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etech

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You got it.

luvly, does Anandtech support any illegal activities? Is it the responsibility of the membership to be at least somewhat responsible in disseminating information that could be used for an illegal activity?

If not, carry on as I'm sure you will.
 
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beer

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So if I'm doing a paper on the history of riot police and ask you what kind of bullets can penatrate a bullet proof vest, you're assuming that I'm going to take your answer, go buy an assault rifle, and shoot up my local police station?

Is there a difference in the kind of conclusion you're drawing?



Originally posted by: etech
guyver01


You got it.

luvly, does Anandtech support any illegal activities? Is it the responsibility of the membership to be at least somewhat responsible in disseminating information that could be used for an illegal activity?

If not, carry on as I'm sure you will.
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loup garou

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Originally posted by: guyver01
Originally posted by: BillGates
Software you purchase from a store is not typically on a burned CD last I checked......
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All software is on a burned CD..

there are just different levels of burning.


if your software isn't on a burned cd... then it's not on a cd ;)

otherwise how do you press it onto the cd? with magic? ;)
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Um, no. Commercial CDs are pressed, not burned.

 
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Talon

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CDs and DVDs can be pressed using a metal master die and injection moulding. The pits can be cut in the master by laser or a diamond tipped stylus.

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Originally posted by: Elemental007
So if I'm doing a paper on the history of riot police and ask you what kind of bullets can penatrate a bullet proof vest, you're assuming that I'm going to take your answer, go buy an assault rifle, and shoot up my local police station?

Is there a difference in the kind of conclusion you're drawing?



Originally posted by: etech
guyver01


You got it.

luvly, does Anandtech support any illegal activities? Is it the responsibility of the membership to be at least somewhat responsible in disseminating information that could be used for an illegal activity?

If not, carry on as I'm sure you will.
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Your analogy is flawed in that you stated exactly why you wanted the information and the purpose it would be used for. Read my original post again, both you and luvly made that same mistake in assuming that I had reached a conclusion. It's obvious, or should be, that I was only requesting the purpose that this information was to be used and even added an apology if the possibility I suggested was incorrect. I do not expect to see any apologies from the people that have made incorrect conclusions or have misconstrued my motives in this thread.

 
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apoppin

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Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
how can I destroy the data on a burned CD......without any physical damage?
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It's a riddle right?

:p

You can't!

Since the "data" is physically "burned" onto a CD you cannot destroy the data without some other type of "physical" action.


Am I right? What did I win?
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"It's obvious, or should be, that I was only requesting the purpose that this information was to be used and even added an apology if the possibility I suggested was incorrect."

Then you should have asked explicitly for his intent. You were doing what some detectives do: Asking a complex question (i.e., a question that makes an asssumption already). People do that when they are suspicious of the person they're interrogating and can't trust that they'll tell the truth. A straight-forward question would be fine and wouldn't come out as accusatory, as yours did.

Nothing wrong with wanting to know why or a little more details of his situation. However, I suppose he can choose not to answer too.
 
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CraigRT

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Originally posted by: BillGates
Originally posted by: geno
I dunno if this works with CD-R's, but I remember when a kid who was letting me borrow his Win95 CD decided to "clean" the disc off with his shirt, he ran it in a circular motion (which I've been told, can kill a CD), and when I went to use the disc, it was screwed up...
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Isn't that physical damage?

I have some ideas as to why he'd want to damage his CD...

I agree with the microwave idea, but you'd have to pull it out quick or the damage gets very noticeable. Leaving it out in the sun might work but could also cause physical defects.
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It's not obvious physical damage probably.
i believe his goal is to lose the data so it doesn't look like it would be gone.. so "obvious" damage is out of the question. :p
 
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The question remains, whats the difference in microwaving a factory pressed and a home burnt compact disc? I'm not sure why he wants to, but I'm curious about it now. :)
 
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I don't know of any software offhand that would do it, but it sounds like what you want to do is stick the disc back into your CD-R drive, and just start writing a new track on top of the old one.

Of course, the problem here is that no sensible software will let you do this because the disc will be trashed.

BUT.. <thinking> I always wanted to come up with some software to burn "messages" into a CD.. and I *think* somebody figured it out.. IE turn the laser on and off to create a pattern in the disc that would come out as readable words...you might want to dig around on the net and see what's out there - basically you just want a way to put the CD in the drive, turn the laser on, and write over the whole disc.
 
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Harvey

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Originally posted by: hungrypete
The question remains, whats the difference in microwaving a factory pressed and a home burnt compact disc?
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Commercially distributed CD's are molded plastic. CDR's are fabricated on a metal substrate.

Putting a CDR in a microwave is a terminally stupid open invitation to disaster! :Q
 
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NuclearFusi0n

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is there any software that would just start burning patterns onto a cd? i'm guessing no, because the CD-RW drive's firmware would be like "wtf??!!?" too....
 
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ndee

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Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
is there any software that would just start burning patterns onto a cd? i'm guessing no, because the CD-RW drive's firmware would be like "wtf??!!?" too....
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just tell us whhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, dayum. You wanna fool someone? Just break it and throw it away.
 
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tcsenter

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All software is on a burned CD....otherwise how do you press it onto the cd? with magic?
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Sorta, if you consider a diamond-tipped stylus 'magic', I suppose you could say its done with a magical stylus.

Learn something new every day, don't ya?
 
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