Sounds like a great place to pick up chicks!
And at least 50% of the time you'll be able to tell whether or not that hot looking elf is really a 45-year old guy.
"What no American journal had the courage to admit at that time was how badly the virus had hurt America's painfully cultivated image of the world's leading copyright protector. Almost overnight, it had shown Americans to be the world's biggest copyright violators. Every time the virus found a new home in the USA, it signalled one more copyright violation by an American."
Apparently this "virus" was originally intended to sit on people's PCs and ensure that they didn't run certain copyrighted software without a license. It explains the apparently silly idea of placing the authors contact information into the virus message along with a request for contact.
Although this is a rather bad idea for copy-protection enforcement I've seen similar schemes (INT13 hooks minus the virus transmission part) in CAD/CAM and music software. What's interesting is that it casts a completely different light on the intentions of the authors (misguided vs. malicious) that isn't reported in TFA.
I can't find any specifics about what the original software that was being protected was used for. Why was it so widespread? Did we (the USA) really screw Pakistani developers out of income for a useful utility? Or is this a case of a bad copy-protection scheme getting out of hand and falsely reporting violations?
In it, he argues that in ten years the desktop OS will become obsolete in favor of a Web based one
Riiight. That's why AJAX is suddenly so popular -- because people are moving away from client-side computing.
Client-server techniques like AJAX have been shown to use resources much more efficiently than purely web-based services. I don't think client-side computing is going anywhere in the next 10 years.
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Sounds like a great place to pick up chicks! And at least 50% of the time you'll be able to tell whether or not that hot looking elf is really a 45-year old guy.
Apparently this "virus" was originally intended to sit on people's PCs and ensure that they didn't run certain copyrighted software without a license. It explains the apparently silly idea of placing the authors contact information into the virus message along with a request for contact.
Although this is a rather bad idea for copy-protection enforcement I've seen similar schemes (INT13 hooks minus the virus transmission part) in CAD/CAM and music software. What's interesting is that it casts a completely different light on the intentions of the authors (misguided vs. malicious) that isn't reported in TFA.
I can't find any specifics about what the original software that was being protected was used for. Why was it so widespread? Did we (the USA) really screw Pakistani developers out of income for a useful utility? Or is this a case of a bad copy-protection scheme getting out of hand and falsely reporting violations?
Riiight. That's why AJAX is suddenly so popular -- because people are moving away from client-side computing.
Client-server techniques like AJAX have been shown to use resources much more efficiently than purely web-based services. I don't think client-side computing is going anywhere in the next 10 years.