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It is this simple: consumers should be able to make copies of their own DVDs. Period.

Software to turn your floor wax into a dessert topping: the GNU Radio project has made good on its promise. Blossom and development partner Matt Ettus have developed a software program that can make a PC receive two radio stations simultaneously. The only additional hardware components needed are a low-cost …

Photos, music, videos, etc. from computer to DVD player via wireless. Oooh: Sonicblue is looking to solve all your PC and DVD needs. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based consumer-electronics maker on Monday announced its new DVD player, the Go-Video D2730. In addition to playing DVD movies, the new player will be …

ChronWatch quotes Roll Call: When Senators and their aides tune in to Channel 5 on the chamber’s internal television system each morning, they normally get a replay of the previous night’s edition of ”Nightline” or a dry tutorial on parliamentary procedure conducted by the Congressional Research Service. But on the …

I just don’t know how I feel about this: I want my freedom and privacy, I don’t want to be blown up or doused with smallpox. I want the Feds, once they latch on to a miscreant, to be able to track them across the system but I don’t want …

Many have been explaining, if not justifying, Trent Lott’s tin ear for social commentary on his upbringing, the environment in which he grew up. There is some merit to understanding that Lott’s archaic views did not arise in a vacuum, but one should not be deflected from the primacy of …

Andy Irons is the Xbox Pipeline Masters and overall Vans Triple Crown of Surfing champion. There’s no surf in Cleveland (unless there’s one hellacious storm), maybe you’ve heard that. I miss the ocean, salt in my eyes, sand in my teeth. I’m not much of a surfer because I was …

Our wKen just reviewed a show called “Smell-O-Vision” here the other day, now the government wants smell-o-vision of a different kind; The Pentagon wants to sniff out fugitives – literally. The federal agency that created the Internet now challenges scientists to create a detector that could identify people by their …

$28 billion award to former smoker deep discounted to $28 million, but a significant tobacco loss nonetheless - makes me think of the music industry.

Interesting coincidence that Norah Vincent’s editorial hoping the Australian libel ruling makes bloggers more cautious with their canard slinging would come out on the same day as a Washington Post article saying in effect that the same rules of publishing apply online as off: But since many bloggers have no …