I don't like the tone of my voice. Please mod me down.

You're so lucky to be surrounded by good people. But still, I can't help feeling you're blind to reality in the world. In particular, some things are nagging at my mind.

A) "motivated / months of planning", "you haven't seen the really good ones"

B) "self-centered", "not wanting to risk myself / let other people take the risk"

But I'm not smart like you, so what can I say?

TFA didn't link to the original Reddit article. The original one is here.

And that thread's comments have multiple serious discussions going on.

1. Caring / not caring about people pirating your work, and the emotions you go through.
2. How much of that are/are not lost sales, and how many of them wouldn't have bought the software anyway.
3. The practicality of spending time coding copy protection/checking, and the returns, and how much of them pisses off users.
4. That it's better to spend time developing features that paying users want instead.

And the discussions rival the quality found in Slashdot.

Probably developed in-house.

A company with an IT department that instantly shows up when you plug an USB drive ... is a rich company. Probably with in-house apps.

The easiest way to distribute/update apps in the company is to literally copy the EXE file onto the desktop (as vs deploying it using Active Directory).

Thanks. :) Found it.

I've searched using Google for quite a while, with search phrases like "I would do anything to pass this exam", "I will give you a good grade", "movie quote", and so forth. I still can't find the movie title.

A student comes to a young professor's office hours. She glances down the hall, closes his door, and kneels pleadingly. "I would do anything to pass this exam."

She leans closer to him, flips back her hair, gazes meaningfully into his eyes. "I mean," she whispers, "I would do anything."

He returns her gaze. "Anything?"

"Anything."

His voice turns to a whisper. "Would you... STUDY??"

And with modern technology, the moment they see you, your precious moments will be recorded, shared and stored for eternity.

Zing and double-zing! *I* will feel embarrassed if someone rebuts me using these two lovely sentences.

Is it the one about the RAID corruption?

... and oh, You love Windows 7? Blasphemy!! We only love Unix here on Slashdot!

He did say "Sounds like a very poorly thought out corporate policy though.", which means it was decided by someone else in the past + it is currently not under his control. Perhaps he's an outsourced IT administrator?

Not trolling, really don't understand what happened. Was it:

1) Boss realised the Patent Office did the most brain-dead thing: approved your steering wheel patent (because it's full of obfuscation) and rejected the rest (because they're too plain text), OR

2) Australian Patent Office realised boss was trying to be funny, and rejected everything?

I still don't understand. Is your company in Australia?

*blushing* Is this what real geeks regularly do - take part in open source projects? I don't dare to call myself a geek anymore...

Where did all these name-calling trolls come from??

I suspect most of us Slashdot writers know what "COA" and "downgrade rights" are.

Keep both. In fact, keep all.

For people who don't know this person (including great grandchildren), tears are a turn off. They want to feel happy when looking at this person's video (Wow, it's my great-grandmother!), not be told that this is supposed to be a sad scene and they are supposed to feel sad.

For people who knows this person, the viewers' tears will feel naturally. All the more when the person is not crying.

Yes, my words are insensitive, but I think this person wants to be remembered as a person who brings happiness, not sadness, to her viewers.