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New Chips Keep Tight Rein on Consumers

Posted by timothy on from the happy-independence-day-fellas-keep-it-down-willya dept.

banannaslug writes "NYTimes (subscription, etc.) talks about Microsofts Palladium. The article addresses how applications of controlling technology affect competition as well as the consumer, can be used to extend monopolies to new markets and has very serious implications for what happens to user driven innovation. We'd have the people's operating system, the people's web browser and the people's media player, and 'computers' would be as useful to innovation as a bicycle to a fish. This is the kind of behavior you expect in a mature industry that tries to add 'law' to preserve failing market models dependent on a lack of competition. Next thing you know they'll want to force customers to upgrade periodically." Point it out to your boss.

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  1. fp?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp??

    1. Re:fp?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      nup. Got there 1st yuk yuk

  2. Who did what to who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So what's this FP C-L-1-t thing i hear about?

    www.whatreallyhappened.com _ the truth will set you free

  3. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  4. Re:It's on Fox News as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Most definitely an islamic strike. Minimal initial casualties, although the area's been cleared due to the possibility of radiation sickness. They're sending protected teams in now to determine the radiation levels.
    It'll take more than a nuclear strike to get me watching Fox news =)
  5. Re:That's not funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are some pretty sick fucks on here! This is not funny on so many levels. Are you people so desperate for attention that you need to play games like this?

  6. Re:That's not funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah. He's tricking us into watching G.W. Bush's speach! Oh the humanity

  7. Re:It's on Fox News as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A dirty bomb is not a "nuclear strike" as it is. Shit, a dirty bomb is about as scary as dangerous, radiologically speaking, as an X Ray machine.

  8. Irony... by cperciva · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    When I opened up an article which discussed, among other things, inkjet printer cartridges which were designed to fail if they were refilled, I found a popup ad telling me that I could save 80% off my inkjet cartridges by refilling them.

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  9. It's happening... by CProgrammer98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See the sig. 'nuff said...

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    And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5