First it was this stupid asshole from Los Angeles county, who recently declared that the use of the terms "Master and Slave" in computer systems to be offensive, only because one person complained. That guy must've been frozen in time, and I really feel the need to go and scream in his ears that it's only been 2 decades since the terms have been a standard in PCs. So Joe Sandoval, division manager of purchasing and contract services for LA County's Internal Services Department, is asking local supplier to use alternative terms to describe the primary and secondary drives in PCs. How stupid.

What's the other "too stupid thing"? Well, it's Phoenix the BIOS manufacturer announcing that it'll be coming out with DRM and Trustworthy Computing enabled BIOS in the future. If these things can't be disabled, which they probably won't, I guess we all should embrace having to flash our BIOS with DRM-free hacked BIOS... new form of hacking indeed.

But despite all this show of stupidity and greed, we still have some good news for freedom lovers: Norvegian Jon Lech Johansen, who's only 19, has released the source for QTFairUse, a quicktime stream dumper that allows you to save purchased songs from Apple's iTunes music store, with the freedom to copy them on CDs anyway you want. Take that rotten fruit!