The best way to insulate oneself from lightning is to be _inside_ a metal object, such as an automobile.
Anyone who has seen the Electricity Show at the increasingly unchanging Boston Museum of Science knows that.
Lightning Safety tips, for the uniniated:
1. Do try to not be the highest thing around. 2. Don't stand under the highest thing around. 3. Don't lay flat on the ground if you are at a golf course or open field. Crouch. 3a. Some country clubs splurge and buy lightning detectors. Pay attention to the warning. 4. Seek freakin' shelter 5. 4 may conflict with 2. 6. Cell phones are the least of your worries. 7. Geeks should be more concerned whether the insurance covers the electronics. 8. The rubber soles of your shoes won't protect you. 9. If you are talking on your cell phone in the middle of a field during a lightning storm, Saint Darwin will announce "You! Out of the gene pool!" and take your soul.
and lastly...
10. **"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that >>metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm," Esprit added.** So drop your pants and toss your belt buckle when the storm hits.
"I could be wrong, but shouldn't you ask the good folks over at Corel about that?"
You're wrong because Microsoft invested in Corel, got them to quit making Corel Linux and WP for Linux and Unix, and promptly divested shortly thereafter.
It was so transparent that people predicted the death of WP for Linux as soon as Microsoft made the purchase. And they were right.
Microsoft declared _war_ on Linux, the GPL and anything else that threatens their hegemony. And we're just supposed to smile and say thank you when they want to "increase interoperability" between Windows and Linux? After all the bullshit they've pulled? This is a war, and if Microsoft wins, we're screwed with DRM, formats that change year after year, and more monopoly tactics that wipe out budding technology like Ballmer steps on an ant. There's a reason why Penguinistas don't like Microsoft and it's because we've seen what happens to Microsoft "partners." It's like watching people get tossed in a tank of sharks and then being asked if I'd like to go for a swim in the new pool.
Craig Mundie is an ass.
Hey Craig, how come I can't get Word Perfect for Linux anymore?
Hemos turned Hexus into a smoking crater for no reason.
Quoth the Hexus:
"There seems to have been a problem with the database. Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser. An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists. We apologise for any inconvenience."
I saw the mirrordot. Surely there is more happening in the world than this?
What about the Abandonware bill?
Re: OT:What hides behind the orphaned b by: ColonelZen Long-Term Sentiment: Strong Sell 06/11/06 12:17 pm Msg: 379449 of 379580
The "Orphaned works" Bill HR5439; hhhttp://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2006/20 060522.asp
No possible doubt it's an end run on the GPL:
"The bill also imposes an almost complete ban on injunctive relief where the infringer "recasts, transforms, adapts, or integrates the infringed work with the infringer's original expression in a new work of authorship". The bill provides that in these situations, "the court may not, in granting injunctive relief, restrain the infringer's continued preparation or use of that new work, if the infringer... pays reasonable compensation..."
IOW if MS claims that they tried to contact you while you were on vacation and you didn't respond, they get to embrace and extend your code forever for ten dollars that somehow got lost in the mail.
It's been a while since I've read the articles of the Berne Convention, but this seems to contravene one section I recall as making it plain that you do NOT lose your rights if you publish anonymously. As I read this article you can easily lose your rights to a work - certainly your right to the integrity of your work - almost instantly if published anonymously.
"It would have been nice if the QGeeko component was maintained and extended though. Being able to embed geeko into konqi would be a major win. (And emulating fiefox Extensions, too...)"
Yeahbut, that was then and this is now. The _only_ sites I have problems with these days are MS-Only (which are getting fewer and fewer) and Slashdot. The fact that Slashdot rendered fine before the Whole New Look says that Slashdot is doing something wrong compared to what went before, and it's not just me complaining.
I mean, c'mon, Konq now passes Acid2. What more do you want?
The bad render is not fatal. Slashdot is still usable, but it just looks like ass.
Because the owner of the IP is not always the originator of the malware, but a victimized third party? Ya think? Haven't you ever looked at your phishing spam URLs?
Only a seriously stupid criminal would illegally collect information at a machine that he owns himself.
If you think that Konq is simply a web application, you're really missing out on the kioslaves.
I'd be lost without fish://
Go to KDE Help Center, Contents tab, Kioslaves. I'm sorry, but FF doesn't do that.
-- BMO
PS, Slashdot still sucks ass rendering in Konq. Vendors, Help, Stories, About and Services all jam themselves up in the left hand corner. Sometimes. Sometimes not. This never happened before the "Whole New Look". And no, it's not my KDE setup. Fresh install. Same thing under 3.5.2 and 3.5.3.
"Adobe has more to lose by denying PDF support in Office than MS."
Au contraire.
Adobe is facing the same thing that Sun was facing with Java. Microsoft's strategy is to take a standard, be it an open standard or a commercial de-facto standard and change it in some way to make it ever so slightly incompatible. The people who use Microsoft's "new standard" find out that interoperating with real standards-following software is unreliable and that the only way to get "interoperability" is to buy more Microsoft licenses.
I believe it's called "embrace, extend, and extinguish"
Since Microsoft has a track record of doing this, Adobe's paranoia is entirely justified.
"Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE."
Because Microsoft was throwing dead goats in the Java compatibility well. DuH.
"Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets"
"The reason there are so many viruses and exploits for Windows is due to its popularity;"
That argument doesn't work, because if it did, we'd see at least a few worms and viruses for Linux and OS/X. At least 1 or two persistent ones in the wild. But there aren't any, are there? If there was, it would be BIG NEWS if someone made a widely propagated virus for *nix and that person would have made a name for himself in certain circles.
But the fact is, virus propagation in *nix sucks, and it's not because of popularity and it's not for lack of trying from the people who write such things.
Every day that I see yet another article about evil bits of malware infecting Windows machines. It makes me glad that I switched off that platform long ago. Windows is no longer viable, and this article and a mountain of others is testament to that fact. No, it's not because Windows is popular. It's because it's broken as designed. You would think that there would be a tiny fraction of viruses and worms in the *ix (Linux, Macintosh, Sun) universe based on the popularity ratio, but there isn't. There isn't even a smidge of the effects seen in the Windows world. Point me at a single live virus active in the *ix universe.
You can't.
It's so much work to just get a Windows system secure that it's simply no longer worth it to even bother. Save your sanity and switch to another platform.
There are basically two types of diamond generating processes. The GE process from the 1960's, and variations of that process using high pressure and high temperature, and Chemical Vapor Deposition. CVD is different. It's low pressure and basically builds diamond as if you were making frost (hot carbon rich gas or plasma condenses on a cold substrate). With CVD you can grow REALLY BIG (really big meaning relative to typical gem sizes) diamond windows and wafers. Indeed, here's a 50 mm white diamond wafer:
"Is it me or are the people of MT washington really proud on their death rate, publishing all this data on their website."
And as you can see, people _still_ Darwin themselves, even in these days. You can't shout it loud enough, it seems. Even with all the yellow warning signs on the mountain itself.
"I see that you enjoy being pejorative towards ND"
Only smirkingly.;-D
"you're planning on staying in Boston. "
Oh, no, I'd never live in Boston. I live about a mile south of Providence, RI. I actually grew up next to a farm, if you can believe that. I don't wanna be a Masshole.
"People move to Fargo from outlying areas and some of them can't handle the size."
I find that's what it's like in the small cities in the lower Ontario peninsula. Once you're outside of places like the Toronto Metro Area, it's a lot of small towns and cities like Peterboro, Lindsay, and...Woodstock (heh, Fargo makes Woodstock look small), there's a whole lotta nuthin'.
BTW, you'd appreciate this. Canada has a lot of "roadside attractions." In Woodstock in front of the Canadian Tire (lovingly called Crappy Tire by the natives) plaza there's a monument to...The Springbank Snow Countess. A Cow. A very LARGE monument, with a granite base, and a life sized bronze casting of a cow.
My GF at the time didn't understand why I wanted a picture of me standing in front of it...she took rural (Kawartha Lakes Region "cottage country") life for granted.
"My wife and I moved here from Seattle. "
My bro moved out to the West (Seattle, Portland, Denver) and now he's back here in the People's Republic of Watertown MA.
"The mosquitos here are quite unpleasant."
Mosquitos everywhere are unpleasant. Fortunately where I live, there are plenty of bats to keep the population down. It just sucks when they make their way indoors.
Moderators: I have clicked "no karma bonus" so don't waste mod points making this invisible. Use karma productively, please.
"But Fargo may one of the few places in the U.S. where you can freeze to death on a metropolitan interstate off-ramp"
Fargo is metropolitan?
"They started volunteer 4-wheel-drive patrols to try to avoid that sort of thing happening again"
In metropolitian areas? BMO looks around and tries to wrap his head around the concept of metropolitan areas where you might freeze to death on a highway ramp. Jeez, do that here and you'll get a tow and a ticket for blocking traffic.
"Yes, but hypothermia still only covers 28% of the deaths. The majority are accounted for by other causes."
Yes, but those other deaths are of the "shit happens" type, mostly. I'm not sure what your point is anymore. Using your logic, don't leave the house...and don't bathe, you might slip.
Now that I think of it...this _is_ slashdot.
"Personally, I'm going to stay well away from any area with extreme cold temperatures where there's almost a 75% chance that I'll die from something other than the cold. Sure, I'm not likely to die in a plane crash while climbing a mountain on foot, but you can't be too careful!"
Now you're being silly.
It's called being prepared. People go up the mountain all the time. It's the people who, in the heat of August, decide to go up there with a tee-shirt and shorts, which far too many people attempt. It may be the worst weather in the world, but there has been an occupied weather observatory the top of it for nearly 75 years.
"But to say they won't ever have a process for telling the difference is a little short-sighted don't you think?"
Not really, because as time goes on, manufactured diamonds will simply get better because process control will get better. Better atmospheres, better sputtering, you get the idea. It will get to the point that any color or clarity can be dialed in. Shut the door and hit the start switch.
It's an arms race that the diamond cartel will lose.
"Actually, they do: excavated diamonds have more lattice defects and impurities than manufactured diamonds."
And that's what scares the diamond dealers the most. The most expensive diamonds are the ones that are so-called perfect. High quality manufactured diamonds could easily bring down the inflated value of the very top end diamonds.
"Then "manufacture" these impurities in then. Make this cartel suffer as they have caused those they pillage to suffer. Just like the oil industry in some countries."
Indeed, read up on "blood diamonds"
Scary stuff.
I'd much rather have a manufactured diamond than anything that might have come from Sierra Leone.
Slashdot Mirror
"What if a building is the highest "thing" around?"
Don't be silly.
Get inside.
--
BMO
The best way to insulate oneself from lightning is to be _inside_ a metal object, such as an automobile.
Anyone who has seen the Electricity Show at the increasingly unchanging Boston Museum of Science knows that.
Lightning Safety tips, for the uniniated:
1. Do try to not be the highest thing around.
2. Don't stand under the highest thing around.
3. Don't lay flat on the ground if you are at a golf course or open field. Crouch.
3a. Some country clubs splurge and buy lightning detectors. Pay attention to the warning.
4. Seek freakin' shelter
5. 4 may conflict with 2.
6. Cell phones are the least of your worries.
7. Geeks should be more concerned whether the insurance covers the electronics.
8. The rubber soles of your shoes won't protect you.
9. If you are talking on your cell phone in the middle of a field during a lightning storm, Saint Darwin will announce "You! Out of the gene pool!" and take your soul.
and lastly...
10. **"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that >>metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm," Esprit added.** So drop your pants and toss your belt buckle when the storm hits.
--
BMO
"I could be wrong, but shouldn't you ask the good folks over at Corel about that?"
You're wrong because Microsoft invested in Corel, got them to quit making Corel Linux and WP for Linux and Unix, and promptly divested shortly thereafter.
It was so transparent that people predicted the death of WP for Linux as soon as Microsoft made the purchase. And they were right.
It's called knifing the baby.
--
BMO
Microsoft declared _war_ on Linux, the GPL and anything else that threatens their hegemony. And we're just supposed to smile and say thank you when they want to "increase interoperability" between Windows and Linux? After all the bullshit they've pulled? This is a war, and if Microsoft wins, we're screwed with DRM, formats that change year after year, and more monopoly tactics that wipe out budding technology like Ballmer steps on an ant. There's a reason why Penguinistas don't like Microsoft and it's because we've seen what happens to Microsoft "partners." It's like watching people get tossed in a tank of sharks and then being asked if I'd like to go for a swim in the new pool.
Craig Mundie is an ass.
Hey Craig, how come I can't get Word Perfect for Linux anymore?
--
BMO
First off, I made a mistake posting what I thought was openlinux.org's nslookup, because I typed in .com. Duh.
Anyway...
When one types in the dotted quad for the machine NEXT TO the "openlinux.org" machine, you wind up with...
The uni-erlangen.de OpenBSD mirror.
What? What what what?
http://131.188.40.91/ http://131.188.40.90/ -- the former "openlinux.org"
I could nmap the entire 255 machine IP block, but I think that people might object.
--
BMO
Open Mouth, Insert Foot. Echo Internationally.
Domain ID:D1704028-LROR
Domain Name:OPENLINUX.ORG
Created On:03-Aug-1998 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:10-Nov-2004 04:47:01 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Aug-2006 04:00:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Dotster, Inc. (R34-LROR)
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:DOTR-00936995
Registrant Name:Domain Administrator
Registrant Organization:The SCO Group
Registrant Street1:355 S 520 W
Registrant Street2:Suite 100
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Lindon
Registrant State/Province:UT
Registrant Postal Code:84042
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.8019325800
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:domain.admin@sco.com
Admin ID:DOTC-03050361
Admin Name:Domain Administrator
Admin Organization:The SCO Group
Admin Street1:355 S 520 W
Admin Street2:Suite 100
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Lindon
Admin State/Province:UT
Admin Postal Code:84042
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.8019325800
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:domain.admin@sco.com
Tech ID:DOTC-03050361
Tech Name:Domain Administrator
Tech Organization:The SCO Group
Tech Street1:355 S 520 W
Tech Street2:Suite 100
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Lindon
Tech State/Province:UT
Tech Postal Code:84042
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.8019325800
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:domain.admin@sco.com
Name Server:NS.CALDERASYSTEMS.COM
Name Server:NS2.CALDERASYSTEMS.COM
DUH
Let's look at the whois, shall we?
Registrant:
Linux Systems Lab
P.O.Box 2714
Lodi, CA 95241
US
Domain Name: OPENLINUX.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Brown, S info@CHEAPBYTES.COM
CheapBytes
PO BOX 2714
LODI, CA 95241-2714
US
209-367-8518
Record expires on 10-Jun-2007.
Record created on 11-Jun-1996.
Database last updated on 17-Jun-2006 19:06:28 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS97.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.49
NS98.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.189.49
So why is this not a Caldera/SCO domain, eh? IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A HOAX
WTF, don't people check these things?
--
BMO
Hemos turned Hexus into a smoking crater for no reason.
0 060522.asp
... pays reasonable compensation ..."
Quoth the Hexus:
"There seems to have been a problem with the database.
Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience."
I saw the mirrordot. Surely there is more happening in the world than this?
What about the Abandonware bill?
Re: OT:What hides behind the orphaned b
by: ColonelZen
Long-Term Sentiment: Strong Sell 06/11/06 12:17 pm
Msg: 379449 of 379580
The "Orphaned works" Bill HR5439;
hhhttp://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2006/2
No possible doubt it's an end run on the GPL:
"The bill also imposes an almost complete ban on injunctive relief where the infringer "recasts, transforms, adapts, or integrates the infringed work with the infringer's original expression in a new work of authorship". The bill provides that in these situations, "the court may not, in granting injunctive relief, restrain the infringer's continued preparation or use of that new work, if the infringer
IOW if MS claims that they tried to contact you while you were on vacation and you didn't respond, they get to embrace and extend your code forever for ten dollars that somehow got lost in the mail.
It's been a while since I've read the articles of the Berne Convention, but this seems to contravene one section I recall as making it plain that you do NOT lose your rights if you publish anonymously. As I read this article you can easily lose your rights to a work - certainly your right to the integrity of your work - almost instantly if published anonymously.
Thanks for bringing this up inymical!
-- TWZ
"It would have been nice if the QGeeko component was maintained and extended though. Being able to embed geeko into konqi would be a major win. (And emulating fiefox Extensions, too...)"
Yeahbut, that was then and this is now. The _only_ sites I have problems with these days are MS-Only (which are getting fewer and fewer) and Slashdot. The fact that Slashdot rendered fine before the Whole New Look says that Slashdot is doing something wrong compared to what went before, and it's not just me complaining.
I mean, c'mon, Konq now passes Acid2. What more do you want?
The bad render is not fatal. Slashdot is still usable, but it just looks like ass.
--
BMO
"Why cant I just sue the owner of that IP?"
Because the owner of the IP is not always the originator of the malware, but a victimized third party? Ya think? Haven't you ever looked at your phishing spam URLs?
Only a seriously stupid criminal would illegally collect information at a machine that he owns himself.
That said, the prisons are not full of geniuses.
--
BMO
If you think that Konq is simply a web application, you're really missing out on the kioslaves.
I'd be lost without fish://
Go to KDE Help Center, Contents tab, Kioslaves. I'm sorry, but FF doesn't do that.
--
BMO
PS, Slashdot still sucks ass rendering in Konq. Vendors, Help, Stories, About and Services all jam themselves up in the left hand corner. Sometimes. Sometimes not. This never happened before the "Whole New Look". And no, it's not my KDE setup. Fresh install. Same thing under 3.5.2 and 3.5.3.
The design is also fubar. It looks like Poo in the left hand corner in Konqueror/Safari.
It looks fine in FF, but I hardly ever fire up FF now that Konq works.
--
BMO
"Adobe has more to lose by denying PDF support in Office than MS."
Au contraire.
Adobe is facing the same thing that Sun was facing with Java. Microsoft's strategy is to take a standard, be it an open standard or a commercial de-facto standard and change it in some way to make it ever so slightly incompatible. The people who use Microsoft's "new standard" find out that interoperating with real standards-following software is unreliable and that the only way to get "interoperability" is to buy more Microsoft licenses.
I believe it's called "embrace, extend, and extinguish"
Since Microsoft has a track record of doing this, Adobe's paranoia is entirely justified.
"Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE."
Because Microsoft was throwing dead goats in the Java compatibility well. DuH.
"Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets"
Yeah, everywhere. It's called AJAX.
Bad troll, no cookie.
--
BMO
"The reason there are so many viruses and exploits for Windows is due to its popularity;"
That argument doesn't work, because if it did, we'd see at least a few worms and viruses for Linux and OS/X. At least 1 or two persistent ones in the wild. But there aren't any, are there? If there was, it would be BIG NEWS if someone made a widely propagated virus for *nix and that person would have made a name for himself in certain circles.
But the fact is, virus propagation in *nix sucks, and it's not because of popularity and it's not for lack of trying from the people who write such things.
The only bullshit here is yours, Mr. Anonymous.
--
BMO
You can't.
It's so much work to just get a Windows system secure that it's simply no longer worth it to even bother. Save your sanity and switch to another platform.
Don't deal with the dirty hobos anymore.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=186704&cid=154 06582
--
BMO
...can go to hell. Internet predators? What about THIS guy?
w girl9.12926f99.html
http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20060509_
Hastert doesn't know what a predator is.
--
BMO
There are basically two types of diamond generating processes. The GE process from the 1960's, and variations of that process using high pressure and high temperature, and Chemical Vapor Deposition. CVD is different. It's low pressure and basically builds diamond as if you were making frost (hot carbon rich gas or plasma condenses on a cold substrate). With CVD you can grow REALLY BIG (really big meaning relative to typical gem sizes) diamond windows and wafers. Indeed, here's a 50 mm white diamond wafer:
e s/image004.jpg
:-D BTW, the 3 firms (gemesis, chatham, apollo) who make gem quality synthetic diamonds laser etch serial numbers into them.
http://www.azom.com/work/8EKVsENqBEG491jQw24l_fil
That impresses me.
--
BMO
"Is it me or are the people of MT washington really proud on their death rate, publishing all this data on their website."
And as you can see, people _still_ Darwin themselves, even in these days. You can't shout it loud enough, it seems. Even with all the yellow warning signs on the mountain itself.
--
BMO
"I see that you enjoy being pejorative towards ND"
;-D
_ id=19531&category_id=0&&page_id=&menu_id=2296
Only smirkingly.
"you're planning on staying in Boston. "
Oh, no, I'd never live in Boston. I live about a mile south of Providence, RI. I actually grew up next to a farm, if you can believe that. I don't wanna be a Masshole.
"People move to Fargo from outlying areas and some of them can't handle the size."
I find that's what it's like in the small cities in the lower Ontario peninsula. Once you're outside of places like the Toronto Metro Area, it's a lot of small towns and cities like Peterboro, Lindsay, and...Woodstock (heh, Fargo makes Woodstock look small), there's a whole lotta nuthin'.
BTW, you'd appreciate this. Canada has a lot of "roadside attractions." In Woodstock in front of the Canadian Tire (lovingly called Crappy Tire by the natives) plaza there's a monument to...The Springbank Snow Countess. A Cow. A very LARGE monument, with a granite base, and a life sized bronze casting of a cow.
No expense was spared.
http://www.woodstocknow.com/photoalbum.php?object
My GF at the time didn't understand why I wanted a picture of me standing in front of it...she took rural (Kawartha Lakes Region "cottage country") life for granted.
"My wife and I moved here from Seattle. "
My bro moved out to the West (Seattle, Portland, Denver) and now he's back here in the People's Republic of Watertown MA.
"The mosquitos here are quite unpleasant."
Mosquitos everywhere are unpleasant. Fortunately where I live, there are plenty of bats to keep the population down. It just sucks when they make their way indoors.
Moderators: I have clicked "no karma bonus" so don't waste mod points making this invisible. Use karma productively, please.
T.Y.V.M.
--
BMO
You're not Republican, are you?
--
BMO
Yes, I know, it's a troll. But my karma is bigger than yours. Nyeah.
"But Fargo may one of the few places in the U.S. where you can freeze to death on a metropolitan interstate off-ramp"
Fargo is metropolitan?
"They started volunteer 4-wheel-drive patrols to try to avoid that sort of thing happening again"
In metropolitian areas? BMO looks around and tries to wrap his head around the concept of metropolitan areas where you might freeze to death on a highway ramp. Jeez, do that here and you'll get a tow and a ticket for blocking traffic.
--
BMO
"Yes, but hypothermia still only covers 28% of the deaths. The majority are accounted for by other causes."
Yes, but those other deaths are of the "shit happens" type, mostly. I'm not sure what your point is anymore. Using your logic, don't leave the house...and don't bathe, you might slip.
Now that I think of it...this _is_ slashdot.
"Personally, I'm going to stay well away from any area with extreme cold temperatures where there's almost a 75% chance that I'll die from something other than the cold. Sure, I'm not likely to die in a plane crash while climbing a mountain on foot, but you can't be too careful!"
Now you're being silly.
It's called being prepared. People go up the mountain all the time. It's the people who, in the heat of August, decide to go up there with a tee-shirt and shorts, which far too many people attempt. It may be the worst weather in the world, but there has been an occupied weather observatory the top of it for nearly 75 years.
It hasn't killed a meteorologist yet.
--
BMO
"But to say they won't ever have a process for telling the difference is a little short-sighted don't you think?"
Not really, because as time goes on, manufactured diamonds will simply get better because process control will get better. Better atmospheres, better sputtering, you get the idea. It will get to the point that any color or clarity can be dialed in. Shut the door and hit the start switch.
It's an arms race that the diamond cartel will lose.
--
BMO
"Actually, they do: excavated diamonds have more lattice defects and impurities than manufactured diamonds."
And that's what scares the diamond dealers the most. The most expensive diamonds are the ones that are so-called perfect. High quality manufactured diamonds could easily bring down the inflated value of the very top end diamonds.
--
BMO
"Then "manufacture" these impurities in then. Make this cartel suffer as they have caused those they pillage to suffer. Just like the oil industry in some countries."
Indeed, read up on "blood diamonds"
Scary stuff.
I'd much rather have a manufactured diamond than anything that might have come from Sierra Leone.
--
BMO