__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 19:40 \__
> Ignoramus12987 wrote:
>
>> Vista crippled by content protection
>>
>> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=7675
>
> Wow! Can you spell PARANOID?
Mr. Gutmann writing that text file:
http://www.mailartist.com/kiyotei/tinfoil.jpg
Now, seriously, there /is/ reason to be worried though. As I said somewhere
else:
Just imagine that mother who goes to by a PC and the salesman who tries to
sell her the most high-priced PC, running Vista, of course (XP is still
available, maybe due to backlash and serious backward compatibility issues).
Then, the mother is forced to use her credit card to upgrade edition (Home
and Basic are literally crippleware and engineered to bring in more cash).
Then, music is all DRM'd, at least behind the scenes, leading to a long-term
always-approaching nightmare. The mother starts surfing the Web, unaware
that Microsoft tracks every move she makes in order to build a profile and
optimise search results, for profit. When she reads her E-mail, Microsoft
scans the messages and begins to deliver ads everywhere, as though the
company has just read her mind (and her friends' mind). There are many more
nasties, but this is just a minddump... the PC and vendor use and control
the user. It's essentially just an apparatus for fulfilling one's interests
and milking cash.
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