Archive for June, 2005

Jun 02 2005 02:16:00 PM EDT

What Mark Felt

News stories about newly prominent individuals are like the tides — if the individual in question has done something good, the acclaim quickly rushes in, and, then, soon after, the inevitable followup story appears: Hero Not As Heroic As Some Thought.
So I was able to predict with some certainty that the revelation that W. Mark […]

Jun 01 2005 09:46:00 AM EDT

Sony’s Uncopyable CDs

According to Sci-Tech Today, Sony Corp. has announced it is laboring to develop a technological scheme called “sterile burning” that would prevent DRM-protected audio from being burned more than once. You can’t get the details of how the technology would work from the Sci-Tech story — only a general description of how it’s supposed […]