You can burn all the biomass you like, and not worry about CO2. Every carbon atom in a living organism originally came from a molecule of CO2 that was in the atmosphere before it was alive. The total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere remains unchanged.
Yes, but if someone has used your copyright material without permission, they have broken the law. At the very least, you cannot be prosecuted for copying what you know to be the bits "pirated" from your own code. If the GPL stands up in a court of law, then the whole of their program may be subject to the GPL. And that means they will have to hand over the source code - or watch and choke back the tears while you recreate it.
It will never be correct to write "it's" as a possessive. "'s" on the end, when forming a possessive, is actually a contraction of "-his", "-hers" or -its. So "William's ball" is short for "William-his ball". "It's" would be short for "it-its", which implies the existence of "its" as the 3rd person {he/she/it/they} singular {only one - he/she/it} possessive pronoun in the neuter gender {things not people}.
Management isn't always idiotic, and when they are, maybe you should explain to them what's dumb about their ideas... and document it. Then they can't blame you for things that don't work.
I accept that there is a more sorted kind of management. However, they are exactly not the ones that try to stipulate stuff like what OS people should be using.
Have you ever even considered that you get to be a manager based on your formidable technical and communicative skills?
Sometimes. But usually, you get to be a manager based on whose arse you lick.
I know because I spent 7 years working for a company that treated its employees like shite -- and that was on a good day. And I was earning enough for my dinner, the rent and precious little else. I just got incredibly lucky and found a way to somewhere better.
That's the way the world works. Management have their own cosy little view of how things should be. The working classes know that if things were really done the way management would have them done, then nothing would work. So on the Shop Floor, the Policy Manual is spurned in favour of procedures that work, and why should it be any different? Managers have no experience of the sharp end of things, they just like looking at pretty pictures. Canonical example of management thinking: if you have sex with nine women, you can get a baby in one month.
Never forget, They need our labour more than we need their wages. Go to it!
Once any software product ceases to be formally supported by its suppliers, it should be placed in the Public Domain by default.
If Micro$oft want to waive their duty-of-care to support NT4 {or any other software product} any longer, then they should also rescind copyright on it, declare the EULA no longer binding on users and permit third parties to provide technical support.
After all, making a copy of NT4.0 will not deprive MS of the opportunity to sell anything if they weren't going to sell it anyway! Hmm. We need to contact our MPs.....
If they would only let me load a real OS, like Slackware, then maybe I could get some real work done, instead of trying to get around the limitations of my box..
Obeying an order that you know to be wrong is no less wrong than issuing that order. Go with your heart and install Slackware on it, I say.
In this country we have a criminal offence of "aiding and abetting" another offence and it can be punished by the same penalty as the more serious offence. So, for example, Microsoft are guilty of aiding and abetting the propagation of viruses &c. which is a crime under the misuse of computers act.
I think -- but I'm not an expert on my own country's laws, let alone anybody else's -- the aiding-and-abetting thing in the USA would be referred to as a crime in the second degree -- so Bill Gates would be guilty of second degree computer misuse {assuming there is a law against writing viruses, trojans and the like}.
We also have a defence that by committing your little crime, you were stopping someone else from committing a bigger crime. I'm not sure if the same thing holds in the USA.
But I reckon that disassembling Windows and finding all the exploits that way probably would prove beyond reasonable doubt that Microsoft is guilty of at least aiding and abetting computer misuse {second-degree computer misuse?} if not actual {first-degree?} computer misuse, and that much bigger crime {especially if fines are levied in proportion to income} would provide the perfect defence to the disassembling.
Copyright to run for five years -- calculated from the date of the first royalty payment {if any}, or the date of publication if no royalty payments are made within that time.
{Explanation: If a work has not made any money within five years, it's never going to. Let go of it and get on with something else.}
After those five years are up, a copyright holder would be extend copyright by a further six months, on payment of a fee equal to half the annual median wage prevailing at the time. The fee for every additional six-month extension to be equal to the total amount of extension fees paid so far. {Explanation: the fee will be palatable at first, while a work is earning money, but by growing exponentially as the work's earning power diminishes, it will tend to limit misuse of copyright extension.}
Additionally, if any technical measures are employed to prevent copying, then a copy of the work without any such measures must be placed in escrow with the appropriate authorities. {Explanation: this is to ensure that a work actually can be released into the public domain when copyright expires.}
Once a work has actually entered the Public Domain, it must stay there. If any part of a Public Domain work is used in a Copyrighted work, the copyright holder must clearly state so. Copying of any of the PD sections of the work shall not be prevented. {Explanation: to protect works that rightfully belong to all of society from commercial exploitation by a greedy minority.}
My experience of installing Linux [Mandrake]: stick first CD in, answer prompts, accept defaults where necessary, change CD when necessary, system reboots once and is ready for use.
Installing Windows [98]: stick CD in, wait, system reboots, answer prompts, wait, system reboots, eventually Windows installation has finished but only gives 16 colours 640x480, and no sound or networking. Insert Motherboard Driver CD. Proceed to play long game of musical CDs as PC demands 1st Windows CD, then Mobo CD. After half a dozen reboots, system is ready for use.
If things go les Roberts vers le haut as they say in Paris, it's usually easier to put them straight under Linux than Windows. And under Linux I know I can do everything from the command line -- no need to arse about with a graphical interface that sacrificed functionality for looks.
For those who say Lindows is charging money for something that you think should be free, I have one suggestion for you.
Make your own puppy-walking distribution that starts simple - so there's nothing for neophytes to fear - and grows up with you rather than holding you back. {How about a file manager with a window that shows you what you could have typed into a terminal to achieve the same effect -- it would be off by default, but you could turn it on once you felt ready for it?} Make it better than Mandrake or Lindows. Make it easy to customise, so you can add features as you become more confident. {Start building web pages with a HTML editor -> put in your own Apache server -> do some programming in PHP -> progress to a "real" language -> become a kernel hacker..... well, you can always dream:-) } Make it free.
You can do it. All the bits are out there, for free -- all it is going to take is a bit of custom scripting to hold it all together. Nobody is stopping anybody from doing it.
Unless you can't be bothered to do it, in which case you've no place slagging off those that have at least tried.
No, you're allowed to sell it, as long as you also tell people where they can get it for free -- though maybe involving a bit more work than if you bought it. Then it's the customer's decision, whether they pay for it and save some effort, or make the effort and save the money. Prices are set by the market. If someone tries to sell software at too high a price, then they will soon find themselves being undercut.
No, BSD is built on a BSD kernel. The Linux and BSD kernels both do very similar things, though, and software that works with one can usually be easily persuaded to work with the other.
There are many different varieties of BSD, some are sold under a proprietary licence whilst some are freely redistributable.
We need a law saying that it is illegal to import goods manufactured using working practices {unfair wages, lack of union representation, health and safety breaches &c.} that would be illegal in the importing country.
Also a law saying that it is illegal to import and export the same kind of goods across the same frontier. {I'm thinking here of the British meat industry. We were told we couldn't vaccinate animals against F&MD because we would lose our export market. But the supermarket shelves were full of imported meat. Go figure.}
Anyone who has ever tasted home-baked bread, or even bread bought from the instore bakery, knows that store-bought sliced bread is absolutely minging.
There are a great many things better than sliced bread. {Of course, by baking my own bread at home I'm probably commiting some kind of theft, since I am depriving the bakeries of an opportunity to sell me a loaf.}
Why? The patents don't appear to be of the obvious "one-click shopping" type
Does anyone think I could get a patent on "A method for initiating a chemical reaction by touching the reagents with a short piece of wood which has dipped in some fuel-and-oxidiser cocktail, allowed to dry, then rubbed against a piece of roughened material in order to generate some heat by friction, thereby initiating an exothermic chemical reaction at the end of the piece of wood, whose energy is used to initiate the chemical reaction first referred to in the claim"?
This would be obvious to an expert in the field {I was actually describing yvtugnat n sver jvgu n zngpu rot-13'ed so as not to spoil the puzzle - anyone really not get it?}, and so the patent is null and void.
At risk of this being obvious, how do I get Xine to read CSS'ed discs? The Debian package does not include this as standard. Do I need to get the source and compile it myself?
YES - it's called a thermocouple. There is one in every standing-pilot gas boiler, used as a flame-failure detector. The pilot flame heats the thermocouple probe, producing a current which holds in an electromagnet. This electromagnet operates a valve upstream of the other controls. If the pilot flame blows out, the thermocouple cools down, and the electromagnet releases. This blocks off the gas supply, preventing against an explosion hazard.
The priming knob is a way to open the safety valve manually to get some gas to the pilot burner so you can light it in the first place.
A modern boiler uses electronic ignition, and senses the flame electronically. This is easy. Fire is a chemical reaction; in a chemical reaction there are charged particles in motion; and where there are charged particles in motion, a current can be made to flow. In practice the current is about a microamp for a small pilot flame, or several uA if the main burner is lit directly {which is now becoming more common}. Lighting a bigger burner does not, of course, require a higher-energy spark, as the activation energy of a chemical reaction is independent of the quantities of reagents present. But it does allow you to get away with even simpler plumbing {only one gas valve instead of two} and it also saves one relay on the circuit board.
I know all this from my previous employment.....
Coming back to thermocouples, you can make a thermocouple junction from any two dissimilar metals. They only need to be twisted together; you can cold-weld them. Soldering introduces a third metal, but doesn't make any difference to the voltage as you then have 2 junctions: metal A to solder and solder to metal B, and the First Law of Thermodynamics says that Vas + Vsb = Vab.
The problem with using thermocouples to generate electricity from a processor is simply that you need a large temperature differential for them to work well, and a processor is only reaching about 60 degrees or so with a heatsink -- it will melt at about 160 degrees, but the PTC {positive temperature coefficient} effect means it will stop working around 120 degrees, as the electrical resistance of the power and ground connections becomes too great for reliable operation.
Even if you let the processor get up to 80 degrees, this is still only 60 degrees above room temperature, and this small difference won't produce a lot of millivoltage. Of course, you can connect thermocouples in series -- such an arrangement is known as a thermopile, and has been used to power a wireless set from the flame of a paraffin lamp. You need to put a hot thermocouple junction into series with a cold junction, and so on. The catch is that you need for there to be a large temperature difference between the hot and cold ends, but the more junctions you introduce into the thermopile then the more paths there are for heat to be conducted from the one side to the other.
You could cool the cold junctions with liquid nitrogen, but you might as well just pour the N2 on the processor.
Older processors with larger feature sizes were more immune to overheating, as the PTC effect was enough to protect the chip from meltdown. I've seen old pentium MMXes run with no heatsink -- they typically last just long enough to boot Windows 95, then seize up solid, but they can survive the experience! I wouldn't trust a modern Athlon without a heatsink, though.
And, since not all of the electricity supplied into a processor is converted to heat in the processor {some of it is converted to other forms of energy and/or converted elsewhere}, then you won't get the full amount back.
BTW, I do support technical copy protection: Technology is a much fairer and pleasant fighting ground than law.
Technical copyright protection is physically impossible in the same way that a perpetual motion machine is physically impossible. If the message can be perceived by a human being, then it can be recorded. That is a certainty and it is meaningless to pretend otherwise.
I like your gigs-for-MP3s formula, though. I wouldn't begrudge a group the few pennies they get on the sale of those tracks on a CD I actually want to listen to..... it's just that they don't seem to want my money directly.
I tried installing vlc and libdvdcsss on my laptop {Packard Bell 4450 == rebadged NEC Versa E400. Celeron 1500, 128MB RAM, Debian 3.0r0}. It worked once, with a Region 2 disc. I tried a region 1 disc, which crashed the machine thoroughly enough to need an emergency power off. Now I keep getting the same effect with every DVD I have tried.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do I need a newer version? Is there something I need to compile into my kernel? Or is my laptop's DVD drive bust? I hope not.....
I have had no such trouble with vlc and libdvdcss on my Athlon, but I'm running Mandrake on that with a horribly bloated stock kernel and extra stuff running. With 2GHz of speed and 1GB of RAM, that matters less:-)
I'd assumed they would use a butane/isobutane mix as used in Clipper lighters {the ones with the detachable roach poker}, not liquid lighter fuel {as used in Zippos}. This stuff burns ideally to give carbon dioxide and water vapour; even under non-ideal circumstances no product will have more than four carbon atoms in it. Pentane, its isomers and longer chain hydrocarbons are liquid or solid at room temperatures; so as long as the carburettor is designed so only gaseous fuel can mix with air and enter the engine, then it should be fairly clean-burning.
I would have thought the main drawback with having a little engine in a cellphone would be noise. Even if you had a good enough muffler, the thing might vibrate uncomfortably. And, of course, there is the ignition to consider. If it uses a traditional magneto and spark plug, then it will almost certainly interfere with the sensitive electronics in the phone.....
Still, I'm sure these wrinkles will be ironed out sooner or later. I want one to play with!
I wrote something which I called SpamJavelin
which does pretty much the same thing. It's not as short as the example {it runs to 17 lines not including the tags}, but it does give you a simple function to call and mung any old e-mail address.
Still, it's nice to see other people having similar ideas..... I say go for it. Every website should have one!
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You can burn all the biomass you like, and not worry about CO2. Every carbon atom in a living organism originally came from a molecule of CO2 that was in the atmosphere before it was alive. The total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere remains unchanged.
Yes, but if someone has used your copyright material without permission, they have broken the law. At the very least, you cannot be prosecuted for copying what you know to be the bits "pirated" from your own code. If the GPL stands up in a court of law, then the whole of their program may be subject to the GPL. And that means they will have to hand over the source code - or watch and choke back the tears while you recreate it.
It will never be correct to write "it's" as a possessive. "'s" on the end, when forming a possessive, is actually a contraction of "-his", "-hers" or -its. So "William's ball" is short for "William-his ball". "It's" would be short for "it-its", which implies the existence of "its" as the 3rd person {he/she/it/they} singular {only one - he/she/it} possessive pronoun in the neuter gender {things not people}.
I know because I spent 7 years working for a company that treated its employees like shite -- and that was on a good day. And I was earning enough for my dinner, the rent and precious little else. I just got incredibly lucky and found a way to somewhere better.
That's the way the world works. Management have their own cosy little view of how things should be. The working classes know that if things were really done the way management would have them done, then nothing would work. So on the Shop Floor, the Policy Manual is spurned in favour of procedures that work, and why should it be any different? Managers have no experience of the sharp end of things, they just like looking at pretty pictures. Canonical example of management thinking: if you have sex with nine women, you can get a baby in one month.
Never forget, They need our labour more than we need their wages. Go to it!
Once any software product ceases to be formally supported by its suppliers, it should be placed in the Public Domain by default.
.....
If Micro$oft want to waive their duty-of-care to support NT4 {or any other software product} any longer, then they should also rescind copyright on it, declare the EULA no longer binding on users and permit third parties to provide technical support.
After all, making a copy of NT4.0 will not deprive MS of the opportunity to sell anything if they weren't going to sell it anyway! Hmm. We need to contact our MPs
In this country we have a criminal offence of "aiding and abetting" another offence and it can be punished by the same penalty as the more serious offence. So, for example, Microsoft are guilty of aiding and abetting the propagation of viruses &c. which is a crime under the misuse of computers act.
I think -- but I'm not an expert on my own country's laws, let alone anybody else's -- the aiding-and-abetting thing in the USA would be referred to as a crime in the second degree -- so Bill Gates would be guilty of second degree computer misuse {assuming there is a law against writing viruses, trojans and the like}.
We also have a defence that by committing your little crime, you were stopping someone else from committing a bigger crime. I'm not sure if the same thing holds in the USA.
But I reckon that disassembling Windows and finding all the exploits that way probably would prove beyond reasonable doubt that Microsoft is guilty of at least aiding and abetting computer misuse {second-degree computer misuse?} if not actual {first-degree?} computer misuse, and that much bigger crime {especially if fines are levied in proportion to income} would provide the perfect defence to the disassembling.
Copyright to run for five years -- calculated from the date of the first royalty payment {if any}, or the date of publication if no royalty payments are made within that time. {Explanation: If a work has not made any money within five years, it's never going to. Let go of it and get on with something else.} After those five years are up, a copyright holder would be extend copyright by a further six months, on payment of a fee equal to half the annual median wage prevailing at the time. The fee for every additional six-month extension to be equal to the total amount of extension fees paid so far. {Explanation: the fee will be palatable at first, while a work is earning money, but by growing exponentially as the work's earning power diminishes, it will tend to limit misuse of copyright extension.}
Additionally, if any technical measures are employed to prevent copying, then a copy of the work without any such measures must be placed in escrow with the appropriate authorities. {Explanation: this is to ensure that a work actually can be released into the public domain when copyright expires.}
Once a work has actually entered the Public Domain, it must stay there. If any part of a Public Domain work is used in a Copyrighted work, the copyright holder must clearly state so. Copying of any of the PD sections of the work shall not be prevented. {Explanation: to protect works that rightfully belong to all of society from commercial exploitation by a greedy minority.}
As many times as it takes for it to sink in.
Than Windows, I imagine. Shock! Horror!
My experience of installing Linux [Mandrake]: stick first CD in, answer prompts, accept defaults where necessary, change CD when necessary, system reboots once and is ready for use.
Installing Windows [98]: stick CD in, wait, system reboots, answer prompts, wait, system reboots, eventually Windows installation has finished but only gives 16 colours 640x480, and no sound or networking. Insert Motherboard Driver CD. Proceed to play long game of musical CDs as PC demands 1st Windows CD, then Mobo CD. After half a dozen reboots, system is ready for use.
If things go les Roberts vers le haut as they say in Paris, it's usually easier to put them straight under Linux than Windows. And under Linux I know I can do everything from the command line -- no need to arse about with a graphical interface that sacrificed functionality for looks.
It's tantamount to the same thing ..... once someone's bought it, there's nothing in the GPL to stop them selling it on cheaper, or giving it away.
For those who say Lindows is charging money for something that you think should be free, I have one suggestion for you.
..... well, you can always dream :-) } Make it free.
Make your own puppy-walking distribution that starts simple - so there's nothing for neophytes to fear - and grows up with you rather than holding you back. {How about a file manager with a window that shows you what you could have typed into a terminal to achieve the same effect -- it would be off by default, but you could turn it on once you felt ready for it?} Make it better than Mandrake or Lindows. Make it easy to customise, so you can add features as you become more confident. {Start building web pages with a HTML editor -> put in your own Apache server -> do some programming in PHP -> progress to a "real" language -> become a kernel hacker
You can do it. All the bits are out there, for free -- all it is going to take is a bit of custom scripting to hold it all together. Nobody is stopping anybody from doing it.
Unless you can't be bothered to do it, in which case you've no place slagging off those that have at least tried.
No, you're allowed to sell it, as long as you also tell people where they can get it for free -- though maybe involving a bit more work than if you bought it. Then it's the customer's decision, whether they pay for it and save some effort, or make the effort and save the money. Prices are set by the market. If someone tries to sell software at too high a price, then they will soon find themselves being undercut.
No, BSD is built on a BSD kernel. The Linux and BSD kernels both do very similar things, though, and software that works with one can usually be easily persuaded to work with the other.
There are many different varieties of BSD, some are sold under a proprietary licence whilst some are freely redistributable.
There is an easy solution to this.
We need a law saying that it is illegal to import goods manufactured using working practices {unfair wages, lack of union representation, health and safety breaches &c.} that would be illegal in the importing country.
Also a law saying that it is illegal to import and export the same kind of goods across the same frontier. {I'm thinking here of the British meat industry. We were told we couldn't vaccinate animals against F&MD because we would lose our export market. But the supermarket shelves were full of imported meat. Go figure.}
What is this thing about sliced bread?
Anyone who has ever tasted home-baked bread, or even bread bought from the instore bakery, knows that store-bought sliced bread is absolutely minging.
There are a great many things better than sliced bread. {Of course, by baking my own bread at home I'm probably commiting some kind of theft, since I am depriving the bakeries of an opportunity to sell me a loaf.}
This would be obvious to an expert in the field {I was actually describing
yvtugnat n sver jvgu n zngpu
rot-13'ed so as not to spoil the puzzle - anyone really not get it?}, and so the patent is null and void.
Ting! Next please.
At risk of this being obvious, how do I get Xine to read CSS'ed discs? The Debian package does not include this as standard. Do I need to get the source and compile it myself?
YES - it's called a thermocouple. There is one in every standing-pilot gas boiler, used as a flame-failure detector. The pilot flame heats the thermocouple probe, producing a current which holds in an electromagnet. This electromagnet operates a valve upstream of the other controls. If the pilot flame blows out, the thermocouple cools down, and the electromagnet releases. This blocks off the gas supply, preventing against an explosion hazard.
.....
The priming knob is a way to open the safety valve manually to get some gas to the pilot burner so you can light it in the first place.
A modern boiler uses electronic ignition, and senses the flame electronically. This is easy. Fire is a chemical reaction; in a chemical reaction there are charged particles in motion; and where there are charged particles in motion, a current can be made to flow. In practice the current is about a microamp for a small pilot flame, or several uA if the main burner is lit directly {which is now becoming more common}. Lighting a bigger burner does not, of course, require a higher-energy spark, as the activation energy of a chemical reaction is independent of the quantities of reagents present. But it does allow you to get away with even simpler plumbing {only one gas valve instead of two} and it also saves one relay on the circuit board.
I know all this from my previous employment
Coming back to thermocouples, you can make a thermocouple junction from any two dissimilar metals. They only need to be twisted together; you can cold-weld them. Soldering introduces a third metal, but doesn't make any difference to the voltage as you then have 2 junctions: metal A to solder and solder to metal B, and the First Law of Thermodynamics says that Vas + Vsb = Vab.
The problem with using thermocouples to generate electricity from a processor is simply that you need a large temperature differential for them to work well, and a processor is only reaching about 60 degrees or so with a heatsink -- it will melt at about 160 degrees, but the PTC {positive temperature coefficient} effect means it will stop working around 120 degrees, as the electrical resistance of the power and ground connections becomes too great for reliable operation.
Even if you let the processor get up to 80 degrees, this is still only 60 degrees above room temperature, and this small difference won't produce a lot of millivoltage. Of course, you can connect thermocouples in series -- such an arrangement is known as a thermopile, and has been used to power a wireless set from the flame of a paraffin lamp. You need to put a hot thermocouple junction into series with a cold junction, and so on. The catch is that you need for there to be a large temperature difference between the hot and cold ends, but the more junctions you introduce into the thermopile then the more paths there are for heat to be conducted from the one side to the other.
You could cool the cold junctions with liquid nitrogen, but you might as well just pour the N2 on the processor.
Older processors with larger feature sizes were more immune to overheating, as the PTC effect was enough to protect the chip from meltdown. I've seen old pentium MMXes run with no heatsink -- they typically last just long enough to boot Windows 95, then seize up solid, but they can survive the experience! I wouldn't trust a modern Athlon without a heatsink, though.
And, since not all of the electricity supplied into a processor is converted to heat in the processor {some of it is converted to other forms of energy and/or converted elsewhere}, then you won't get the full amount back.
I like your gigs-for-MP3s formula, though. I wouldn't begrudge a group the few pennies they get on the sale of those tracks on a CD I actually want to listen to
I tried installing vlc and libdvdcsss on my laptop {Packard Bell 4450 == rebadged NEC Versa E400. Celeron 1500, 128MB RAM, Debian 3.0r0}. It worked once, with a Region 2 disc. I tried a region 1 disc, which crashed the machine thoroughly enough to need an emergency power off. Now I keep getting the same effect with every DVD I have tried.
.....
:-)
Has anyone else experienced this? Do I need a newer version? Is there something I need to compile into my kernel? Or is my laptop's DVD drive bust? I hope not
I have had no such trouble with vlc and libdvdcss on my Athlon, but I'm running Mandrake on that with a horribly bloated stock kernel and extra stuff running. With 2GHz of speed and 1GB of RAM, that matters less
Well, it is BRUM UNI after all ..... says an Aston graduate ;-)
I'd assumed they would use a butane/isobutane mix as used in Clipper lighters {the ones with the detachable roach poker}, not liquid lighter fuel {as used in Zippos}. This stuff burns ideally to give carbon dioxide and water vapour; even under non-ideal circumstances no product will have more than four carbon atoms in it. Pentane, its isomers and longer chain hydrocarbons are liquid or solid at room temperatures; so as long as the carburettor is designed so only gaseous fuel can mix with air and enter the engine, then it should be fairly clean-burning.
.....
I would have thought the main drawback with having a little engine in a cellphone would be noise. Even if you had a good enough muffler, the thing might vibrate uncomfortably. And, of course, there is the ignition to consider. If it uses a traditional magneto and spark plug, then it will almost certainly interfere with the sensitive electronics in the phone
Still, I'm sure these wrinkles will be ironed out sooner or later. I want one to play with!
I wrote something which I called SpamJavelin which does pretty much the same thing. It's not as short as the example {it runs to 17 lines not including the tags}, but it does give you a simple function to call and mung any old e-mail address.
..... I say go for it. Every website should have one!
Still, it's nice to see other people having similar ideas