Please sit down for the next piece of information will shock you to the core:

You are not the only person answering questions on slashdot.

We were talking about windows and its licensing and benefits of cracking its DRM. You barged in looking like an idiot and talked about using free software - when windows is all pay to get a license. In other words, you went wildly off topic.

Then you started throwing rocks around claiming those suggesting that talking about windows in a thread about windows is apparently a sign of computer illiteracy.

Well done.

They are looking for specific material - cesium137. It emits approximately 95% beta and 5% gamma. That is why they had problems looking for it in babies - they basically look for that 5% and calculate the entire exposure based on it.

I need tools fit for the job. Offering me a screwdriver when I'm asking about qualities of different hammers is quite silly.

#2 and #3 make sense for me. I'll have to look into it once I get around to upgrading this machine beyond what may trigger this detection. Thanks.

Let me put it this way - I would find it unethical to sell a key anywhere if I'm still using the software. I would find it ethical to crack the said software if it improved my experience with it however.

Reading comprehension helps. Like finishing reading sentences you quote before replying.

ClassicShell still exists. So no. Not even close.

You should also assume that every time you walk out of the door, every person out there is out to kill you.

I was serious. What advantages are there to circumventing the DRM? Quite ofter there are some, but I just don't see any at the moment.

It could be I'm ignorant, which is why I'm asking, and while I get your joke, I'm actually interested in a more practical answer.

Different issue. He's talking about giving these to cracked windows where windows is cracked in a way that is detected. It's a part of their WGA program where they give you the updates, but they also try to send you messages and such urging you to buy a license.

This particular hack is largely undetectable for microsoft. As far as W7 is concerned, it's a legit OEM copy.

Out of interest, more reliable in what way? I'm using geniune 7 OEM home premium right now, what kind of improvement can I expect if I move to a cracked version?

It's of no charge if I remember correctly, but pro license is significantly more expensive than home one.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if win8 actually made MS a significant chunk of extra profit by making people bump the license to pro just to get 7 upgrade rights.

To add to my other statement. Apparently they trick the bootloader by loading a separate loader before W7 bootloader loads which in turn adds ACPI tables to memory making W7 bootloader think it's running off a genuine OEM machine.

As far as W7 is concerned, its bootloader itself is not compromised in any way, and it has no way to check if it's booting off a secure machine as it has no secure boot. It's a pretty elegant hack that is very much future proof.

You can find all this stuff out by simply searching for "windows 7" on TPB, then locating the torrent with most seeds and checking the description and comments. It makes for pretty interesting read actually.

It's not a rootkit. It appears to be a mechanism to strip the protection entirely if I'm understanding the thread on TPB correctly. So far there has apparently been only one update for 7 that has not been addale through WAU directly.

And if something breaks, apparently all you need to do is deinstall the crack, run installation and reinstall the crack.