I’m beginning to think so. Apple, why can’t I put what I want on my Apple TV, like I can on my iPod (well, not my Shuffle)? Why can’t I use it to store my media, like I would a hard drive? Why can’t I plug an external hard drive into my Apple TV to [...]
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More Criminal Behavior
Yes, we, the viewing public, are truly criminals. I mean, we must be to be treated this way. Tonight, I got an interesting flag on a TiVo recording. I never watch Law & Order, but I received a text message that Katee Sakhoff would be a guest star. (OK, so I get texts about Battlestar [...]
I Spoke too Soon
I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal. When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content [...]
HDCP and Apple
This sounds like complete crap to me. AppleInsider and Ars Technica report that Apple has adopted a new hardward standard that will limit the playback of “Freeplay”-enabled media on non-compliant devices — even if no laws are being broken. Based on the report, it seems that this is going to be a reality across Apple’s [...]
Satan and Tech
The L.A. Times posted a review of Norman Mailer’s new book with Mike Lennon, On God: An Uncommon Conversation: Mailer’s new book, “On God: An Uncommon Conversation,” may best be read in such a context — although, in truth, it’s probably best not read at all. Framed as a series of Socratic dialogues between Mailer [...]
Sterling on the Internet
In Tomorrow Now, Bruce Sterling writes about the Internet: Consider the Internet. It is the ne plus ultra of creative destruction, the fastest technological transformation in human history. Even its double-digit growth rates had double-digit growth rates. It falls down quickly and destroys huge fortunes overnight. The Internet is not an information superhighway. Superhighways are [...]
Question 3
Is moral panic is the signature political motif of the information age?