They oppress the people = they're evil.

They listen to the will of the people, win an election and give the people what they want = they're evil.

You can't have it both ways Western World!

And how many times BEFORE 911 did terrorist fly planes into the twin towers? So by your logic what was in effect before 911 worked every day for 30 years (1971-2001) where DHS has only worked for 8 years. I say strike down DHS. It has a inferior track record.

They're probably trying to modify people soft to look and feel just like their existing process. Retraining is expensive, so they're just going to have to customize the software.

I know old stuff sometimes get put on the main page but I think slashdot has out done itself. 1993 called and it wants you to give it's ideas back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client

Mod parent up. MS fanbois need to wake up. Good on home PC != mission critical
On the mission critical Sun Sparc/Solaris/Oracle box I admin at work I can add/remove/replace all RAM,CPUs,PS,System Boards,Fans,PCI cards on the fly with 0 down time. It's a pain, and Oracle has an annoying habit of refusing to get off a CPU I want to put offline but it's doable. Try that on a MS machine.

Hrm, followed your link and it's a privilege escalation for local users/processes. So if some OTHER program gets compromised and manages to take advantage of this exploit I'd be in the same boat as the average windows user?

Real computers have more than one power cord.

What makes you think you would understand this better than the GP? Especially as you start by confusing contracts and licenses? (Try to find a Law that specifies what a copyright license is)

1. New content comes with a magical right called Copyright (defined in Law)
2. To copy content encumbered with Copyright you have to have to posses the Copyright (as protected by Law)
3. The Owner of the copyright (defined in Law) can grant that Right to others without limitation
4. The Owner requires that you agree to a contract (Owner defined) before they grant you their Copyright
5. When the contract specifies limitations on your usage of the Copyright (which is unlimited itself) we call it a License (A creation of the Owner granting Copyright [unlimited] pending an agreement to how it will be used)

GP is not wrong. It's all part of trusted path computing.

The bios can enable or disable the encryption to the disk.

The bios can refuse to decrypt the disk if a non-approved OS is loaded.

Windows in "approved" and downloads a movie, but won't let you copy it to anything other than an encrypted drive.

There's no way to use the disk in another machine, there's no way to pull "protected" data off the disk.

Game over.

It's not a big deal if you don't need/want the disk encryption, but it'll certainly be annoying if *other* hardware disables when running a non-trusted os.

Yeah Vista is great!

It came on my new laptop. My old laptop had XP and 1ghx cpu, 512mb ram, and a 20gb ata drive. It was just zippy. Now with my new laptop with 2xAMD64 2ghz, sata disk, 4048mb ram, a much faster system in general... it takes soo long to do anything that I get much more billable hours than I used to.

And who doesn't love a latop that is constantly accessing the harddrive? Sure, you'd think that after 30min just sitting there with no apps running it would have cached what ever it was looking for but NOPE, it still seeking the drive atleast once per second.

I tried linux on the new laptop, but it hardly kept the disk busy at all! And everything was much too fast. Not nearly as many billable hours. But luckily after I switched back to Vista the video driver puked and I spent a whole work day just getting it going again. It's a gold mine.