If you care about music or DRM, you need to think about a simple thing: Everything is copied. People making music today are taking beats and rythyms and countless other bits of other peoples’ work, and most of the time they don’t even realize it. We need to guard against blatant theft, but creativity comes very commonly from…
Archives for February 2006
Google’s Inevitable Betrayal
Tons of people all over the Internets are shedding all vestiges of sanity over how much information Google has access to. They’re especially rabid over the fact that Google is now archiving all chats. Many view this as proof that the company is heading down a dark path — a path that will eventually lead to them knowing…
The Truth About OS X Security
Many are debating the question of how vulnerable Apple’s OS X operating system is relative to Windows. You essentially have two sides — one saying that it’s inherently more secure (and hence less successfully attacked), and the other side saying that it’s only because of marketshare that there haven’t been more issues. A Model Well, I think I…
It’s The Culture, Stupid
In another post about culture a friend commented that we must guard against the idea that there is only one way to live. I agree completely. Surely that’s true if the guideline being used is a strict one, i.e. it lays out dogma that must be followed to the letter. It may be possible, however, to come up…
America and the Satanist Next Door
If you live in America, you probably live within a few blocks of at least one Satanist. In fact, they’re around you all day, every day. Many of them probably go to church on Sunday, and some even have those cute little Jesus bumper stickers. But don’t be fooled — most of them are not really Christians. Satanism…