Alex Meyer’s Random Rants

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6220192.story

Pot, kettle, black?

Also, “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows”?

What. The. Hell.

Microsoft’s failed MSN Music download store is shutting down its DRM servers August 31, effectively stealing purchased music from its customers.

Down with DRM, long live amazon.com and other DRM-free music retailers.

Apparently, being the site for officially-released music tends to get you noticed by a few people who may not want you to succeed, with rather unfortunate (for the site’s owner) results. With all the blatant infringement that (apparently) occurred on OiNK, I have to wonder what took so long.

Some idiot and possible Microsoft shill set up a website at whyfirefoxisblocked.com (WARNING 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded) explaining that he had to block popular open-source web browser Mozilla Firefox because of the popular Adblock extension, and gave some horribly misleading and incorrect legal reasons that adblock is illegal. I believe that, while a webmaster is certainly welcome to block users that he/she believes are blocking ads, such a measure is counterproductive due to the backlash that might occur and the ease with which a user can work around such a measure. In addition, any site that does this sort of thing probably believes that content is what you put between all the ads.

This morning I had inadvertantly chmod -R 711′ed my ~, causing a 403 forbidden error for about 9 hours. Whoops