Sony's DRM Defeated By a Piece of Tape

This is just too funny for words. This article indicates just how dumb Sony was in creating and using DRM to thwart "thieves". When will they learn that the business model they are using is old and outdated, and that the DRM was Sony's wost idea EVER. Yet another reason to use iTunes to get my music.

Ripped from the headlines....I don't get paid enough...

Chief executive officers at 367 top U.S. corporations were paid, on average, $431 last year for every $1 paid to their companies' average production worker, according to publicly available information jointly compiled in September by Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy. In 1990, the ratio was about $100-to-$1. (If the federal minimum wage had increased since 1990 by the same rate as the multiple for CEOs' pay, it would have risen from $5.15 an hour to $23.03, but, of course, it's still $5.15.) [New York Times, 9-4-05]

Great one-liners

I read this article in Mountain Bike Action magazine and thought I should share a few of the great one liners…

• How come a rider will spend hundreds of dollars to shave a few ounces off a bike and then eat an entire pizza while watching TV (And drinking beer)?
• Why are they called clipless pedals when you have to clip in to use them?
• How come 198 grams sounds lighter than seven ounces, but 453.59 grams sounds heavier than one pound?
• How come all cross-country bikes don’t use wide bars like the ones single-speed riders use?
• Why are there more climbs than downhills on every ride?
• Why do energy bars have to taste like that?
• How come component makers publish weights in grams and bike makers list their weight in pounds?
• How come it takes forever to get into riding shape, yet only a week to lose everything you gained?
• Why are there production mountain bikes that sell for $7,000.00?
• How come a 20-mile “easy ride” always ends up being 16 miles of hammering?
• How come you feel so grumpy when you fall, but laugh uncontrollably when a riding partner gets pitched?
• Home come they don’t make a great-grandma gear for really steep hills?
• If you consumed ten supplements that claim to deliver a ten percent boost in performance, would you be 100 percent faster than you are now?
• Why doesn’t everyone mountain bike?