Trusted Computing Group Formed

An anonymous reader writes "How does it come that the formation of the Trusted Computing Group goes unnoticed at /.? On Wednesday, heise had the story. At last, we will get `easily-accessible specifications for trusted computing standards that will ultimately let people work, conduct transactions, and use computing devices with a new level of confidence' ..."

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[grbyrd]

First Post

Re:Let's talk John Carmack

[Graspee_Leemoor]

Nice troll, but even so I think you should have put opengl and direct3d the right way round.

graspee

Re:Let's talk John Carmack

[Anonymous Coward]

Idiot.

Answers to your question

[denisbergeron]

How does it come that the formation of the Trusted Computing Group goes unnoticed at /.?
I have a lot anwsers to your question :
Slashdot wait that a minimun of two submitions of the same storie to be sure to make a dupe !
Slashdot don't believe in trusted computing!
Slashdot don't believe in news that's not already posted on Slashdot !
Anyway, Slashdot don't post news that's are not already posted on Slashdot !

Re:Let's talk John Carmack

[donscarletti]

Duke nukem 3d ... unreal, John Carmac did not program either of these games, unreal was coded by Tim Sweeny and Duke Nukem 3D wasn't coded by him either.

And of course John Carmac uses OpenGL not Direct 3D.

Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military

You think games are a worthless waste of time? Try shooting bits of antiquated reusable, human piloted pieces of twenty year old junk into space when russians and europeans can do this cheaper and endager less lives. You think games encorage violence? Try an organisation that trains and arms people to kill.

It seems to me your little rant is the greatest example of anger dumping I have ever seen. The reason those boys could kill their classmates is that they were armed by a stupid anachronistic constitutional right and a culture of oppression bad enough to warp peoples minds.

Personally I find it sad that some people think it would be more constructive to make the United States Government into a totalitarion regime than it would be to provide hours of enjoyment to players, almost all of who never will kill classmates or have a single psychotic episode.

On trusted computing and networking standards

[dacarr]

OK, as off topic as this may seem, let's consider the formation of networking standards on the 'net. TCP/IP was adopted at large by the internet because it was an openly developed standard, and therefore as far as I can tell it worked. It still works to this day, IPv6 notwithstanding, and was favored as such over things like DECnet and the ISO 7-layer.

The point? It wasn't developed by corporations.

(Yes, on the other side, you had the Hayes standard for modems, but that was a survival tactic.)

If anything resembling trusted computing is going to be adopted by the computer community at large, it can't be developed by corporations. Either it won't be adopted or people will undermine corporations and take them out of the running in favor of a more open and malleable standard.