11.03.05
Posted in Uncategorized, computers at 7:40 am by Haris
How far will music companies go to ‘’protect their digital rights'’?
This article describes a mechanism that SONY uses as a DRM protection scheme on its CD’s, which mechanism is particularly intrusive, and in fact is not being mentioned as such in the EULA. In effect, when you play one of the SONY CD’s protected this way, a bunch of files are installed in your computer, and then go ahead and ‘’cloak'’ themselves, in such a way that any file in the computer with name starting with $sys$ is hidden forever. So there is no way for any casual user of knowing the files are there. Why is that bad? Read the rest of this entry »
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11.02.05
Posted in Uncategorized, Mathematics at 4:32 pm by Haris
I finally found a way to exercise a little bit! What that means in my case is walking for an hour or thereabouts, as many days a week as possible. And now I found a way to get myself to do that! I like going to work in “The Coffeehouse and Deli”, a pretty descent coffee shop in Normal, IL, right next to the ISU campus. The place is exactly 30 minutes walk from my house, and a very pleasant walk at that! So this is the perfect excuse to walk for an hour. (well, ok, 30minutes+30minutes).
And it also happens to be right along the Constitution trail. It’s almost perfect!
Later
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