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May 2006

Open source DRM

0Yes, you read the title right. Sun is proposing DReaM, and open source Digital Rights Management system that ties assets to a person, and not a device. Check it out: Wired News: Reasons to Love Open-Source DRM

This is your brain on the computer

0I thought about this when I was in college, but I never had the opportunity to carry it out. Scientists are working on ways for disabled patients to control a mouse with their brain, or by thinking about moving various body parts: Wired News: Now That’s Using Your Brain

Net neutrality fails in the House

0Net neutrality, in case you haven’t heard, is the concept that all traffic on the web should be treated fairly and equally. In other words, companies should not have the ability to give content from some providers special treatment while degrading (ie slowing down) traffic from other providers. Now Intel backs ‘Net Neutrality’. According to [...]