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[Black Hat talking to Cueball sitting at computer.] Cueball: Huh - Steve Jobs isn't doing a keynote this year, citing massive weight loss due to some hormonal problem. Black Hat: Too bad. I bet Apple was excited about unveiling the thinnest and lightest CEO in the industry.
Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 of pancreatic cancer the day before Randall released 961: Eternal Flame . Presumably, the cancer was the cause of Jobs' weight loss, although it was not public information at the time the comic was posted.

According to this comic, Steve Jobs , the founder of the Apple company, lost a lot of weight due to a hormonal problem. (Though never officially confirmed, this was likely related to Jobs's battle with pancreatic cancer, which he had been fighting for years and would frequently lead to speculation about his health at the time of this comic.) Black Hat then mentions that Apple was probably excited to announce its thinnest and lightest CEO in the industry. This comment is a parody of Apple's tendency to release thinner and lighter iterations of its products. Steve Jobs' weight loss would certainly make him a thinner and lighter CEO.
The title text refers to Cory Doctorow , a blogger, journalist and science-fiction author. Doctorow is opposed to the technology called Digital restrictions management (DRM for short). DRM is designed to be abused by large corporations with negative consequences for consumers, but is disguised as a copyright protection system. Randall (jokingly) proposes that Steve Jobs is only sick because Doctorow was torturing him with Voodoo dolls for Apple's use of DRM.
[Black Hat talking to Cueball sitting at computer.] Cueball: Huh - Steve Jobs isn't doing a keynote this year, citing massive weight loss due to some hormonal problem. Black Hat: Too bad. I bet Apple was excited about unveiling the thinnest and lightest CEO in the industry.
Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 of pancreatic cancer the day before Randall released 961: Eternal Flame . Presumably, the cancer was the cause of Jobs' weight loss, although it was not public information at the time the comic was posted.
