JPEG
The people who originally put the JPEG format together were bought by another company who wants money. There needs to be a law that says when you create something you have to charge for it from day one or you loose the ability to go back and gripe.
SCO would have lost their privilege to sue entities for any Unix code that had already been put in other programs. They would only be able to go after stuff created from now on. The Linux people said “Tell us what is in violation and we will take it out.” from day one. SCO took forever because they knew their case sucked. Now their main investor is upset.
Maybe the JPEG format has had its run.

National ID cards
There is a huge debate in England (Britain) over national ID cards. Privacy Rights people have all but thrown in the towel. They are getting the message that it is going to happen because the government wants it very badly. The physical card is not the issue. The biometrics that are linked to the card will be held in a database and kept for ever. The database will only be accessible for law enforcement, or so the officials say. Of course, this is the information age and companies will lobby for access to all or part of the data. I'm sure it will come in small waves. Lets suspend our rights a piece at a time in the name of anti-terrorism. The terrorists hate our way of life, so lets change our way of life until they have nothing to hate.
I have to tell you, I like the idea of a national ID card in the States. It is one stop shopping for identity theft. The card will be difficult to copy. The data in the database will be under lock and key. That will just make it precious. When is the last time any government got anything right on the first try?

Movie in the making
These guys were caught in a building and nearly didn't make it. The story reads like a movie script. Scary stuff.