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Posted: May 08 2005,13:21 QUOTE

Worth a look: not-so-trustworthy computing

Perhaps it would be simpler if Bill & THEY could just get all those implants inserted into everyone's brains at birth ...


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Posted: May 10 2005,19:02 QUOTE

*sigh*...

These guys just never learn, do they?

They want to have their cake - and everybody else's - and eat it too.  Makes me wonder who would ever buy such a system.

Reminds me a little of DAT (Digital Audio Tape) back in the early 1980s.  It looked like a potentially useable technology, but the media industry whined so loudly about it that they ended up saddling it with so much encryption and copy protection B.S. that they effectively killed it off.  Fortunately, in another decade or two, CD blanks and recorders eventually became affordable to the masses.

Who speaks for the little guys like us - the consumers - at the end of the line?  All we want is something that *works*.

And people wonder why I'm getting more P.O.ed at characters like Bill Gates every year.

Long live open standards!


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Posted: May 10 2005,22:42 QUOTE

sweet mother of god, that needs killing now. that has the potential to screw every linux boyo over bigstyle!!
thats just digital nazi'ism!
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Posted: May 10 2005,22:56 QUOTE

wow. I'm glad I don't use Windows much anymore. I never wanted to call MS a monopoly before but... wow. If thats not monopolistic then I don't know what is.

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Posted: May 11 2005,00:10 QUOTE

Legitimate spyware/adware. I guess security is for everyone except M$.

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