Lots of buzz and fuss on the net generated from this article by Barry Fox on Philips’ patent application to disable the TV remote control via flags in the broadcast stream. Good ol’ Bazza. If you’ve got a DVD player you’ve probably already experienced this. Try fast-forwarding through the copyright notice that plays when the DVD is inserted. On lots of discs you can’t. This is part of the DVD spec. - the disc tells the player to ignore the FFwd command. Of course, the player can ignore the request - just as some players ignore…

Here’s a video of Steve Jobs telling the Cupertino Council that Apple is building a new campus. He also tells them that Apple is their biggest tax payer and they should be happy that Apple is staying in Cupers. Oh, the star struck awkard grins on the councils faces. Apparently the proximity of Apple is not enough for the council to use QuickTime as their streaming video format - the council is using Windoze Media. Now that’s just not cricket.