Yes it's yesterday's news but it's scary as hell. This past New Years I was sipping some rum with my boy Three. We were discussing something called "Trusted Computing" which is nothing what it sounds like. In a nutshell, it's a BIOS chip that limits what is able to be done with your computer. If you need more information on it hppt://www.wikipedia.com/ has an excellent bit on it, all accurate too for those wiki haters.
I'm writing this now because I'm hoping this will make the nightmares go away. Let me paint you a picture; you buy a nice new computer with all the fixings. A full tower case with an awesome motherboard, nice video card. We're talking about a top notch system. You go to plug in a printer, and nothing happens. No sounds, no lights nothing. This is my nightmare.
You would think they would let you do whatever you want to a machine you spent five grand on. And guess who's behind. Yup good ole Microsoft. And Dell! They have said by 2010 most Dell machines will have these chips in them. I'm so pissed off right now I'm not sure I can even maintain sanity. I think I should just stop while I'm ahead.
Keese Out
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VIA isn't a Trusted Computing partner, so you may be safe there.
Looks like i'll be custom building my computers lol
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