Everything you’ve read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1) by ZDNet's Ed Bott -- Self-described "professional paranoid" Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland has become the most widely quoted source of information on DRM and content protection in Windows Vista. The trouble is, Gutmann's work is riddled with factual errors, distortions, contradictions, and outright untruths, and his conclusions are equally wrong. In this three-part series, I'll show you why Gutmann's outrageous and inflamatory arguments don't stand up to close scrutiny.
So I'm 49 staring at the big 50. I work in technology, and I am always learning the newest tech, and the newest view of project management, and the newest business models. So the other day I was trying to decide between listening to a podcast of delving into my companies continuous learning tools, and I just didn't want to do either. I thought to myself, we never really get any of these things to work properly before we move on to the next thing. Always learning and changing. Can't it just stop for a moment and let me catch up? Of course it won't. I'm just being 50 and realizing that work isn't going to be a coast for the last 20 years of my career. But it is also something deeper, and scarier. I am not so sure that the future we are heading to is going to be better than today. In fact I fundamentally believe that there is a good chance it will be worse. Automation of both mind work and physical work mean that the 7 billion people curr...
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