Molly Ivins tells it like it is:
I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president. Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. [...]
The one way conduit of links from here to Freedom to Tinker continues as I point you at an article pondering the economics of DRM.
MSN Search general manager Ken Moss reports via the MSN Search Weblog that MSN responded to the porn-related subpoena from the Department of Justice with aggregated data. No personally identifiable information was supplied to the government. I expect Yahoo and AOL to weigh in on what, exactly, they provided at some point as well.
I’ve been wanting to write more about lying memoirist James Frey, but I haven’t gotten around to it. In the meantime, some other people have written outstanding pieces on Frey, including the New York Observer’s Tom Socca, who says everything I would have said much more eloquently — and a lot of insightful things that [...]
I’ve mentioned the truly boneheaded and potentially disastrous idea put forth by bandwidth providers to offer some kind of tiered access scheme to companies wherein they would not only offer connectivity but also the right to have their data delivered to the customer faster by paying more. Of course, as I explained, what this would [...]
Universal Pictures has put up a Web site to get an idea how many people would pay to watch season 2 of Firefly. Obviously it’s good news to Firefly fans that the show isn’t just dead in the water, but it’s also an interesting experiment. Can a huge online fan base provide enough revenue to [...]
Ed Felten has posted a review of Google’s DRM scheme over at Freedom to Tinker. Bottom line:
Google’s DRM, like everybody else’s, can be defeated without great difficulty. Like all DRM schemes that rely on encrypting files, it is vulnerable to capture of the decrypted file, or to capture of the keying information, either [...]
Next time I need a lawn mower, I’m buying a Snapper.
Rebecca Blood has actually started using Movable Type to edit her blog and comments on how moving to a new tool may change how she works. I think that the degree to which the writing tool matters in terms of how one writes is almost always underestimated. Every time I made changes to my own [...]
The Bush administration tells us that adding a few dings and scratches to our civil liberties is an inevitable side effect of effectively fighting the war on terror(ism). But when you see that they’re just as willing to trash our privacy to fight the war on pornography, you realize that perhaps they don’t take [...]