Saddle up: world's smallest airline seat unveiled

Would you fly shoe horned in too a seat so small that your cat would struggle to fit, well some of the worlds airlines consider their customers to be no more than mere cattle as they prepare to increase plane seating to the detriment of passenger comfort and safety. Greed pure and simple as this article from the Melbourne Age details.

By Craig Platt

If you find economy class seats too cramped for comfort, we have bad news: they may be about to get even smaller.

Italian airline seat and interiors manufacturer Aviointeriors has designed a saddle-like seat with just 23 inches of seat pitch (the space between seats) – significantly smaller than the average 32 inches in economy class. Even the highest-density airline seating normally offers 28 inches of seat pitch

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/saddle-up-worlds-smallest-airline-seat-unveiled-20100914-15ad6.html?rand=1284447337070

UK teen banned from US after sending threatening Obama email

The USA may talk about free speech and as long as you don’t call the president a prick and you are located in the US it probably still does, However if your any where else in the world watch out as this article demonstrates and oh don’t send offensive emails it can cost you your right to travel.

Not allowed into US for life

By Marc Chacksfield

Dear Mr Obama *hic*

A 17-year-old teenager from Bedfordshire has found himself with a lifetime ban from the US, after it was found that he sent a threatening email to President Barack Obama.

Luke Angel from Silsoe, sent the email while drunk and called the president abusive names after watching a documentary on the 9/11 attacks.

After the email was sent, the FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK about the incident.

Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/uk-teen-banned-from-us-after-sending-threatening-obama-email-716306#ixzz0zXf73HF6

Claimed HDCP master key leak could be fatal to DRM scheme

By Peter Bright

High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), the copy protection system used to prevent the making of perfect digital copies of audio and video data sent over DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI interfaces, may have been blown out of the water if a post made to pastebin.com yesterday is what it claims to be. The post purports to contain the HDCP "master key," a 40×40 matrix of 56-bit numbers, which is used by the HDCP licensing company, Digital Content Protection (DCP), to generate the private keys used in all HDCP devices.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/claimed-hdcp-master-key-leak-could-be-fatal-to-drm-scheme.ars