The next culture of ownership demon: the DTV transition?

Tom Yager at Infoworld has an excellent read on how easy–and likely–it will be to lock down content post-digital TV switch. Plus, a good refresher on just how convoluted and downright bad the HDCP over HDMI is for consumers. In essence, his column winds up as a call to arms to the electronics and software [...]

By far the saddest thing I’ve read today

From the New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof today:
“Painfully slowly, the United Nations and its member states seem to be recognizing the fact that systematic mass rape is at least as much an international outrage as, say, pirated DVDs.”
Makes me wonder not only about their priorities, but maybe mine a bit, as well.