David and Goliath - low tech beats high tech....

Companies keep trying to come up with ways to keep people from satisfying their basic human cravings. The biggest battle going on right now is over copy protection for music CD's and DVD's. Sony, and a lot of other major companys have spent a bundle on high tech solutions to keep pirates from making illegal copies.

And, as you might expect, as soon as they roll out a new protection scheme someone comes up with a way to break it. Kind of reminds me of Prohibition....

In this particular case, the Sony protection scheme can be defeated by a 50 cent marker available at Office Max, or your local 7-11.... No wonder Sony isn't returning calls from reporters....


Sony's "copy-proof" CDs cracked with marker pen
- posted by tempusmaster @ 9:13 PM

 
The Five Step Program for Husbands-

Every evening my wife and I have been watching a serialized Japanese version of 'The Other SIde of Midnight' - a Western classic that has been rewritten with Japanese characters and role models. It's a great story, though I get a little frustrated since they broke it into 38 fifteen minute episodes...

Anyway, it turns out that truth is stranger and much more interesting than fiction. The Japan Today website just posted an article about four nurses that banded together to kill one of their husbands for the insurance proceeds - about $300k USD. The story of how they went about it, and how they got caught is just as interesting as 'The Other SIde of Midnight'. What is even more interesting and funny is the 'Five Rules' that the newspaper came up with for us poor husbands to avoid being done in by our wives. It's a long article, but definitely worth the read, especially Rule #5!


J Shukan Post Watcher - For every husband: five rules to avoid being killed by wives
- posted by tempusmaster @ 6:16 PM

 
Back by popular demand....

Popular? Well, to be perfectly frank, my sister from Texas gigged me for not having Blogged since the 10th of last month.... !:'D

My apologies to my regular readers. I'll try to make sure that I don't lapse again...


- posted by tempusmaster @ 6:14 AM