The purpose of Digital Rights Management is to allow creators to control the use of, and prevent the copying of, “intellectual property” — in the form of copyrighted informational works or proprietary hardware creations — after its original sale. The 30-odd year history of DRM is one of consumer dissatisfaction and sequential failure.
Tag: action
Solitary Confinement is Appallingly Common In Public Schools
If parents were to lock their children in a confined space for a lengthy period of time, it is highly likely that those parents would be arrested for child abuse and their parental rights threatened. (In fact, this just happened in Arizona recently.) If public schools do this, however, the outcome is quite different.
Success in British Columbia – Prosecutor Requests Stay of Proceedings
Congrats to Ian and thanks for providing me the documentary proof. Ian defended against a traffic ticket by filing an application to dismiss and discovery request. Eventually the prosecutor requested a stay.
You Don’t Have to Talk About Everything
If your tendency is to bottle everything up inside and struggle with shame, this post isn’t for you. Find someone you trust and get it out. But if you find yourself immediately looking for a place to share every trial and triumph, learn to process first.
The Action Habit: Put Everything Into the First Step
It’s easy to get into a mode of inaction, but building the Action Habit can be a lot more difficult. The reason is that the feedback loops in our lives are set up the wrong way: it’s easier to put things off than to act, it’s easier to seek comfort than to push into discomfort, fear and stress.
The Importance of Platforms (or Why I Hate YouTube and Love Podcasts)
I know a good many serious people who love to consume ideas via YouTube. I don’t know how. I hate YouTube as a way to consume ideas, unless they are ideas which can only be conveyed using video. But lectures, monologues, interviews, books, soundbites, or podcasts…why would you ever go to YouTube for those?
Social Entropy
I am a seeker. I just want to see the truth. Whatever it is. Wherever it leads. And the truth I have discovered includes this: Any society based on anything other than zero archation will degrade over time.
Stop Lying about Laws Applying
I engaged in an instructive Facebook conversation recently. I approached it Socratically at first, but ended it with some food for thought (pun intended). Here it is in full, edited for presentation. The topic is the applicability of government laws as it concerns the food vendor that was robbed by campus police recently.
Make Haste, Waste, Confusion
I know this POTUS needs a fence post in the ground. Without one, he will never have more, he will repair no fences. But his tweetstorm admonitions for speed are counterproductive. What is he, a muleskinner?
5 Ways Mothers Give Away their Power
This isn’t about convincing anyone to do things my way (how boring a world that would be!). But if you don’t know that you have choices beyond the mainstream world, then you aren’t actually making decisions from a place of truth and desire. You are living on autopilot and not considering the impact of living a life in accordance to the status quo, whose only agenda is to keep you relying on it. So what do I mean by giving away power?