Wrong, in a global Internet age it shouldn't be that individuals all of a sudden lose more of the individual freedoms, it is governments that should lose their authority. In a global economy and society there is no place for government meddling, intrusion into our lives. The less intrusion that we suffer from governments of any place in the world the better.

WARS ARE STARTED BY GOVERNMENTS. People are mass murdered by governments. Governments are the enemy of the People, not voluntary cooperatives or businesses. It's governments that murder and torture people and do it 'legally' (since they are the ones defining what 'legally' means.) Governments are the enemy of the free thinking individuals.

- that's because you have no idea what you are actually defending OR talking about. In case I am pointing out USA DOJ was on a FISHING EXPEDITION, there weren't even court orders against any specific people, there was a BLANKET DEMAND FOR ALL INFORMATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS HELD BY ANY AMERICANS IN A SWISS BANK.

- proves one thing, you have 0 idea of what you are talking about. 0 (*zero*, nada, zilch, zip, empty space, empty head).

Tax evasion is not a crime in Switzerland and shouldn't be anywhere else either, by the way. Defining tax evasion as a crime is an act of aggression against individual rights of people on this planet by the cooperating collective mob and the mafia known as 'government'.

Again, the foreign companies are not USA citizens and foreign companies are not subject to USA law on their own land. However if you are an American then you are a SECOND CLASS CITIZEN today (or lower) because foreign banks that have any presence in the USA whatsoever DENY your request to open a bank account :)

If you think this is normal and that is how all countries operate, think again. When you are in Switzerland if you are from India or from China or from Russia or from Germany or from UK or from Brazil or from Uganda you are not going to be prevented from opening a bank account. However if you are from good old US of A you will not be able to open a bank account if you do not have another passport, that's what it is like today to be an American. USA government turned USA citizens into persona non grata for foreign businesses.

By the way, USA is the only of 2 or 3 countries in the world that tax 'world income', as in even if you are not a resident in the country, you are forced to file income taxes every year and above certain income you are forced to pay USA related income taxes :) Great success building that 'independence' and 'freedom'. USA was created to escape this type of persecution, now it is one of the worst offenders against human rights in the world and when I say human rights I am talking about the right to be an individual, the right to self determination, the right not to be a slave to a collective.

By the way, there is 0% wrong with having foreign bank accounts all over the world. AFAIC in today's society everybody needs to have more than one passport and many many many bank accounts and business investments around the world not tied to their country of residence. Of-course you don't have to do it, but then you are owned, aren't you?

This has nothing to do with USA citizens, this is about sovereignty of people and countries that are not USA in the first place. Swiss bank doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING to the USA regime about its account holders in Switzerland. Of-course current oppressive USA regime disagrees, apparently you are on the wrong side of the individual rights on this one as well.

By the way, any sufficiently truthful statement is indistinguishable from 'flamebait'. In other words, TRUTH HURTS, doesn't it?

Oh, and by the way it is not only just foreign businesses that operate on USA soil that are forced to comply with nonsensical USA demands, the foreign governments are giving in whenever presented with any demand really. USA is way out of line on all of its oppressive tactics, it will not end well.

- what do you mean it is a 'question'? We already know the answer to this. If a business has any presence on USA soil, the oppressive dictatorial USA government feels that it has full authority to demand all information from that business about its customers and their transactions.

Yeast with THC sounds like a perfect combination, get high while eating something baked and it could be any bread, a dope bagel, a funny muffin, a nostalgic croissant, the branding possibilities are endless!

The conversion from electrical to optical is literally just an LED fed by the electrical signal. On the other end, it's pretty much just a photodiode outputting an electrical signal directly. There are a few extra components, but it is a very simple conversion.

Or Firewire, but fewer and fewer PCs have them, I guess. There's also Thunderbolt if you're into Apple.

Doesn't DisplayPort also do uncompressed surround sound like HDMI?

Even so, with a quality PSU in my system, I still get CPU/GPU-based noise on the onboard analog outputs. It's a known issue with processors in power saving modes. If the power saving is disabled completely or the CPU is loaded 100% on all cores, the noise disappears. Look it up, it's a surprisingly common issue.

I had a Xonar D1 in my PC for a while, the noise was still there, but significantly less so. With S/PDIF to an external DAC, it's completely gone.

The American dream (before it was hijacked by the realtors in the USA) has died a horrific death as the government completely overtook over every function of the market and declared itself to be the legal dictator state completely dominating over the individual human being. The American dream was the idea that equal under the law individuals could pursue their own happiness on their own terms, where apart from regulating criminal conduct, government wouldn't have any authority to stop the individuals from attempting to build their own lives and businesses the way they saw fit. That dream suffered its first heart attack during Teddy Roosevelt, second heart attack during the Hoover and FDR, it was kicked in the balls in the fifties and then had a minor stroke when Nixon took the world off the gold standard. Now the dream is a dying, rotting, gangrenous corpse, that is being systematically shat on by every self proclaimed 'saviour' of the society and its values, by all the Marxists, socialists, fascists and basically brainless, dickless, heartless pigs that are happy simply to take another shit on the Constitution and smear their faeces all around them - a form of societal self degradation that periodically descends one or another population of humans into the dark ages throughout history.

So you believe that what Afghans want is your version of a welfare state, that rather than being left alone they want to be corralled into your personal version of 'free paradise'? Why not just LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE and not try to play either occupants or saviours?

That's why I didn't mention the cable, just the DAC :-)

Strictly speaking, for a proper standards-compliant S/PDIF connection, it must be a 75 ohm coaxial cable. Luckily, pretty much all RCA leads seem to be coaxial (I guess it's probably the cheapest), and the impedance is close enough that it doesn't matter. If it can carry composite video, it can carry S/PDIF. I've yet to come across an RCA lead that's shitty enough that it can't handle composite video, even the $2.50 ones at the local discount store are OK.

This is absolutely 100% the best solution if you have an AV receiver. Let the dedicated audio hardware do the sound processing it was made for.

And a great DAC can be had for less than $30: http://www.amazon.com/D03K-Dig...

I've been using one for a while now, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Noise-free stereo sound for not a lot of money.