Greenpeace protests against 'baby patent'
And the patent madness continues. Eventually even sexual intercourse will be patented and only permitted after paying a license fee...
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Science here.
Archive 5. April 2004
My Digital SLR is Sick
My Kodak DCS 520 is sick. It keeps crashing - loses the time setting and locks up. The lockup resolves when I turn off the camera and then wait 1 minute until the camera timeout also shuts down the analog part (i.e., the part that is the EOS 1N). Then I can turn it back on, set the time, and continue shooting. Recently, though, I even had constant crashes during a walk with the camera - so far I haven't figured out exactly when it happens. The normal crashes only occur when I change the battery. If anyone else has such a camera and knows these symptoms, please let me know. PPS Hamburg has already threatened me with horrendous repair costs due to a mainboard defect, but maybe someone else knows something more about it.
Fortunately, I still have a purely mechanical Leica M, where the battery is only used for the exposure meter, so it works fine without power too. And it has no mainboard.
New utility strips DRM from iTunes Music Store tracks
Whether the tool will remain available for long? After all, it violates stricter laws in some countries regarding the protection of copy and usage restriction procedures (sorry, but none of them can really be called copy protection).
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.