Palladium. The evil intrusive device that invades everyones personal privacy does not sit well. Palladium is in the prescott CPU. I URGE everyone to boycott this product and send a clear message that the public will not tolerate intrusive devices that invade your privacy.

Life is irrelivent and irrational.

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Uh, I did a google for Palladium (only previously knowing of it from my <A HREF="http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Pd/key.html" target="_new"> chemistry </A> lessons). Number one hit was this <A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html" target="_new">article</A> from Ross Anderson at University of Cambridge,UK.

I think you have to laugh a bit. How much money did Microsoft invest in trying to make XP secure? And then blocking certain registration codes from SP1! $$$ down the drain. I think we can guarantee that this will be cracked even before it's implemented.

GEES!

That article almost makes me want to ditch the internet altogether!

This is wrong!!! Down with TCPA / Palladium!!!!

One mans throw-away is another mans god-box. Help friends in need, I always do!!
Then again, having extra parts are great for making dedicated servers for LAN parties!!!!

What if I don't want to be on the internet??? Is their stupid software/hardware gona make me?? They say they are going to impliment it slowly, the consumers will not stand for this. I have the legal right to make backup copies of my software for personal use. If want to listen to my CCR cd that I PAID FOR, on my mp3 player than I have the freakin right to do it.

One mans throw-away is another mans god-box. Help friends in need, I always do!!
Then again, having extra parts are great for making dedicated servers for LAN parties!!!!

If AMD keeps off of this bandwagon, they could get a lot of new users.

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Yeah, a LOT more users. Whole companies in some cases. I mean wtf, what if this shite leaks important info by mistake that costs a business several hundred million!

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

Ive already seen some of this. A friend of mine just got XP Pro sp1, installed it and had a bit of trouble installing some of his older hardware and drivers. After he got everything working, a message appeared telling him that his pc changed too much and that meant that his license needed registering again. So he called MS, and registered, but also bit*hed them out for this crap.

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And what happens when they start selling stuff that won't run unless it can find the Palladium crap in your system?

Man, this sucks!

right on!

If i remember correctly it also allows for authorities, such as cops, to scan your computer for illegal porn for example, with out any warrrant - which is unconsitutional as any cop, fbi, cia, must obtain a warrant from teh courts to search any of your belongings. And, it is entirely illegal for any vendor to be sneaking around your computer. Thats what i read on what they want to do. But memory tends to be rather flacky. Does anyone know for sure about this?

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"Leaks" shure

"Yes ocifer, it was an accident"

I bet MS has a bunch of interest in what other software companies are doing.

This would sucessfully make Bill Gates the most powerful man in the world, if it was implimented globaly. At that point, you will find me living in a shack in the mountains, with close access to my stockpile of food, supplies and weapons.

Science fiction becomes true once again.. kind of like teh anime "Darkseid Blues"


.. or possibly Terminator... but thats a stretch.

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boycot it. Don't buy it. Use a pencil and paper if you must! Just don't buy into this. You don't need the latest software. Downgrade. It'll do the samething. You don't need to upgrade every 6 months. If you got a 3ghz processor, why in gods name do you need a 3.2ghz or a 4ghz processor? Once intel sales are reduced to ~0, management will think twice in supporting palladium and will die. But, only if the public boycotts the products that have palladium support.


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If they do that, Flame turns his brain on again (that means I sit and think for a few mins) and I h4x0r the shite out of the software so it runs fine.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

My dad for instance is the head of a hedgefund. Now what happens if this palladium crap leaks his trading proggies/info/ messes up their incoming or outgoing trades! That could cost him many millions in a second (and intel/ ms would have hell to pay).

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

The software and hardware is doing the snooping and reports stuff to a master server. If that is not illegal it should be.

One mans throw-away is another mans god-box. Help friends in need, I always do!!
Then again, having extra parts are great for making dedicated servers for LAN parties!!!!

u know it can be disabled just like the p3 serial number.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
question 12

Viva La DOS!

ah the days of dot matrix

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