The coming war on general computation presentation

[CityK]

I suspect that many of you will enjoy this presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNmUmmQ0kI#!

Its 53 mins long and does contain a couple of F-bombs on rare occasion as well as a few others from the non-PC vocabular

 

[ddrueding]

Excellent. I buy his broader point, but the attempts to put a finer point on it during the Q&A was fishing a bit.

 

[MaxBurn]

I linked this at work on yelp and I have gotten no comments at all. It impresses me just how many people don't care about this, sopa, protect IP et cetera. I read on Twitter this morning that the big providers out there like Google Yahoo etc. might put notices up on their sites one of these days soon like a lot of the smaller sites did recently.

 

[Chewy509]

I haven't watched the clip yet, just read a few summaries and quickly scanned the transcript.

The overall premise is correct... corporations don't want to support general purposes computing, they want to sell you an appliance that does 1 thing only (and poorly so you have to upgrade each year), rather than a generic tool that can accompolish many things. The media companies are on-board with this, as it restricts what can be done with the media you purchased, eg no ripping/transcoding, no moving of data to other devices (despite 99% of the time it's for you're own personal use).

However most people just don't care about some of the laws coming in, and the way that they restrict what a citizen can do. In many respects, all one has to do is think who the law is benefiting? And explain it from that perspective...

Stuff like the DCMA, SOPA, Protect IP are a joke as far as protecting the rights of the citizen of a nation... just glad I live on the other side of the world. ;-)

 

[ddrueding]

Stuff like the DCMA, SOPA, Protect IP are a joke as far as protecting the rights of the citizen of a nation... just glad I live on the other side of the world. ;-)

Shame that won't protect you one bit. Once AMD is gone (and it looks like that will eventually happen), and Intel is the only player, one quick US law (or "understanding") and the one CPU manufacturer will include TPM in every CPU they ship. Now where are you?

 

[CougTek]

All this lawyer crap only makes me want to bust into the headquarters of a big tech company and the law firm they hire and massacre them all while laughing dementially. Good thing I don't own a machine gun.

I won't watch the video. It enrages me too much. This is New Year's eve and I prefer to think about something else.

Lawyers :hurl:cancer of our society.

 

[ddrueding]

Lawers are a tool, like a gun or a law. Extending that analogy makes the actual offenders the politicians.

 

[Chewy509]

Now where are you?

Buying Loongson CPUs from China or some ARM based system or some SPARC based system, running my prefered version of Linux...

And all of a sudden Microsoft marketshare has dropped significantly since they don't support anything other than x86/x64 or some variations of ARM.

 

[CougTek]

Lawers are a tool, like a gun or a law. Extending that analogy makes the actual offenders the politicians.

Most politicians are lawyers.