Vista's content protection mechanism only allows protected content to be sentover interfaces that also have content-protection facilities built in.
In other words if you've sunk a pile of moneyinto a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won't beable to use it with protected content. Similarly, component (YPbPr) videowill be disabled by Vista's content protection, so the same applies to a high-end video setup fed from component video.
So the instant any audio derived from premium contentappears on your system, signal degradation and disabling of outputs willoccur. What makes this particularly entertaining is the fact that thedowngrading/disabling is dynamic, so if the premium-content signal isintermittent or varies (for example music that fades out), various outputs andoutput quality will fade in and out, or turn on and off, in sync.
"Since [encryption] uses CPU cycles, an OEM may have to bump the speed gradeon the CPU to maintain equivalent multimedia performance. This cost ispassed on to purchasers of multimedia PCs" -- ATI.
It took 10 years and a $40 million budget to make, but the Air Force has unveiled a new weapon it calls the Active Denial System. It's a nonlethal weapon that has been certified for use in Iraq as a means of crowd control. The ADS shoots a beam of high intensity millimeter waves, which in plain English means if you get in the beam's way, it'll feel like you're being dipped in lava. In fact, the pain is so intense, that the longest any human test subject could withstand the beam was 5 seconds, and a very small number of them walked away with redness and blisters from the beam's intense heat. (I'm sure they'll also develop tails and super powers from the beam's side effects as well). So we're looking at a gun that makes tasers look like water pistols. I think I'd rather be shot for reals. – LOUIS RAMIREZ
