hell’s handmaiden

Alongside the all-or-nothing approach of disabling output, Vista requires that any interface that provides high-quality output degrade the signal quality that passes through it if premium content is present. This is done through a “constrictor” that downgrades the signal to a much lower-quality one, then up- scales it again back to the original spec, but with a significant loss in quality.
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In other words if you’ve sunk a pile of money into a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won’t be able to use it with protected content.

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I am in Boston for the week. There is a lot of history here. The city is the stomping ground of many of the men who created this nation. There are statues, stones, markers, and plaques littering the landscape to commemorate what occurred here around 1776. Lexington Green is a few miles away. The tea party… The admittedly over-rated Paul Revere… The Massacre… The Green Dragon… Franklin’s birthplace…

To be a non “white christian toadie” is to be slandered…

There’s nothing in the world worse that a big-eared crook in Washington, and that Barak Hussein Obama-sama sure has some big ears…From the first comment on Obama, the Intern, and the Crook

Bloody-Hell. Barak Hussein Obama-sama? Bloody childish.

Noonan’s post, by the way, is about Obama’s connections to corruption– that connection being an intern who for him for a few weeks and who is connected to a man who has been charged, but not yet convicted, of some nasty business practices. Yes, that’s right. Obama’s big corruption scandal boils down to a 20 year old intern and a few weeks. Wow! Devastating, Mark. Getting the smear machine ramped up for 2008 already?