that 2600 Magazine will not seek Supreme Court review of the DeCSS decision. It seems that they are still working on the issue, just not using this case as the framework in which it happens.
Michael Sippey in theobvious.com
makes the important point in his short article on Spielberg’s Minority Report: Why Spielberg’s Vision is Flawed. It was a fun movie, but the future it portrayed was deeply flawed. I’m no sci-fi genius, but a story like that begins from the proposition that the future portrayed is a probable (or possible) extension of today. This is pretty clearly not the case, even for the many efforts to do so throughout the film. Sippey puts it well: “…Minority Report is not a networked future. Spielberg’s vision of the future is, essentially, television writ large, with a frosty layer of ‘Hello,
It is with great pleasure
that I announce that we will shortly become the guardians of a very lovely puppy who will grow in due time into an adult female dog. This fact will doubtless prompt me to offer my own banal anecdotes from time to time.
The Register
is but one of many who are commenting on the new EULA that comes with a security patch issued by Microsoft the other day. Thomas C Greene writes in this piece: “What they feed you may be infected with viruses; it may break your applications, corrupt data files, destroy weeks or months or even years of work, but you’ll have no recourse if it does.”
Cautionary words
from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who’s certainly qualified to serve in that role. In a long, thoughtful blog entry he reports on the barrage of nasty email he receives daily, hourly, from the hard-core right. He says, “…[it] makes you wonder, for the first time in your life, even including the years of Reagan and Bush the elder, if this country is actually, literally, genuinely headed for something more frightening than you’d ever thought possible.”
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