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Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support 231

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2008 @12:17PM from the enjoy-your-rights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So, you thought you did well to support the fledgling music industry by purchasing your tracks legally from the Wal-Mart store? Well, forget about moving these tracks to a new PC! Since they started selling DRM-free tracks last year, there's no money to be made in maintaining the DRM support systems, and in fact, support is being shut down. Make sure you circumvent the restrictions by burning the tracks to an old-fashioned CD before Wal-mart 'will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.' Support ends October 9th."

Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook 756

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday September 26, 2008 @06:54PM from the just-partner-it-with-dawkins'-god-delusion dept.

Darwinned writes "Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning. 'The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book, but its authors are expecting that legislators and the courts will be too stupid to notice that, or to remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.'"

Comment You could try... (Score 1) 1027

by Satevis on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @01:16AM (#23248606) Attached to: Disillusioned With IT?

...running for office. Start small: maybe school board or city council. It's something you could do without letting go of the career you already have. I don't know where you live, but where I come from, most of the successful politicians started off with other careers and then did political work in the evenings. They didn't have to quit their day jobs until they were well-established in politics. It might not be your kind of thing, but it would be pretty different from what you do now, it's low risk (financially), and you'd be working to make the world a better place. (Believe it or not, that IS the reason most politicians get started.)

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