Schneier on Security: Musicians tell Fans How to Beat Copy Protection

Schneier on Security: Musicians tell Fans How to Beat Copy Protection:

I’ve been a subscriber to Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram since my CMU days, he turned it into a blog with RSS feed a while back, so I’m subscribed to it as long as I’ve been reading RSS feeds… the comments on his blog are usually very good.

Anyway, worried about not being able to rip your newly purchased CD so you can listen to it on your iPod? Use iTunes, I think in Windows, you can probably just disable auto-play, and rip it in iTunes. Or better yet, get a mac. For those with the skillz and the time, you can use your favorite *nix operating system, open source software usually don’t care about DRM. LOL…

What I’m trying to say is, this is another reason to stay away from Windoze… 😉

Splashpower

Now this is cool!

Splashpower
Splashpower is a wireless power solution:

? It enables you to power up your mobile phone and other portable devices, simply by dropping them on a mouse-mat-sized pad, called a SplashPad?
? No physical connection is required between the SplashPad and the device ? power is transferred wirelessly 
? Different devices can be charged on a single SplashPad at the same time
? Splashpower spells an end to hunting for the right charger, finding free socket spaces or fiddling with connectors and offers a solution to the charging problem of current and next generation portable productsÂ