Russia isn't really socialist anymore.
The SU collapsed and the new Russia is ad capitalistic as it's euro neighbors.

"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to ever increasing DRM bullshit legit. users have to deal with.

Seems to me like a big problem for MonoTouch too :(
It is a commercial project based on Mono for compiling C# code into native iPhone code.
It's a shame how the programming languages eco-system for the iPhone is so small.
While a good programmer can program well with any language, I would still rather program in C#/Python/Java than Objective-C.

2008: Oh no, I forgot my password! I need to call Blizzard for help!

2011: Oh no, I lost my authenticator! I need to call Blizzard for help!

And I'm all out of gum.

I think simply implementing the breaking algorithm in your favorite language on your PC would be more convenient and also give results much faster ;-))

You are right of course:

Nevertheless the victor's 1.4 GHz laptop, running his own code, took less than a minute to find the settings for all 12 wheels... 240 times faster than Colossus. If you scale the CPU frequency by that factor, you get an equivalent clock of 5.8 MHz for Colossus. That is a remarkable speed for a computer built in 1944.

You still get massive geek cred. either way :)

while they don't showcase a running Bombe replica, I saw at Bletchley Park a fully running rebuild of the Colossus machine, which was used at WW2 to break the more complex encryption utilized by the Lorenz SZ40 machine.
Since it has programmable boolean functions I bet it can be used to break Enigma code as well.

There are things in licenses that are just made to cause trouble.

For example, Windows Server licenses are tied to a specific piece of hardware. You have to have enough licenses for every virtual Windows server on each host in an ESX cluster. The maximum number that will ever exist on one box multiplied by the number of boxes. There are other options like Datacenter, where you just have to count the chips, not the cores.

Going the other way, if anyone were silly enough to run Linux on Server 2008, they'd need Windows CALs for the Linux users too. Companies used to have to have a second license if they wanted to use their own image of a machine they bought with OEM Windows on it. They still might.

Another fun one, you can't buy an OEM copy of Windows 7 for your own use. You have to install it on a machine and sell it to someone else. If you keep it, you've violated the license.

As soon as I saw 'License Engineers,' I knew things had gone too far.

MS Paint is nice, but my personal favorite is adobe illustrator.
Nothing like vector based code!

What sorts of mean things do words do? Ever saw clippy? it is a pretty mean thing word did.

They sure aren't treating their servers properly.

If Facebook U is the prestigious one, does MySpace U is the new "clown university"?

Reading that many of the grid controllers are connected to the internet seemed odd to me too, but it turns out that there are many controllers in remote and desolate places where the only possible communication is through the internet (i.e. through phonelines).
Now, it would be a good move (security-wise) to place a new isolated fiber\copper network between those controllers, but it does sound more costly than you first think when reading the article.

Nothing to see here, move along...