Re: Transparency Spray? [was Transperancy Spray? ]

[Ken Brown]

Reese asked:
 
> How dry will the air be at the burning cherry on a cigarette?

Quite wet, because the combustion adds water vapour to the air. It won't
be much good at physically wetting things, because the air is warm, but
the water vapour is there and being hot will be chemically quite active.
Hold a piece of cool glassware near a bunsen burner  or candle flame and
you will see lots of condensation. No, not *that* near...

Ken Brown

Re: Transparency Spray? [was Transperancy Spray? ]

[Reese]

At 10:06 AM 11/1/01 +, Ken Brown wrote:
>Reese asked:
> 
>> How dry will the air be at the burning cherry on a cigarette?
>
>Quite wet, because the combustion adds water vapour to the air. It won't
>be much good at physically wetting things, because the air is warm, but
>the water vapour is there and being hot will be chemically quite active.
>Hold a piece of cool glassware near a bunsen burner  or candle flame and
>you will see lots of condensation. No, not *that* near...

No, put it back in context:

>>Here's a link to the MSDS
>>http://www.ansul.com/Material_Safety_Data_Sheets/F-85312.pdf
>>it says above 900 F Freon will decompose into hydrochloric and
>>hydrofluoric acids.  Doesn't mention phosgene,
>
>Try this one:
>
>http://www.vngas.com/pdf/g143.pdf
>
>> although you'd
>>proabably get that if the air was dry enough.
>
>How dry will the air be at the burning cherry on a cigarette?

How dry will the air be, at that point where the cherry is 900 F or so?

Reese

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RE: Fw: New Scientist: Microwave Crowd Dispersal Tested (ADT)

[Trei, Peter]

> cpaul[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> 
> > On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 07:12 PM, cpaul wrote:
> > 
> > > aluminum foil?
> 
> > > http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/heatison.jsp
> > >
> > > Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds
> 
> 
> 
> i've been following the development of this skin heating
> device for a while, and am keen to learn if there may be
> an effective means to counter its use.
> 
> the new scientist article suggests that the cornea is not
> as resilient as skin when it comes to being bombarded with
> microwaves, hence i seek opinions on how one might protect
> oneself.
> 
> if asking such is inane then i guess i should ask to have
> my final request.
> 
Leather or wet clothes may shield most of the body. A wild 
guess to protect the eyes would be something that puts a 
transparent conductive material over them - mirror 
sunglasses, the mylar glasses used for eclipse observations 
(though you could not see anything else through them :-(), 
or the conductive, mostly transparent plastic material 
which is used to package static sensitive electronic components.
Another possibility is to make goggles out of metal flyscreen -
since the wavelength is 3mm, it's doubtful that they can penetrate.
Chain mail would also work for the body.

Peter

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scarfing up the names of all known FBIers
(like special agent lynne hunt in the register today)
This is to protect them from the baddies like the lasker jihad.Keep those 
names coming.The C/list goes on forever.

Re: DMCA UCITA, where's the beef? (off topic)

[Greg Broiles]

At 07:24 AM 11/1/2001 -0500, cubic-dog wrote:

>Aside from Dimitry,

(who *hasn't* been successfully prosecuted yet, just arrested - that 
distinction may continue to be meaningful for another few weeks so I'm 
sentimental about it .. )

>Has any "person" been successfully prosecuted under
>the DMCA? or under UCITA? or any other of these
>anti-piracy laws in the US?

I'm not sure what you mean when you put person in quotes like that.

Yes, there have been some successful criminal cases against copyright 
infringers - the legislation of particular interest was called the "No 
Electronic Theft Act" (UCITA is mostly concerned with licensing details, 
not piracy per se).

A self-congratulatory press release from the US DOJ after the first NETA 
prosecution in 1999 can be found at 
; there have been other arrests, 
which, like most federal prosecutions (and, indeed, most prosecutions) were 
resolved with guilty pleas, not trials, so there weren't exciting Slashdot 
stories to read.

>Operation Sundevil took place a relatively long
>time ago. We all hear dire warnings relative to
>software piracy and rumors of the Secret Service
>showing up and shutting a company down for bootleg
>M$ Office products and such things. But has anything
>like this actually happened?

Yes. See




for examples if you're talking about professional pirates - if what you 
mean is "Will I get arrested if I install the same copy of Microsoft Office 
on 3 or 4 computers?" the answer is "No", but if those 3 or 4 computers are 
at a workplace, and employees learn of the copying and are later laid off 
or fired or otherwise become disgruntled, there's a modest chance that 
they'll exact some revenge by reporting the company to the SPA/BSA, who 
send grouchy letters and threaten audits, and actually do them once in 
awhile, which tend to be embarassing and disruptive and expensive.


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Bahamas biz registry suffers for lack of anonymity

[Khoder bin Hakkin]

  Anonymity Lifted, Fewer Companies Registering in the Bahamas
   By Samantha JosephAssociated Press Writer
 Published: Nov 1, 2001
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - The number of international companies registering
in the Bahamas dropped steeply following tightened regulations that
ended anonymous ownership, the attorney general says.

Only 4,148 international business companies registered to do business
between January and September of this year, Attorney General Carl Bethel
said Wednesday. Some 14,500 registered in the same period last year.

Earlier this year, the Bahamas was removed from the Paris-based
Financial Action Task Force's blacklist of countries deemed
uncooperative in fighting money laundering. To get off the blacklist and
avoid any sanctions, the Bahamas passed nine laws to strengthen
regulations in the offshore sector.

One of the new measures eliminated anonymous ownership of international
business companies, so-called shell companies, by requiring the names of
two directors and the office address on the registration.

Any loss in business, however, was worth it to improve the reputation of
the Bahamas as an international financial center, Bethel said.

"There has been some falloff in this area," he said. "But we think, on
balance, the financial services sector is better off."

Still, there are some 45,000 international business companies that
renewed their licenses this year, Bethel said.

If the registrations had been at the same level as last year, the
Bahamas would have brought in another $1.5 million in incorporation
fees. Bethel said the drop would not have a dramatic effect on the
country's overall revenues, because offshore banking and investment
services are a more economically vital sector.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAY95MWITC.html

Sony uses DMCA to harass Aibo user group http://www.aibohack.com

[Khoder bin Hakkin]

http://latimes.com/business/la-86726nov01.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual

Sony Dogs Aibo Enthusiast's Site
Courts: The company uses a controversial law to stop
owners from altering the robotic pet. Some consumers balk.

By DAVE WILSON and ALEX
PHAM, TIMES STAFF WRITERS

Sony Corp. is using a controversial U.S.
law aimed at protecting intellectual
property to pull the plug on a Web site
that helps owners of Aibo, Sony's
popular and pricey robotic pet, teach
their electronic dogs new tricks.

  Aibo owners are outraged, and hundreds
  have vowed to stop buying Sony
  products altogether until the company
  backs off. Sony has sold more than
  100,000 Aibos worldwide since 1999, at
  prices ranging from $800 to $3,000.
  The dogs have spawned a community
  of enthusiasts who fuss over the
  mechanical marvels as if they were real
  canines.

  Last week, Sony executives sent a letter
  to the operator of a Web site,
  http://www.aibohack.com, alleging that
  much of the site's contents-programs
  and software tools that can modify the
  Aibo's behavior--was created and distributed in
ways that
  violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The
1998 law
  was designed to combat the duplication of
digitized materials,
  which can be easily distributed instantaneously
worldwide on
  the Internet. Violators can face monetary damages
and even
  prison time, depending on the nature of the
violation. In a
  prepared statement, Sony officials said they asked
only for
  removal of material it considered illegal and
encouraged the
  distribution of Aibo-related materials that they
did not believe
  infringed the company's rights.

  Sony sells a number of software kits, usually for
about $150,
  that allow Aibo users to modify the dog's
behavior. The
  software tools removed from the Web site are
easier to use and
  more powerful, according to users--and are
available for free.

  "We do not support the development of software
that is
  created by manipulating existing Sony Aibo-ware
code, copying
  it and/or distributing it via the Internet," the
company said.
  "This is a clear case of copyright infringement,
something that
  most Aibo owners can appreciate and respectfully
understand."

  Critics of the DMCA say the law upsets the
delicate balance
  between the rights of copyright holders to protect
their
  intellectual property and the rights of everyone
else to use such
  items to develop their own works. That has sparked
increasing
  concern in Congress as scientists, librarians,
researchers and
  consumer groups have voiced opposition to the law.

  "On the surface, Sony appears to be using portions
of the
  DMCA in an attempt to keep people from putting the

  company's product to new and interesting uses,"
said Cindy
  Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a
  civil rights group. "This is exactly the sort of
thing we've been
  concerned about."

  Cohn said that if Congress does not act, the
courts will
  eventually have to repair the situation. "Sooner
or later, this is
  going to come to a head," she said. "This is a
critical societal
  problem. If we can no longer stand on the
shoulders of giants,
  take a cool thing somebody has made and make it a
little bit
  cooler, progress is stunted, perhaps irreparably."

  Bob Harting, a Santa Monica potter, has programmed
his three
  Aibos--Sparky, Agent Aibo and Aibojangles--to
perform a
  syncopated dance routine to Madonna's "Vogue."

  "It's just impossible to do this sort of thing
with the Sony
  tools," he said, as the dogs danced to the music
in his living
  room. "I have bought every accessory made for the
Aibo, and
  nearly every bit of equipment in my
apartment--television,
  VCRs, computers--is from Sony," Harting said. "But
I'm not
  

Re: CDR: Transperancy Spray?

[F. Marc de Piolenc]

You can find formulas for this spray in many formularies - it's been
used at least as far back as WWI for making an envelope transparent for
a few minutes. Actually, translucent would be a better term, as you can
only read text that is right up against the inside of the envelope. What
is more, the stuff is less useful than back in the fountain-pen days
because it tends to smear ball-point and other greasy inks.

Marc de Piolenc

Max Inux wrote:
 THe
> whole cant read someone elses mail thing is out the window it looks like, they can 
>spray this go on the letter and read
> through the envelope..  It seems implausable but its CNN, they dont lie right? well 
>ANYWAYS, I now have a nice stash of black
> construction paper...

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