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They have a second name too, and that name is Microsoft. Yeah, so intel and that other company are in the thing too.. And i really respect (and purchase religiously) from that other company too.. but I don't see the same potential for evil in them. Lets take a look at the scenario that stretches beyond the one presented elsewhere; the innability to install Linux because you do not have the appropriate rights.

So you have this new hardware with built in encryption, running Microsoft's newest palladium enabled OS, that came pre-packaged with all of its nifty .net services. So you have every packet being filtered by Microsoft; and not only that; but even if you wanted to, you couldn't open up some files due to your hardware saying you can't, not it can't. Even if you wanted to, really, really badly. You can't go and install Linux on your machine, its true, and a good bit of that cash you spend on your new processor upgrade will go towards putting microsofts investments in Palladium out of the red. But its ok, becase you're in good hands with Microsoft; unless of course due to their recent anti-trust hearings, they were forced to sign agreements with federal agencies to allow backdoor access to peoples personal data; which if you remember is all being sent through central encrypted servers now.

First Microsoft denies the fact that other operating systems exist.. next it'l snuff them out of 'da bidness' too.. What's next? You can't buy a computer without an OS on it; because only 1 OS runs on it.

I can see Palladium growing in popularity because Microsoft can basically buy the entire media, compromising journalistic integrity; and the only people that will pounce on them for being moral delinquints and megalomaniacle ingrates are the same hardcore tech freaks that nobody listens to now. Its the sad truth that computer moron's give the industry more money than the computer savvy. That's probably because we know that they are ripping us off; and thus spend less. I've built 3 systems in the last year; 1 quality system and 2 bargain systems; for a grand total of about 1200 dollars.. the going price for the 1 quality system I built almost a year ago now. And the word bargain has changed in meaning; the new system I'm building now was 320 dollars, but its an athalon XP 1700 with a respectable ammount of ram and a decent chunk of hard drive space. Yeah its MoBo, Vid and Sound are all "crap".. but who needs vid and sound who's not playing games? Gettin the rantage back on, now, people who buy their computers at wallmart or those smart young individuals who decide to go with gateway or dell because of their service plans.. they'll all go Palladium, because Microsoft, AMD, and Intel will convince the media, and Joe American dumbass, that all of this security is both necessary and a good thing.. and Dell and Gateway and the big re-sellers will have to start selling Palladium in order to compete. Encrypted and non encrypted price gaps will close over time, and eventually Palladium machines will own the market of computing. No longer turning a profit, not hardware encryption enabled ... hardware, will no longer be sold for its comparitively small niche market of snarling, rabid geeks. As soon as they had Intel and AMD; they had an easy way to own everyone and control everyone much more.

Error: Palladium believes executable mozilla2.09.1.exe contains mallicious code, and will not execute. Deleting binaries now |####################| 100%

It'l happen to you, too.