It's Good to Be Busy

So I went from having things to do and the time to do them to having More things to do and less time to do them. Hence why I failed to post something last week, and I even had an idea of something to share! Still remember it too, but I want to cover a couple other things too.
Okay, so that first idea was to call out the stupidity of the FCKDRM.com stunt by GOG. It's not only stupid, it's juvenile and ignorant. There is a very one-sided view of DRM, and by 'very one-sided' I mean extreme-level bias that exclusively equates DRM with evil and greed. This ignores the fact that DRM is used by many, including GOG, to protect your digital rights. A password-protected account is, guess what, an example of DRM. What does this give you at GOG? The ability to store information to make purchases, the ability to claim your purchases after the fact without needing the original email associated with a purchase, and likely more. Two-factor authentication, that's DRM protecting your rights, and is even encouraged if you have a GOG account (which is DRM). Look, here's the truth the anti-DRM zealots want you to forget; DRM is not about protecting someone's ability to squeeze money out of you and remove your access to products. It is about protecting someone's rights, both creators and consumers. It protects a creator's rights to receive compensation for their work and it protects the consumers' rights to claim that work after compensating the creator. Without DRM, creators might not be paid because someone else could claim to be the creator and take the money. No DRM, no way to prevent someone else from claiming any digital products or services someone produces. Without DRM, a consumer making a purchase might be able to make it with the payment credentials of a different consumer, because those digital rights are not protected. Also, without DRM (and even with) it is possible for a consumer to defraud a creator by requesting a refund on a digital product they have made a copy of, that cannot be identified or removed. DRM does not assume people are dishonest or that they will commit a dishonest act, but it does protect others from bad-faith actors. They are like rules or laws; most people will never break them, or at least not severely, and keeping the rules and laws likely will not degrade their lives either. But, when someone does break those rules or laws, harming another, we are grateful for them and those who execute them.
Okay, the other two points are both more political than the above, and concern the rather stupid comments of Senator Cory Booker. I decided to turn on the committee hearings for a bit and caught some of his opening statement and, well, I don't think he knows what a resume is. He was equating not receiving tens of thousands of documents (compared to hundreds of thousands that have been made available, as I understand) and approving Judge Kavanaugh to only reading 10% of a resume before hiring someone... Uh, a resume should be about two pages, sometimes three, so not even thousands of words, let alone pages. A resume is also like a hit-list, so not even a summary of your relevant work experience, while possessing all of those documents would equate to having a super-biography, as they would include details no one cares about and are likely unimportant to most anything. Finally, while you might not hire someone when only reading 10% of a resume, I have been rejected based on less than that. Guess what, decisions are made on less than what is 'fair.'
Finally, 'I am Spartacus' is not about breaking the rules. It is about claiming responsibility for something you are not responsible for, to obscure the one actually responsible and/or to accept the punishment; a sign of solidarity. If you're going to use a reference, at least be accurate and appropriate with its use.