Sounds kinda like Windows, huh? :P

The ONLY way to keep your INFO from being used by ANYONE for ANY
purpose, is to NOT POST IT.  It's elementary, rudimentary, and
not illegal to use any publicly available information in any way
one wishes to, the same as it's no indication that what YOU post
is actually YOURS and not gleaned from any other person's
education, experience, or properties, intellectual or otherwise,
regardless of your claims.  You cannot even copyright or
trademark anything publicly and in a venue such as this and make
it stick that this was the source it was stolen from.  It's just
like most spam:  It's not illegal either.
  What you want is a moderated, controlled, private forum to
post in.  There are such things but they're not nearly as useful
as a group like this is.

Personally, any advice I give is actually meant to be (assuming
I'm accurate, and if I'm not, it's usually pointed out) dispersed
as widely as possible to the largest audience possible.  I don't
post about my perpetual motion machine successes here because I
obviously don't want the world to know about them yet.  But, I'll
post about the neat way I found to put my little finger over the
gizmo to make the whatsit do the other noisy thingies; that I
want the world to enjoy.

It's perception vs reality.  Perception is often wrong, but
perception IS reality to the perceiver.

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