Where have you been buddy? 1991? Mac's have had and used TCP/IP since System 7.5.x over 7 years ago. Apple posted the whole damned operating system to their FTP site 4 years ago. If the schools didn't upgrade, it isn't Apple's fault. Your whole post is FUD flamebait. Your assertions about support costs go against every credible study ever done on the subject. Your 'hardware costs more' line is a blatent lie. Your tired arguement about software availabilty is just that.
The reason Apple is losing ground in schools is the same reason your post got modded 4 Interesting. Too many people who don't know any better just nod and accept the total BS that someone like you spews in their general direction. Go ahead Wintel drones, Mod me to -1.
Generally I detest receiving chain letters in my email, but this time I'll be the sender rather than the receiver. Posting here to encourage all of you to do the same.
--Chain letter body--
Did you know that there are approximately 60 Million FELONS on the loose in the USA? Penalties for their crimes include 5 years in prison and $150,000 *per offense*. They outnumber the people who voted to elect our current president.
Who are these people? You, me, your loved ones, and everyone else who's used a Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing application. Why are we felons? Because Orin Hatch and the creators of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) say so. In exchange for bribes, er.. campaign contributions, from the music and movie industries, they have written unconstitutional laws to prop up these industries. Rather than change to compete in the internet age, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Movie Publishers Association of America (MPAA) choose to buy legislation that props up their failing business model.
What can you do? Forward this email to everyone in your address book. Got a few bucks to spare? Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It's tax deductible. No money? No problem. Join their newsletter and stay informed. You get a chance to vote these bastards out of office every once in a while, don't you?
What should you not do? Throw this message away and say "Pfft, that doesn't affect ME. They'll never come after ME." Why? Because they ARE coming after you. Have you been watching CNN lately? The RIAA plans to file upwards of 100 lawsuits against individual file sharers in the next few months. They've already stripped Jesse Jordan, a 19 year old college student in NY, of $12,000. His entire life savings. Why? Because he wrote a search engine, like Google.com, that discovered shared files on his campus network , including but not limited to music files. They're building momentum in court and their next target is you, or someone like you. Keep in mind, the longer they take to get to you, the more case law they will have supporting their position. Stop them now before it's too late.
Step three: The Mac market is small enough that many of the mainstream sites may just not care. You know how much they care about Linux-based browsers right now.
Yeah, well since the Mac market just purchased more music online in a month than any group in history and the foreseeable future, a lot of people have started to care:-) Let's assume all the pundits are right and iTMS is a big flop on the PC, who are developers really going to care about when it comes to serving up content? The people who only download when it's free, or the people who are willing to spend a buck? Apple is in a very desirable position right now. Either their iTMS for Windows is a big success, making them megabucks, or it's a flop and mac users are catered to like kings by everyone because "that's where the money is".
If you do, and you're employed, take a look at who writes your paycheck. It's probably some rich American guy. Which would you prefer, a few extra dollars a week, or no fear of being laid off soon?
My boss getting a tax cut and my job security are anything but interdependent.
The types of jobs that can be farmed out of the country are a small percentage of the overall job market here, and tax cuts can be made to favor those types of businesses. How about a payroll tax cut for manufacuring companies? Sure, it would be considered a tax cut for "the rich", but you'll never convince me that the extra money wouldn't be used to hire more workers in this country.
Then I have some waterfront property in Arizona to sell you. Manufacturing jobs are some of the most likely to be outsourced to other countries. When was the last time you bought a shirt that was made in the USA? Shoes? How about a car? The most 'American made' car you can buy doesn't even come from the big 3 (or is that the big 2 since Diamler Chrysler).
My family owns a manufacturing business, and I know for a fact that if their payroll taxes were cut every penny would be spent on additional local labor.
Well that's great, I'm sure you and yours are top notch folks. And I don't doubt what you say about your specific case. But in the 'big scheme of things' most of the money from a tax cut to the manufacturing industries would probably end up in Mexico and China.
Even if it wasn't all used for that, it's likely that a higher percentage of it would be spent here than if the same amount of money were given to cash strapped consumers who are vertually guaranteed to by inexpensive foriegn goods...
Sold by domestic retail employees of mostly domestic retailers. It's really difficult to outsource retail jobs. Also, if it cost's a store owner $5 to buy chinese retail goods that he turns around and sells for $25, who wins? A good deal of that money will go into the hands of the salesman and the store owner, both of which are probably Americans. Besides, right now consumer confidence isn't exactly at an all time high. My guess is a lot of a low income tax cut would go into paying off high interest credit card debt, second mortgages and keeping borderline people out of bankruptcy.
If you want to stimulate the economy with a tax cut for low income individuals, you have to give them some incentive to keep the money in the country. If you can find a way to do that then I'm all for whatever kind of tax cut you want.
Allow me to clairfy my position. I don't think anyone should be getting a tax cut given that the national debt is about $6,700,000,000,000 right now. I think we should cut spending drastically, keep taxes where they are or raise them, and use the money to pay down the debt. I realize that I'm young enough that I'm never going to see a dime of social security, but at least I'd rather not owe approximately $22,500 + 45 years of interest compounded with additional government spending when I reach retirement age. As a nation we are living well beyond our means.
Otherwise, if you want to give government money
Government money? Where do you think this government money comes from? Taxpayers. They aren't giving squat, they're just taking less. So don't goad me into a three page rant about taxation without representation.
to people who are unemployed you may as well start some "New Deal" style government work programs.
'Trickle down' economics doesn't work. Herbert Hoover started it, and we got Hoover flags in return. Unless my history teacher/books lied to me, the New Deal work programs helped pull this country out of the Great Depression.
Cutting taxes for people with low income won't help the unemployed people because the money will be spent on retail items that will probably come from China
Yeah, cut taxes for the rich and they will spend it on American jobs and improvements. Sure they will. You made my point with your post. The tax cut for the rich wasn't enough so they had to hire chinese labor? We'll give them a bigger cut next time and maybe they can afford Indian labor instead huh?
Wouldn't this heat the beer?
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Maybe my understanding of thermodynamics is a bit off, but wouldn't this thing decrease the cold time of the beer? Unless I missed a picture I see no form of coolant on the thing, just a heatsink and a fan. This works great for a computer because it's the processor that is hot (high in heat energy) and the air that is cool (low in heat energy). Since entropy will cause the heat energy to flow from a high concentration to a low concentration, won't having this attached to a cold beer in hot air have the inverse effect, heating the beer more quickly?
Yeah, it's called Public Key Encryption. No sig? No message. The perfect opt in system. Unfortunately, the good ol' US of A is very much against PKE, so you don't have something like Mail.app making it easy enough for Grandma to use. Just as unfortunate is the fact that too many people are buying this 'Tough on Spam' ruse.
I would love to be able to leagally get the songs I want and I don't want to wait until the end of the year when Apple gets iTunes out for the PC. I would gladly welcome a viable iTunes-like PC solution!
Don't worry, I'm sure Microsoft is hard at work on a third rate clone of the Apple Music Store to bundle with Windows in the very near future. It will be released early, feature incomplete, and founded on Windows Media. Of course it will contain MS style DRM, and, in standard MS fashion, be gradually improved over time until it is 'good enough' to keep people from looking at alternative solutions. Who got this 'competition' rumor started anyway?
In 1790, the first US Copyright Act was created by George Washington and enacted by Congress. It gave creators ownership of their work for up to 28 years. Today, the period is the lifetime of the creator plus 90 years. Given that methods of distribution and mass marketing have only improved, it seems that time period should have been decreased if it were to be changed at all. Could you explain why copyright holders have been granted more than three times that original amount of time to allow for just compensation of their contribution to the public domain?
The RIAA might dodge the question, but if it is even posed, I will have made my point:-)
What with him buying up all those PS2's a while back. Unless of course he really was in Santa Claus mode. Of course we know that wasn't the case, we all saw this years South Park xmas special. =)
Wouldn't it be wiser to not buy said special edition? At least half of the/.ers out there seem to truly detest the DMCA/RIAA/MPAA, so then why pad their pockets? Personally, I won't buy it. They've called me a thief though their actions and policies. I liked the Matrix, but I won't be filling the chest they dig from to buy off our representatives in the house and senate. I hope you all will do the same too.
or is he trying to brace the market for a slowdown in CPU clock speed?
Considering Intel's strategy of marketing clock speed, sacrificing performance/power consumption for clock speed, and doing just about everything else in the name of clock speed, it's little wonder that this strategy has backfired on them.
AG: "Here comes the new 1Ghz IA64!! Oh... uh.., is that clock speed right?"
Engineer: "Yeah chief, just tell 'em it leaks less electricity!"
AG: "But isn't 1Ghz slower than 3Ghz??"
Engineer: "It's not slower, it just isn't significantly faster. Tell the public Mhz isn't the only factor in making a fast chip."
AG: "Are you nuts? Then I'll sound like frickin' Steve Jobs! Screw that, I'm going with the leaky electricity thing... hmmm, better start playing that up early..."
Reporter: "Breaking news, Intel announces end of Moore's Law!"
Whoa, only 14 posts on a 5 hour old/. PGP article. That's unnerving... anyway,
it sounds to me like distributors won't be allowed to bundle binaries of their code. possibly not even source packages, much less unmodified source.
reading the article I see...
What is your perspective on full disclosure of vulnerabilities?
I am a proponent of full openness. I'm a proponent of published source code, so by necessity vulnerabilities will be disclosed -- just look at the differences in the source.
Sounds to me like diff files wouldn't be out of the question... I would hope that were the case at least. I have nothing against them making money on the product. As a matter of fact, I hope they make a boatload and encryption finally gets to be mainstream. But I think no source in the name of profit would be terribly limiting to development, because no source equals no trust in my book. I couldn't fully trust an encryption product that wasn't open to peer review...
This is an old trick. Remember the stink raised recently about users 'uncapping' their cable modems? Same idea. It's a problem here primarily because the install runs as root.
The solution is a bit hairy though. Let's say Apple builds authentication into the "SoftwareUpdate" mechanism. That doesn't stop someone from spoofing a third party software updating mechanism. It also doesn't stop someone from writing malicious software that poses as shareware. I downloaded a shareware app last week that asked for Admin privileges just so the installer could drop the application in/Applications.
And should Apple build authentication into the installer process from the ground up, everyone will be wringing their hands with concerns about how Apple selects who gets signed. It will strongly resemble the code signing thing Microsoft said it would start doing in future versions of Windows. (Though, I'm more apt to trust Apple to 'do the right thing' when it comes to *not* stifling the competition.)
Even then, a malicious code writer could craft an install process that 'looks' like Apple's long enough to get a password and then pipe it to sudo with something like java.lang.Runtime.exec(). Anybody that thinks Apple should/will have a solution to this problem in a few days really ought to rethink the problem a bit. It has as much to do with educating end users about code signing, security, privileges, and encryption as it does with any software fix Apple finally does produce.
The irony here is this isn't a problem until an end user enters a password and clicks "OK". It isn't automatic like some javascript launched Outlook attachment. Whoever posted this 'testing' software could have done the same with Windows, or one of a thousand other auto-updating programs on the net, but chose Apple. Why? In my estimation he is tired about hearing how secure and virus free Macs are.
I've read on numerous occasions that NA has versions of PGP updated to run on OS X and XP, but aren't releasing them. Something to do with 9/11 maybe? It seems stupid to simply throw away a defacto standard.
Let's hope the geeks here make that problem irrelevant. So far the Mac side is doing *OK* with tools like GPG Tools, GPGMail, and Apple's own AES encrypted volumes using Disk Copy. However, syncing with key servers, file wiping and other functionality available in PGPFreeware is sorely missed. Maybe Phil Z should start a company focused on GPG rather than wasting his energy trying to get PGP open sourced...
But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page, and we had to reload the page until we got a different, regular, nonpositioning ad.
This must have been written before they mastered the obtuse concept of image filtering. Oh, wait, everyone wants to see more ads! Feature my eye. Give me IE, with its closed source and security hole of the day feature instead!
My guess is that the FBI will probably hate the idea, but the RIAA will love this thing. This is what they've been pushing for in the SSSCA or CBTBKJWhatever. Encrypted data that can only be accessed through special hardware? Any attempt to tamper with it destroys the data. Anyone worried yet? Oh, but Patrick Leahy headed that off at the pass, right? Wait till after the elections boys.
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Where have you been buddy? 1991? Mac's have had and used TCP/IP since System 7.5.x over 7 years ago. Apple posted the whole damned operating system to their FTP site 4 years ago. If the schools didn't upgrade, it isn't Apple's fault. Your whole post is FUD flamebait. Your assertions about support costs go against every credible study ever done on the subject. Your 'hardware costs more' line is a blatent lie. Your tired arguement about software availabilty is just that.
The reason Apple is losing ground in schools is the same reason your post got modded 4 Interesting. Too many people who don't know any better just nod and accept the total BS that someone like you spews in their general direction. Go ahead Wintel drones, Mod me to -1.
If the media could start to explain these things
Yeah, great idea! You call Clear Channel, I'll call Viacom!
Generally I detest receiving chain letters in my email, but this time I'll be the sender rather than the receiver. Posting here to encourage all of you to do the same.
--Chain letter body--
Did you know that there are approximately 60 Million FELONS on the loose in the USA? Penalties for their crimes include 5 years in prison and $150,000 *per offense*. They outnumber the people who voted to elect our current president.
Who are these people? You, me, your loved ones, and everyone else who's used a Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing application. Why are we felons? Because Orin Hatch and the creators of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) say so. In exchange for bribes, er.. campaign contributions, from the music and movie industries, they have written unconstitutional laws to prop up these industries. Rather than change to compete in the internet age, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Movie Publishers Association of America (MPAA) choose to buy legislation that props up their failing business model.
What can you do? Forward this email to everyone in your address book. Got a few bucks to spare? Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It's tax deductible. No money? No problem. Join their newsletter and stay informed. You get a chance to vote these bastards out of office every once in a while, don't you?
What should you not do? Throw this message away and say "Pfft, that doesn't affect ME. They'll never come after ME." Why? Because they ARE coming after you. Have you been watching CNN lately? The RIAA plans to file upwards of 100 lawsuits against individual file sharers in the next few months. They've already stripped Jesse Jordan, a 19 year old college student in NY, of $12,000. His entire life savings. Why? Because he wrote a search engine, like Google.com, that discovered shared files on his campus network , including but not limited to music files. They're building momentum in court and their next target is you, or someone like you. Keep in mind, the longer they take to get to you, the more case law they will have supporting their position. Stop them now before it's too late.
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/music-to-our-ears.php
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They call this a DeMoCrAcy?
only a smoking crater
Don't you watch the daily show? They're called Freedom Holes.
Step three: The Mac market is small enough that many of the mainstream sites may just not care. You know how much they care about Linux-based browsers right now.
Yeah, well since the Mac market just purchased more music online in a month than any group in history and the foreseeable future, a lot of people have started to care :-) Let's assume all the pundits are right and iTMS is a big flop on the PC, who are developers really going to care about when it comes to serving up content? The people who only download when it's free, or the people who are willing to spend a buck? Apple is in a very desirable position right now. Either their iTMS for Windows is a big success, making them megabucks, or it's a flop and mac users are catered to like kings by everyone because "that's where the money is".
Do you live in the US?
Yes, I sell retail items that come from China.
If you do, and you're employed, take a look at who writes your paycheck. It's probably some rich American guy. Which would you prefer, a few extra dollars a week, or no fear of being laid off soon?
My boss getting a tax cut and my job security are anything but interdependent.
The types of jobs that can be farmed out of the country are a small percentage of the overall job market here, and tax cuts can be made to favor those types of businesses. How about a payroll tax cut for manufacuring companies? Sure, it would be considered a tax cut for "the rich", but you'll never convince me that the extra money wouldn't be used to hire more workers in this country.
Then I have some waterfront property in Arizona to sell you. Manufacturing jobs are some of the most likely to be outsourced to other countries. When was the last time you bought a shirt that was made in the USA? Shoes? How about a car? The most 'American made' car you can buy doesn't even come from the big 3 (or is that the big 2 since Diamler Chrysler).
My family owns a manufacturing business, and I know for a fact that if their payroll taxes were cut every penny would be spent on additional local labor.
Well that's great, I'm sure you and yours are top notch folks. And I don't doubt what you say about your specific case. But in the 'big scheme of things' most of the money from a tax cut to the manufacturing industries would probably end up in Mexico and China.
Even if it wasn't all used for that, it's likely that a higher percentage of it would be spent here than if the same amount of money were given to cash strapped consumers who are vertually guaranteed to by inexpensive foriegn goods...
Sold by domestic retail employees of mostly domestic retailers. It's really difficult to outsource retail jobs. Also, if it cost's a store owner $5 to buy chinese retail goods that he turns around and sells for $25, who wins? A good deal of that money will go into the hands of the salesman and the store owner, both of which are probably Americans. Besides, right now consumer confidence isn't exactly at an all time high. My guess is a lot of a low income tax cut would go into paying off high interest credit card debt, second mortgages and keeping borderline people out of bankruptcy.
If you want to stimulate the economy with a tax cut for low income individuals, you have to give them some incentive to keep the money in the country. If you can find a way to do that then I'm all for whatever kind of tax cut you want.
Allow me to clairfy my position. I don't think anyone should be getting a tax cut given that the national debt is about $6,700,000,000,000 right now. I think we should cut spending drastically, keep taxes where they are or raise them, and use the money to pay down the debt. I realize that I'm young enough that I'm never going to see a dime of social security, but at least I'd rather not owe approximately $22,500 + 45 years of interest compounded with additional government spending when I reach retirement age. As a nation we are living well beyond our means.
Otherwise, if you want to give government money
Government money? Where do you think this government money comes from? Taxpayers. They aren't giving squat, they're just taking less. So don't goad me into a three page rant about taxation without representation.
to people who are unemployed you may as well start some "New Deal" style government work programs.
'Trickle down' economics doesn't work. Herbert Hoover started it, and we got Hoover flags in return. Unless my history teacher/books lied to me, the New Deal work programs helped pull this country out of the Great Depression.
Cutting taxes for people with low income won't help the unemployed people because the money will be spent on retail items that will probably come from China
Yeah, cut taxes for the rich and they will spend it on American jobs and improvements. Sure they will. You made my point with your post. The tax cut for the rich wasn't enough so they had to hire chinese labor? We'll give them a bigger cut next time and maybe they can afford Indian labor instead huh?
Maybe my understanding of thermodynamics is a bit off, but wouldn't this thing decrease the cold time of the beer? Unless I missed a picture I see no form of coolant on the thing, just a heatsink and a fan. This works great for a computer because it's the processor that is hot (high in heat energy) and the air that is cool (low in heat energy). Since entropy will cause the heat energy to flow from a high concentration to a low concentration, won't having this attached to a cold beer in hot air have the inverse effect, heating the beer more quickly?
You need some sort of internet standard
Yeah, it's called Public Key Encryption. No sig? No message. The perfect opt in system. Unfortunately, the good ol' US of A is very much against PKE, so you don't have something like Mail.app making it easy enough for Grandma to use. Just as unfortunate is the fact that too many people are buying this 'Tough on Spam' ruse.
I would love to be able to leagally get the songs I want and I don't want to wait until the end of the year when Apple gets iTunes out for the PC. I would gladly welcome a viable iTunes-like PC solution!
Don't worry, I'm sure Microsoft is hard at work on a third rate clone of the Apple Music Store to bundle with Windows in the very near future. It will be released early, feature incomplete, and founded on Windows Media. Of course it will contain MS style DRM, and, in standard MS fashion, be gradually improved over time until it is 'good enough' to keep people from looking at alternative solutions. Who got this 'competition' rumor started anyway?
In 1790, the first US Copyright Act was created by George Washington and enacted by Congress. It gave creators ownership of their work for up to 28 years. Today, the period is the lifetime of the creator plus 90 years. Given that methods of distribution and mass marketing have only improved, it seems that time period should have been decreased if it were to be changed at all. Could you explain why copyright holders have been granted more than three times that original amount of time to allow for just compensation of their contribution to the public domain?
The RIAA might dodge the question, but if it is even posed, I will have made my point :-)
one of these?
Bill Gates: "Hmmm... 50,000,000,000/5,000 = 10,000,000 cruise missles... Imagine a beowolf cluster of these you hippies!"
What with him buying up all those PS2's a while back. Unless of course he really was in Santa Claus mode. Of course we know that wasn't the case, we all saw this years South Park xmas special. =)
Wouldn't it be wiser to not buy said special edition? At least half of the /.ers out there seem to truly detest the DMCA/RIAA/MPAA, so then why pad their pockets? Personally, I won't buy it. They've called me a thief though their actions and policies. I liked the Matrix, but I won't be filling the chest they dig from to buy off our representatives in the house and senate. I hope you all will do the same too.
Considering Intel's strategy of marketing clock speed, sacrificing performance/power consumption for clock speed, and doing just about everything else in the name of clock speed, it's little wonder that this strategy has backfired on them.
AG: "Here comes the new 1Ghz IA64!! Oh... uh.., is that clock speed right?"
Engineer: "Yeah chief, just tell 'em it leaks less electricity!"
AG: "But isn't 1Ghz slower than 3Ghz??"
Engineer: "It's not slower, it just isn't significantly faster. Tell the public Mhz isn't the only factor in making a fast chip."
AG: "Are you nuts? Then I'll sound like frickin' Steve Jobs! Screw that, I'm going with the leaky electricity thing... hmmm, better start playing that up early..."
Reporter: "Breaking news, Intel announces end of Moore's Law!"
Combine the technology behind these and these and well, who needs to scan your eyes...? Thought police anyone?
Got WiMP?
it sounds to me like distributors won't be allowed to bundle binaries of their code. possibly not even source packages, much less unmodified source.
reading the article I see...
What is your perspective on full disclosure of vulnerabilities?
I am a proponent of full openness. I'm a proponent of published source code, so by necessity vulnerabilities will be disclosed -- just look at the differences in the source.
Sounds to me like diff files wouldn't be out of the question... I would hope that were the case at least. I have nothing against them making money on the product. As a matter of fact, I hope they make a boatload and encryption finally gets to be mainstream. But I think no source in the name of profit would be terribly limiting to development, because no source equals no trust in my book. I couldn't fully trust an encryption product that wasn't open to peer review...
This is an old trick. Remember the stink raised recently about users 'uncapping' their cable modems? Same idea. It's a problem here primarily because the install runs as root.
The solution is a bit hairy though. Let's say Apple builds authentication into the "SoftwareUpdate" mechanism. That doesn't stop someone from spoofing a third party software updating mechanism. It also doesn't stop someone from writing malicious software that poses as shareware. I downloaded a shareware app last week that asked for Admin privileges just so the installer could drop the application in /Applications.
And should Apple build authentication into the installer process from the ground up, everyone will be wringing their hands with concerns about how Apple selects who gets signed. It will strongly resemble the code signing thing Microsoft said it would start doing in future versions of Windows. (Though, I'm more apt to trust Apple to 'do the right thing' when it comes to *not* stifling the competition.)
Even then, a malicious code writer could craft an install process that 'looks' like Apple's long enough to get a password and then pipe it to sudo with something like java.lang.Runtime.exec(). Anybody that thinks Apple should/will have a solution to this problem in a few days really ought to rethink the problem a bit. It has as much to do with educating end users about code signing, security, privileges, and encryption as it does with any software fix Apple finally does produce.
The irony here is this isn't a problem until an end user enters a password and clicks "OK". It isn't automatic like some javascript launched Outlook attachment. Whoever posted this 'testing' software could have done the same with Windows, or one of a thousand other auto-updating programs on the net, but chose Apple. Why? In my estimation he is tired about hearing how secure and virus free Macs are.
I've read on numerous occasions that NA has versions of PGP updated to run on OS X and XP, but aren't releasing them. Something to do with 9/11 maybe? It seems stupid to simply throw away a defacto standard.
Let's hope the geeks here make that problem irrelevant. So far the Mac side is doing *OK* with tools like GPG Tools, GPGMail, and Apple's own AES encrypted volumes using Disk Copy. However, syncing with key servers, file wiping and other functionality available in PGPFreeware is sorely missed. Maybe Phil Z should start a company focused on GPG rather than wasting his energy trying to get PGP open sourced...
This must have been written before they mastered the obtuse concept of image filtering. Oh, wait, everyone wants to see more ads! Feature my eye. Give me IE, with its closed source and security hole of the day feature instead!
My guess is that the FBI will probably hate the idea, but the RIAA will love this thing. This is what they've been pushing for in the SSSCA or CBTBKJWhatever. Encrypted data that can only be accessed through special hardware? Any attempt to tamper with it destroys the data. Anyone worried yet? Oh, but Patrick Leahy headed that off at the pass, right? Wait till after the elections boys.
RIAA: What, a new way to distribute music? Kill it quick, before we figure out that it could make us a boatload of money!!
US Military: That's our bandwidth! We need all the spectrum we can get to bomb an Afghan hut!
Steve Case: Did the military say bandwidth?? We should buy that up and meter it.
Exactly! And when IA-64 arrives, you'll have a dual purpose computer/deep fryer!! George Forman Grill, eat your heart out!