Palantir are the Westernesse looking stones once crafted by the skills of the Elves of Valinor. And thus not created for evil use. Sauron obtained one of them, presumably the one from Annunminas. They are in fact neutral, can be used for viewing everywhere as long as you are able to control the magic within. Now for this government system, it's created for a neutral thing in the fist place. Just correlating different sources of info. But sure, it can be used for evil things too ... but more in a minority report way of doing, I think. So time will tell if US government is integer enough to use their system wisely ... or fail and bring down havoc on the meek.

Remember the movie Cherry 2000 ?

You should visit the Netherlands. Can't imagine a country more free and safe at the same time.

Heheh, I see PRIOR ART.

Surely in 1986 ... but not in 1985 when the A1000 was introduced.

Yeah they were the best you could get for just anything. Not only games but DTP, music and of course video. Allthough i still own a beefed up A2000 (Cvb64-3d/BlzrdA2040/Ariadne) it is in my storage room, boxed en waiting for ..... I don't know. Is there still m68k linux around ?

Unbelieveable COOL !. I'm thrilled by the idea people still want to build their own design and put real effort in making it WORK. Congrats and my respect Steve Chamberlin. There is live beyond (W)intel and (L)AMD.

To be frankfully bold, it is their own game design fault! Why you may ask if it was intended to be pirated in the first place. A case of how to legimate draconian drm. What they should have done is this: - release without any form of copy protection. - make registration of your copy with a key code mandatory, issue a login name with password - to play the game login with your name and password So this is the way RIAA tries to prove their right. Too bad greedy cheapasses took the bait.