DRM costs Intuit $100M Ouch, now there’s a lesson I’m sure Intuit didn’t want to have to learn. Kudos to them for dropping DRM from their line-up. Now, if only they’d send me the rebate check they still owe me…

Computer crashes; foreign official trapped in limo And you thought being locked OUT of your car was bad news…

Blue Laser + DVD = 37GB SS Blue lasers are back, this time with DVDs. While I hate to see another standards fight and upgrade cycle in the making, a ~7X increase in capacity makes archving those photos, mp3s, files,…

The Mouse is Untouchable! From extending patents/copyrights protecting their films and characters, to the latest agreement to close the airspace over all Disney facilities, Disney always seems to manage to get special treatment from the Gov’t. Must be nice to…

MSFT presents its case on DRM An interesting read. Fairly compelling abstractly. The real question is how can we, as consumers, make sure that content owners hear our voices before deciding on what they consider fair use to be?

Typing monkeys produce gibberish Well, of course it was gibberish… the sample size was way too small! ;p I think it would be more interesting to generate every permutation of a CD by writing 0s and 1s. I have no…

Open Source Engineers Are Thieves Hmm, I’ll be interested to see how this case turns out. Could have some interesting reprecussions for the open source movement.

Open Source Engineers Are Thieves Hmm, I’ll be interested to see how this case turns out. Could have some interesting reprecussions for the open source movement.

Commute to Nowhere Wow, what a depressing article… and yet, do I really feel that bad for someone who was making $300K and is now forced to consider selling one of his three cars? I suppose it’s all relative… and…