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The Real Purpose of DRM 235

Posted by CowboyNeal on Sunday April 02, 2006 @01:35PM from the man-keeping-us-down dept.

Roberto writes "Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz hacked a political interpretation to recent vacuum cleaner cockfights at O'Reilly's ETech: 'Hollywood corporations have finally admitted that the real reason they built digital restriction management (DRM) software into PVRs and DVD players was to stop geeks from turning their recording devices into back-alley combat machines. You haven't seen ugly until you've watched what a DVD player without DRM can do to a TiVo.' Don't try to even think of this at home."

Comment Re:What's left of them? (Score 1) 572

by gwhulbert on Wednesday July 06, 2005 @06:31PM (#12998507) Attached to: Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced

I believe "when humanity almost went extinct" is incorrect. The bottleneck is merely due evolution from of a small sub-population, which was geographically isolated from other populations of homo. Also, the timing at 150K years ago is speculative, afaik. There is also the African exodus events starting about 70K years ago.

Evidence of any interbreeding is limited to a single specemin and based on morphology, not genetics. All genetic evidence shows a very wide gap (see talk.origins).

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