> The Microsoft Windows OS is not the property of the consumer using it. It is the property > of Microsoft used under a license from Microsoft.
The copyright is owned by Microsoft. The consumer owns the copy.
> If the usage of the OS complies with the license then surely any inadvertent behavior on > the part of the OS is the responsibility of the owner (Microsoft) and not the license > holder (the end user).
That is between the vendor and copyright owner (Microsoft) and the owner of the copy (the "end user"). If Microsoft swindled you, sue them . The bank is not involved.
...why anyone would entrust any data of any importance at all, secret or not, to free services provided by an advertising agency. I can see using it to plan your frat party or organize Little League games, but using it for business?
> At 6000K, though, it's not going to be in my living room...
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but I have to tell you that your incandescents are already running at 3000K. If you are so into lighting technology perhaps you might try to find time to actually study up on the subject.
> Such high operating temperatures would not be acceptable for domestic use > - the risk of fire would simply be too great.
Don't be silly. 6000K is the internal temperature of the gas. The filament in an incandescent lamp can reach 3000K. What matters is the external temperature, which is likely to be lower for a more efficient lamp.
> The only thing I can think of is that donotreply.com becomes a reserved word...
".invalid" is already a reserved top-level domain. Thus "donotreply.invalid" would produce the desired behavior.
>...which is probably easier than getting all those mail administrators to change their > behavior, or to get smarter.
This guy seems to be dealing with it. Perhaps he could arrange for incoming emails to be automatically entered into a database searchable at www.donotreply.com. Should be easily doable by hacking on one of the mailing-list packages.
> Hydrogen leaks out of the balls slowly, becoming a gas and maintaining a roughly constant > pressure in the tank...
What happens when you leave the car parked over the weekend? Seems like the pressure is going to rise to the "very high pressure" at which it was put in the balls.
> These plans are about as useful as a map to the moon-
These plans are about as useful as a photo of the moon taken with a backyard telescope. Even if the ideas in them were not already public any competent physicist would rediscover them early in his bomb design project.
> This may be fine for a bomb that is to be used shortly after manufacture, but not for a > warhead that is supposed to sit in a missile silo for years.
What makes you think that nuclear warheads are required to sit unserviced for years?
In fact, becoming unusable if not serviced regularly is a desireable feature in a nuclear weapon. Think about it.
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Maybe they were lost. After all, it isn't as though they had access to any maps or anything.
...for your driveway.
> The Microsoft Windows OS is not the property of the consumer using it. It is the property
> of Microsoft used under a license from Microsoft.
The copyright is owned by Microsoft. The consumer owns the copy.
> If the usage of the OS complies with the license then surely any inadvertent behavior on
> the part of the OS is the responsibility of the owner (Microsoft) and not the license
> holder (the end user).
That is between the vendor and copyright owner (Microsoft) and the owner of the copy (the "end user"). If Microsoft swindled you, sue them . The bank is not involved.
> UK Banking Law...
No law involved. This is about bank policy.
> If you use an insecure OS in the UK and someone drains your bank account, the banks say
> it's your fault.
No shit. Why should the bank be responsible for your buggy software? Sue whoever sold it to you if they lied to you.
> Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems?
Who the hell else should be responsible?
> not the ISP's, they are indemnified with this plan.
They are fully protected now by the DMCA. This plan gives them nothing.
You don't quite understand. They want a Federal law requiring the ISPs to collect the fee and hand it over to them.
> It seems like in exchange for this monthly fee you get access to legal downloads.
They have absolutely nothing I want. I mean that literally.
> Didn't the Inet start out FREE!
No.
...why anyone would entrust any data of any importance at all, secret or not, to free services provided by an advertising agency. I can see using it to plan your frat party or organize Little League games, but using it for business?
> At 6000K, though, it's not going to be in my living room...
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but I have to tell you that your incandescents are already running at 3000K. If you are so into lighting technology perhaps you might try to find time to actually study up on the subject.
> Such high operating temperatures would not be acceptable for domestic use
> - the risk of fire would simply be too great.
Don't be silly. 6000K is the internal temperature of the gas. The filament in an incandescent lamp can reach 3000K. What matters is the external temperature, which is likely to be lower for a more efficient lamp.
> Who is the bigger "butthead" here?
The buttheads who are being paid $70,000/year to run corporate mail servers and don't know that "invalid" is a reserved top-level domain.
> For reply addresses, a more reasonable protocol would be to use the sender's actual
> domain but with an invalid username...
No, more reasonable would be to use "anything.invalid" as ".invalid" is a reserved top-level domain.
> I always liked shoveitupyour@ss.net.
I'm sure Sharper Solutions LLC would really appreciate that.
> The only thing I can think of is that donotreply.com becomes a reserved word...
...which is probably easier than getting all those mail administrators to change their
".invalid" is already a reserved top-level domain. Thus "donotreply.invalid"
would produce the desired behavior.
>
> behavior, or to get smarter.
This guy seems to be dealing with it. Perhaps he could arrange for incoming emails to be automatically entered into a database searchable at www.donotreply.com. Should be easily doable by hacking on one of the mailing-list packages.
> Sounds more impressive when you convert to volume, doesn't it?
Not when you remember that hydrogen gas at STP is much less dense than air.
> If we cracked the CO2 already in the air to make the fulerenes and then burned them it
> wouldn't add anything to the atmosphere at all.
If we cracked the CO2 already in the air (and some water) to make octane and then burned it, it wouldn't add anything to the atmosphere at all.
And of course no one will look for such a method because this is just a "scientific curiosity".
> Hydrogen leaks out of the balls slowly, becoming a gas and maintaining a roughly constant
> pressure in the tank...
What happens when you leave the car parked over the weekend? Seems like the pressure is going to rise to the "very high pressure" at which it was put in the balls.
> ...hydrogen atoms weigh exactly 2...
One.
Otherwise known as gasoline.
Please stop confounding authentication and identification.
> Of course not. So, who is it that will always know what is harmless and what isn't?
The Authorities, of course. Always trust the Authorities. They know what is best for you.
> These plans are about as useful as a map to the moon-
These plans are about as useful as a photo of the moon taken with a backyard telescope. Even if the ideas in them were not already public any competent physicist would rediscover them early in his bomb design project.
> This may be fine for a bomb that is to be used shortly after manufacture, but not for a
> warhead that is supposed to sit in a missile silo for years.
What makes you think that nuclear warheads are required to sit unserviced for years?
In fact, becoming unusable if not serviced regularly is a desireable feature in a nuclear weapon. Think about it.