Digital TV. The federal government passed that law to force it on us, I'll have to buy a converter. But that's good for the economy (right?), who's economy I don't know. Maybe we need an OSS digital TV converter so I can use a PC to keep channel 2 from wigging out during "Keeping up Appearances". Sam. Ken Fuchs wrote: >>On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote: >> >> > > > >>>Please support Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) BIOSes such as >>>LinuxBIOS, before it's too late. Future BIOSes will execute only >>>authenticated executables. Will GNU/Linux be one of the authenticated >>>operating systems? >>> >>> > > > >>Wow. That is a disturbing suggestion. Is that really in the works? >>I'll tell you one thing for sure -- I won't buy any motherboards that >>cannot run Linux. >> >> > >I wouldn't worry about it until Congress passes a law requiring it. >Does anyone know when this is likely to happen? It may take a few years >to "perfect" this restrictive technology and when it does, Congressmen >will look like heroes when they pass a law requiring its use. (It would >not allow spyware, viruses, malware of most types to be run which the >computing public may welcome.) The freedom to distribute >non-authenticated code would disappear. > >The next advance in malware would be malware that illegally circumvents >authentication by either going around the barrier or pretending to be >legally authenticated code. > >Sincerely, > >Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >