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1. Comment - Blu-ray Group Details Security Features

   (Aug 11, 2005 - 8:51 AM)

   Another negative aspect of BD+ is that you'll be tied to the content provider via the internet and if someone should hack your model of DVD player potentially all DVD players in that model line will be unable to play BD+ disks. You will have to take your player to the shop for repairs.
   "Blu-ray makes unexpected, three-way DRM choice for high-def DVD"(Tom's Hardware) and "Microsoft Vista creates DRM insanity"(theInquirer) have many of the details.

2. Comment - Anti-MS Group Aims to Block Vista

   (Aug 10, 2005 - 8:33 PM)

   Just how widely distributed does Linux have to be to become as riddled with viri as Windows? I would imagine Linux would be suseptible from day one and yet Linux is relatively free of the maladys suffered by Windows users. I suspect that the reason Linux is free from 98% of viri is because Linux is designed differently. Also, talking about taking advantage of Open Source code vulnerabilities and actually taking advantage of these alleged Open Source code vulnerabilities are two diffent things, now isn't it?

3. Comment - Anti-MS Group Aims to Block Vista

   (Aug 10, 2005 - 10:00 AM)

   All linux type OS's are "FREE". You only pay for support and only if you want support. Linux is "OPEN", you can "LOOK" at the code and you can re-write the code to fit your particular needs. You can "give back" to the community for your free copy of the OS by giving the community the code you wrote. Lets see MS water carriers match that.

4. Comment - Anti-MS Group Aims to Block Vista

   (Aug 10, 2005 - 9:14 AM)

   Oh great! We always knew that MS produced a defective product. Now the defects will be locked in a "closed box". Now that's what I call a marketer's dream.

5. Comment - Freenet: Anonymous P2P by Year's End

   (Aug 5, 2005 - 7:41 PM)

   Hex, you're so right. Writing good software that alows total anonymity is a challange. The transfer of anonymous ideas, though, is also a threat to the established order (i.e., government and the powerful).
   
   However, history teaches us that the more repressive a government becomes (on behalf of itself and/or the powerful) the greater the likelyhood that behavior will be driven underground and out of view. The world has its share of totolitarian governments aflicted by this phenomenom. In the past when geography and time could be artfully used to prevented the spread of ideas, govenments could and did with varing degrees of success control the proliferation of ideas which often undermined their authority or control and hence that of the powerful who use governments to exercise their control.
   
   Geography and time are no longer on their side. I can instantly communicate an idea with someone 12 thousand miles away. The idea only need be protected from the eyes of outsiders (al qeada is driving that point home daily).
   
   Some have the view that they have a "god given right" to be paid for their labor and the products of that labor. (Feudal serfs of the fifth and sixth centuries somehow missed out on this notion).
   
   Nothing could be further from the truth. Laws created that punish theft are not for the benefit of all victims of theft but for the benefit of governments who skim profits from the many to be used to float enterprises those who support those governments politically and benefit economically (eg, Haliburton). Your deal is protected to the degee you buy into the deal set up by the powerful and the governments they set up (you might have noticed that governments are not set up by the poor and downtrodden and government programs ostensibly set up for the poor are not set up by the poor but rather by the rich and powerful to get the bleeding heart liberals off their backs).
   
   Bottom line though, if your deal fails to fit into the larger scheme of things, you're out on your butt. The rich, powerful and ignorant call it law-n-order.