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Sean’s having trouble finding vendors that try to Keep the Customer Satisfied; in fact he seems to be doing better at finding Deputy Sheriffs, according to his recent post.
Deputy Sheriff said to me
Tell me what you come here for, boy.
You better get your bags and flee.
You’re in trouble boy,
And now you’re heading into more. [...]

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One of the key points made by Larry Lessig in his 23C3 speech is how code, once used solely to make things work, is now being used to make culture; as he says “the tools of creativity have become the tool of speech”.
When we hear statements like this, it’s important to experience them, not just [...]

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from DVDsto cigarettesThanks to Doc, I came across Mark Pilgrim’s post on A History of DVD Copy Protection. I have always found DVD Region Coding to be laughable, almost tantamount to fraud, so I loved the article. Read it and decide for yourself.
What I particularly enjoyed was how Mark moved from DVDs to cigarettes:

On a [...]

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Guess it had to happen sometime: with all my rants against device lock in, someone had to find a way of making me partially dependent on such a device.
Boy was it painful. But I’m alive and well and sore and tired. And fitted with the ultimate lock in. A pacemaker.
I think it was Churchill who [...]

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I will be quiet for a week or two as I recuperate from some medical complications.
In the meantime, I wish all my readers and the extended community the best of the season. For those that celebrate it, Merry Christmas.
And may 2007 bring you a whole new time.

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Ugly sells? Take a look at this post from Commission Networks (I couldn’t be bothered trying to find out who the person was, the site was too ugly for me and I couldn’t find an “about”). But it made me think.
I wonder if the Henry Ford “faster horses” statements can be made to apply to [...]

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