Corporations did not exist when copyright came into existence. I highly doubt the authors intended it to be exploited into the "corporate perpetual copyright" that it is today.
Trademarks and patents aren't as abused and perpetually extended as copyrights has been.
I believe that corporations should have shorter terms on copyright, and endentured slavery contracts that strip authors of the copyright of their works should be abolished and outlawed.
I am a laser engineer at work (I work with dangerous class IV lasers) and have taken laser safety courses.
Else, infra-red lasers, being completely invisible to the human eye, would not be dangerous at all.
Absolutely positively not true. Laser sources that emit a non-visible beam fall in class IIIR, class IIIB or class IV which are the worst eye hazards regardless of power. ANSI Z136.1 specifies that non-visible class IIIR or higher laser beams must be enclosed to prevent laser radiation exposure to non-trained personnel.
I work around exposed class IV CO2 10600nm laser beams capable of putting out 100 watts (that's watts, not mW) of power. The beam is invisible to the human eye yet it is capable of cutting metal. "Not dangerous at all" is a serious understatement.
I am a laser engineer at work (I work with dangerous class IV lasers) and have taken laser safety courses.
A IIIa (now called 3R for the type of devices under consideration here) puts out less than 5mW. 5mW of green laser light doesn't magically contain more energy than 5mw of red laser light.
Humans perceive green light as much, much brighter because we have a higher sensitivity to it. But in terms of total power, 5mW equals 5mW equals 5mW.
What you are neglecting is the retina absorption of laser radiation, which varies with wavelength. The human eye absorbs the most light energy in the 500-700nm wavelength range, which happens to be where green (532nm) and red (660nm) fall within. In the same amount of time, 5mW of 532nm laser energy will do more eye damage than 5mW of ultraviolet 400nm laser energy.
That said, IIIB/3R can cause temporary eye damage, though it takes some effort to target it just in the right spot and for long enough (a quick random sweep across the eyes won't do it). But "disorientation" and "hours of discomfort", over 500ft away and through a window? No. Evil piggies just want to cry victim.
Incorrect. Any laser higher than class 1M can cause permanent eye damage. Laser eye injuries are extremely painful even at class II 1mW or lower levels. Class IIIR (formerly IIIa) lasers can produce no more than 5mW, but class IIIB lasers can produce as much as 500mW and can cause skin damage.
Lasers are not a controlled substance. One could purchase a class IIIB green laser that puts out 500mW of laser energy and really do damage to a pilot from the ground. If you think these people are exaggerating about their suffering, you are dead wrong.
Can't they develop cockpit glass that will filter out that particular wavelength?
I am a laser engineer at work (trained to work with dangerous high power class IV lasers) and can tell you that there are limitations to this approach.
The filter material at most laser wavelengths would not be clear. My laser safety goggles for 532nm green lasers are dark amber, 660nm red laser goggles are blue. Not practical for navigating aircraft around obstacles.
There is no single filter that is effective for all wavelengths of lasers (green, red, co2, etc).
Also the optical density for a single filter - the blocking capability of the filter - is not the same level across different wavelengths. And optical laser filters do not block the laser beam, they reduce the energy level. Prolonged exposure even with laser safety goggles will still cause eye injury; the object of the goggles is to reduce the energy long enough to account for the reflex time of turning your eyes away from a laser beam and thus avoiding eye injury. This does little good in a cockpit when someone maliciously aims a laser beam at an aircraft.
There is also the hazard of refracted and reflected beam energy. The beam will be refracted as it strikes the cockpit glass and its energy may or may not be attenuated, and there is also the hazard of beam reflections off of objects in the cockpit. The danger of stray beams in this condition is very real and it may be near impossible - while affixed to the pilot seat via seat belt - to avoid exposure to any laser beam. There is also the remote possibility of the refraction of the glass having a focusing effect on the laser beam and exposing the pilot to higher w/cm^2 laser energy at the wrong place.
I have never experienced a laser eye injury, but have been told in laser safety training that they are extremely painful.
I also got sick of the payola rotation of broadcast radio and bought a car with a CD player that plays mp3 CDs. I can fit 150 songs on a single CD. I have CDs with classic rock, jazz, funk, etc whatever I am in the mood for. Random play through 150 songs is like having your personal radio. It is sooooooo liberating and I don't have to listen to the garbage that the RIAA labels are pumping out these days.
My point is that Sony didn't know what they were doing, nor were they competant enough to realize that they didn't know what they were doing.
Oh please. Sony designs laptop computers and they crippled the OS and firmware to deter file sharing. They are more than competent enough to knwo what they were deploying in the field, thank you very much.
This is coming from the same organization whose university toolkit had to be taken down because it was pirated from open source and violated the GPL...?
When you point a finger at someone, remember there are three more pointing back at you.
Every time I wind up having to open one of these things in a browser it just sucks. They load up slow. If they're large then I often times cannot even page forward. Maybe other people have had different experiences? What am I missing here? PDF just seems broken to me already.
Don't use any browser for viewing PDFs over ten pages. Save the PDF to the local drive, close the browser, and open the local copy.
Acrobat Reader as a browser plugin does not load the entire pdf, only the current page. As you scroll around, it has to reload the new page over the net. If you eschew the browser plugin and load a local copy into Acrobat Reader, it is a much more pleasant reading experience.
Well, Harvard has been around since the pre-industrial days... what I want to know is, are the attorneys still hand-assembled, or is the process more automated nowadays?
Master Jedi Ray Beckerman has infiltrated the attorney clone factory but we have lost contact with him.
So Gene Simmons performs music that glorifies devil worship (God Of Thunder), substance abuse (Cold Gin), and adultery (Lick It Up) but doesn't like it when kids "steal his music"?
Find the DVD documentary Who Killed The Electric Car about the General Motors EV1. It was the electric car made in the early 90s to comply with California's zero emission mandate. The EV1 was available on a pilot system by lease only; when enthusiastic EV1 drivers wanted to purchase the vehicle, their efforts were blocked, production was mysteriously halted, then all the EV1 vehicles were reclaimed and destroyed. When citizens were interviewed and learned of the EV1, they were disappointed that they could not purchase one, which debunks the auto industry's claim that there is no demand for an electric car. It discusses the infiltration of government by the auto and oil industry to repeal the CA mandate and how oil exploited the patent system by purchasing key battery patents to keep the electric car off the market to protect their profits.
Very interesting documentary on how big oil and the big three conspire to protect their interests.
While the article is accurate for corporate emails, it is not accurate for my personal email.
The first day on my new job with a brand new email, it got barraged with spam. Instantly. The company has spam filtering and when I checked the spam folder they dated back to my start date. So somehow the spammers had access to the company directory. I configured Outlook to turn off the preview pane because that is how embedded executables run when you open an email.
My personal email account gets zero spam. ZERO. The personal address is given only to friends and family, never to a website or business. I have auxilary accounts that are reserved for those websites that insist on an email to join, or when I place an order over the net with a business. Sort of a layer between potential spam and me. None of my friends/family have those account addresses so I check them far less often, and on the rare occasion there is an email that requires my attention, I forward it to my personal account.
That has been very effective in keeping spam out of my inbox. My webmail is also effective in that it is text based and I never see HTML or embedded images, a popular tactic with spammers. It also can't autorun embedded viruses.
I can confirm that Yahoo! is the worse offender. I have a special account that only Yahoo! has. Their TOS claims they will not spam my account or sell the email address to 3rd parties. Either they are lying or someone has access to their email address database because that account has been barraged with spam and only Yahoo! has that address.
You can only break the laws of a sovereign nation whilst you are within the jurisdiction of that nation. That is part of the definition of sovereignty. If you are outside the USA, you can't by definition break US law.
That's like saying Al Qeada is not liable for the 9/11 attacks because they are based outside the US.
The Lanham Act is designed to protect US companies from bullying tactics. Ballmer bullied a US company. He's liable whether or not he made such threats on US soil.
They dropped because the new music got poorer in quality and because we the consumer got tired of paying $15 for a CD containing one decent song with the other 19 being garbage filler.
Poor product plus poor value equals low sales. Every economy major learns that in their first year. Sony doesn't want to acknowledge the elephant in the courtroom.
Phil: Hey Bob, the wife and I are ready for that cruise vacation! Telemarketer:How about a nice holiday in Sweden? Bob: Who was that? Phil: Excuse me, I have to go sack somebody.
Then get an unpublished (not unlisted) phone number.
I've moved twice in the past six years, both times I got an unpublished number. When a telemarketer called, they were informed that this was an unpublished number and to please put it on their DNC list. That brought all telemarketing calls to a screeching halt.
When I started my new job last year I moved to a new city and ordered a second land line phone number with distinctive ring for off duty support for work emergencies. Both numbers are unpublished. After the first couple of false alarms with telemarketers calling the "hot line", they stopped real fast.
It does not cost much more for unpublished numbers.
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who thought this was a thread about choo-choos?
Trademarks and patents aren't as abused and perpetually extended as copyrights has been.
I believe that corporations should have shorter terms on copyright, and endentured slavery contracts that strip authors of the copyright of their works should be abolished and outlawed.
Absolutely positively not true. Laser sources that emit a non-visible beam fall in class IIIR, class IIIB or class IV which are the worst eye hazards regardless of power. ANSI Z136.1 specifies that non-visible class IIIR or higher laser beams must be enclosed to prevent laser radiation exposure to non-trained personnel.
I work around exposed class IV CO2 10600nm laser beams capable of putting out 100 watts (that's watts, not mW) of power. The beam is invisible to the human eye yet it is capable of cutting metal. "Not dangerous at all" is a serious understatement.
What you are neglecting is the retina absorption of laser radiation, which varies with wavelength. The human eye absorbs the most light energy in the 500-700nm wavelength range, which happens to be where green (532nm) and red (660nm) fall within. In the same amount of time, 5mW of 532nm laser energy will do more eye damage than 5mW of ultraviolet 400nm laser energy.
Incorrect. Any laser higher than class 1M can cause permanent eye damage. Laser eye injuries are extremely painful even at class II 1mW or lower levels. Class IIIR (formerly IIIa) lasers can produce no more than 5mW, but class IIIB lasers can produce as much as 500mW and can cause skin damage.
Lasers are not a controlled substance. One could purchase a class IIIB green laser that puts out 500mW of laser energy and really do damage to a pilot from the ground. If you think these people are exaggerating about their suffering, you are dead wrong.
I am a laser engineer at work (trained to work with dangerous high power class IV lasers) and can tell you that there are limitations to this approach.
The filter material at most laser wavelengths would not be clear. My laser safety goggles for 532nm green lasers are dark amber, 660nm red laser goggles are blue. Not practical for navigating aircraft around obstacles.
There is no single filter that is effective for all wavelengths of lasers (green, red, co2, etc).
Also the optical density for a single filter - the blocking capability of the filter - is not the same level across different wavelengths. And optical laser filters do not block the laser beam, they reduce the energy level. Prolonged exposure even with laser safety goggles will still cause eye injury; the object of the goggles is to reduce the energy long enough to account for the reflex time of turning your eyes away from a laser beam and thus avoiding eye injury. This does little good in a cockpit when someone maliciously aims a laser beam at an aircraft.
There is also the hazard of refracted and reflected beam energy. The beam will be refracted as it strikes the cockpit glass and its energy may or may not be attenuated, and there is also the hazard of beam reflections off of objects in the cockpit. The danger of stray beams in this condition is very real and it may be near impossible - while affixed to the pilot seat via seat belt - to avoid exposure to any laser beam. There is also the remote possibility of the refraction of the glass having a focusing effect on the laser beam and exposing the pilot to higher w/cm^2 laser energy at the wrong place.
I have never experienced a laser eye injury, but have been told in laser safety training that they are extremely painful.
I also got sick of the payola rotation of broadcast radio and bought a car with a CD player that plays mp3 CDs. I can fit 150 songs on a single CD. I have CDs with classic rock, jazz, funk, etc whatever I am in the mood for. Random play through 150 songs is like having your personal radio. It is sooooooo liberating and I don't have to listen to the garbage that the RIAA labels are pumping out these days.
This is what happens when you outsource code development and put talented developers out of work.
Oh please. Sony designs laptop computers and they crippled the OS and firmware to deter file sharing. They are more than competent enough to knwo what they were deploying in the field, thank you very much.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
There, fixed that for you.
This is coming from the same organization whose university toolkit had to be taken down because it was pirated from open source and violated the GPL...?
When you point a finger at someone, remember there are three more pointing back at you.
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Don't use any browser for viewing PDFs over ten pages. Save the PDF to the local drive, close the browser, and open the local copy.
Acrobat Reader as a browser plugin does not load the entire pdf, only the current page. As you scroll around, it has to reload the new page over the net. If you eschew the browser plugin and load a local copy into Acrobat Reader, it is a much more pleasant reading experience.
Master Jedi Ray Beckerman has infiltrated the attorney clone factory but we have lost contact with him.
So Gene Simmons performs music that glorifies devil worship (God Of Thunder), substance abuse (Cold Gin), and adultery (Lick It Up) but doesn't like it when kids "steal his music"?
Very interesting documentary on how big oil and the big three conspire to protect their interests.
Yes, it's called America Online.
The first day on my new job with a brand new email, it got barraged with spam. Instantly. The company has spam filtering and when I checked the spam folder they dated back to my start date. So somehow the spammers had access to the company directory. I configured Outlook to turn off the preview pane because that is how embedded executables run when you open an email.
My personal email account gets zero spam. ZERO. The personal address is given only to friends and family, never to a website or business. I have auxilary accounts that are reserved for those websites that insist on an email to join, or when I place an order over the net with a business. Sort of a layer between potential spam and me. None of my friends/family have those account addresses so I check them far less often, and on the rare occasion there is an email that requires my attention, I forward it to my personal account.
That has been very effective in keeping spam out of my inbox. My webmail is also effective in that it is text based and I never see HTML or embedded images, a popular tactic with spammers. It also can't autorun embedded viruses.
I can confirm that Yahoo! is the worse offender. I have a special account that only Yahoo! has. Their TOS claims they will not spam my account or sell the email address to 3rd parties. Either they are lying or someone has access to their email address database because that account has been barraged with spam and only Yahoo! has that address.
So who will be cast in the role of CleverNickname?
That's like saying Al Qeada is not liable for the 9/11 attacks because they are based outside the US.
The Lanham Act is designed to protect US companies from bullying tactics. Ballmer bullied a US company. He's liable whether or not he made such threats on US soil.
Is this the right room for an argument?
They dropped because the new music got poorer in quality and because we the consumer got tired of paying $15 for a CD containing one decent song with the other 19 being garbage filler.
Poor product plus poor value equals low sales. Every economy major learns that in their first year. Sony doesn't want to acknowledge the elephant in the courtroom.
Phil: Hey Bob, the wife and I are ready for that cruise vacation!
Telemarketer: How about a nice holiday in Sweden?
Bob: Who was that?
Phil: Excuse me, I have to go sack somebody.
I've moved twice in the past six years, both times I got an unpublished number. When a telemarketer called, they were informed that this was an unpublished number and to please put it on their DNC list. That brought all telemarketing calls to a screeching halt.
When I started my new job last year I moved to a new city and ordered a second land line phone number with distinctive ring for off duty support for work emergencies. Both numbers are unpublished. After the first couple of false alarms with telemarketers calling the "hot line", they stopped real fast.
It does not cost much more for unpublished numbers.
Before the cell phone boom, the bell companies made $$$ selling their phone lists to telemarketers.
Then they tried to extort more $$$ from the customer by selling options that would combat telemarketing - caller ID, call blocking, etc.
It was a great double-dipping $$$ scam until the phone customers got wind of it. Small wonder many of them abandoned land lines for cell phones.