Oh, don't worry, customer! You can still bank securely using our "Transparent Security Service" man-in-the-middle atta-er, I mean, proxy server! Just click OK to that certificate there. It's safe, I promise.
I don't know the validity of your statement, but I do know that they are quick to send their lawyers out if they think you are profiting with a pirated copy of their software.
Then their business model seems to have been working perfectly. They had the apparent moral high ground to send you letters and try and scare you out of working using pirated software, but thanks to the dongle crack you managed to go and build yourself up an AutoCAD skillset anyway.
Did you end up purchasing (or get purchased for you) a legitimate copy for any later projects?
If the goal is to get legacy DOS software running on new hardware and being robust, then the most rock-solid option (and maybe the cheapest) will be to put it into a VM such as qemu or VMware. This will allow you to transplant it to new hardware, make/restore backups, far more seamlessly.
As for the hardware itself, have you considered a Soekris box or similar?
His attacks are no different from those directed against the Arizona cops all over this post. Now, there's every chance that the cops are full of shit and this story is legit. But there isn't enough here to say one way or the other.
By making slanderous assumptions about everyone else's prior dealings with the cops, I see him as lampooning those - a sort of backhanded tu quoque to those who are already jumping to conclusions.
Assuming for the moment that you don't actually know BitZtream in real life, how can you possibly know that?
What purpose could he have for posting to Slashdot and antagonizing people's preconceptions (in an admittedly confrontational way) other than the sake of argument?
Let's face it, if you're driving an electric car, you're really just exporting your smog to the power plant that handles your section of the grid. If it's a coal burner, well...
Consider electric power to be a sort of "common language" of electricity. If your car runs on gasoline, then gasoline is the only source that it'll run on. But if your car runs on electricity, then it runs on gasoline, or coal, or nuclear, or hydro, or whatever you care to power your community with.
But when the gas runs out, you aren't stuck with a bunch of machines that you can't afford to run. When better, cheaper, cleaner power sources are discovered, the cost of adoption is dramatically reduced, because every type of power can be converted into electrical. This would untether your economy from any one source, for ever!
"Exporting our smog to the power plant that handles our section of the grid" should be a national priority.
"Hey guys, we seem to be in a Prisoner's Dilemma situation up in here. How about we compel ourselves and each other to do the optimal thing instead of the selfish thing?"
"Our watermarking technology has determined that the movie pirate is... the projector!"
Correct me if I`m wrong, but in that scenario the projectionist gets fired for piracy and/or accepting bribes, and that`s exactly what`s supposed to have happened...
Yeah, they forgot the one damn thing about watermarking: either the signal can't be watermarked without audible artifacts, or else the wartermark can be removed without any.
There's no middle ground. They might as well declare war on the Nyquist-Shannon theorem.
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There's really no point telling you, but Funny isn't worth karma anymore.
So all we need is to know the course of building technology over the next 10,000 years in advance, and we're all set!
Where aaaaaaaaaare you, Lessig?
Whoosh.
Remember when other Islamic groups were pro-West, right up until they weren't?
Never, apparently.
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And I am in this thread too!
I don't know the validity of your statement, but I do know that they are quick to send their lawyers out if they think you are profiting with a pirated copy of their software.
Then their business model seems to have been working perfectly. They had the apparent moral high ground to send you letters and try and scare you out of working using pirated software, but thanks to the dongle crack you managed to go and build yourself up an AutoCAD skillset anyway.
Did you end up purchasing (or get purchased for you) a legitimate copy for any later projects?
If the goal is to get legacy DOS software running on new hardware and being robust, then the most rock-solid option (and maybe the cheapest) will be to put it into a VM such as qemu or VMware. This will allow you to transplant it to new hardware, make/restore backups, far more seamlessly.
As for the hardware itself, have you considered a Soekris box or similar?
His attacks are no different from those directed against the Arizona cops all over this post. Now, there's every chance that the cops are full of shit and this story is legit. But there isn't enough here to say one way or the other.
By making slanderous assumptions about everyone else's prior dealings with the cops, I see him as lampooning those - a sort of backhanded tu quoque to those who are already jumping to conclusions.
Assuming for the moment that you don't actually know BitZtream in real life, how can you possibly know that?
What purpose could he have for posting to Slashdot and antagonizing people's preconceptions (in an admittedly confrontational way) other than the sake of argument?
Electrolytes!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_advocate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints
"computer tampering with the intent to harass" sounds pretty close to what the blogger's accusing the police of.
I could type LOL but I feel compelled to actually tell you that you just made me laugh out loud.
Let's face it, if you're driving an electric car, you're really just exporting your smog to the power plant that handles your section of the grid. If it's a coal burner, well...
Consider electric power to be a sort of "common language" of electricity. If your car runs on gasoline, then gasoline is the only source that it'll run on. But if your car runs on electricity, then it runs on gasoline, or coal, or nuclear, or hydro, or whatever you care to power your community with.
But when the gas runs out, you aren't stuck with a bunch of machines that you can't afford to run. When better, cheaper, cleaner power sources are discovered, the cost of adoption is dramatically reduced, because every type of power can be converted into electrical. This would untether your economy from any one source, for ever!
"Exporting our smog to the power plant that handles our section of the grid" should be a national priority.
"Hey guys, we seem to be in a Prisoner's Dilemma situation up in here. How about we compel ourselves and each other to do the optimal thing instead of the selfish thing?"
"Ok. You first."
Pics or it didn't happen.
That's kinda gross, and also maybe a good idea.
If the net is light as air, then how exactly is it going to absorb the junk's momentum?
More reasonable guess: space junk hits net and continues along its previous trajectory, but now with a virtually massless net trailing from it.
Once again, Valve has managed to find the upside to that god-awful Trusted Computing bullshit.
Trust.
"Our watermarking technology has determined that the movie pirate is... the projector!"
Correct me if I`m wrong, but in that scenario the projectionist gets fired for piracy and/or accepting bribes, and that`s exactly what`s supposed to have happened...
Yeah, they forgot the one damn thing about watermarking: either the signal can't be watermarked without audible artifacts, or else the wartermark can be removed without any.
There's no middle ground. They might as well declare war on the Nyquist-Shannon theorem.