They intentionally hide infringing patents behind NDA, walking from vendor to vendor and shaking up money from. In normal, non-corrupt system this should qualify as racketeering and should be prosecuted as such. Unfortunately, in dysfunctional US legal there is nothing big corporation could be successfully prosecuted and properly fined. If you look at such fiascos as HSBC drug cartels money laundering operation (those fucks created dedicated organization for this purpose and essentially walked out scott free!), Microsoft's patent racket looks like small potatoes in comparison.

So they chose someone who was in this company for 30 years, almost half of it as engineer. I would call it smart move - especially if you compare them to, say AMD or HP - both suffering from somewhat randomly chosen CEOs interested in their bonuses and golden parachutes. Long term thinking is clearly in Intel's DNA - even if they occasionally slow down and get outinnovated by competitors (eg. AMD64). They'll be always there whatever happens - not by their sheer size but by quality of their management.

There are more and more stories like this one. It seems that US overgrown prison system has run out of suspects to jail, so they're now after anyone. Lots of Americans deny it but reality seems to be more cruel than beurocracy/stupidity/paranoia of those in power. This is for-profit cruelty instigated on US citizens by US corporations (as opposed to opressing 3-rd world citizen for profits in the past). You're being harvested by corporate prison complex installed by Bush senior in Reagan years. Sadly, this process seems to be advancing: people are being jailed for more and more trivial things and corporations operating this scheme are now profiteering on prisoners' work - which effectively converts US prisons into US prison camps and makes even more incentives to lobby/bribe officials to jail even more souls. In its way, US corporate economy found a way to compete with China prison camps or Burma prison camps - I'm sorry for if it looks cynic but it is what it is.

Should Europe try to regulate the hell out of them, US would try every trick to prevent this. "Bringing democracy" included (propably).

FBI claims that "due to public safety" miranda rights have been suspended in this case. This just adds insult to this shutting down half of Boston. I was suspecting that government crooks will use this incident in some cynical way, yet I didn't that it will end up in such a fiasco. After installing SWAT team in every little police department around police and FBI has fucked up every possible aspect of chasing those two idiots and now they are covering their asses by revoking the suspect right to attorney. They propably know that after total fuckup they did suspect would propably go away free due to some technicality shown in court. This also establishes VERY bad precedent that will be used by police forces to lock down innocent people around the country. I can easily imagine that protesting against bankster corruption in the future will land you in jail without right to attorney "due to public safety". It's total fuckup on all possible accounts.

If those two terrorists wanted to inflict damage on USofA, they've propably achieved way more than they've imagined.

I beg to differ. At a point where most of people will want to take down government violently, you'll have fully armed drones ("Obama Drones") flying over US bombing anyone your lovely coporations want to be eliminated. Your lovely corporate media will spew lies justifying killing or will orchestrate media blackout, so no one will know about this. Pretty much like in Pakistan today. If you think that your psychopatic corporate overlords see any difference between killing US citizens and some brown people in Pakistan (except for bad PR), you'll find it out the hard way.

It's never too late to try fighting this disease. Unfortunately, anyone trying to protest against corporate greed and corruption from now on, will propably face some jail time - just like in old communist countries, when the powers that be lose legitimacy and abilities to manipulate the public, they resort to more and more brutal tactics.

I'd say, Bush neocon cronies wouldn't be more happy on 9/11. They planned both wars a long time ago and on 9/11 they've finally got pretext for waging wars. I'm far from suggesting that they've orchestrated 9/11 (as some conspiracy theorists still believe today), yet I suspect they've known it was about to happen earlier and did nothing (on purpose). This is just suspicion. What I'm 100% sure, neocons didn't feel sorry for what happened at all and instead they started their cynical campaign leading to Afghanistan and Iraq wars (with casaulties approaching 3 millions as of today). They should be prosecuted and hanged the same way Nazis were after II WW.

The basis of my rant is that this technology is a DRM, causes problems for all non-MS participants, Microsoft controls this technology (by controlling key distribution) and Microsoft has already abused its control. All conveniently omitted by you. Regarding UEFI itself: yes, Intel designed original version of it but it was Microsoft who forced additional requirements that made Secure Boot such a pain. So I still think that anyone supporting this broken standard either misguided or is a liar. Should I add "useful idiots" to my list of "Microsoft stooges" and "paid trolls" ?

This shows what a frickin fiasco is this UEFI Secure Boot crap. It was designed by Microsoft as a DRM-like lock-in tool for their Windows OS and it shows DRM-related problems again and again. TPM chips are around for years and are capable of solving all problems Microsoft promises to "fix" with this UEFI-secure-DRM-windows-only-Boot crap. In my opinion it qualifies as abuse of monopolistic power and should be prosecuted as such. I'd expect a lot of PC vendor arm twisting evidence to show up if such prosecution would ever take place. And BTW, please don't reply to me with "any OS vendor can request a key from Microsoft" or "any vendor can request hardware vendors to install its key" crapola. These are just lies spewed around by Microsoft stooges and paid trolls. They already abused dominant position in key distribution (just before last Christmas season) and they'll do it again and again anytime it fits them. The only sensible solution would be to force Microsoft and hardware vendors to abandon this flawed standard using antitrust measures or other means.

In most cases it is corporate fascism masquerading itself as socialism. It starts up with Obama administration which is clearly a fascist government, yet media lie us about it calling them "liberal" or "socialist". The same in EU - all their commissars are corporate sock puppets, yet everyone calls them socialist. The same with greek government giving in to Goldman Sachs.

Corporation don't care if it is "left" or "right". Their only concern is money. JP Morgan and Walmart earn gobs of money on foodstamps program after all...

I'd rather expect attempts to delegalize Bitcoin under some murky pretext that it is somehow used for some (more or less unspecified) illegal activities. Our corporate overlords are using US dollar and forcing everyone else to use it. It's their grip on us and they won't surrender it so easily. Quite a few countries have been invaded and destroyed to make sure US dollar is King after all ...

It is almost an anthithesis to the word "justice". Consequences (punishment) depend only on two things: 1) who you are 2) whose fingers did you stomp on. Actual damages does not matter much (if at all).

If you're a big bank, corporation or some awfully rich individual with political connections, you propably get away with anything (be it drug money laundering, like HSBC, scamming an awful lot of people like in fraudclosure fiasco or stealing private e-mails and passwords en masse, like Google). If you're an ordinary folk and you anger some police mob, you're toast, whenever you did something illegal or not.

If you harm ordinary people, it will propably be ignored (try calling police when some burglar robs your house). If you stand in the way of some big fat corporation interests, your "justice" department will smash you immediately. Just ask Dotcom. Or even better - compare Google's fine for collecting Wifi data ($7m) with Google's fine for stomping on big pharma interests and displaying canadian pharmacies commercials in the US ($500m).

Now try to explain me that this is NOT a rigged system.

I think it was intentional lie, not just an omission or lack of fact checking on behalf of NYT. After all this is corporate media producing corporate propaganda on behalf of your corporate government. A while ago they boasted that they "fact checked" all their wikileaks-related publications with Obama administration itself. "Mr President, can we publish this or that ?" I urge to NOT believe anything NYT writes without confronting it with other sources (preferably non-corporate and non-US).

Price for TLD registration has been set high enough to eliminate many (if not most) small businesses. This move pushes Internet into corporate hands even more.