We’re From Microsoft And We’re Here To Help You…
"Just because Richard Stallman is paranoid doesn’t mean Microsoft’s not out to get you. For a hint about the possible end-game of Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Initiative, check out the patent application published Thanksgiving Day for Trusted License Removal, in which Microsoft describes how to revoke rights to render based on ‘who the user is, where the user is located, what type of computing device or other playback device the user is using, what rendering application is calling the copy protection system, the date, the time, etc.’ So much for Microsoft’s you-should-have-control assurances."
If it wasn’t for Microsoft I wouldn’t have the job and the house and the life I have today. But it’s this sort of utter betrayal of the Personal Computing revolution, and it’s promise of power to the individual, that’s the reason I want as little to do with them now as possible. If all you glean from this is that Microsoft wants tighter control over piracy you need to think about it a little more carefully. What this is about, stripped of all the careful rhetoric about security, is taking control of your computer, what you can do with it, away from you.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Microsoft is the anti-Christ, or is it Walmart? McDonalds?
November 24th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
If Microsoft is the anti-Christ then the Apocalypse probably won’t run very well on the existing hardware and by the time you get to the first seal entropy will have already consumed the Universe anyway. Before you break each seal you’ll have to read the enclosed ULA and accept license agreement and privacy statement. Breaking each seal will result in a message saying The Universe Must Now Be Rebooted For This Change To Take Effect. When Christ tries to install himself on the throne time will freeze before he’s all the way down on it, forcing a reboot which will cause the universe to repeatedly dissolve into a blue screen of death during initialization because one or more critical system files became corrupted. You’ll only get one horseman instead of four, unless you upgrade to the Enterprise edition which you can’t if any seals have already been opened because the install program crashes if any seals are missing. Instead of hearing the Trumpet the people of the earth will see a great dialogue box in the sky informing them that Media Player must first install a new DRM license to play this content. And everyone will be cast into the lake of fire along with the devil’s minions at the end of time because the algorithm for determining if someone is blessed always returns false when time has a value of null.