Think of it: Why not to kick a thief in the balls if it is sure to get you ou safely? Same thing for a thief, why not to stab a guy in the back if it will make sure you get his stuff with no trouble? Where is the ethics of this?
There is no such a thing as ethics in war. It was, it is, and it will forever be, just a mask to convince civilians that war is not as bad as it sounds.
It would simply not work because anyone could change the code of the playback portion to drive the data to the hard disk instead of the screen. The only way this would be possible is through TIVOing, i.e. the hardware would not run if changes were detected in the binary code of the software... This goes all against OpenSource fundamentals, and is already prohibited blocked by GPL3.
I.E.: There must be an unencripted stream somewhere, and open source software would always allow us to hook it up.
This might be solved only by hardware, e.g. a monitor device capable of decripting and playing a stream. This implies, though, that the monitor has a hardware decoder, so only one codec might be supported. If the solution on the monitor were a software, it would fall back to the same case as decription on the PC.
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Think of it: Why not to kick a thief in the balls if it is sure to get you ou safely? Same thing for a thief, why not to stab a guy in the back if it will make sure you get his stuff with no trouble? Where is the ethics of this? There is no such a thing as ethics in war. It was, it is, and it will forever be, just a mask to convince civilians that war is not as bad as it sounds.
I guess the point is not that Vista HAS less flaws, but that they FOUND less flaws. ;)
It would simply not work because anyone could change the code of the playback portion to drive the data to the hard disk instead of the screen. The only way this would be possible is through TIVOing, i.e. the hardware would not run if changes were detected in the binary code of the software... This goes all against OpenSource fundamentals, and is already prohibited blocked by GPL3. I.E.: There must be an unencripted stream somewhere, and open source software would always allow us to hook it up. This might be solved only by hardware, e.g. a monitor device capable of decripting and playing a stream. This implies, though, that the monitor has a hardware decoder, so only one codec might be supported. If the solution on the monitor were a software, it would fall back to the same case as decription on the PC.