Apple Computer's popular iPod music player could become a flight data recorder (FDR) following an announcement by US light aircraft manufacturer LoPresti SpeedMerchants to introduce the device in the cockpit of its Fury piston aircraft.
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“The Longest Suicide Note in History†How Vista cowtows to RIAA & MPAA and how you lose your ‘fair use’ rightsPosted by: Wm D in Actual News, TechThat's Peter Gutmann's assessment of Microsoft Vista in his technical, economic and performance analysis of the compromises in Vista. This document is a must-read if you are interested in how the performance and stability of the system for which you paid hard-earned cash will be adversely affected. These issues all stem from demands by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to prevent the copying of HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and other content on personal computers, even for fair use backup. A great article written several years ago on this development sits on the Freedom to Tinker blog. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also has an excellent analysis of this cozy and far-reaching relationship here. Lest you think that this is just paranoid hype, read Microsoft's own Output Content Protection and Windows Vista page and accompanying white paper for yourself. Quoted directly from the Microsoft link above, here are the critical parts of OCP:
• Protected Video Path – User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to the graphics adapter. This is required when the content owner's policy regards the PCIe bus as a user-accessible bus. • Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) is the new User Mode Audio (UMA) engine in the Windows Vista Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs are consistent with what the content allows. • Protected Audio Path (PAP) is a future initiative under investigation for how to provide encryption of audio over user accessible buses. For the full story see: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Board=tankerbobblog&Number=26899 Now off the shelf components allow you to build your own "open source" Fab@Home. Anyone can download the plans at http://www.fabathome.org. [youtube]sFIZdCY2BcI[/youtube] Don't show this to Violet! While most listen to music on their iPod or computer. I for one have found the joy of PodCasts. Apple's iTunes sure makes this genre easy to access. Whether it is science, politics, news of the day, in depth analysis, humor or irreverance, I am hooked. Here are a few of my favorites. Science Friday with Ira Flatow – NPR – Podcasts from the weekly NPR Science Friday radio broadcast (there is also a web site sciencefriday.com) A new microbe finds energy to survive underground using radiation.
A telnet version of Star Wars is available by running the application terminal on a Mac or navigate to a command line on a WinPC, and type in the line 'telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl' and watch the show. You may also access the show here on an html page. A simply amazing R/C airplane demo, flown indoors! [youtube]Gulv_bvZS94[/youtube] Will your next iPod com with a Laser projector. Wired's Seán Captain writes, "…laser-based projectors could transform these pocket-size devices into full-blown entertainment systems…"
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ThePirateBay.org Resurrected with Servers in the NetherlandsPosted by: Wm D in Actual NewsUnrepentent, The Pirate Bay resurrects itself three days after Swedish Police confiscate their servers. Wired gives a full details. Trade your unwanted CDs for wanted CDs. WOW how cool is that! Mark Anderson writes about his LA LA experience on wired. |
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