November 30, 2005

U.S. Border Guards Check Blog, Deny Entry

Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise

"Apparently most older people can not hear the sounds, but teens can not stand it."

FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing

"The FCC may soon allow cable/sat companies to sell individually customized TV channel packages." Lots of good discussion in the comments section as well.

November 29, 2005

HD Radio Content Protection Act aims to limit digital radio recording

"It would require device makers to implement ?functionality? to automatically delete your recordings after a certain amount of time, just like back in the good old days."

MIT researchers working on super-fast robotic muscles

So just how hack-proof is the 360?

Microsoft goes to great lengths to ensure that you can't modify the new XBox, because that would be doing what you want with something you own, and that's not a good thing.

November 18, 2005

Weird Acronyms & Tech Term Oddities

Webopedia rocks, and this page is pretty interesting.

November 08, 2005

Italian Police Asked to Investigate Sony DRM Code

"Also, Computer Associates brands Sony code 'spyware.'"

November 02, 2005

More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit"

Play a music CD, and Sony gets access to your computer. Go Sony!