The Atari drives (810/1050) could not write bad sectors. They were "intelligent" peripherals that implemented their own command set and were not under low level control by the host computer. There was an aftermarket modification "happy board" that could be installed in the drives to allow it to write many types of bad sectors, allowing for the copying of protected software. The board also improved the speed of the drive.
I'll take your word for it. I might of being thinking of the C64 instead. I never had any after market mods for the Amiga, though I did have a few for the C64: Action Replay cartridge and some special cable for connecting multiple disk drives.
Yes, I had a "Happy Chip" modded Atari 810. The damn thing could copy almost anything you throw at it. In the early 80's as a teen,I used to copy protected original disks and modify the code to bypass the copy protection routines. Had a massive collection of Atari 8-bit games. And yes, I'm ashamed of my past thug life.
I got my Amiga second hand and it came with shoe boxes full of games ... "some" of which were undoubtedly copied. I remember looking at all of those disks and being blown away. Not sure I even played them all!
I cracked a couple of games (that I owned - Fort Apocalypse, and some other one) by disassembling (by hand) the boot code and NOPing out the copy protection checks with a hex editor - I think I actually used a Forth utility to do that part.
I like the idea, but the note "So your money will never go to a site that you’ve never visited — and you’ll even get a monthly report showing which publishers your money is supporting." raises the question of who else they may be selling that report to. A detailed report of user's reading preferences and engagement would be valuable to marketers.
Hey, CEO of the company here. It's in our contract terms that we never sell your data to anyone. Aside, from the clear violations of privacy, it would completely fuck our business over night and everyone here would resign.
The internet is a kind of Babel fish, letting people from different cultures easily interact. Douglas' comment on the outcome seems sadly prescient:
"Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
That's absurd. There have been fewer wars and conflicts and violence in the age of the internet than at any other time. It's possible the internet makes information of such tragedies more readily accessible which is why the world may seem more dangerous, but this couldn't be further from the truth. The interconnected world has made us less bloody, not more.[1]
WhatsApp being used to orchestrate ethnic cleansing in Mynanmar [0], or inciting lynchings in India [1] would be two recent examples of tools that remove barriers to communication having unexpected and tragic side effects.
ADB is also much less flexible. I have Titanium Backup making nightly backups, and then FolderSync automatically pushes them to a SFTP server I run. If something should happen to my phone, I'll lose one day of data. This is all automatic, so I don't have to think about it.
A backup like ADB that requires manual intervention is likely to be only done irregularly, and Murphy says that you'll lose your phone just after forgetting to make a backup for weeks.
Being able to do this is the only reason I bother to root my Android.
There is a negative incentive as well. Most return policies are thirty days, so if you shop months early you have no recourse should a gift be found to be defective at Christmas.
"It doesn’t necessarily mean that their scientists are better, it’s just that when they say, ‘We need a billion dollars to do this,’ bam, the money comes.”
More than that, when their scientists approach the government they aren't treated with scorn, told they are 'fake news', and ignored.
The Brain Bag by itself is not well organized, but add a Brain Cell to hold the laptop, a Snake Charmer for cables, and a Freudian Slip for papers and you're getting somewhere. You're also getting spendy, so there is that. But the bags last forever and show great attention to detail in their construction.
(Another risk is that you'll soon find yourself buying a Bihn travel bag, briefcase, etc...)
