An 11 year decline in youth violence has led the U.S. Department of Justice to proclaim, “the offending rates for 14-17 year olds reached the lowest levels ever recorded.” The lowest levels ever recorded. In other words, the Nintendo/PlayStation/XBox era has, in fact, produced the most non-violent kids ever.
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“The legend of the 10-minute Martini” I’ve tried a few martinis in my life time. They’ve run the gamut from Lemon Drops to Frank Sinatra’s favorite the “Burnt Martini”. When I ran across Bingo’s perfect assignment of investigating the “Legend” martini I was skeptical.
Wow! I just tried this w/ Boodles Gin and a spray [...]
Dilbert’s Scott Adams puts flag burning into perspective:
It seems to me that the great thing about the flag is that it symbolizes something inherently indestructible: the concept of freedom. You can burn the flag as many times as you want and the concept of freedom is not only still there - it’s stronger. I [...]
I really don’t see why the RIAA and MPAA insist on putting DRM into everything they touch. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is
the umbrella term referring to any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined policies controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data and hardware.
The RIAA and MPAA use DRM to prevent [...]
From ZDNet:
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests that CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM - Digital Rights Management. Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you’ve bought music or other content to play on one device, it won’t play on any other device because of the [...]
This is just ridiculous… via digg
Now any site that uses rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles will need a licence.
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Ohhh Detroit. After all the positive press surrounding the SuperBowl, this had to happen. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A shooting following a fight early Saturday in downtown near the site of Super Bowl weekend festivities left a woman dead and a man hospitalized, police said.
It looks like all the talk-show hosts were right [...]
The RIAA explains why CDs cost so much. For a more realistic explenation, read Courtney Love’s speech to the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference from 2000. Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization “working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry”. Steve Albini has an article “The Problem Music” showing [...]
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News wrote an interesting article about how interruptions are taking over the workday. This couldn’t be more true! According to the article:
Interruptions at work waste 28 percent of the day and cost U.S. businesses a staggering $588 billion a year.
Besides meetings, it seems like 80 - [...]
There really isn’t anything that’s theoretically hack proof, but the Xbox 360 from Microsoft comes about as close as you can get. What makes the 360 so secure? Check this out (via Engadget):
The flash is encrypted with a per-box key
The key is stored inside the CPU
The boot ROM is stored inside the CPU
Also [...]