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64-Bit Vista Kernel Will Be a "Black Box"
ryanskev writes with news from RSA Europe, where a Microsoft VP spoke bluntly about the lock-down that will apply to 64-bit Vista. From the article: "Microsoft will operate 64-bit versions of Windows Vista as a tabernacle, with the kernel as the holy of holies, where only its own high priests of security may venture." While Microsoft has seemed to be making some concessions to the likes of Symantec and McAfee, considerable doubt remains as to their ultimate future.
Remember, you can pay loads of money for this, and then be treated as though you're not good enough to be allowed to edit or modify this software, it's on your computer, but you can't improve it or tweak. The black box doesn't just apply to security companies, it affects you, the people that pay for this, you lose the freedom to tune and change the software you run on your computer. Why does any geek put up with this? Being able to open something up and tweak it is part of being a geek.
'doing something' FrreBSD core team Outst+rips rivalry. While Irc network. The are allowed to play
Off Topic Completely, but that's an amazing sig
I just can't figure out why some people decide TO capitalize that word. LISP I can understand; FORTRAN too -- those just mean you're hopelessly out of date. But MAC? Did they hear someone pronounce it in all caps or something before seeing in print?
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