Bob: Your tag line speaks volumes! As you say fortunately for the folks who have the present crop of Surv-PC's Micro$oft's P-idea won't be an issue. However, three of four years from now the then Surv-PC's will be facing the fact their BIOS & peripherals will work with MS-P-deas & .NET operating systems and applications. So they will be pulled into the control from afar scenario which is what this is all about.
Because with every motherboard having an ID chip then you can be taxed without representation. Which is why those that continue keep their head firmly rooted ONLY in the past, will see their computers become unusable on the then controlled and for pay-only communications network. John Oram Bob George wrote: > > "PAUL PAVLIK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course, this is a spoof......but is it really?? or just a > logical > > projection of the next ms OS??? > > It's actually not as scary as what I'm reading that they really have in > mind with Palladium. Microsoft and marketeers having access to my data > is bad enough. Giving the government actual CONTROL of my desktop takes > it to a new level. Mike Miller posted a nice summary of Palladium on the > LifeRaft list recently - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html - > and I'm sure there are others. > > However, I think that by design, Palladium will NOT work on anything > surv-ish. Suffice to say, these are the reasons I like open source > alternatives that not only work on older systems, but also allow the > OWNER to maintain control. > > - Bob > (Who'd rather worry about wearing the SysAdmin hat than having the > Government do it for him) > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
