we have payware, trialware, shareware, postcardware...
do we now have 'beerware'?
"To register this product, please send one case of (insert favorite alcoholic product here) to xxx, and your registration number will be sent to you shortly"
the only way you're going to know that it's a confidential document is that it's going to have "confidential" enblazoned on it. the company has done it's job to notify you that you should not be looking at this material. you now have knowledge that this is confidential, and you are expected to treat it as such. you need to destroy it, and behave as if you never learned anything.
if you are found to harbor or knowingly distribute that information, once you have been made aware that it is confidential, you then become liable.
while true that some microorganisms could survive an interplanetary trip on their own, not all of them can. why not take the high road and quarantine them? nothing is lost by doing that, and you significantly reduce the potential of disease. sounds like a no brainer to me.
interesting. almost everything is going to reflect light, to some degree. as far as i know, we've not discovered any black bodies in the mantle of the earth. a laser powerful enough to melt and vaporize rock certainly will have the effect of generating enough heat to surpass the flash point of a short chain carbon gas. vaporization of the rock will certainly liberate oxygen.
lightening is in contact with a struck object for 1/10's of a second, which often results in a huge explosion. i've been nearby objects struck before, and they certainly do end up in a fireball. imagine what a 70 second, 2.2MW laser beam would do, compared to a 1/10 second touch.
actually, i do have a degree in chemistry. if you are a student of the sciences, you should realize that a -huge- portion of the earths oxygen is bound in minerals. what do you think will happen to that oxygen when the minerals are vaporized? as a student of natural sciences, you should also realize what happens when a gas under pressure suddenly finds itself vented. it's going to come out. after it rushes out, there will be a vacuum created, and guess what will rush in? and if we're talking lasers capable of vaporizing metals, you no longer are speaking of simple combustion, but you enter into plasma theory. who different ballgame than dropping a match down a water well, my friend.
and of course carbon can burn underground. i leave 100 miles from a town where there's been an underground coal fire for the last 50 years. we -can't- figure out a way to extinguish it. look up centralia.
NAI isn't going to give away the source to it's commercial products, which, ostensibly, are marketed at 'better' than freeware. there's no way pz is still calling the shots for this product - to think nai would allow that is nothing short of niave. pz sold the rights to this product line, made a mint, and now the corporation is going to do what any other corporation would do - make money off the product in any legal way they see fit.
of course, PGP isn't open source, so we really aren't certain phil and friends haven't placed a well written backdoor to allow viewing of encrypted messages.
should this be the case, perpetuating the idea of security by placing export restrictions and a low level disinformation campaign made to foster distrust via suggestions that PGP provides unbreakable security would benefit the goverments of the world by giving a false sense of security to those 'bad guys', and urge them to use the program, which actually gives an automatic back door entry for authorities..
something to think about..
me? consipircist theory? naa...
regardless if you write copyright, all rights reserved, or not, any material you write is automatically copyrighted. posting the notice is just that - a notice meant to remind others that you own it.
you'd be hard pressed, though, to win a copyright case based on personal information. especially when they take bits and pieces of that information, and reorder it so that it vaguely resembles the original source, but is distinctly different. sure would be a funny challenge, though 8-)
one of the 'rights' of consumers as listed was
"Inaccurate information must be corrected or deleted, assuming you can prove it's inaccurate and the CRA agrees it's inaccurate, but the CRA is not required to remove accurate data from your file unless it is outdated."
why is it the consumers responsibility to prove the data is innacurate, especially when failure to do so amounts to the presumption of guilt? responsibility to prove money owed needs to lie with the creditor. what's to stop any creditor from just saying i owe then 100 dollars, then, and make me prove that i don't?
10 years ago i had my wallet and checkbook stolen. i cancelled all accounts w/in 2 hours, and in the following 3 days, 3 checks were written from my then cancelled account. verisign of course recieved information that i was passing bad checks. after presenting them with certified bank statements saying i was not responsible and a police report, they were still denying my checks, and this was before the days of cash cards - check, cash, or credit card were your only options. since i was in college, i didn't have much credit, so i had to rely on checks to get by. they had effectively taken away my only means of paying for a living for a number of months, reglardless of my efforts 'proving' that i was not responsible. finally it went to litagation - funny how quickly the issue was resolved when a summons appeared.
2 weeks to get to mars means you're moving at an awfully good clip.
i wonder how big a crater a ship moving that fast would leave - if we send up a couple of those i bet we could add ears or dimples to the face formation on mars...
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we have payware, trialware, shareware, postcardware...
do we now have 'beerware'?
"To register this product, please send one case of (insert favorite alcoholic product here) to xxx, and your registration number will be sent to you shortly"
the only way you're going to know that it's a confidential document is that it's going to have "confidential" enblazoned on it. the company has done it's job to notify you that you should not be looking at this material. you now have knowledge that this is confidential, and you are expected to treat it as such. you need to destroy it, and behave as if you never learned anything. if you are found to harbor or knowingly distribute that information, once you have been made aware that it is confidential, you then become liable.
while true that some microorganisms could survive an interplanetary trip on their own, not all of them can. why not take the high road and quarantine them? nothing is lost by doing that, and you significantly reduce the potential of disease. sounds like a no brainer to me.
i don't understand what the big deal is...
rather, it's how you use those cycles...
yeah, baby..
interesting. almost everything is going to reflect light, to some degree. as far as i know, we've not discovered any black bodies in the mantle of the earth. a laser powerful enough to melt and vaporize rock certainly will have the effect of generating enough heat to surpass the flash point of a short chain carbon gas. vaporization of the rock will certainly liberate oxygen. lightening is in contact with a struck object for 1/10's of a second, which often results in a huge explosion. i've been nearby objects struck before, and they certainly do end up in a fireball. imagine what a 70 second, 2.2MW laser beam would do, compared to a 1/10 second touch.
actually, i do have a degree in chemistry. if you are a student of the sciences, you should realize that a -huge- portion of the earths oxygen is bound in minerals. what do you think will happen to that oxygen when the minerals are vaporized? as a student of natural sciences, you should also realize what happens when a gas under pressure suddenly finds itself vented. it's going to come out. after it rushes out, there will be a vacuum created, and guess what will rush in? and if we're talking lasers capable of vaporizing metals, you no longer are speaking of simple combustion, but you enter into plasma theory. who different ballgame than dropping a match down a water well, my friend.
and of course carbon can burn underground. i leave 100 miles from a town where there's been an underground coal fire for the last 50 years. we -can't- figure out a way to extinguish it. look up centralia.
say a natural gas pocket? FIRE IN THE HOLE!!
finally! i knew all that diesel fuel and ammunition i'd hoarded for the y2k catrastophe would come in useful!
NAI isn't going to give away the source to it's commercial products, which, ostensibly, are marketed at 'better' than freeware. there's no way pz is still calling the shots for this product - to think nai would allow that is nothing short of niave. pz sold the rights to this product line, made a mint, and now the corporation is going to do what any other corporation would do - make money off the product in any legal way they see fit.
of course, PGP isn't open source, so we really aren't certain phil and friends haven't placed a well written backdoor to allow viewing of encrypted messages. should this be the case, perpetuating the idea of security by placing export restrictions and a low level disinformation campaign made to foster distrust via suggestions that PGP provides unbreakable security would benefit the goverments of the world by giving a false sense of security to those 'bad guys', and urge them to use the program, which actually gives an automatic back door entry for authorities.. something to think about.. me? consipircist theory? naa...
regardless if you write copyright, all rights reserved, or not, any material you write is automatically copyrighted. posting the notice is just that - a notice meant to remind others that you own it. you'd be hard pressed, though, to win a copyright case based on personal information. especially when they take bits and pieces of that information, and reorder it so that it vaguely resembles the original source, but is distinctly different. sure would be a funny challenge, though 8-)
one of the 'rights' of consumers as listed was "Inaccurate information must be corrected or deleted, assuming you can prove it's inaccurate and the CRA agrees it's inaccurate, but the CRA is not required to remove accurate data from your file unless it is outdated."
why is it the consumers responsibility to prove the data is innacurate, especially when failure to do so amounts to the presumption of guilt? responsibility to prove money owed needs to lie with the creditor. what's to stop any creditor from just saying i owe then 100 dollars, then, and make me prove that i don't?
10 years ago i had my wallet and checkbook stolen. i cancelled all accounts w/in 2 hours, and in the following 3 days, 3 checks were written from my then cancelled account. verisign of course recieved information that i was passing bad checks. after presenting them with certified bank statements saying i was not responsible and a police report, they were still denying my checks, and this was before the days of cash cards - check, cash, or credit card were your only options. since i was in college, i didn't have much credit, so i had to rely on checks to get by. they had effectively taken away my only means of paying for a living for a number of months, reglardless of my efforts 'proving' that i was not responsible. finally it went to litagation - funny how quickly the issue was resolved when a summons appeared.
2 weeks to get to mars means you're moving at an awfully good clip. i wonder how big a crater a ship moving that fast would leave - if we send up a couple of those i bet we could add ears or dimples to the face formation on mars...