Frequent assertions by US readers to the contrary: the US is *not* the only nation state with constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech.
The US constitution is a fine document and once was unique. It is, however, far from unique in this respect in C(21). More to the point the legal practice of privacy and free speech is far more develop in other industrial nations. Searching of people's private PC on *suspicion* in a civil case... that'd take some doing even in the UK. Never mind Germany or France or whatever.
The first release is already out. They put out the news through a bizarre "exclusive" arrangement with linux.com. You can get hold of them on http://linux.aureal.com. They've followed the usual binary + "open source" shim pattern. However, they are promising a full source distribution with chip doc.
A3D support is on the way too but, unsurprisingly, there's no mention of any open sourcing. Even so, this is good. One more key resource for games support under Linux....
The only real disappointment (for me) is that multi-processor support isn't the initial release.
Sheesh did anyone actually *read* the STOA report? (Its in English).
1. Its quite clear that the issue is processor serial numbers in general not Intel in specific.
2. It reccomends that an expert group consider and that the European parliament the consider these considerations as a basis for EU legislation on PSN equipped devices.
Since the EU parliament doesn't have the power to initiate legislation of this type the whole thing can be summarised as a "a load of Hot-air". The rest is sensationalising...
Sounds like sensationalist nonsense to me. A journalist putting two and two together and making twenty-seven. This is a *technical* committee. The worst (for Intel) that could happen is that they recommend that EU departments and companies don't rely on the P-III's internal goodies in their crypto tools Yes, it *could* lead to an embargo, but then it *could* be that genetic engineers develop pigs with wings.
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Frequent assertions by US readers to the contrary: the US is *not* the only nation state with constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech.
The US constitution is a fine document and once was unique. It is, however, far from unique in this respect in C(21). More to the point the legal practice of privacy and free speech is far more develop in other industrial nations. Searching of people's private PC on *suspicion* in a civil case... that'd take some doing even in the UK. Never mind Germany or France or whatever.
The first release is already out. They put out the news through a bizarre "exclusive" arrangement with linux.com. You can get hold of them on http://linux.aureal.com. They've followed the usual binary + "open source" shim pattern. However, they are promising a full source distribution with chip doc.
A3D support is on the way too but, unsurprisingly, there's no mention of any open sourcing. Even so, this is good. One more key resource for games support under Linux....
The only real disappointment (for me) is that multi-processor support isn't the initial release.
Sheesh did anyone actually *read* the STOA
report? (Its in English).
1. Its quite clear that the issue is processor serial numbers in general not Intel in specific.
2. It reccomends that an expert group consider and
that the European parliament the consider these
considerations as a basis for EU legislation on PSN equipped devices.
Since the EU parliament doesn't have the power to initiate legislation of this type the whole thing
can be summarised as a "a load of Hot-air".
The rest is sensationalising...
Andrew
Sounds like sensationalist nonsense to me. A journalist putting two and two together and making twenty-seven. This is a *technical* committee. The worst (for Intel) that could happen is that they recommend that EU departments and companies don't rely on the P-III's internal goodies in their crypto tools Yes, it *could* lead to an embargo, but then it *could* be that genetic engineers develop pigs with wings.