The problem with entanglement is that while it implies all sorts of spooky stuff, the spooky stuff is well hidden. The first photon they measure will show a given property, the second one will show the same (or opposite) property as required for energy conservation. He won't be able to prove that a signal went back in time.
When I was unemployed a couple of years ago I eventually had to give up on these
sorts of sites. You'd see simply absurdly low bids for large projects, I assume
from international companies or programmers? The end result, its better to paint
houses or any manual labor you can find than to waste your time with this sort
of thing.
Speed your code up by a factor of 10-100, and your data center will service 10-100 times more users. A fairly easy speed up to achieve if you carefully design and code using compiled languages, instead of the usual buzzword oriented design.
The buzzword oriented approach to software design:
Its always got to include Java and XML, but not just Java, its got to include an entire OS written in Java. Oh and SQL, everything has to be stored in SQL databases, absolutely everything. Take your images, serialize the binary data using XML, then cram that mess into an SQL record, thats the ticket! Sites loading slow? No problem just throw a few more racks of equipment at it, bandwidth problems between your ten tons of oracle servers and your room of web servers? No problem giant conduits full of fiber. A dozen high priests to show off the data center to investors...
In my lifetime there has been one and only one war this country (US) has fought in response to a direct attack/immediate threat. That was the attack on Bin Laden and the Taliban after 9/11. Prior to that WWII following the attack on pearl harbor.
The rest have either been "police actions", or wars based on theories like "the domino theory" or "pax americana", or over a perceived need to protect oil producers. These conflicts have made us less secure not more, Saudi Arabia had the income to protect itself against Iraq.
Fighting needs to be a last resort, and not something you do just because someone has a theory about a distant threat, or someway that war can make the world a better place. When do these "theory wars" ever lead anywhere good? We need enough deterrent to protect ourselves, we don't need to go around the world chasing imaginary phantoms while creating real enemies in the process. It was only one generation to forget about vietnam and do it all over again in Iraq. Taking a repressive government, and replacing it with civil war and an even more repressive theocracy is not progress!
What would a modern human who happened to carry a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA look like? Possibly would have a preference or even partial dependancy on meat (Neanderthal was a carnivore), for example might require supplements of substances like L-Carnitine. Would likely have a slightly larger brain. Carnivores often have different social structures. Carnivores don't feel pain when "going for the kill", Neanderthal took down big game with fairly primitive tools. Its likely Neanderthal speech was different, such a person might have communication problems when it came to language, yet might be very clever this is a species that lived in a hostile climate for 100's of thousands of years.
Happens such a thing exists, a condition where they can't find a gene or even a small set of genes for it, statistics appear to require dozens of genes. Its called the autistic spectrum, a good number of exceptional scientists and engineers fall in it or atleast close to it. The number of physiological differences in autism are stunning, its defined by social issues, but really its a condition that effects levels of virtually every substance in the body, perception of music (perfect pitch), and so on.
Of course biologists always say "you can't prove it", and up till now they've been right. The Neanderthal genome may contain a major shock, its not just that humans are hybrids, but that this fact is what set us on the road to civilization. The language ability of one sub species combined with the cleverness of another.
Personally I think we should let the NSA do its job. When NSA data starts being used to find
pot smokers and "perverts" we've got a problem, but as long as its used for national defense
and national defense only I personally think its a good idea to let them do there job unhampered.
Imagine if 9/11 had been prevented by such a program? When I say national defense I mean attacks
like 9/11, invasions, etc. things killing hundreds or thousands of people.
Hot sweaty musky construction workers sitting down for a cold beer after a long hard day of steel erection. The sweaty sock smell when they take off those boots for the first time all day. Or maybe its firemen, the smell of fresh cold beer, man musk, and wet fireplace. mmmmmm so sexy. Enough to have you on your knees offering gratitude for heroism... The smell of ummm well I'll leave that to the imagination.
Oh please there are dozens of other mp3 players out there that work just as well. Its all this cult mentality about apple. Personally I've never been impressed with there UI ability. The first macs supposedly some amazing revolution, where very painful to look at, bright white flickering background on which you attempted to read black text. More like a torture device (and not of the fun variety like vibrating nipple clamps!) than computer. This as opposed to long persistance easy on the eyes green and amber monitors that had been out for years.
Sadly the influence still shows in everything including this web site. Bright text on a black background is alot easier to read than the other way around. Just because paper is that way doesn't make it ideal. Lemmings just following along with a bad idea because apple put it out.
Oh boy, wait until Microsoft gets into the business. Viruses! Only problem is condoms
won't prevent infection, just hearing some nonsense babbled by an infected person
stumbling down the street and soon you have it too. Like an old zombie horror movie.
My safeword is "Red" of course:)
Re:The problem: our native-code languages are bad
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The End of Native Code?
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The tired old "in C++ you have to worry about memory management" myth. I've written substantial C++ servers where the only 'delete' call was in a thread safe reference counted smart pointer class. 90% of the server code didn't need to be fast. I used std::string, and stl containers, no pointers or C style arrays. Only where speed mattered (gigabytes being moved over TCP) did I use C style arrays, memcpy. and the like. The program has had very few bugs, and none of these where memory corruption related.
Program in C++ correctly and its as safe as the castrated languages. But your free to do "dangerous" things when you need to, and it really does matter. Its usually a small percentage of the code where most of the CPU time goes. In an interpreted language your screwed, want to do something the libraries don't provide, your out of luck. Keep your dangerous code limited and encapsulated, and it becomes quite safe. Small sections of dangerous code can be understood sufficiently to verify that they indeed do what they are supposed to.
I already pay the phone company for net access. If its not enough they
should raise there rates rather than trying to squeeze money out of the
sites >>I>I payed for. If anything
the phone company should give all content providers free access since it
makes the network more useful to paying end users.
My personal life is pretty wild, better than most porn movies. If someone does enough searching they may discover
this. However it has nothing to do with my ability to do my job. If anything they'd discover that I take a great
deal of care to keep sex safe, turning down some damn hot guys because they are speed freaks or won't play safe.
Same attitude I have at work, I put in alot of effort to keep my code bug free...
The study talked about one flaw in a trillion atoms. Imagine the following, steel wires glued together with fairly weak glue, with a random gap in each wire every 60000 miles. The bulk cable is still going to be quite strong, the glue along each wire while weaker than steel can easily move the load from wire to wire. I suspect a carbon nanotube composite will be no different. Infrequent defects will be irrelevant because at any given location only one of billions of tubes is effected.
Remember this one when patent prior art comes up...
Wear on the ribbon can be dealt with by slowly changing out the ribbon. Have a roller on the outer space end that slowly takes up ribbon, and a ribbon construction facility on the ground slowly putting out new ribbon.
Being a natural programmer, I've always been amazed by how hard people try to put down engineering skill. "Doesn't matter how good a programmer you are if you don't have great communication and interpersonal skills". Sorry, it does matter, if your good enough at what you do, you can show up to work naked and speak only klingon and you will get paid obscene amounts of money.
Eccentricity and genius have always gone hand in hand, many employeers understand that. So what if you have to hire a klingon translator? If someone is doing the work of ten people, and doing it better (more elegant code, less bugs) than any team of ten could, your coming out way ahead.
On the otherhand if you think your "great interpersonal and communication skills" are going to insure your success in high tech, don't be so fast. If your going to manage a programming team, you'd better know enough programming to do your job. What happens when there is a coding style dispute? Do you know enough to resolve it? Worst experience I ever had at a job was working for a manager who didn't know how to program at all, and a team with some political problems. All the team needed was someone to make informed decisions, it didn't happen. Only product I've ever worked on that didn't ship.
Do your employees really need to all know how to read/write Chinese? Sounds like a
convient excuse. Translation work isn't something programmers need to do. You need
a small handful of people who can do that.
There are dozens of mp3 players out there that work just fine. The only reason to own an iPod is to be 'cool'. If no one in France is buying iPods some other brand will become the choice of the "buy it to be cool" crowd. So its no great loss for France.
I'm alot more worried about suspects being shipped off to secret prisons and
tortured than I am about cookies.
Sometimes I ended up helping friends with
computer problems. The most annoying to deal with are the ones which equate
cookies with virus's due to media hype, "I can't get my stock quotes" "you
need to have cookies turned on for that website" "COOKIES?! Are you kidding
they can see everything I do, even watch me have sex with my wife" "But you
don't even have a web cam" "You need to do some reading young man [when your
almost 40 thats almost flattering], here look at this www.paranoidnutjob.com, see!
Don't go putting me at risk by recommending that I accept cookies! A friend wouldn't
do that to a friend, your no friend of mine! Your an agent for the greys!" "ummm I
I guess your meds have run out, I just remembered I left a candle burning at home,
got to run."
Not that you have to do manual memory management in C++. If you use smart pointers and
STL containers its likely your code will not need to contain a single 'delete' or 'free'.
Of course interfacing with legacy code may require some memory management, but this can
be in a wrapper class.
There has to be so much prior art out there its not even funny. CVS, rsync, etc. all use the
idea of the transmission of diffs. Even if the patent isn't 100% invalidated, the prior art
should drastically limit its scope.
I'm addicted to getting up in the morning, going to bed at night, eating, having painful
nasty sex with my leather daddy, getting paid on time, hiking, sunlight, and then the
internet- porn, more porn, information, important things to go with the online pickups
like how to effectively treat crabs and herpes. For that matter I'm addicted to my crab
free state! I must say not being covered in hungry carnivorous insects is quite addictive.
Although not nearly as addictive as having skin is, or not being on fire is. I'm addicted
to having a brain, I'm addicted to having eyes, I'd be quite annoyed if they fell out one
day!
So I'm going to go into the 12 step program to cure my life addiction. Which addiction
to cure first? You can bet it won't be the nasty leather sex!
The problem with weight and genetics is that its not just a tendency to hold fat, but also
a need to eat large amounts to feel right, or even to have your body function correctly. Unless
I exercise fairly heavily (hike a few thousand feet of vertical elevation gain a week), I simply
cannot eat sufficiently little food to stay at a reasonable weight and still be healthy. Wounds
don't heal, I feel like crap, etc.
I don't think its so much fat genes in my case as "exercise dependant" genes. Which is no surprise
considering that most of our ancestors had to do alot of physical work. We weren't designed to
drive to desk jobs. The few who can comfortably maintain a healthy weight without high exercise
level are simply lucky freaks of nature. Sadly in all the discussion of obesity we see very little
mention of the biggest culprit, the automobile.
Clothing has no impact on programming except as a potential detriment, uncomfortable cloths
create more distractions. Given the high rate of autism/Asperger's in the computer field,
sensitivity to clothing discomforts is going to be more common than other industries.
To be comfortable I need to either be wearing light cotton, or I need to be wearing leather.
The mid way between the two is simply uncomfortable and itchy. If I'm going to feel something
on my neck its certainly not going to be a neck tie. Now a leather slave collar, thats a bit more
fun, money can't make up for discomfort, but thinking about the good hot nasty sex your going to
have when your leather Daddy gets you in his clutchs next and has his filthy nasty way with you,
thats a whole different story.
But going to work ragingly horny, and with a starry far away look in your eyes probably would
be frowned upon "Why are you so distracted" "Telling you would constitute sexual harrassment".
1) Inventor requires new laws of physics to be written for his device.
2) Inventor won't simply take out a patent and start marketting the device. Instead it
remains eternally a trade secret.
3) Inventor shows device to only hand picked scientists under conditions they control. They never
show up at a press conference and let a reporter take a 2,000 mile test drive in there car that is
supposed to get 200MPG.
4) Inventor makes a smoke screen by attacking 'narrow minded scientists' who refuse to simply take his
word for the greatest invention since relativity. How ever unlike Einstein no papers are published
proposing tests of the theory that any person can reproduce. If a paper is published its scientific
looking nonsense, enough to fool a reporter but not someone whose had physics 101.
5) Inventor always seems to have some impressive credentials. "Graduated from MIT", worked at "Los Alamos
labs" (scrubbing toilets?), or was CEO of a floor wax company.
A law which restricts printing presses or the equivalents, crippling them such that they can only be
used by a select few seems like a clear violation of the constitution. By taking away my ability to
make and distribute recordings, writtings, etc. you've taken away my right to free speech. I would like
to see someone fight DRM requirements on first admendment grounds.
Imagine a country where all printing presses where required to have locks on them, locks which could
only be opened after a censor approved (after a fee far beyond ordinary means) the material to
be printed. This is what mandatory DRM is. Its a huge chilling effect on free expression, since a musician
will be unable to record his own music, a writer unable to publish his own works on an equal footing with
those who have the money and influence to publish DRM encoded works.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem with entanglement is that while it implies all sorts of spooky stuff, the spooky
stuff is well hidden. The first photon they measure will show a given property, the second
one will show the same (or opposite) property as required for energy conservation. He won't
be able to prove that a signal went back in time.
When I was unemployed a couple of years ago I eventually had to give up on these sorts of sites. You'd see simply absurdly low bids for large projects, I assume from international companies or programmers? The end result, its better to paint houses or any manual labor you can find than to waste your time with this sort of thing.
Speed your code up by a factor of 10-100, and your data center will
service 10-100 times more users. A fairly easy speed up to achieve
if you carefully design and code using compiled languages, instead
of the usual buzzword oriented design.
The buzzword oriented approach to software design:
Its always got to include Java and XML, but not just
Java, its got to include an entire OS written in Java. Oh and SQL,
everything has to be stored in SQL databases, absolutely everything.
Take your images, serialize the binary data using XML, then cram that
mess into an SQL record, thats the ticket! Sites loading slow? No problem
just throw a few more racks of equipment at it, bandwidth problems between
your ten tons of oracle servers and your room of web servers? No problem
giant conduits full of fiber. A dozen high priests to show off the data
center to investors...
In my lifetime there has been one and only one war this country (US) has fought
in response to a direct attack/immediate threat. That was the attack on Bin
Laden and the Taliban after 9/11. Prior to that WWII following the attack on pearl
harbor.
The rest have either been "police actions", or wars based on theories like "the domino
theory" or "pax americana", or over a perceived need to protect oil producers. These
conflicts have made us less secure not more, Saudi Arabia had the income to protect
itself against Iraq.
Fighting needs to be a last resort, and not something you do just because someone has
a theory about a distant threat, or someway that war can make the world a better place.
When do these "theory wars" ever lead anywhere good? We need enough deterrent to protect
ourselves, we don't need to go around the world chasing imaginary phantoms while creating
real enemies in the process. It was only one generation to forget about vietnam and do it
all over again in Iraq. Taking a repressive government, and replacing it with civil war
and an even more repressive theocracy is not progress!
What would a modern human who happened to carry a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA look like?
Possibly would have a preference or even partial dependancy on meat (Neanderthal was a carnivore),
for example might require supplements of substances like L-Carnitine. Would likely have a slightly larger
brain. Carnivores often have different social structures. Carnivores don't feel pain when "going for the
kill", Neanderthal took down big game with fairly primitive tools. Its likely Neanderthal speech was
different, such a person might have communication problems when it came to language, yet might be very
clever this is a species that lived in a hostile climate for 100's of thousands of years.
Happens such a thing exists, a condition where they can't find a gene or even a small set of genes
for it, statistics appear to require dozens of genes. Its called the autistic spectrum, a good
number of exceptional scientists and engineers fall in it or atleast close to it. The number of
physiological differences in autism are stunning, its defined by social issues, but really its
a condition that effects levels of virtually every substance in the body, perception of music
(perfect pitch), and so on.
Of course biologists always say "you can't prove it", and up till now they've been right. The Neanderthal
genome may contain a major shock, its not just that humans are hybrids, but that this fact is what set us
on the road to civilization. The language ability of one sub species combined with the cleverness of
another.
Personally I think we should let the NSA do its job. When NSA data starts being used to find pot smokers and "perverts" we've got a problem, but as long as its used for national defense and national defense only I personally think its a good idea to let them do there job unhampered. Imagine if 9/11 had been prevented by such a program? When I say national defense I mean attacks like 9/11, invasions, etc. things killing hundreds or thousands of people.
Smell based ad's and porn of course:
Hot sweaty musky construction workers sitting down for a cold
beer after a long hard day of steel erection. The sweaty sock smell
when they take off those boots for the first time all day.
Or maybe its firemen, the smell of fresh cold beer, man musk,
and wet fireplace. mmmmmm so sexy. Enough to have you on your knees
offering gratitude for heroism... The smell of ummm well I'll leave
that to the imagination.
Oh please there are dozens of other mp3 players out there that work just as well.
Its all this cult mentality about apple. Personally I've never been impressed with
there UI ability. The first macs supposedly some amazing revolution, where very
painful to look at, bright white flickering background on which you attempted to
read black text. More like a torture device (and not of the fun variety like vibrating
nipple clamps!) than computer. This as opposed to long persistance easy on the eyes
green and amber monitors that had been out for years.
Sadly the influence still shows in everything including this web site. Bright text on
a black background is alot easier to read than the other way around. Just because paper
is that way doesn't make it ideal. Lemmings just following along with a bad idea because
apple put it out.
Oh boy, wait until Microsoft gets into the business. Viruses! Only problem is condoms won't prevent infection, just hearing some nonsense babbled by an infected person stumbling down the street and soon you have it too. Like an old zombie horror movie. My safeword is "Red" of course :)
The tired old "in C++ you have to worry about memory management" myth. I've written substantial
C++ servers where the only 'delete' call was in a thread safe reference counted smart pointer class.
90% of the server code didn't need to be fast. I used std::string, and stl containers, no pointers
or C style arrays. Only where speed mattered (gigabytes being moved over TCP) did I use C style
arrays, memcpy. and the like. The program has had very few bugs, and none of these where memory
corruption related.
Program in C++ correctly and its as safe as the castrated languages. But your free to do "dangerous"
things when you need to, and it really does matter. Its usually a small percentage of the code where
most of the CPU time goes. In an interpreted language your screwed, want to do something the libraries
don't provide, your out of luck. Keep your dangerous code limited and encapsulated, and it becomes
quite safe. Small sections of dangerous code can be understood sufficiently to verify that they indeed
do what they are supposed to.
I already pay the phone company for net access. If its not enough they should raise there rates rather than trying to squeeze money out of the sites >>I>I payed for. If anything the phone company should give all content providers free access since it makes the network more useful to paying end users.
My personal life is pretty wild, better than most porn movies. If someone does enough searching they may discover this. However it has nothing to do with my ability to do my job. If anything they'd discover that I take a great deal of care to keep sex safe, turning down some damn hot guys because they are speed freaks or won't play safe. Same attitude I have at work, I put in alot of effort to keep my code bug free...
The study talked about one flaw in a trillion atoms. Imagine the following, steel
wires glued together with fairly weak glue, with a random gap in each wire every
60000 miles. The bulk cable is still going to be quite strong, the glue along each
wire while weaker than steel can easily move the load from wire to wire. I suspect
a carbon nanotube composite will be no different. Infrequent defects will be
irrelevant because at any given location only one of billions of tubes is effected.
Remember this one when patent prior art comes up...
Wear on the ribbon can be dealt with by slowly changing out the ribbon. Have a roller
on the outer space end that slowly takes up ribbon, and a ribbon construction facility
on the ground slowly putting out new ribbon.
Being a natural programmer, I've always been amazed by how hard people try to put down
engineering skill. "Doesn't matter how good a programmer you are if you don't have great
communication and interpersonal skills". Sorry, it does matter, if your good enough at
what you do, you can show up to work naked and speak only klingon and you will get paid
obscene amounts of money.
Eccentricity and genius have always gone hand in hand, many employeers understand that.
So what if you have to hire a klingon translator? If someone is doing the work of ten
people, and doing it better (more elegant code, less bugs) than any team of ten could,
your coming out way ahead.
On the otherhand if you think your "great interpersonal and communication skills" are
going to insure your success in high tech, don't be so fast. If your going to manage
a programming team, you'd better know enough programming to do your job. What happens
when there is a coding style dispute? Do you know enough to resolve it? Worst experience
I ever had at a job was working for a manager who didn't know how to program at all,
and a team with some political problems. All the team needed was someone to make
informed decisions, it didn't happen. Only product I've ever worked on that didn't
ship.
Do your employees really need to all know how to read/write Chinese? Sounds like a convient excuse. Translation work isn't something programmers need to do. You need a small handful of people who can do that.
There are dozens of mp3 players out there that work just fine. The only reason
to own an iPod is to be 'cool'. If no one in France is buying iPods some other
brand will become the choice of the "buy it to be cool" crowd. So its no great
loss for France.
I'm alot more worried about suspects being shipped off to secret prisons and tortured than I am about cookies.
Sometimes I ended up helping friends with computer problems. The most annoying to deal with are the ones which equate cookies with virus's due to media hype, "I can't get my stock quotes" "you need to have cookies turned on for that website" "COOKIES?! Are you kidding they can see everything I do, even watch me have sex with my wife" "But you don't even have a web cam" "You need to do some reading young man [when your almost 40 thats almost flattering], here look at this www.paranoidnutjob.com, see! Don't go putting me at risk by recommending that I accept cookies! A friend wouldn't do that to a friend, your no friend of mine! Your an agent for the greys!" "ummm I I guess your meds have run out, I just remembered I left a candle burning at home, got to run."
Not that you have to do manual memory management in C++. If you use smart pointers and STL containers its likely your code will not need to contain a single 'delete' or 'free'. Of course interfacing with legacy code may require some memory management, but this can be in a wrapper class.
There has to be so much prior art out there its not even funny. CVS, rsync, etc. all use the idea of the transmission of diffs. Even if the patent isn't 100% invalidated, the prior art should drastically limit its scope.
I'm addicted to getting up in the morning, going to bed at night, eating, having painful nasty sex with my leather daddy, getting paid on time, hiking, sunlight, and then the internet- porn, more porn, information, important things to go with the online pickups like how to effectively treat crabs and herpes. For that matter I'm addicted to my crab free state! I must say not being covered in hungry carnivorous insects is quite addictive. Although not nearly as addictive as having skin is, or not being on fire is. I'm addicted to having a brain, I'm addicted to having eyes, I'd be quite annoyed if they fell out one day!
So I'm going to go into the 12 step program to cure my life addiction. Which addiction to cure first? You can bet it won't be the nasty leather sex!
The problem with weight and genetics is that its not just a tendency to hold fat, but also a need to eat large amounts to feel right, or even to have your body function correctly. Unless I exercise fairly heavily (hike a few thousand feet of vertical elevation gain a week), I simply cannot eat sufficiently little food to stay at a reasonable weight and still be healthy. Wounds don't heal, I feel like crap, etc.
I don't think its so much fat genes in my case as "exercise dependant" genes. Which is no surprise considering that most of our ancestors had to do alot of physical work. We weren't designed to drive to desk jobs. The few who can comfortably maintain a healthy weight without high exercise level are simply lucky freaks of nature. Sadly in all the discussion of obesity we see very little mention of the biggest culprit, the automobile.
Clothing has no impact on programming except as a potential detriment, uncomfortable cloths create more distractions. Given the high rate of autism/Asperger's in the computer field, sensitivity to clothing discomforts is going to be more common than other industries.
To be comfortable I need to either be wearing light cotton, or I need to be wearing leather. The mid way between the two is simply uncomfortable and itchy. If I'm going to feel something on my neck its certainly not going to be a neck tie. Now a leather slave collar, thats a bit more fun, money can't make up for discomfort, but thinking about the good hot nasty sex your going to have when your leather Daddy gets you in his clutchs next and has his filthy nasty way with you, thats a whole different story.
But going to work ragingly horny, and with a starry far away look in your eyes probably would be frowned upon "Why are you so distracted" "Telling you would constitute sexual harrassment".
I bet HAARP is now on some standardized test for schizophrenia.
HAARP is:
a) A type of musical instrument.
b) An atmospheric research station.
c) The source of the voices in my head.
d) Don't know.
Some signs of quackery:
1) Inventor requires new laws of physics to be written for his device.
2) Inventor won't simply take out a patent and start marketting the device. Instead it remains eternally a trade secret.
3) Inventor shows device to only hand picked scientists under conditions they control. They never show up at a press conference and let a reporter take a 2,000 mile test drive in there car that is supposed to get 200MPG.
4) Inventor makes a smoke screen by attacking 'narrow minded scientists' who refuse to simply take his word for the greatest invention since relativity. How ever unlike Einstein no papers are published proposing tests of the theory that any person can reproduce. If a paper is published its scientific looking nonsense, enough to fool a reporter but not someone whose had physics 101.
5) Inventor always seems to have some impressive credentials. "Graduated from MIT", worked at "Los Alamos labs" (scrubbing toilets?), or was CEO of a floor wax company.
This article scores a 5 on the quack scale.
A law which restricts printing presses or the equivalents, crippling them such that they can only be used by a select few seems like a clear violation of the constitution. By taking away my ability to make and distribute recordings, writtings, etc. you've taken away my right to free speech. I would like to see someone fight DRM requirements on first admendment grounds.
Imagine a country where all printing presses where required to have locks on them, locks which could only be opened after a censor approved (after a fee far beyond ordinary means) the material to be printed. This is what mandatory DRM is. Its a huge chilling effect on free expression, since a musician will be unable to record his own music, a writer unable to publish his own works on an equal footing with those who have the money and influence to publish DRM encoded works.