On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:34 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Encryption of bus traffic? Turning audio and video inputs on and off automatically depending on what's currently playing? Encryption of RAM pages containing audio or video before swapping them to disk? Deliberate degradation of _all_ audio and video on high quality output devices? This is evil, but it's evil in a stupid way. How could anyone who is even a tiny little bit interested in getting good performance for a reasonable price ever consider buying a system like that? It's as if McDonald's would announce that the new and improved Big Mac comes with shards of broken glass inside. --ll

On Monday 15 January 2007 10:32, Stephen Sinclair wrote: Amen Steve. Damn I wish I'd written that... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:00 +0100, Richard Spindler wrote: you don't really think that pro-audio people will settle for this crap do you? the market for their equipment might be small and overpriced, but it won't go away.

2007/1/15, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>om>: btw. I'm quite sure that what is outlined in the link is highly unlikely to ever happen, but one should keep himself all options open. -Richard -- Are you teaching the What and the How but without the Why and the When?

outside the I'm not a fan of Microsoft either, but I do not believe there is any place for your extremely contentious political opinions with regard to the Middle East on this list. At all. You are of course entirely free to express those opinions, but you might try choosing a forum where they are in some way relevant to discussion, or, indeed, wanted. Cheers, Wayne -- Wayne Myers http://www.waz.easynet.co.uk/ http://www.conniptions.org/

Hey ho, thought police! Let us all think right and be right and have someone else decide on what that 'right' actually means! What I'm getting at is, you have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not Israel actually is an Apartheid state, or how that might or might not be relevant to this list. What's with the people who might want to write a song about Israel and/or Apartheid? Oh right, that's not important, we have more important things to do, we are all about National Security, and stray thinkers are a danger, so we must silence them with whatever means necessary to us. So in come the moderators and you have to watch your step around here before you say anything about Jews or you get busted. Now personally I couldn't give a bit more about what Jews aren't or are doing, but it seems every time you mention them everybody goes nuts. What goes? What's REALLY behind this? Carlo