Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:07 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:

The ability to convincingly tell the truth is a very handy one between people who are roughly equal. It is a potentially disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth.

In other words, NGSCB/Palladium/etc doesn't give you an advantage in the least when you step onto a playing field tilting heavily in Microsoft's direction. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>