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 [...]
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Big Brother
This has been a biotech news kind of week. Scientist David Gelernter reviews Bill McKibben’s latest book Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age in Wired. McKibben forcasts “a frightening catastrophe brought on by human obliviousness” from casual genetic modifications to human beings. He sees designer babies as bound to backfire, like buying the latest computer and [...]
