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Sony media installs rootkits on your computer
IE, this appears to be a fancy bit of spyware dedicated to making sure you don't misuse their music. Sadly, it can also allow hackers to access your system as well as take up 1-2 percent of your processors capacity since it runs all the time.

MPAA doesn't want you to watch a show the next day. And help me, please.

Say good bye to TIVO if MPAA succeeds with "Analog Content Security Preservation Act of 2005"

The important exceprt:

An Analog Video Input Device shall not record or cause the recording of Copy
Prohibited Content in digital form except for retention for a period not to
exceed 90 minutes from initial receipt of each unit of such content,
including retention and deletion on a frame-by-frame, minute-by-minute or
megabyte-by-megabyte basis, using a Bound Recording Method, and provided
that such content shall be destroyed or otherwise rendered unusable prior to or
upon expiration of such period. (emphasis added.)

You read that right. 90 minutes ladies and gents. No more, no longer.

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And what the hell is with cut and paste today. First word, and now semagic is keeping the formatting of a copied segment from Explorer?? Is there a way to disable this? It's driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!

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Wheeee, I pre-ordered Serenity just now. Go and do it yourself so that we can show Universal how much we're enjoying it.

Only 6 more days till normalcy

Well, tomorrow, I must get up early, in time to get to work by 8am. Absolutely necessary for all my experiments to work concurrently. *crosses fingers that B remembers to call me.

Today went okay though. Not any tragedies, though I didn't get much work done on my presentation since I was busy the entire time I was at work. (Yes, well, let's not talk about the three hours I was awake and at home, k?). But afterward, went out w/ B to get dinner at the pizza place I can eat at and get him his protein shake necessities;) LOL. Also picked up my hiking boots from EMS while we were at it. As soon as I get my wool coat dry cleaned, I'm set for winter (not that it needs to hurry, though).

Other than that, not much at all going on. Oh, luridmuse made me another bunny icon;) I haven't had a moment to upload it yet, but GIP in the future!

Oh and, *waves to new people*. Always a surprise to be friended out of the blue. But welcome. If my whining and general lack of any excitement (unless me bitching about science experiments gone wrong qualifies) is not what you expected or wanted, you can friend frogs_fics. All my writing will be linked and/or posted there. But if you find me amusing, feel free to stay;) LOL.

Only 6 more days now till the thesis committee meeting and this journal will then resume it's normal, lower level of griping (and posting spam). And hopefully updates on Twin Regrets ;) Like the icon says, right?:)