SDMI is the secure digital music initiative. They issued a challenge last year to any comers to crack their protection. Anyone who agreed to enter the contest was bound to secrecy, though and not allowed to reveal any details of how they cracked it, if indeed they could. Once group from Princeton declined because of this proviso and cracked it anyway. Turns out they can now be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which purports to disallow reverse-engineering of software... [More]

This guy forged identities of most of the richest people on the Forbes 400. He almost got away with it too…

read on…

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26868.htm

Apparently, the Beta testers are somewhat upset about it already. There’s a good alternative suggestion culled from the newsgroups, and an all-too-real and all-too-expected reason why it probably won’t get done.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17742.html

This site is by one of the leading hardware guys on the web…he’s from Germany. His writeup is huge, but if you’re interested in the feature set:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q1/010227/index.html

My take is that the GeForce3 introduces some amazing new techonologies and the card kicks ass. However, the next card will take some of the rough edges off of those technologies and kick even more ass.

A couple of more articles on the insidous approach of a dumbed-down era of computing:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15718.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17419.html

Here you’ll find a 526 byte Perl script that can descramble DVDs in real time.

http://slashdot.org/article/.pl?sid=01/03/06/1954213&mode=nocomment

One day the court hates MS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17192.html

Another, they seem to have no problem with MS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17192.html

This ones for software patches, issued to Symantec. It was actually issued in April of 2000.

Read it, the description is so general that any and all patching technologies fall under it.

http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06052531__

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/realnews.wcs

Read the one from 08/08/2000.

Discussion of user-interface paradigms and logical conclusions. ‘Files’ and ‘Folders’ are obsolete. Computers should only deal with ‘things’, each of which have ‘properties’. These ‘things’ can be grouped by an number of properties, using a search or ‘query’. That’s it. He addresses the need for a view on your data that lets you see an email on the same footing as a file. It’s brought together is something called a ‘lifestream’, which is a date-ordered stream of data. Sub-streams are created by... [More]