I don't know why this is such a mystery to everyone. Exercise is unpleasant. If exercise is pleasant to you, then whatever you're doing is not exercise.

Care to elaborate on these "technical" standpoints? I mean vague hand-waving is awfully convincing, but I'd like to learn more. Really.

Cost. Even if you have the money to scale out your hardware, you can't because the licensing pushes the price through the roof.

I don't see how multiple signers does anything to prevent any of the 100 or more commercial CAs from issuing a certificate for any random host on the internet --which is the problem at hand here.

Bingo. I did all my math in college on a little Toshiba 10" laptop with just vim, Tex and graphviz.

Atheism is the positive assertion of the non-belief in god(s).

Because before you were purchasing a product that became your property. Now you're simply being granted a license to use their property in a limited fashion.

Hurray. Now you don't own your hardware anymore; you just license a right to use it at a certain specification.

Re-rent? My objection is to the idea of renting --let alone returning-- ephemeral bits at all.

Nice appeal to ignorance there.

You mean a VM where each process looks like it has the processor/memory to itself (AKA x86 protected mode)? We already have VM sandboxes. They're called a PROCESS. Taking this concept to an absurd level of regression (full os virtualization) and then coming up with some convoluted way to let all the parts communicate again (necessary if you want it to do anything useful) adds absolutely nothing to the security aspect other than a high degree of obfuscation.

You guys and your delusional layer cake security schemes. Things do not run on the machine like that. You can add all the boxes and layers to your diagrams all you want; but, in reality it's all flat where the only difference between all your security contexts are some integer values in memory.

You have heard of Amazon EC2 right?

My personal favorite is "Sales Engineer".

Religion doesn't answer anything let alone "why". "God did it" is a useless non-answer.

Having to deal with DRM at all is THE pain in the ass of which I speak. You've simply illustrated that there are multiple flavors of PITA. No matter which way you slice it, as soon as you want to do anything outside of the Kindle sandbox, you have a PITA on your hand.