ToiletNinjas

Do you get very much man-on-the-street recognition? Swarms of fangirls swooning at your feet?

Do the girls always end up asking for Swaim's number by the end of the convo?

...can I have Swaim's number?

Well you can never tell if an AMA is going to actually take off or not. Also have to figure at least some of the people who post AMAs are fully aware of the possible traffic surge, warn their host, and get crashed ANYWAY. An AMA could attract anywhere from dozens to hundreds of thousands of visitors and there's really no way to predict it in advance. How much money do you spend renting extra server space and beefing up your infrastructure for an AMA that might generate 250 hits and 36 upvotes over 8 hours? There's no need to sneer at how people handle these, it's not exactly simple.

Actually in some workspaces at various levels of security classification, even in pretty mundane roles, there may be strictly limited or unavailable internet access. However, contractors who deal in classified material are HUGE employers with thousands of workstations. Dongle-DRM is a good way to protect enterprise licenses on things like design software that wouldn't really have a REASON to be pirated in the civilian space, but would be an expensive license many employers would love to sneak around in an enterprise space.

Finally able to check out the site, it is AWESOME! A great resource for beginner amateur wannabe hardware hackers like me to spend a little money and browse for inspiration. That Ardunio -> Gameboy shell you linked looks like an excellent starter project!

Oh very, very true. I was just trying to think of scenarios where the dongle might come in handy and that's what came to mind. A fair amount of enterprise license piracy comes from casual ignorance, too. People forget to track how many dozen users are allowed under each license purchase, new managers just issue the software to whole teams without checking to make sure they own valid licenses for everyone, etc. I've seen some pretty hairy practices that were sheer negligence, particularly regarding Adobe products that people take for granted.