DRM sucks. Not going to qualify that one, just state it.
But if you’re curious as to why DRM sucks, why not give YALB a quick look and read their excellent extrapolation of what’ll happen in a DRM’d future.
Seriously. Cars with region encoding… fun stuff. Check it out.
Once Upon a Time, in DRM […]

Although the author of the below misses the fact that P in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL) doesn’t stand for PHP (or didn’t.. the P is now interchangable PERL/PHP/Python) we’ll skip that for the moment.
Instead, we’ll focus on his vague allegations that Apache is only so-so, but the best of the bunch (which I’ll heartily […]

Justice is blind, right?  It’s perpetrated on the citizens evenly, if not fairly, regardless of who does what.
Unless you’re Sony BMG.  In that case, you get a slap on the wrist for distributing computer software that hacks into your customers computers.  Ditto for the company that provided the
software for distribution.
By comparison you or I would […]

Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

The American Gub’ment is continuing it’s war on porn.  Showing exactly how neutral ICANN is, they’ve forced the board to vote against the .xxx domain.  The rest of the world be damned, apparently.
If you didn’t know better, you’d be forgiven for thinking that porn is illegal in the States based on recent actions and onerous […]

Massachusetts is just abounding with special interest groups that don’t want the government to use Open Standards.  They’ll do everything from stifle innovation to give you cancer (but only in the state of California).  Funny how these groups come out of the woodwork to oppose any kind of standards yet remained silent on the fact […]

Lester apparently is a little slow on the (er…) draw. LinuxWorld expo, run by sys-con Media, has always had a website hosted on Windows. That’s what you get when you’re running all your stuff centrally for a bunch of tradeshows. Whatever the others sites run on.
He seems to be having a lot […]

Congress is concerned about your privacy as an American citizen (apologies to you Europeans.  You’ve already been screwed).  That’s why they’d like to require every ISP to record everything you do, period.  They’re very concerned that without that, you won’t have a private enough internet experience.
War is peace folks, up is down, and your dog […]

The EFF is suing ATT based on the fact that they’re allowing the .gov to wiretap customers without any form of warrant or congress granted permission.  As if to back up the allegation, the Bush group is attempting to label everything going on a “state secret” and stop any attempt to sue ATT because they’re […]

*stretch*, Hope everyone had a good.. no.. make that great weekend there.  I was busy being sick for most of it, BBQ’ing down in Queens for some of it.
Now one of the burning questions on my mind this morning is what to use for a backdrop when your city has been destroyed and you’re […]