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Friday, October 14, 2005
Moron DRM 
| | That headline is pure pun; and Don Marti's alt.fan.david-berlind is pure fun, as well as dead serious. Two key excerpts: |
| | The most important content to make fair use of is the content whose copyright is held by people you have an adversarial relationship with. |
| | Let's not trivialize the DRM problem by making it just a consumer issue. It's a speech issue. DRM attacks all communications and archival systems. It isn't just the equivalent of getting your CDs stolen and having to buy new copies. |
We've been wondering
No bruise cruising
| | But that's not what makes the Carnival Miracle distinctive, especially for a veteran of Holland-America cruises. It's the décor. It's as if they took every rejected idea for a Las Vegas hotel and put them all in one big boat. I can imagine a dialog that goes like this: |
| | "Let's do a bar called 'Frankie & Johnny's', based on the song--" |
| | "Maybe. Whatever. Go on." |
| | "Okay. We have a shiny ceiling and floor, with reflecting balls and triangular stalactites hanging down over each table." |
| | "With sharp corners at about the hight of a kid's head." |
| | "And a bullet hole in the mirror behind the bar." |
| | "Because Frankie shot Johnny." |
| | "Let's leave that one out." |
| | "But yeah, we'll do the rest of that stuff." |
| | Above the lobby/front desk bar, an atrium rises 12 stories to a transparent reddish ceiling over a glass curved stairway that leads to Nick & Nora's supper club. A vast classic-style painting covers one whole wall, opposite glass elevators trimmed with blue lights. Lighting everywhere is thick with blue, orange and mauve. A mauve allergy would put one in shock. |
| | That withstanding, it was a great cruise. I learned a lot, and visit some of that in this first report. |
Consume, ye bastards!
| | Just got off a long hold with Verizon, occasionally punctuated by discouraging nonconversation with near-useless customer "management" personnel. The bottom line: I can replace my 3Mb/300Kb $49/month Cox home Internet account with a 3Mb/768Kb $29/month Verizon home Internet account. The business account won't be so easy. First, I have to get a Verizon business phone account, the person on the phone said. Then I have to call a number to see if static IP addresses are available. The number "is experiencing extremely high call volume." So I gave up. |
| | In the course of talking, way too much, to Verizon and Cox representatives the last few days, it's clear these kinds of companies simply cannot imagine a world where consumers also produce, where demand also supplies, where the Net is anything other than a new way to deliver the same old crap. |
| | Least of all can they imagine that there is real business in real service to individuals working out of their homes. It's all still Death From Above, 10.5 years since John Perry Barlow wrote that piece. |
Suicide bombings still work, presumably
| | ...I say to you that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Umma [the entire Muslim people]. |
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