Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Here's an unexpected result from the party pill researchers on Stuff today:
Party pills can improve people's driving, according to government-commissioned research on the effects of their main active ingredients.
Should we be criminalising something that not only is unlikely to cause serious harm, but actually improves road safety?
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I was once called "that tauiwi fella" on a marae, and not in a very nice way.
At least there's some useful content left in the Urban Dictionary "Smile when you say that"
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I was always told the best place to learn a language is in bed.
Seems to be working for my brother anyway, good planning on his part to find a multilingual girlfriend - I didn't even know Luxembourgish was a language! -
Reading all this stuff about DRM and the iPhone leaves me wondering two things: Whither Microsoft in all this?
If they have any sense they wait a week or so til the famous reality distortion field dies down, then point out that thay already have a number of these devices available on the market, for about the same price, and not tied to a specific carrier. The most recent one I had my mitts on was the I-mate JAMin, not quite as much storage space, as SD cards only go up to 4GB, but when I finally have the spare change to replace my aging Ipaq pocket PC, that's where my money's likely to go.
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I do always feel that the words "Homeland Security" taint everything around them with US-style paranoia
Yup, but it makes a great buzzword.
Saying "the DRM features in Vista might allow a hacker to break things" doesn't have the same effect as saying "the DRM features in Vista might allow terrorists to breach Homeland Security".OMG - if DRM isn't stopped, the terrorists win!!!
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So, topping oneself from ignoring safe BZP use guidelines is different from topping oneself by ignoring safe drinking (or any other) guidelines?
Just thought I'd point out that the natural selection argument isn't very useful - why not legalise everything, and let the stupid ones cleanse themselves from the genepool. -
To paraphrase:
Driving after drinking is relatively safeif you stay under the recommended dose...if someone chooses to exceed the recommended dose and drive then well...That's just natural selection init?
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How bizarre. He doesn't address any of the most interesting points in the paper.
Indeed, he doesn't mention the security/homeland security side at all, the part which has a pretty good chance of trumping his contention that the government won't have an interest in it.
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Its the gay homophobes you have to watch out for...
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Some more reading, specific rebuttal to the suicide note paper by Bob Cringley
Intel and AMD love it. ATI and nVidia love it. Thomson and Philips and Sony and Matsushita and Samsung and LG love it. Every movie studio, TV network, and record company loves it. The only people who don't love it are consumers, and neither industry nor government really cared much about them, ever.
Plus a story from Wired on why DRM will die.
Evidence is mounting that major labels may start to prefer the MP3 format, as impossible as that used to seem.