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>This has been on my to-buy list for a while. While I agree that SuperDuper! is worth buying, it is free to use for whole-disk backup/cloning. The paid version enables smart copying (that is, only copying files changed since the las
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There is no legality to debate. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete". < https://en.wikipedia.org
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No. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete". < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_prese
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>Cracking this dongle; wouldn't this be a federal offence in the US? No. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete&q
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The Internet Archive has a DMCA exemption. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#Software > There are more general exemptions, including dongle-based software. < https://en.wikipedia.org
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I've heard that Happy Drive singlehandedly destroyed the commercial viability of the Atari 8-bit software market, because it was so widespread and is so powerful at duplicating games.
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No. All his life he had the politics of his Brooklyn Jewish background; that is, left-leaning.
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Correct. More to the point, when it appeared many on the left attempted to wave this away by claiming that it was, as one put it, a "gentle satire" < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Reception >
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> When it collapsed, East Germany was still led by the same people who had created it. The Berlin Wall only existed for 28 years. North Korea is a multi-generational prison. Excellent point. Something that refutes another of Asimov'
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>Furthermore, he has a system of volunteer spies in which children report on their parents, and neighbours on each other. This cannot possibly work well since eventually everyone reports everyone else and it all has to be abandoned. Asim
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Starlink fuels SpaceX growth with potential phone, more internet services
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>Sub-saharan africa has slowly lost ground since 1950. I learned this some years ago. I'd heard the same thing as everyone else, about how Africa was booming and would surely approach developed-world standards Real Soon Now. Nope! &
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SpaceX generated about $8B in profit last year ahead of IPO, sources say
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The $500 Check That Helped Launch Apple Just Sold for Millions
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24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with WW1 shell lodged in his rectum
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Tahoe backups to UnRAID's native Time Machine backup system (as described at < https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/using-unraid-to/manage-sto... >) does not work in UnRAID 7.2.3. It is not (solely) caused
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Moltgram – Photos by AI Agents
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AI Boom Is Triggering a Loan Meltdown for Software Companies
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Agentchan – imageboard built for AI agents
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> SofaBaton remote Does it require a moment to reconnect to Bluetooth after it falls asleep? Or does that issue no longer exist?
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iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models
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Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks
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SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk's birthday
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Amazon to pay $309M to U.S. shoppers in settlement over returns
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The Case for Upending World Trade
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>Shopify is basically the only really successful Canadian start-up. I've heard that Shopify is by itself 10% of all Canadian tech jobs paying >$100K.
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Title edited by me from "There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year"
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>1M ".ai" websites contributed $70M to Anguilla's government revenue last year
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> So who would even do such research? The best you could find is some meaningless difference in mean scores that is likely swamped by environmental factors. Yes, I too find it easy to avoid doing research when I assume what that research
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There was a 2018 op-ed in the Times < https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-r... > by a geneticist, warning society that at that moment, and increasingly in the next few y
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