I'm just waiting for the EFF to get a call from someone who is wrongfully accused. Eventually, guys like this are going to be relegated to the business level of a telemarketer, or the BSA (Business Software Alliance). Harmless but annoying.
This will get worked out in the courts, I think what they will have to prove is "willful intent to distribute to circumvent proper payment of the copyright holder" or something of that sort.
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The "payoff" is bascially an agreement, we won't sue you for what you did if you pay us off. CSS takes a chunk and gives the rest to whatever company they "protected".
Basically, it is a protection racket. Here's my question, how hard would it be to fake server logs, especially for companies like @home and hotmail where there are a large number of users and little time to handle each complaint. You could probably make something up, send it to @Home sounding all professional and BAM, you have their personal info.
Just a thought....
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Actually, NASA didn't suck when the Saturn V's were being produced like Buicks off an assembly line. It was the idiots in Congress who decided not only to dismantle the program, but to actually DESTROY the machining needed to produce the Saturn V. Now they have become so worried about their budget (for good reason, the budget has been cut at least 7 times in 8 years) that there is no incentive to build anything else but shuttles.
Building a vehicle that can lob 100 tons into LEO should be one of NASA's priorities. And no, it does not need to be reusable. If we start lobbing 100 tons into LEO on a regular basis, then we can start worrying about the lost costs with a single-use rocket.
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Well, acutally....yes, no one probably will.
Look at it this way, the launch costs alone for not only landing but taking off from Europa are huge. Getting into and out of Jupiter's gravity well is not an easy thing to do (not including the huge amount of radiation that each gas station attendant would receive).
Bottom line, it would be a great place to build a filling station because the hired help would have at least four or five hands after a few years there...
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pass through matter like smoke What's the big deal? I pass through smoke all the time?
But does the smoke pass through you?
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I'm just waiting for the EFF to get a call from someone who is wrongfully accused. Eventually, guys like this are going to be relegated to the business level of a telemarketer, or the BSA (Business Software Alliance). Harmless but annoying. This will get worked out in the courts, I think what they will have to prove is "willful intent to distribute to circumvent proper payment of the copyright holder" or something of that sort. B
The "payoff" is bascially an agreement, we won't sue you for what you did if you pay us off. CSS takes a chunk and gives the rest to whatever company they "protected". Basically, it is a protection racket. Here's my question, how hard would it be to fake server logs, especially for companies like @home and hotmail where there are a large number of users and little time to handle each complaint. You could probably make something up, send it to @Home sounding all professional and BAM, you have their personal info. Just a thought.... B
Actually, NASA didn't suck when the Saturn V's were being produced like Buicks off an assembly line. It was the idiots in Congress who decided not only to dismantle the program, but to actually DESTROY the machining needed to produce the Saturn V. Now they have become so worried about their budget (for good reason, the budget has been cut at least 7 times in 8 years) that there is no incentive to build anything else but shuttles. Building a vehicle that can lob 100 tons into LEO should be one of NASA's priorities. And no, it does not need to be reusable. If we start lobbing 100 tons into LEO on a regular basis, then we can start worrying about the lost costs with a single-use rocket. B
Well, acutally....yes, no one probably will. Look at it this way, the launch costs alone for not only landing but taking off from Europa are huge. Getting into and out of Jupiter's gravity well is not an easy thing to do (not including the huge amount of radiation that each gas station attendant would receive). Bottom line, it would be a great place to build a filling station because the hired help would have at least four or five hands after a few years there... B