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gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Gary Funck) wrote:

> On Feb 18,  4:46am, Orphelin@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Yes...
> > Until Year 2000 if...
> > If Omega wants to stop SafeSoft piracy, they could be wise to release the TS4
> > Y2000 patch with an extra protection to the users that do not want to upgrade
> > to TS5.
> > Doing so, all the illegal TS4 and below copies will die at the end of the
> > century.
> 
> Independent of the merits/demerits of dongles and Safekey's, I
> think there ought to be a law against a company that takes advantage
> of a Year 2000 bug, and uses it as a method for ensuring that its
> customers upgrade to the new Y2K-compliant version.

BRAVO !!!! fully agree
 
> Just curious, has anyone tried advancing the date (is this even
> possible with a realtime data feed?) past 2000, to see what TS4 and
> TS3 do with that?  For example, one could build an ASCII file of
> historical data for '97 and '98, and change '97 -> '99 and '98 ->
> '00 and see what happens.  Mark, have you tried this?

some did it - didnt work and ...........

STRONG WARNING:

by advancing to somefuture date you might EXPIRE your GOOD TIL 
WHATEVER PASSWORD and be FULLY IN THE DARK 

aswell - why does everybody think we have 2 years time - lastest 
**this** summer some further away futures will be trading jan/00....

its fun out there waiting for us - dont need to wait for Y2k to have 
Y2k problems

rgds hans

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that high reward does not come without its partner high risk !