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Palladium Changes Name
thelinuxking writes "According to this CNET article, Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial 'trusted' computing platform from 'Palladium' to 'next-generation secure computing base.' Microsoft claims that the name is being changed to reflect the fact that Microsoft is 'embracing this technology in terms of folding it into Windows for the next decade.' Also, an unnamed small firm has claims to the trademark of 'Palladium'. Microsoft denies that they changed the name due to the criticism 'Palladium' has recieved, and released the source code to the core part of the software to show that the software is secure and does what they claim." Notice the PR diversionary tactic: it's being criticized because it does what they claim, not because it doesn't. :)
Why is it that a $300 billion some company isn't able to hire someone who check the with the trademark office to see if any of the crap they are using is already trade marked?
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Palladium Books, maker of fine pen-and-paper role-playing games.
Maybe they changed it because no-one had a clue what palladium actually is...
Joe Sixpack - "Muuur, pall-ad-ium? What's that?"
Joe Fourpack - "I think it's food. I eat it."
Bill Gates - "No! That's an xbox 2, with trust built in so you can't watch VCDs, DivX, or listen to mp3s on it!"
Joe Fourpack - "Tastes like chicken."
-Mark
Good news everybody! We have free videos and MP3s! "Secure" computing base? Why are they sabotaging themselves, now this thing has the word "security" attached to it, and you know how MS's track record with security is!
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
Try saying that fast ten times in a row?
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Watch this,
Now Microsoft will change Windows XP to Windows NGICI (Next Generation Insecure Computing Interface) thats pronouced ni-ji-se
Help I'm a rock.
Because all our next-generation secure computing base are belongs to them.
In other news, Ikea has changed its name to Good Luck Putting This Stuff Together.
(inspired by Harland Williams)
...oOOo..'(_)'..oOOo...
All your next-generation secure computing base are belong to key signer.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them!
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
My Palladium sucks T-shirt is now worthless and I don't think a "next-generation secure computing base sucks" T-shirt will cut it.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
at least it's catchy
Because everybody want's a secure computing platform, right?
I mean, who wouldn't want a computer that has all its data secure, is immune to hackers, and runs only Microsoft products?
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...or maybe she could just borrow a few thunderbolts from Zeus.
Yes : Palladium was a 'good' name. It encouraged people to talk about it. It was a Name against which people could league them together. Now it's another dull acronym nobody is willing to talk about ...
perhaps even to think about...
believe me, this is the most 'clever' idea from microsoft since June. by the way, this technique is getting pretty common in the area. There were already the dmca, tcpa, sssca, cbtdpa....
I urge people here to find it a catchy nickname before it is too late (it will be to late when the hype about palladium will be over, which means soon). "Big Brother" is maybe not original enough... and also not enough specific (there are other related issues in america, like the tia and the tips).
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
I believe this move pretty much defines "obfuscation." It's easy to oppose, single out, and criticize "Palladium." It's a lot harder to oppose, single out, and criticize "secure network of corporate jargon and words that are put in to make the name longer initiative lemur".
:)
(If you're tempted to mod this "redundant", think about giving me some mercy points for using a nickel word like "obfuscation.")
Secure Computing Base
...and sell them Windows and Office.
The Next Generation
Cyberspace- the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the monopoly: Microsoft.
Its continuing mission- to seek out new life and new civilizations...
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Next-generation secure computing base? As opposed to the previous generations of secure computing bases?
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"next-generation secure computing base" or, as it is known in-house, "Bend Over(tm)"
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In a similar vein, Intel's hardware implementation could be called "Big Brother Inside" or "Gestapo Inside" or somesuch.
Yesterday you were saying Palladium and TCPA are basically the same thing, and bashing them both. With these skills, your karma will go far.
Don't call it <long winded mumblefrotz>, call it "The Technology Formerly Known as Palladium".
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
Somewhere, in a dark and smoky Redmond meeting room, an internal Microsoft slogan is born...
All your next-generation secure computing base are belong to us
The DRM previously known as Palladium.
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Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial 'trusted' computing platform from 'Palladium' to 'next-generation secure computing base.'
Someone mis-filed this under "Microsoft".. is the "It's Funny.. Laugh.." category broken?
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Satan, the Prince of Darkness, has changed his name to "Stan, the Democratically Elected Official Overseeing Things That Really Fall Into A Grey Area... Seriously, It's Not Evil."