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  1. Why such a focus on fancy crap? by shadowmage13 · · Score: 4, Insightful · on YouTube Launches Video Editor

    New features are wonderful, but i wish they'd just make the site really solid before they released fancy crap...

    http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/06/10-killer-improvements-youtube-needs.html

    See, if they had the option to specify copyright, users could be shown a vast library of other videos and songs they could use to edit.

  2. Security thoughs about EFI. by world_citizen · · Score: 1 · on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years
    This link gives some extra information security thoughts about EFI.
    http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/01/efi-hidden-threat-to-computing-freedom.htm

    Another important thing to realize about EFI is that it also contemplates enabling chipset features that will trap certain OS operations to an EFI-based control system running in System Management Mode. In other words, under EFI, there is no guarantee that the OS owns the platform. Accesses to IDE I/O addresses, or certain memory addresses, can be trapped to EFI code and potentially examined and modified or aborted. Many see this as an effort to build a "DRM BIOS".

  3. AKA - DRM BIOS by MrVictor · · Score: 1 · on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years

    Take note! This means the end of your OS being in control of the hardware you buy. If you enjoy DRM being pile-driven down your throat then you will love EFI. http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/01/efi-hidden-threat-to-computing-freedom.html