Of course this is fake. Only the most gullible of humans would believe there are wooden computer cases. It is OBVIOUSLY a made-up picture, otherwise there would be links to more information, or even an email address.
As I understand, AMD has no plans to include this "feature" on their chips. I think this is a horrible idea, part of being on the net is having somewhat anonymous useage. ID tagging chips would completely kill this. I do realize this does have it's upsides, but for every one there is a most likely a downside. For example: Your isp could set it so you could always log in, because you are on the same machine. Downside: Somebody, somewhere will figure out a way to fake the ID, either with hardware or software.
For example: You would never need a cookie sent to YOU again, the server would hold the info if you have been there or not. Downside: Same as the isp deal.
It seems to me that the security risk is larger than the advantages. Plus, what if you ever sell your computer? You are going to have to notify ALOT of people that you aren't using the same computer any more. You would have to email somebody at the site about it in order to reinstate your account with them on your new computer.
So, I think it is a horrible idea, but besides, I'm never going to buy an intel chip again as long as AMD keeps going the way they are.
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Of course this is fake. Only the most gullible of humans would believe there are wooden computer cases. It is OBVIOUSLY a made-up picture, otherwise there would be links to more information, or even an email address.
As I understand, AMD has no plans to include this "feature" on their chips. I think this is a horrible idea, part of being on the net is having somewhat anonymous useage. ID tagging chips would completely kill this. I do realize this does have it's upsides, but for every one there is a most likely a downside.
For example: Your isp could set it so you could always log in, because you are on the same machine.
Downside: Somebody, somewhere will figure out a way to fake the ID, either with hardware or software.
For example: You would never need a cookie sent to YOU again, the server would hold the info if you have been there or not.
Downside: Same as the isp deal.
It seems to me that the security risk is larger than the advantages. Plus, what if you ever sell your computer? You are going to have to notify ALOT of people that you aren't using the same computer any more. You would have to email somebody at the site about it in order to reinstate your account with them on your new computer.
So, I think it is a horrible idea, but besides, I'm never going to buy an intel chip again as long as AMD keeps going the way they are.
It doesn't matter. Period. I've connected to a NT box using RAS with a redhat 5 install. It took about 10-20 minutes to figure out.