Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Cool It!
Thomas Friedman
Let's make a deal: We won't criticize the administration for not anticipating 9/11 if it won't terrorize the country by now predicting every possible nightmare scenario.
'Copy Proof' CDs Cracked with Pen
Reuters
Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.
OK, so this is old news—but it's cool to see the BigPubs pick up on it...
Discussion at Slashdot.
Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves
Dan Gillmor
It's long been an article of faith that the airwaves are a scarce resource. On this notion rides the existence of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the airwaves, not to mention the ownership of great swaths of the spectrum by a variety of public and private interests. What if the scarcity turns out to be an artifact of history and outmoded technology?
Discussion at Slashdot.
A New Kind of Science
First things first—have I read this book? Hell, no, and if anybody else says THEY have in the next year, they're lying thru their teeth. This book is so dense that if Wolfram had added a single additional page, the whole thing would have imploded into a black hole. That's got to be the only reason he quit writing and finally went to press.
