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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Everything ZDNet Wouldn't Say About CPRM |
| 12:31:46 am mst / 30 December 2000 found by diana / filed in digital media / source The Register 72 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| The Register has created an an excellent FAQ on CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media), the new, rather dastardly method of digital content management looming on the horizon. |
| Ugh. It's too bad not to become true. (On the bright side, I wonder how long CPRM will withstand the inevitable barrage of hackers.) |
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| Short films galore |
| 3:17:37 am mst / 30 December 2000 found by paul / filed in culture / source NY Times 48 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The short film (~2-15 minutes) has been reached a new level of popularity, predominantly because the genre is so well suited for the internet. The article also describes a few of the more popular and/or original pieces out there. |
| What's needed is a meta-site which performs collaborative filtering to help steer the user towards the short web films that he or she might especially like. |
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| The Legacy of 2001 |
| 10:50:34 am mst / 30 December 2000 found by diana / filed in future / source ABC News 53 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| 2001: A Space Odessey was 1968's vision of the future. This article compares the movie's predictions with the reality of 2001. (As Slashdot noted, CNN has a five part series on the movie.) |
| The movie 2001 missed the personal computer revolution; the year 2001 passed up on serious space travel. |
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| Man listening to scanner hears police chasing his wife |
| 11:23:48 am mst / 30 December 2000 found by paul / filed in legal / source Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 72 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A man listening to a police scanner was amused to hear about a chase involving a drunk driver until he heard them mention his wife's name. After she was arrested, he refused to bail out his wife, telling the police, "You can keep her". |
| They obviously haven't been reading, "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"... |
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| BBC pays $1000 to blackmailing heckler |
| 2:22:28 pm mst / 30 December 2000 found by paul / filed in culture / source Guardian 42 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A BBC team filming a drama on location in London's East End was disrupted by a local heckler, who threatened to shout loudly during the takes unless he was paid 1000 pounds ($1500). Because the producers couldn't afford the delay, they went to a cash machine and paid him off. Two more residents then tried the same thing, with one demanding money to not turn on his power sanding machine and another demanding the same to not block access with his car. Both men were also paid $750. |
| Tony Soprano never would have put up with this sh*t. That's why TV production teams need goons of their own to administer a different kind of payment... |
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| Glimpses of a robotic future |
| 6:03:33 pm mst / 30 December 2000 found by paul / filed in robotics / source BBC News 73 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The BBC reports on some of the dramatic advances being made in consumer robotics in Japan. |
| Some of the prototypes were pretty interesting, but I'm holding out for a robot monkey butler!... |
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