krispykoala - Slashdot User

Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:30AM from the that's-not-no-moon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."

Comment Not without a court order but... (Score 1) 314

by krispykoala on Wednesday November 08, 2000 @09:29AM (#637887) Attached to: Can the BSA Investigate Your office for Piracy?

Here is a story of a company I know,

A former employee of a engineering company called AutoDesk and reported that the company was using 14 or so illegal copies of AutoCAD. Within a couple of days the BSA and AutoDesk's own piracy division came in the middle of the night and started checking computers to see what software was loaded. The next day the employees came to work and were interviewed to find out any information they knew. The company settled out of court and ended up paying over $500,000.00 for the software.

I have heard of three other instances of this happening. I have only heard stories where AutoDesk is involved. They come in the middle of the night take inventory and fine you in the morning.

I don't know what involvement the local or federal agencies play in this but it would seem like the BSA or whoever would have to get a search warrant. But if they had some kind of prove that software was stolen how hard would it be to get one?

Slashdot Top Deals