[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[James P. Kinney III]

Interesting point, Chris. If the palladium stuff actually sees the light
of day at the end of a manufacturing tunnel, it will spark "bootleg chip
fabs". As a physicist who is quite fond of how my stuff currently works,
I think that will be a good thing in a rebellious sort of way. 

I wouldn't mind having the ability to make, say, a single 486 chip at a
time in nearly automatic box the size if a large PC case. It would be
even better to make a more complex chip. 

I've seen too many futuristic books and movies where the underdog rebels
have to do stuff like that to stay alive. I'm not a huge fan of large
political systems having nearly complete control over a population.

Unless I'm the one in charge, of course ;)

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 08:43, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 02:12 am, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> > Yah, I think if it all went to hell tommorow we could figure something out.
> If Microsoft has its way, with the Trusted Computer Initiative, Palladium, the 
> DMCA, and enough money to buy all the Congress critters many times over, we 
> may have to.
> I think I still remember how to do UUCP.
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