Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Everyone's talking about a recent Copyright Office ruling that jailbreaking of smartphones is no longer illegal, but few have mentioned that several other significant exceptions to the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions have been issued in the same ruling. Most interesting to me are limitations on ebook DRM where they prevent audio interpretation

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[chris_gerrib]

I always took the "Ban Comic Sans" movement as being tongue-in-cheek.

[beamjockey]

Then there's the backlash.

[jeff_duntemann]

Well, it is--but I think part of what they're doing is skewering the deadly serious CS haters, who are legion.

Bring back Smell-o-Vision, I say.

[baron_waste]

You can't please everybody - but Hollyweird has gambled billions that their various 3D technologies will please enough people. I guess history is repeating itself; at least House of Wax was a decent flick in its own right.

- And I always bring earplugs to movies. But then heck, I wear 'em while typing.

[isherempress]

We have avoided 3D movies from the beginning: like you, we get either motion sickness or headaches. I just keep saying to myself, I'm not the target market here (as I am not a 15-year-old white boy).
And I agree, movie theaters are TOO loud. It's just stupid. K usually brings earplugs to a theater, to wear at least through the advert/preview sections of the show. But for the most part, we get our films from Netflix. It's not the same experience as a theater, but golly, the hassles aren't there, either.
Glad that Google image search is starting to payoff for you. It was only a matter of time...

Cheers, Amy

[regek]

More accurately, the Library of Congress does not "rule" on anything, at least not in the way a court does. They only offer clarifications of the law. I also don't think anyone has ever even tried to pretend that jailbreaking a phone is illegal. People act like this is some revelation from an angel coming down to smite Apple. It isn't. As far as I am aware, the DMCA has never been used to try and prevent this.

I've seen a few movies in 3D. I have no trouble with it, and I'm extremely sensitive to flicker. Somehow, 3D movies give me less of a flicker-induced headache than 2D movies do. I also have no problem with the game Mirror's Edge, which a lot of people say induces motion sickness.

I personally wonder when there will be an Android equivalent of the iPod Touch. That has been a major driver of iOS device sales. As far as I am aware, there is nothing comparable out yet.

[ricky28269]

Yay Android! I'm loving my Droid Incredible. I might have mentioned it in my last comment... It's pretty much awesome. I'll keep an eye on that tablet too; the iPad is calling me, but I'm resisting due to the lack of webcam and my certainty that Apple will soon release a new one with a webcam and perhaps other enticing features. I'm not an Apple person, but when Steve Gibson wholeheartedly endorses it on the Security Now podcast I listen to, I'll at least give it a second thought. And he certainly did that with the two iPads he bought.

By the way, the new Google Image format is actually Google's attempt at keeping up with Bing, surprisingly enough. Bing Images had this excellent image search results format from the get-go, and I've been using it because I found it to be much more useful. Now that Google copied, I'm back to using Google - but I've found my browser uses up TONS of ram when I do an image search or two. Do you have the same experience?