What they actually did was use ram to create intentional EMI in the 2.4Ghz spectrum. It happens to be shared with WiFi but in no way does it share anything with the Wifi standard. The article title is grossly wrong and highly misrepresentative but I guess thats the kind of trash that passes for tech journalism nowadays.

I've got a Samsung Bluray that is one of the affected models. However, it's not connected to the internet (except every couple of months, when I switch on its powerstrip to watch netflix) and it continues to work. For that reason, this doesn't seem to be something inside the player itself, more like an external update.

What they should do is design a pen that delivers an electrical shock to the user every time a word is misspelled.

Thanks Sheldon.

Actually, if you read the fine print, it's $250,000 of Vista CDs.

Thats all well and good but how much does the average Indian make in a day? $5?

I agree. For years you can secure a system just by not plugging it into a network. Now with 3G, this will give law enforcement access to your system without needing an internet connection or any network connection at all. I am guessing they can turn the machine on as well remotely. Intel is stating that this is an anti theft features because it is the only possible way it could ever benefit the consumer. This idea hardly makes sense as a more reliable and slower connection other than 3G could accomplish the same task for less money.

At the end of the day it is just a tool for enslavement and invasion of privacy. Anything you do on your PC can be remotely monitored and logged. Virtually all laptops today come with built in mics and webcams. You can tape over the camera but you can't truly disable the mic short of desoldering it and voiding your warranty. PCs are becoming much like the software that runs on them, they appear to provide some kind of service to the user but are turning into little more than tools for authorities to spy on and control the population.

It can be lucrative, however, when the malware starts threatning that if you don't pay up some cash it will format your hard drive and brick your cpu.

RantMedia produces a variety of shows, they aren't exactly the sitcoms the author was looking for but they are indepedently produced and they even operate their own streaming tv channel.

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Indeed, even the puny Commodore 64 OS emulaters have been taken down. DOS never had a chance.

There is a solution to this:

http://www.bugmenot.com

Works great.

Yes, as long as you up the RAM to 2GB. With 1GB 7 is choppy. You might find the Atom CPU to be considerably slower then the Pentium M, it runs out of breath very quickly and even has problems playing flash videos smoothly.