a hypocrisy argument.)<br><br>2. The iTS has surpassed Amazon on the list of the largest music distributors. People do not prefer to buy non-DRMed CDs from Amazon over the iTS anymore. Please check for facts if you want to make such silly arguments. WalMart, yes. Target, yes. Amazon, no.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669904">Brian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669904" class="dsq-comment-message">John C Welsh strikes me as a coward.  Anyone else agree?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669907">Dips</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669907" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669907" class="dsq-comment-message">Why Brian?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9669908" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9669908">Brian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669908" class="dsq-comment-message">He camps out here firing cheap shots in someone else\'s blog.  It\'s always easy to find a glass half full in anyone\'s arguments, but it would be better done on their own blog.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669975" href="http://www.webdesignnewyork.ws/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vladimir Designer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9669975" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t like Apple at all i think their platform is technically very bad and uncomfortable, special safari browsers issue.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9669973" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9669973" href="http://www.iksanika.com/services/internet_intranet/flash_flex_multimedia.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flash Flex Apollo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9669973" class="dsq-comment-body">\
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(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=scobleizer&t=steve_jobs_world8217s_best_linkbaiter&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




