About a year ago I bought an iPod shuffle in a moment of weakness.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth went on continuously after that, everytime I tried to put music on my iPod from Linux.

Things got a bit easier when I got this Windows job, suddenly I could use iTunes!

But wait, I have two work laptops, and I've stopped using the other one on a regular basis.

So I just installed iTunes on this other work laptop, and iTunes will only let me ERASE the iPod if I want to put more music on the player!

Let me reiterate this to myself... I do not control the hardware I purchase, the manufacturers get to tell me how I can use the things I buy. This is not my hardware, it was just a donation to Apple, and they loaned me a dangerous device that must be kept under strict control.

No wait... Digital Restrictions Management is where customers are treated as criminals.

I will never again buy hardware from Apple, and I'll do my very best to never fund Digital Restrictions again.

Sometimes when I'm reading mathy stuff I realize it sounds a lot like those random technobabble bits I used to hear on Star Trek:

Commutative, local Frobenius algebras are precisely the zero-dimensional local Gorenstein rings containing their residue field and finite dimensional over it.

The puzzle... Can you tell whether the sentence above is actual math, or was just made up by me?