UPDATED: The world’s best cut-copy-paste preventer

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(Greets: Conor, OJB, Malcolm and BPH.)

UPDATED (2003-07-09T06:54:05+0000)
Brendan has implemented this as an IDEA plugin

Your innovation got me thinking – of a lateral solution – no hardware mods required. see attached :-)
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  • Malcolm Edgar

    I am impressed by your time to market for this solid release. You certainly beat the competion. Have you pantented this inovation.

    Is your company looking to be bought out? I can certainly see some synergy here with Microsoft’s Alt-Ctl-Del technologies.

  • http://madbean.com/ Matt Quail

    Malcolm,

    Yes, we are hoping to be bought out. We intend to sell this product for almost nothing, undercutting the competition so as to position our product as the defacto standard.

    We then hope to be bought out by Microsoft and gutted, retiring to a tropical island with all our riches.

  • http://www.freeroller.net/page/cv Carlos Villela

    I found a bug with your product – by the way, fascinating idea, Matt, congratulations! – that resides in the ability to use Shift-Insert, Shift-Delete and Ctrl-Insert for cut-copy-paste tasks.

    Is this bug reproduceable?

  • http://madbean.com/ Matt Quail

    Carlos,

    The Enterprise Edition of Cut-Copy-Paste Preventor supports the Shift-Ins, Shift-Del and Ctrl-Ins key combinations.

    We do not consider this a bug in the Standard version. It is a feature. If your enterprise is serious about code quality, then you realize the ROI provided by the Enterprise Edition.

    The Enterprise Edition is available for US$5,699 per seat. (Act now and get a half-price discount for bean bags.)

    We will soon be releasing an Open Source version, that disables "yy" and "p" for Vi users, and Ctl-Y for Emacs users. This will be released under the GPL.

    Thank you for your interest in our products.

  • http://cardboard.nu Alan Green

    It’s worth noting that disabling x, c and v keys will not stop the determined Java programmer. They can still be represented as Unicode escapes:

    X u0058
    C u0043
    V u0056

    I had to research this because these particular keys are quite worn on my keyboard, and may fail any day now.

  • Malcolm Edgar

    Alan I would warn you to ensure these keys do not fail otherwise you may infinge the "cut-copy-paste preventer" patent.

  • bjd

    Was having the removed keys laid out in the wrong order intentional, or yet another bug?

  • t

    tesd1

  • Guerilla Penguin

    What a typically brain-dead, closed-source, monopolistic, IP patented sort of idea! Don’t you realizae that this technology is completely superficial, providing nothing more than the impression of having achieved something? After all, the contacts on the keyboard remain unaffected. I can still use these keys — all this technology does is make it a tiny bit more uncomfortable for me. When I consider this, and then look at the various versions/licensing plans being bandied about, it seems clear to me that this is yet another shell company for the Great Satan! MS must die!!!!

  • Erlando

    Does the package include a pair of scissors for the mouse cord as well?