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Submission + - Is interoperable DRM really less secure?

Submitted by Crouch and hold on Thursday February 08, 2007 @04:29PM

Crouch and hold writes: Are closed DRM schemes like FairPlay more secure than interoperable ones? Based on the number of cracks, it doesn't look like it. 'When it comes to DRM, what history actually teaches us is that one approach is no more secure than the other in practice, as they relate to the keeping of secrets. Windows Media DRM has had fewer security breaches than Apple's FairPlay, yet WM DRM is licensed out the wazoo: there are more than a dozen companies with WM DRM licenses. The way things came to be this way are complex and numerous, but none of them have to do with the sharing of secrets..'

Submission + - HP beats Moore's Law

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John H. Doe

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:46PM

John H. Doe writes: "From the article: "A number type of nano-scale architecture developed in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard could beat Moore's Law and advance the progress of of microprocessor development three generations in one hit. The new architecture uses a design technique that will enable chip makers to pack eight times as many transistors as is currently possible on a standard 45nm field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip.""

Journal Journal: KDE on OS X update

Journal by Otter on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:58PM

Interesting summary -- I tried to pitch in on a similar project a couple of years ago but didn't have enough understanding of X11 underpinnings to be useful, and the organizers apparently didn't, either. There are a bunch of KDE apps I'd love to have native on OS X, though, so kudos to the people who got this going.

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