The owner of the computer has every right to rip the chip open and read his key out with a microscope. Yeah, it takes a decent college lab to do so, but you have every right to do it.
No, he won't. Since the TPM on the motherboard is a copyright enforcement device, the user is forbidden to take it apart or reverse engineer it by the DMCA. They really thought of everything didn't they?
There will always be a Free operating system and Free applications that don't require the TPM.
There will, but you won't be able to open any files/webpages, or even check your e-mail, because all those applications will probably demand for an activated TPM.
I think.
Try selling those things and you will understand why Microsoft works together with Phoenix on a BIOS that doesn't allow you to plug in "unauthorized devices". All for your own safety of course...
Don't worry, if this thing (= TCPA) comes, they will have each and every loophole covered. The only difficulty they might come accross is splitting it down the throats of their customers.
ps. Wouldn't it be great if you order something over the Internet, legitimately, using your own credit card, receive the product or service but never pay a single penny? Well you can, it's easy, every online retailer knows how it's done and credit card companies have no interest in preventing it. Ask any retailer who is to blame for credit card fraud and the answer will be the same: Credit card companies. I'm not an expert on the subject but I feel confident in saying that with a change of policy from credit card issuers, upwards of 90% of online card fraud could be stopped over-night. I also feel confident in saying that this change of policy will not happen.
In Europa, this is going to change with the introduction of the credit card with a chip in it and a PIN-number needed for authentication. For more information about it, visitthesesites.
As usual, the good old USA is falling behind again;)
The government (any) cannot and should not police the internet since the internet is NOT owned by the government.
Wrong. If the Internet is used by a criminal to steal from people by means of credit card fraud, the government can and should prosecute that criminal. Criminals have to be punished, no matter what channel of communication or infrastructure is used in the crime. How would you react to credit card fraud if it happened to you? "Damned, I got robbed. But hey, it happened over the Internet and the Internet is free, so I can't and won't do anything about it." ? I think not.
The government should try to find a subtle balance, punishing real cyber crimes that harm honest internet-user, while still respecting civil rights like privacy and free speech.
We cant keep our troops from getting killed, we cant stop people from ramming planes into buildings and we cant stop CHILDREN from doing drugs, shooting each other, and "sharing" copyrighted materials. yet somehow arresting far less than 1% of the "cyber" criminals out there is somehow a great thing.
Wrong again. You simply can't solve society's problems by focusing on them one by one, starting with the great ones. You could begin by establishing world peace and putting all your resources in that, but then the people being robbed on the street would feel abandoned by the government, not doing anything about petty crime. (Wait, isn't that happening already?) The only way to deal with problems is when they arise, and, as impractical as it may sound, all at once. And cyber crime is a real problem.
why dont we take the money they spent on this nice government action and put it to some good use, like education.
Excellent plan. Allow me to make small adaptation:
Why don't we take the money they spend on the military and put it to some good use, like education?
The Pentagon is the only institution in the US that gets more than 1 billion dollars a year. On top of that, it is also the only institution that doesn't have to open the books for auditing. They spend the money, no questions asked...
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria also helped track down suspects and recover millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
Slightly offtopic here, but will those funds be repayed to the fools who were stupid enough to fall for the scam?
Or will they just spend it on military equipment, as seems to happen with all excess money ?
Now most people who buy a car are more concerned with other features - passenger comfort, style, efficiency.
What ever happened to safety?
Computer manufacturers are only just starting to see this, making smaller, quieter, cooler-running machines. Hopefully they'll continue to look at what their customers actually need rather than simply putting out chips with higher clock speeds.
You are talking about computer manufacturers as if they are all in the same business. It's the chipset manufacturers that continue to put out faster and (hopefully) more efficient chipsets and CPU's (which is exactly what they are supposed to do). On the other hand there are the ready-made PC assemblers like Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu,... These are the ones deciding whether their products will become smaller, quieter, cooler-running or not. There's plenty of small, well-designed cases and silent coolers (or water-cooling systems) available out there for them, which are of course a bit more expensive then ordinary stuff. Untill recently however, most assemblers would simply choose to save as much money as possible on cables, coolers, cases and those other parts that keep a PC together, to spend it on the newest fastest Intel-CPU. In this way, they were (are) able to offer their customers a big ugly noisy power-draining PC that goes way too fast for their use anyway (MSN chatting mostly) for an affordable price.
I would guess this is a shift from car-oriented people buying cars to everyone buying cars as they became more of a necessity.
I'm not really old enough to remember car history (or computer history for that matter), but if that's true, you are 100% correct.
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At the risk of being offtopic:
The RIAA isn't a company. It's a lobby group consisting of Record Companies.
If the RIAA can't make money by competition they'll just go back through the past 100 years of copyrights they have and start releasing them.
Only 100 years? How naive are you? They are probably already lobbying to get medieval organ music and all of Beethoven's symphonies in their ever growing "Copyright Portfolio"...;)
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ADDENDUM:
In an interview with Darl McBride later this day, the well-respected CEO of SCO also stated the following:
The arguments of IBM in this conflict are clearly pathetic. I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what the IBM lawyers allege are illusions... They lie every day. The IBM lawyers, they always depend on a method what I call... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. In fact, I can actually say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that the infringers of our intellectual property have started to commit suicide under the walls of Lindon, Utah. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. We have up to this date also received a total of 500 billion dollars in Linux licensing fees, and the revenue generated from our Linux Sales Departement is still increasing exponentially as we speak. Although our arguments are rock-solid, we can efficiently use this revenue in our ongoing battle with the big bully IBM. If IBM's lawyers are still planning to continue their lie and want to take us to court, I have only one thing to say: They are most welcome. We will butcher them." When asked for his opinion about the non-paying individual users of Linux, he replied: "My feelings - as usual - we will sue them all..."
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I don't think so. Here's why.
If SCO gets smashed in court and can't prove that their rights were actually violated, they have nothing to say about any GNU/Linux code. All GNU/Linux code would be proven to be the "property" of whoever wrote it. In fact, they have been selling a product they don't own at all. I think that's considered to be a very bad case of copyright infringement, much worse than downloading a crappy Eminem cd of Kazaa...
Alright, I know that SCO asks its 699? paying foolish customers to agree with a EULA that states SCO to be the owner of of GNU/Linux code...So what? That doesn't prove anything at all...
If I steal an box containing 20 cell phones and start selling them around, I can't come up in court with the argument: "Gee, all my 20 customers were convinced that I was the owner of the cell phones, so I guess that makes me the rightful owner."
All this data represents is the number of computer literate people who are actively sharing a song.
You don't really have to be a computer literate person to actively share your files. There are people who actively share the contents of their entire hard disk on KaZaA.:)
What if they leaked news that they were watching the downloads to see what people were downloading, just so people would stop.. out of spite?
1) They are already airing anti-piracy advertisements on TV and sueing students for sharing music. Whoever is not aware at this point that by downloading copyrighted music you have a small chance of being punished severely is obviously deaf and blind.
2) How do you know that is not exactly what happened? I mean the RIAA purposely 'leaking' the news... There aren't many other possibilities for this news getting out in the open, are there?
Although it seems pretty unlikely that spending my time digging around in the OED is going o get me wafed (assuming it takes the regular past tense (the ladies love it when you talk about linguistics (almost as much as (riduclously) nested quotes))) anytime soon
So how hard is it to renounce my unwanted US citizenship and get a shiny new citizenship in say, any member nation of the EU, where the gov't seems less tolatarian and dare I say sane?
A sane government is an oxymoron, but at least Belgium was not a fascist country last time I checked. And it's very easy to acquire the Belgian nationality nowadays.
Now, I guess an idiot could make the argument that there is only one "Windows" OS. But that would be as retarded as saying Ford has a monopoly on Ford automobiles, or McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac. So I'm sure you won't do that.
Well, in fact YOU SAID EXACTLY THAT. So by you own assertion, you are an idiot. Allow me to say I completely agree with you on that point.
By your first definition MS is not a monopoly.
By his second, more practical, definition, it is. Windows ships with every new pc, so every pc buyer is forced to pay for it. In this computer-illiterate society, default equals monopoly. I know, they're idiots. But look who I'm talking to.
Just in case you didn't understand any of that, I just wanted to point out you're an idiot.
I have yet to find a video player that works as well as WMP.
I use BSPlayer
It includes every exotic feature I ever heard of, like subtitling, multiple audio streams, custom aspect ratio AND there's no stupid DRM included.
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For God's sake, try to make some common sense...
extensible firmware that provides the critical foundation of trust, manageability, and connectivity required for networked computing
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Trust ?
Real trust or trust like in
"smoking cigarettes doesn't cause cancer. Trust us."
The owner of the computer has every right to rip the chip open and read his key out with a microscope. Yeah, it takes a decent college lab to do so, but you have every right to do it.
No, he won't. Since the TPM on the motherboard is a copyright enforcement device, the user is forbidden to take it apart or reverse engineer it by the DMCA. They really thought of everything didn't they?
And WHY do I see a Windows XP background in the Exposity bar?
There will always be a Free operating system and Free applications that don't require the TPM.
There will, but you won't be able to open any files/webpages, or even check your e-mail, because all those applications will probably demand for an activated TPM.
I think.
Try selling those things and you will understand why Microsoft works together with Phoenix on a BIOS that doesn't allow you to plug in "unauthorized devices". All for your own safety of course...
Don't worry, if this thing (= TCPA) comes, they will have each and every loophole covered. The only difficulty they might come accross is splitting it down the throats of their customers.
ps. Wouldn't it be great if you order something over the Internet, legitimately, using your own credit card, receive the product or service but never pay a single penny? Well you can, it's easy, every online retailer knows how it's done and credit card companies have no interest in preventing it. Ask any retailer who is to blame for credit card fraud and the answer will be the same: Credit card companies. I'm not an expert on the subject but I feel confident in saying that with a change of policy from credit card issuers, upwards of 90% of online card fraud could be stopped over-night. I also feel confident in saying that this change of policy will not happen.
;)
In Europa, this is going to change with the introduction of the credit card with a chip in it and a PIN-number needed for authentication. For more information about it, visit these sites.
As usual, the good old USA is falling behind again
The government (any) cannot and should not police the internet since the internet is NOT owned by the government.
Wrong.
If the Internet is used by a criminal to steal from people by means of credit card fraud, the government can and should prosecute that criminal. Criminals have to be punished, no matter what channel of communication or infrastructure is used in the crime. How would you react to credit card fraud if it happened to you? "Damned, I got robbed. But hey, it happened over the Internet and the Internet is free, so I can't and won't do anything about it." ? I think not.
The government should try to find a subtle balance, punishing real cyber crimes that harm honest internet-user, while still respecting civil rights like privacy and free speech.
We cant keep our troops from getting killed, we cant stop people from ramming planes into buildings and we cant stop CHILDREN from doing drugs, shooting each other, and "sharing" copyrighted materials. yet somehow arresting far less than 1% of the "cyber" criminals out there is somehow a great thing.
Wrong again.
You simply can't solve society's problems by focusing on them one by one, starting with the great ones. You could begin by establishing world peace and putting all your resources in that, but then the people being robbed on the street would feel abandoned by the government, not doing anything about petty crime. (Wait, isn't that happening already?) The only way to deal with problems is when they arise, and, as impractical as it may sound, all at once. And cyber crime is a real problem.
why dont we take the money they spent on this nice government action and put it to some good use, like education.
Excellent plan. Allow me to make small adaptation:
Why don't we take the money they spend on the military and put it to some good use, like education?
The Pentagon is the only institution in the US that gets more than 1 billion dollars a year. On top of that, it is also the only institution that doesn't have to open the books for auditing. They spend the money, no questions asked...
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria also helped track down suspects and recover millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
Slightly offtopic here, but will those funds be repayed to the fools who were stupid enough to fall for the scam?
Or will they just spend it on military equipment, as seems to happen with all excess money ?
Just curious.
But time is money, Mr. Redundant.
moving on...
Now most people who buy a car are more concerned with other features - passenger comfort, style, efficiency.
What ever happened to safety?
Computer manufacturers are only just starting to see this, making smaller, quieter, cooler-running machines. Hopefully they'll continue to look at what their customers actually need rather than simply putting out chips with higher clock speeds.
You are talking about computer manufacturers as if they are all in the same business. It's the chipset manufacturers that continue to put out faster and (hopefully) more efficient chipsets and CPU's (which is exactly what they are supposed to do).
On the other hand there are the ready-made PC assemblers like Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu,... These are the ones deciding whether their products will become smaller, quieter, cooler-running or not. There's plenty of small, well-designed cases and silent coolers (or water-cooling systems) available out there for them, which are of course a bit more expensive then ordinary stuff. Untill recently however, most assemblers would simply choose to save as much money as possible on cables, coolers, cases and those other parts that keep a PC together, to spend it on the newest fastest Intel-CPU. In this way, they were (are) able to offer their customers a big ugly noisy power-draining PC that goes way too fast for their use anyway (MSN chatting mostly) for an affordable price.
I would guess this is a shift from car-oriented people buying cars to everyone buying cars as they became more of a necessity.
I'm not really old enough to remember car history (or computer history for that matter), but if that's true, you are 100% correct.
At the risk of being offtopic:
;)
The RIAA isn't a company. It's a lobby group consisting of Record Companies.
If the RIAA can't make money by competition they'll just go back through the past 100 years of copyrights they have and start releasing them.
Only 100 years? How naive are you? They are probably already lobbying to get medieval organ music and all of Beethoven's symphonies in their ever growing "Copyright Portfolio"...
ADDENDUM:
... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. In fact, I can actually say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that the infringers of our intellectual property have started to commit suicide under the walls of Lindon, Utah. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. We have up to this date also received a total of 500 billion dollars in Linux licensing fees, and the revenue generated from our Linux Sales Departement is still increasing exponentially as we speak. Although our arguments are rock-solid, we can efficiently use this revenue in our ongoing battle with the big bully IBM. If IBM's lawyers are still planning to continue their lie and want to take us to court, I have only one thing to say: They are most welcome. We will butcher them."
In an interview with Darl McBride later this day, the well-respected CEO of SCO also stated the following:
The arguments of IBM in this conflict are clearly pathetic. I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what the IBM lawyers allege are illusions... They lie every day. The IBM lawyers, they always depend on a method what I call
When asked for his opinion about the non-paying individual users of Linux, he replied: "My feelings - as usual - we will sue them all..."
Sorry, should've used the preview button...
I don't think so. Here's why.
If SCO gets smashed in court and can't prove that their rights were actually violated, they have nothing to say about any GNU/Linux code. All GNU/Linux code would be proven to be the "property" of whoever wrote it. In fact, they have been selling a product they don't own at all. I think that's considered to be a very bad case of copyright infringement, much worse than downloading a crappy Eminem cd of Kazaa...
Alright, I know that SCO asks its 699? paying foolish customers to agree with a EULA that states SCO to be the owner of of GNU/Linux code...So what? That doesn't prove anything at all... If I steal an box containing 20 cell phones and start selling them around, I can't come up in court with the argument: "Gee, all my 20 customers were convinced that I was the owner of the cell phones, so I guess that makes me the rightful owner."
people who share their entire hard disk on Kazaa, this could result in the production of the Biggest Hit Song of All Times...
The name would be somewhat like explorer.exe...
All this data represents is the number of computer literate people who are actively sharing a song.
:)
You don't really have to be a computer literate person to actively share your files. There are people who actively share the contents of their entire hard disk on KaZaA.
What if they leaked news that they were watching the downloads to see what people were downloading, just so people would stop.. out of spite?
1) They are already airing anti-piracy advertisements on TV and sueing students for sharing music. Whoever is not aware at this point that by downloading copyrighted music you have a small chance of being punished severely is obviously deaf and blind.
2) How do you know that is not exactly what happened? I mean the RIAA purposely 'leaking' the news... There aren't many other possibilities for this news getting out in the open, are there?
Although it seems pretty unlikely that spending my time digging around in the OED is going o get me wafed (assuming it takes the regular past tense (the ladies love it when you talk about linguistics (almost as much as (riduclously) nested quotes))) anytime soon
:)
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So how hard is it to renounce my unwanted US citizenship and get a shiny new citizenship in say, any member nation of the EU, where the gov't seems less tolatarian and dare I say sane?
A sane government is an oxymoron, but at least Belgium was not a fascist country last time I checked. And it's very easy to acquire the Belgian nationality nowadays.
Now, I guess an idiot could make the argument that there is only one "Windows" OS. But that would be as retarded as saying Ford has a monopoly on Ford automobiles, or McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac. So I'm sure you won't do that.
Well, in fact YOU SAID EXACTLY THAT. So by you own assertion, you are an idiot. Allow me to say I completely agree with you on that point.
By your first definition MS is not a monopoly.
By his second, more practical, definition, it is.
Windows ships with every new pc, so every pc buyer is forced to pay for it. In this computer-illiterate society, default equals monopoly. I know, they're idiots. But look who I'm talking to.
Just in case you didn't understand any of that, I just wanted to point out you're an idiot.
If you are smart enough to choose all those applications from the non-MS software list, you're smart enough to install GNU/Linux.
Go!
I have yet to find a video player that works as well as WMP.
I use BSPlayer
It includes every exotic feature I ever heard of, like subtitling, multiple audio streams, custom aspect ratio AND there's no stupid DRM included.
Oh, and it's free. Naturally.
The government should control all of this stuff!
No, it shouldn't. But the government protecting the market from monopolization is only reasonable.
My $-key is broken you in$en$itive clod!