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  1. Re:Two words: on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Lots of folks making money just fine on this business model.
    Smaller companies who don't want to manage servers deploy on s2.

  2. Re:dongle on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 2

    The modern version of this technique is to remote the computation over tcp/http to a server you control. Then only allow licensed ip addresses to run.

  3. the only real solution is remote computation on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    If your software does something unique, what you really want to do is move that computation to your own servers, and have the client call an API to get the result. That way you can make sure that every IP address that is running the software is licensed. This is how basically everyone who has successfully defeated piracy has done it. Nothing done purely on the client side can't be defeated.

  4. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Just because you're a consumer doesn't mean you can't buy high end gear. Particularly if you live in another country, where it's useful.

  5. Re:not quite that simple on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 1

    I didn't read anything that suggested that was true. Can you provide a link that says anything other than consumer grade GPS was affected?

  6. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Ah, I was answering a poster whose discussion was specifically about an account with a phony name.

  7. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure they have a process, but it is the demonstrated end of that process that they nuke the account if you've violated the real names policy.

  8. Re:When I think of a quick GUI project, C#. on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 2

    Trolling, or omitted IDEA because it embarrasses visual studio so badly?

  9. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    On the contrary. Once you fall below the human perception limit on latency, it becomes largely irrelevant, and bandwidth is what matters. And my bandwidth number was correct.

  10. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm not. Both are lower b's.

  11. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    I did not get confused, you mistakenly thought I was talking about cable/dsl in the USA, apparently.

  12. Re:I have a similar complaint about web pages on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    You should really do that on your side, in the browser. It works much better than hoping every website out there will adopt this for you.

  13. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1, Troll

    Local disks, even SSDs top out at 6Gbit/sec at the interface. But your internet access might be 100Gbit if you live in the right place.

  14. rank ordering on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 1

    You don't rate your projects priorities to an absolute scale, that invites exactly the abuse you are seeing. Instead, you rank order them, and work on the items at the top of the list. You may need a high level decision maker to make choices in the event that there is disagreement among project owners about relative rank.

  15. Re:not quite that simple on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 0

    But this is only an issue with consumer GPS receivers, not with the satellites or anything else that is involved in the things I do.

  16. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    The GP was claiming he was already using a pseudonym as his 'real' FB account, as opposed to an account he didn't want. Given how many people foolishly trust their content to facebook, it seemed worth a warning.

  17. Re:not quite that simple on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 1

    Definitely.
    But I may be biased, I don't use GPS, and am frustrated with my lack of ISP options.

  18. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Yep. Lots of people consider their facebook accounts their long term storage.

  19. Re:Sure I would on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Just tell your boss to click the EULA for you. Tell him you don't want to act on behalf of the company and get them into legal hot water. They fall for that one every time. They'll click for you. Possibly after burning some time with legal.

  20. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 2

    Facebook does. But you have to be really well connected. It's a lot more selective than slashdot.

  21. Re:Why not, it's just another work tool on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just be ware that if you piss off even a single contact, they can turn you in and get your account nuked. So be sure you don't store anything there that you don't have a backup for.

  22. Re:So casual... on Space Team Reunites For John Glenn's Friendship 7 · · Score: 2

    This is a common cognitive or sampling bias that shows up every generation. Each generation gets older, looks around, sees some young people who aren't working hard (because that's who you can see when you look around), and then concludes the younger generation doesn't have the same work ethic. I could as easily say that since we had 6, 20-something interns last summer, all of whom were extremely dedicated and hard working, the work ethic of their generation is better than mine. But that would be equally untrue.

  23. Re:So casual... on Space Team Reunites For John Glenn's Friendship 7 · · Score: 1

    It's likely he can't help it. At that age the brain is breaking down so badly inhibition of thoughts fails, and people start to rant against whatever random target trips their wires. This is why you see a lot racism in nursing homes. It's not because they lived in a different era, it's because they are old.

  24. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 2

    The defense I suggested in response to yours is how the courts have decided to interpret the 'truth is an absolute defense'. They have extended the notion of truth to anything that is not an intentional falsehood.

  25. Re:I'm leaving Slashdot on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    I for one will miss your 'first post's.
    Farewell.