I found the most interesting link on Palladium. Scary stuff, to quote, "So after the Soviet Union's attempts to register and control all typewriters and fax machines, TCPA attempts to register and control all computers. The implications for liberty, democracy and justice are worrying. " And not just for Linux and OSX, interesting after Apple made their computers easier to connect with Windows PC's, this will lock them out again. Shades of the Instant Messenger wars only bigger. Eventually you won't be able to communicate with anyone on the net, buy, sell, whatever without that chip. And you won't have control over what is on your PC, Microsoft will. And you think it's a monopoly now, it's starting to sound like the antichrist with TCPA/Palladium being the mark of the beast. I'm not a fundie by any means but I have read the Bible. And Microsoft wants the technology everywhere, not just your PC.

And I had no idea carmakers were using similar measures to prevent you from using an independent repair shop. And cell phones, printers, and the Playstation2 already use similar technology too. Hmmm, do I want one, well I don't intend to use it for anything cept PSX games so I can deal with that. But no way will I network it with a PC or the net.

Mog's Mac trivia: OSX is pronounced "OS 10" cause OSX "oh-es-ex" may be pronounced "oh-sex". That bit of trivia done with, got the results of my MRI. Basically it is unchanged from the first MRI when I ended up in the ER, still a mild disc bulge. Spending a month in bed last December using up all my vacation time did nothing. I got better, yeah right, cause I ran out of time off. Well pain went from a 9 to an 8 on a scale of 1-10. So I went back to work and have been miserable since. So, next up is epidural steroid injections. They have an 80% chance of working and if they work, I can avoid the knife. I'll get a series of three, and hopefully, that will help. Anyway, I don't have to take time off for the epidurals so it looks like I can still go to Yaoi-Con.