[IWE] 'A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection'

[Ashton Brown]

 From the sublime (Sierra (kitty) got a tick removed) on down to the 
techno absurd - -  a blatant Screw You, Worldwide! getting loaded on to 
shiny new toys, by the millions -- to further scramble the brains of the 
feckless masses and likely torpedo many thousands of small/med 
businesses who Know Not what they Do.

Not just a shellacked-turd, but a Nuclear turd? 
This Vista Trojan Horse gets curiouser n'curiouser. Reading this stuff 
is almost deja vu - the Simpson Trial. 
Ugly, but surreal enough to keep watching:  It isn't just about their 
traditional nefarious mediocrity, this time. 
Jeez guys - did you ponder what mental defectives you'd be dealing with 
forever? when once you thought ~
"hmmm.. IT. Way-Cool - OK, I'm in." 

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

What's the street cred of Peter Gutmann of nz?
His name + bio gets 87K hits and WikiP does not impute nutter status
(even if some here will find tainted: a one who discussed Anything with 
Steve Gibson, as recently as 1/11/7.) er,8^D
Probably I'm just the last to see it.

Once you turn over this Vista rock <d simile/dt>
it's like peeling an onion.. <dē/dt>
gold-plating an already shellacked turd..
drinking the carbolic acid when you thought you bought carbonic.
Fascinating.. how deep into lunacy a monopoly can instantly go; no 
checks/balances ever - "computer Science??" My Ass.

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Is Anyone Out There (with Power, legislative moxie) paying the slightest 
Attention to these Implications -- Yet?
["Protests about Vista DRM" gets 872K hits.  OK, there's one gauge block]
Are some noticing parallels; the same manic Neoconmen blinkers, now 
aimed towards --> recreating another Baghdad: of the Web?

All you need is an ability to count! to ponder the number of processes 
running - even at idle, many every 30mSec! - not ONE of which is there 
to assist the user; present merely to Disconnect or Sabotage.The idea is 
megalo comic-book material.. the implementation?? - utter madness. 
Detune, fuzz-up Everything IF.. some Redmond-Certified OK is not 
received in timely fashion -??- it is (should be) To Laugh.
All the recursion jokes finally become code rather than gag?
Mark Russinovich  - donating his talents to THIS fascist scheme too(?)  
Like say, Klaus Fuchs?

It appears that this atrocity really Does need to be opposed, 'stopped' 
- on as many levels as imaginitive folks can manage.
Mayhap the world would have been spared the invasion of this necrotic 
Corp -- simply, if someone had spiked the 'campus' water supply 
early-on, with some good Owsley acid. Acid + autistics ... gots no data 
on That.

Oh - G's screed was linked amidst Radsoft's "29 Days of Reasons" to 
eschew VistaBeastware..
This One-of-29:
http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/29/24.shtml

Alas, the unwashed cannot grok even a smidgeon of the intertwined 
malfeasance described - their VCRS flash 88:88:88 perpetually.
Guess there is no Irony for the Ignorant.  (If zIWE were ported to 
Beastware, could you even say/type/print 'Beastware', kameraden?)

Oh - and:
Y.P.B. :-/

Enough of the trivial -
I Puritani is on PBS Sunday :-)