Bullshit alert!

The following article, while it's pretty on target with the business analysis, contains a serious technical half-truth.

Apple did not"disable Rendezvous" - Rendezvous is a networking technology that is content agnostic: it doesn't know if it's streaming pirated music or sharing an Office document. Apple limited the Rendezvous access of a specific program, iTunes, to it's own subnet. This is not a trivial distinction - I can still stream music on my LAN just fine. I just can't stream music over the Internet via iTunes, whioh would not only piss off the RIAA, as the article points out, but which could also cause a serious security concern. I know I always like to know that I'm running a server ....

Apple Finds the Future for Online Music Sales. Apple Computer's new service, iTunes Music Store, has been the first real success story in the long effort to sell music over the Internet. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
9:33:19 PM     comment []

This was just too good a headline to not post ...
Orthodox Christianity lowers your cholesterol [Science Blog]
9:27:49 PM     comment []

I've mentioned this rather transparent lawsuit here in previous posts - now it's getting real interesting:

Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims. The second of four companies to own Unix rights takes issue with the rights infringement claims that SCO Group is making against Linux. [CNET News.com]

This report has a very strong statement by Bruce Perens:

Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V [Slashdot]
10:26:21 AM     comment []

GREAT piece of writing by the auhor of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined.

Copy Protection Is a Crime. Digital-rights management sounds fine on paper, but Wired magazine's David Weinberger explains why it's not just pirates who should balk at the idea. [Wired News]
10:19:09 AM     comment []