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Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements

Posted by timothy on from the embrace-and-extinguish dept.

frogspit writes "In this article, Cringely suggests that MS's proposed enhancements to USB to address security issues have the added benefit (for them) of hurting Linux."

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  1. Re:I hate this guy by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He's certainly popular with linux and OS/X zealots..

    Hmmm....

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  2. Re: sheeple by Amgine0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    May I mention 2000 selection of GWBush, Iraq war w/o UN Security Council approval? For that matter, Beta. On the third hand, it is equally unlikely that security hacks will not become widely available and implemented, ala DVD encryption. Remember, there are two Norwegian citizens in US federal prison for initially hacking that, but DVD copying/burning software came with my current OS.

  3. Re:Oh, the irony! by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Personally, unless you're a multimillionaire and want to hoard more cash and make everyone else work their asses off for slave wages, or are a religious nut who totally falls for Bush's hypocritical appeal to Christians, I really don't understand why anyone would want to vote for this guy.

    Yes! That's what I keep telling people, but they just don't listen!

    Seriously, many Christians just eat up that shitty rhetoric like smoked Italian sausage sandwiches with mesquite flavoured BBQ sauce. I mean, how could they resist, if it's that tasty to them. Although, you'd think that after four years of eating it up, they'd realize it was actually just sausage flavoured hot dogs(with extra rat hair swept up from the factory floor) with Kraft BBQ sauce(yuck!).

    Yeah, I'm having smoked Italian sausage for dinner tonight, and I'm very hungry right now.

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  4. You know what is more ironic? by Darth+Daver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Democrats are anti-life (pro-abortion) and anti-death penalty. They believe in killing the innocent and saving the guilty. You really couldn't make this stuff up.