First of All, Thank you for your concern.
capabilities exist in for another mode of dealing with .... But that is between me and Spec. Programmers are devious bastards who should be watched carefully at all times and kept in dark rooms with no televisions or computers and fed horse doodoo like mushrooms.
I cant talk about it here, but if you PM me......
I already hold back much more then I want to. But it has to be done. People get that data most of the time in PMs, if I can remember to PM them. And OFTEN I FORGET. While the idea of PL Top Secret is intriguging, on line communities have proven to be fragile and fragmentation is not healthy for them . Pats sick of the issue, and I'm growing increasingly intolerent. But, the system works, about NN people have called various branches of CDRH that I know of, and CDRH is appreciative. At least the industry and the hobby side can say "we warned you". better to locate some of the bad apples in this world and keep a eye on them to then to allow them to blunder off and blow up the world. There are quite a few illegal laserists who have came in from the dark side, and I and others have helped them get variances. (mental note, renew my expired personal vari, someone please remind me, I can run on corporate vari "B" if I needed to) Many of them say "once you get varied, you never want to go back".
Control of knowledge proliferation is something the US and UK is gonna have to wake up to, right now we are giving away the farm in long term finance and technology , and have given away the farm, in more ways then one. The origional intent was to level the field and keep most players a bit behind but happy, and with the end of the cold war, the capabilities for doing that have went away in the name of "Global competitiveness", ie the big wigs gaining short term power selling off the the work of the rest of us.
enough politics...
So right now, my vote is nyet on PL sekret squirrel, there has to be another way.
As for scope owners, subgroups can already exist in PL. Admission is a laserscope serial number plus a phone call to Pat or I or Buffo, might be one way.
But we all know how well the attempt of and the politics at the "Sound Card Dacing" subgroup worked, and it was a pain to deviate off the main threads to a subgroup. Since we now treat SCDers as equals, and help them as much as we can, in the long term the system worked. Please note the new "condensed" SCD post. And we lost a hell of a lot of good technical people when that happened, as well as many of our skilled hackers. We lost them to what the socialist bastards have a neat term for, a "Cult of Personality". I for one do not want to see that happen again.
I cant speak for Pat, but I still enjoy helping others and will find a way to continue to do so.
Right now, I'm aware of a ton of new ways of generating red and yellow, but if I post them a "Most unfavored nation" will make use of them and and the people that funded the R&D see didly squat for their efforts.
Get a better solution then codeworded lotus eater MK ultra magick enigma bullcrap... Yes, secrets need to be kept sometimes, and you need to walk softly and carry a big stick, but this is PL and its supposed to be educational , improve industry relations, and fun.
Steve
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