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[mgarrine]

Ok guys likely i did a wrong use of the word "dongle" sorry for my spaghetti english ,  :wink:  

i was meaning that clear plastic thing that connecs to your pc through a USB port and let you play with Wi-fi enabled titles (if you are a commercial game owner)....

that's all

[satanduck]

ACTUALLY... apparently its an acceptable practice these days...

Sorry I'm old and hence not very up to date with my lingo...

According to wikipedia :

In the computer industry, the word dongle can refer to a small hardware device that connects to a computer and acts as an authentication key for a particular piece of software. In the 1980s and 1990s this was its primary meaning. When this software protection dongle is present, the software will run properly; when it is not, the program will run in a restricted mode or refuse to start. Dongles are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy prevention or digital rights management because it is much harder to copy the dongle than to copy the software it authenticates.
A PCMCIA network card dongle
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A PCMCIA network card dongle

Dongle can also be used to refer to any thing that plugs into a computer, especially things with wires that "hang off" of (dangle from) laptop computers. For example:

   * A jack wired to a small edge connector on a Type I or II PCMCIA card, typically an RJ45 or RJ11 jack for an Ethernet or telephone cable. This type of dongle has no copy prevention purpose. PCMCIA card dongles are notoriously fragile and unreliable. They are falling out of favour as more laptops include built-in Ethernet and modem sockets.
   * USB adapters, such as for memory cards.
   * Other USB devices, primarily flash memory "drives", used only for data storage (as opposed to USB Hardware Token Devices).
   * The word has also been applied to Bluetooth antennas.

So I got the first part right, and got grumpy when I did not understand the second part because I'm an old man with a new DS and SuperCard waiting impatiently for my SuperPass