Not sure if anyone is equipped to be making judgments on whether or not the curious "The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed." has been violated in any but the most egregious of cases. This is an irrevocably slippery slope that renders the whole "change" a bit silly.
... in that many times, the real source or perpetrators have taken pains to hide their identities and those of their "cause-mates" and/or to make some sorry [perhaps not-so-bright but otherwise innocent] sap take the fall. It's not like we can conveniently follow the missile trajectory back to that known Soviet missile site...
A retaliation is likely to cause a large degree of collateral damage and thus the cycle would continue...
Other posts on pure O2 toxicity are on the mark, for sure, as are the posts on maintaining sufficient pressure in the system so as to keep your lungs from becoming the size of a large coffee cup at depth. What about stuff like rotational inertia of the thing keeping you from moving where you want, and the NOISE that this thing would make?
I'm all for the First Amendment, but it doesn't guarantee an audience, nor funds to conduct that "speech" to everyone. The problem with SPAM/SPIM is that it is equivalent to the post office delivering a boatload of junkmail to your mailbox along with a bill for that delivery. These SPAMHOLES are STEALING your assets: bandwith, time, other resource. Entirely different than First Amendment issue, IMHO.
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Not sure if anyone is equipped to be making judgments on whether or not the curious "The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed." has been violated in any but the most egregious of cases. This is an irrevocably slippery slope that renders the whole "change" a bit silly.
... in that many times, the real source or perpetrators have taken pains to hide their identities and those of their "cause-mates" and/or to make some sorry [perhaps not-so-bright but otherwise innocent] sap take the fall. It's not like we can conveniently follow the missile trajectory back to that known Soviet missile site... A retaliation is likely to cause a large degree of collateral damage and thus the cycle would continue...
Other posts on pure O2 toxicity are on the mark, for sure, as are the posts on maintaining sufficient pressure in the system so as to keep your lungs from becoming the size of a large coffee cup at depth. What about stuff like rotational inertia of the thing keeping you from moving where you want, and the NOISE that this thing would make?
I'm all for the First Amendment, but it doesn't guarantee an audience, nor funds to conduct that "speech" to everyone. The problem with SPAM/SPIM is that it is equivalent to the post office delivering a boatload of junkmail to your mailbox along with a bill for that delivery. These SPAMHOLES are STEALING your assets: bandwith, time, other resource. Entirely different than First Amendment issue, IMHO.
It would seem that Symantec's LiveUpdate falls into the same category... see http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=liveupdate&OS=liveup date&RS=liveupdate. It would seem from Symantec was talking about this feature in 1996 http://www.symantec.com/press/1996/n960916b.html/, well before filing date of 4/20/2000 for the patent in question.