In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:01:03 +0000
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> DRM in Windows Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
> | These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
> | They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
> | cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
> | upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
> | And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
> | working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
> | features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
> | industry.
> |
> | And you don't get to refuse them.
> `----
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
>
>
> Related:
>
> The Longest Suicide Note in History
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> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
> | been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
> | the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
> | DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
> | another reason to move to Linux.
> `---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
It takes a few minutes for an individual to die. [*]
An individual might be worth $1M or so at most.
Now compare that to a $280B corporation. If one stipulates
that an individual worth $1M dies in 4 minutes from e.g. a
bullet to the brain, a corporation worth $280B dying
at the same rate would take over 2y1m, if one naively
extrapolates.
A better comparision would probably of course be
cross-correlating revenue, assets, and cash flows, and
making conservative assumptions about such things as
loans and layoffs.
[*] One could get into some weird territory here, however,
with persistent vegetative states. Terry Schiavo in
particular was probably dead 1990-02-25 (coronary) --
certainly she never came back to any sort of clearly
definable sentience (e.g. speech, writing) though some
involuntary systems may have been working. She finally
expires on 2005-03-31, more than 15 years later and only
after much legal wrangling.
An earlier example was Karen Ann Quinlan, who probably
died 1975-04-14 (Valium overdose) but whose body stayed
alive, even after respirator removal, until her death
in 1985-06-11.
Another example was Nancy Cruzan: 1983-01-11 (car crash)
left her in a persistent vegetative state, and she eventually
died 1999-12-26.
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