Just sent the following to all my friends:

Subject: Looks like Sony is at it again

[links to sites detailing the problem removed for brevity]

Lesson learned: Don't buy DRM protected media; if you encounter DRM
protected media, remove the DRM/protection mechanism before using the media.

> Who should replace Katie Couric? Anybody. Does it even really matter; it's just fscking T.V.

anyone who knows anything about man made structures in the ocean knows that they *ALL* eventually fall to the onslaught of time. having thousands of square meters of reef covered by a man made tarp that has fallen into the watter would be an unqualified disaster. every ecologist on the planet konw that the reef bleaching problem is a self correcting situation. Sure, reefs and their ecosystems near the surface are going to die, no question about that. The reef ecosystem will simply move down in depth to a margine that makes sunlight exposure lessen. It's happened before and it will happen again (just look at the fossil evidence of the margins at which reefs have existed at over time).

I would be intersted in know how the engergy requirements of SED differ from a standard CRT. As far as I can tell, you're trading 1 big electron gun from millions of small ones and the only thing you get back in return is the ability to ditch the yoke. I would also like to know if SED is going to be subject to the same sorts of problems that plasma displays have (namely gas leakage over time); in the SED case i would worry aout the ingress of gas (air) between substraites and the impact that would have on engerizing the phospher.