On: Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges

[Bender]

You jest but my first experience with this were Compuserve CD's in the 90's. I saw my hard drive light blinking when I did not ask the computer to do anything so I killed the power then powered on, ejected the CD and threw it into the trash. Ever since that experience I've been highly skeptical of any program and vindicated hundreds of times since.

[sellmesoap → Bender]

I was just thinking how I miss the sound of spinning rust as a system health indicator.

[ndsipa_pomu → Bender]

Surely that's just the result of Windows blindly trusting and running any insertable media? That was such a stupid design choice by Microsoft

[Bender → ndsipa_pomu]

That was a result of launching their program think early web client app to talk to their network. I did not install anything yet it started enumerating the hard drive. I had a LED for the CD and a LED for the hard drive. This was a 386-DX40 (40Mhz) with a 144MB RLL hard drive. There was enough flickering to indicate they were reading a lot of data.