Lame and pointless (Score 1)

Sure, Microsofts grand plan is to take over TCP/IP and hardware based public key encryption is their weapon of choice. Everyone else involved with the open protocol is going to be helpless to stop them. Cringely is an idiot.

'all code has to be signed by MS' At what point was this ever mentioned? Anywhere?

'..new eula in Media Player' And what does this have to do with Palladium?

"... they run in the 'signed' interpreter." So what?

Nothing can stop someone from running bad code. Schemes like Palladium work on two fronts. First they identify the creater of the code. Second they allow the user to make decesions based on the who created the code.

Palladium differs from the rest because it's supposedly more secure due to it's OS/hardware infrastructure. Whether that actually pans out remains to be seen.

'a document can't be signed'.
Ah, sure it can. Even without palladium. But Palladium would allow the signed document to be traced back to the machine it was created on.