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This guy makes his peers at Enron, Tyco, etc look like boy scouts.  The $3 million lawsuit involves drug abuse, prostitution, abuse, death threats, and spiking Broadcom clients’ drinks with drugs.  To top that, he is currently “being investigated in relation to one of the stock options probes now so familiar to Silicon Valley companies” and he is currently in a divorce-based feud with his wife over more than $1bn in Broadcom stock.  I miss the good old days of embezzlement and fraud.

A copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Register shows Kato accusing Nicholas of carrying a concealed weapon with him at all times, performing Judo chops while standing close to others, threatening people like an angry drill sergeant and vowing to “make people disappear” using contacts formed through work with the Defense Department.

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According to Kato’s lawsuit, Nicholas used to stroll into Kato’s bedroom at 3 a.m. “holding a plate with a pile of cocaine or other drug, and demanding that he ‘party’ with him because ‘he was bored and lonely.’” Nicholas also made Kato entertain him like a court jester and demanded that Kato take drugs, the lawsuit said.

Nicholas forced Kato to keep a large supply of drugs on hand at all times as well, to “look the other way” when Nicholas spiked clients’ drinks with drugs and to bring prostitutes around for clients’ entertainment, according to the lawsuit. 

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Well, it had to happen some day.  The Zune DRM Stripper removes the DRM from music squirted to you and music you bought at the Zune Marketplace.

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I guess this is ok as long as you don’t give it to your children to play with.

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I do agree that Vista is more stable than XP and that as long as you don’t mind the heavy hardware requirements and the pre-infection of the system with DRM, it’s a good option but no operating system can be completely bulletproof.  Kez News [ads on site are NSFW] is reporting that in order to completely lock the system up to the point of requiring a reboot all that is required is to hold down the windows key and the ‘e’ key at the same time for about 20-30 seconds.  This doesn’t sound like a security vulnerability.  It’s just a bug but it shows that any OS needs to be beat around a bit before it can be declared even moderately stable.