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I usually refrain from posting about such stuff on my site, mostly because I tend to work myself up into a rant and I just don't have the time and energy to deal with that these days, but this was a really good read. While responding to a question about a certain aspect of airline security, a pilot provided his thoughts on the industry as a whole. This is a very insightful point of view, and covers a lot of what's just plain wrong with the state of affairs today.

I highly encourage anyone interested in this sort of stuff (and if you ever have reason to fly on a plane, you should be interested) to read the full article. It only takes a few minutes.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/16/a-pilot-on-airline-security/

(as found on Bruce Schneier's blog)

It's good to know I'm not the only one that feels this way. :-)

Real Life Comics, 07/25/2007

First, the 2 threads I have started in the Bethesda forums on this topic:

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=724353&hl=
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=733196

TESMU - The Elder Scrolls Mod Utility -
http://www.elricm.com/nuke/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&fi...

What I am looking for someone to do is write the code (C++) to add an extraction feature for .rar, .ace and 7Z.
As the utility is now it will extract files that are .zip. It will also archive in .zip format. If it could be made to extract the 3 extentions above it would be much more useful than it is even now.
The complication will come into installing them in the corrct filepath. But this could be discussed later if I can find someone willing to take up the project.

It goes without saying all due credit would be given to whoever can do this.
I can be reached at sandman_elderfan@yahoo.com or as sandman101 in the Bethesda forums.

universalextractor is unpacking all kinds of inno installer.exe or wise installer.exe very good.

but if i extract a wise installer.exe, i also want to pack it the same way again into a wise installer.exe...After I modified the unpacked files.

How can i do that?

This is just a quick post about an article I recently read. Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing, among others) has written a pretty insightful article for Information Week on "...the back room dealing that allowed entertainment companies and electronics companies to craft public policy on digital rights management." It manages to be insightful, disturbing, and disgusting all at the same time, and is worth a read if you're interested in how DRM comes to be.

Here's a small excerpt from the article:

Then the MPAA dropped the other shoe: the sole criterion for inclusion on the list would be the approval of one of its member-companies, or a quorum of broadcasters. In other words, the Broadcast Flag wouldn't be an "objective standard," describing the technical means by which video would be locked away -- it would be purely subjective, up to the whim of the studios. You could have the best product in the world, and they wouldn't approve it if your business-development guys hadn't bought enough drinks for their business-development guys at a CES party.

You can read the full article here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000854

or, you can find the much friendlier single-page version here:
http://informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000854