[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 15:19:23 EDT 2009


The DRM stuff that dominates the Vista OS uses loads of cpu cycles to
encrypt and decrypt  stuff to keep people from being thievin' scum
bags and depriving the poor movie and music studios of their well
deserved monies. It has gone so far as to encrypt data en-route to the
HDMI-capable TV set so movies can't be copied using the "analog hole"
.

Many ideas have been suggested for ways to help Microsoft fill their
analog hole....

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Courtney
Thomas<courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Pardon my ignorance... but please elaborate on "they go so far as to burn
> gratuitous cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM".
>
> Thank you,
>
> Courtney
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Bronosky" <Richard at Bronosky.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:03 PM
> Subject: [ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment
>
>
>> First they push an OS that requires the most power hungry systems the
>> consumer market had ever seen. They go so far as to burn gratuitous
>> cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM because they
>> assume all their customers are criminals. Now they are going to make
>> it all better with http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/
>>
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