Even the lowest magisterial courts can issue restraining orders forbidding one person coming within a certain distance of another, from contacting them or attempting to contact them, either directly or indirectly, for an arbitrary period of time
I'm not aware of any situation where a restraining order has forbidden someone from approaching or talking to someone who wants to talk to them. Restraining orders are from keeping someone away that you don't want to see.
Hmmm... or maybe it'll be more like this. What doesn't fall down to wrap around the planet (I wonder what hitting the ocean would do... super tsunami?), flies off, sometimes with great force. Looks like a low cut will simply cause the cable to launch into a much higher orbit. It's particularly impressive to see the simulation of the cable snapping when wrapping around the equator after a high cut.
And some of them eat soy-based insulation off of wiring. Yes, I've had that happen before. Really, who thought we needed biodegradable wire insulation? And in automobiles, which don't exactly get buried in landfills.
The un-countered weight of the top 1km would then pull the rest of the cable upward. At some point it would reach a neutral position. My guess would be something like raising the center of gravity by 500 meters. (The actual amount would require math, but this is good enough for now.)
So what would happen then? I'm guessing that the cable would still try to stay stretched "vertically" (hey, I read The Integral Trees). But with its center of gravity raised, its orbital speed would no longer be 1.000 sidereal days. This would cause "horizontal" movement. Which direction? Sorry, it's too early in the morning for me to be doing orbital mechanics in my head. (It's been years since I read The Integral Trees.) But it doesn't matter. Since the cable would have to have been planted on the Equator, this movement will take it across the GEO orbit, and it would probably take out a few communications satellites as it drifts.
And even after reaching its new orbit, the lower end will still cross GEO orbit. So forget about putting up new GEO satellites, too! (At least we could fall back on statites.) The result would be a liability lawsuit at least an order of magnitude above anything seen before, and maybe two or three orders of magnitude. It would probably have a major effect on the global economy, to say the least.
If someone wrote a SF book about this, they could call it "The String in the Sky", because that's what humanity would see every day to remind them of what happened.
Indeed. At $10K a seat (or even $1K a seat) the real objective should be keeping the companies that actually are your customers honest, and not paying for one license but using it for ten people. Using an existing license manager program means that you don't have to worry about bugs and weird stuff when rolling your own. This also lets the companies audit themselves when necessary.
Don't forget to put the symbols in blue and cover them with a random pattern of red stuff. Then they have to use that red plastic sheet that came out of a PASSWORD board game to read it.
As a further note, right now there's no way to trace that serial number to me.
They can identify that two pages both came from the same printer. Which includes sneaking into your house when you're not around and printing a test page. Or not sneaking in, if they already suspect you enough.
You know some place in the US that doesn't have that.9 painted into the sign background? I've never ever seen a gas price that didn't end in.9 cents per gallon.
So how is a vending machine going to tell the difference? Are you suggesting that vending machine makers are now going to have to add some kind of laser scanner eyes to their coin mechs?
OS X 10.8 does more to integrate social networking
So does this mean we'll get Facebook / Twitter / Google Plus / Reddit / Digg / Fark / Something Awful / 4chan / EBaumsWorld / B3ta etc. "Share" icons hogging up every window's title bar? So I can "share" the latest crash log with a bunch of mindless blogheads?
That shit is getting real annoying. No I do NOT want to "share" every little bit of random crap I come across on the intarwebs with my "FaceTwatDitPlus friends circle". And now even/. has succumbed to this hipster crap.
The problem is that you don't just "pick a band". Frequencies are allocated, in ways that cause them to be effectively "owned" by companies. (Or they're general use, which means amateur radio or low-range purposes.) L2 was trying to to just that, by buying "picking" a cheap ground-to-sat allocation and wanting to use it for ground-to-ground purposes.
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ohbummer-related political interference
FWIW: LightSquared CEO resigns amid revelations of company’s proximity to Obama White House
...and you thought stepping on a Lego was bad? He had to build it in a glovebox so that the parts wouldn't fly around and get lost inside stuff.
Even the lowest magisterial courts can issue restraining orders forbidding one person coming within a certain distance of another, from contacting them or attempting to contact them, either directly or indirectly, for an arbitrary period of time
I'm not aware of any situation where a restraining order has forbidden someone from approaching or talking to someone who wants to talk to them. Restraining orders are from keeping someone away that you don't want to see.
You may think TV Detector Vans a) exist
But I know they exist! I saw one on Monty Python! Or was that The Young Ones? (Yes, we have a bloody video!)
Maybe they can borrow the BBC's television detector vans to help find them.
Hmmm... or maybe it'll be more like this. What doesn't fall down to wrap around the planet (I wonder what hitting the ocean would do... super tsunami?), flies off, sometimes with great force. Looks like a low cut will simply cause the cable to launch into a much higher orbit. It's particularly impressive to see the simulation of the cable snapping when wrapping around the equator after a high cut.
I'm waiting for a dark and stormy exoplanet.
animals crawl into weird places
And some of them eat soy-based insulation off of wiring. Yes, I've had that happen before. Really, who thought we needed biodegradable wire insulation? And in automobiles, which don't exactly get buried in landfills.
The un-countered weight of the top 1km would then pull the rest of the cable upward. At some point it would reach a neutral position. My guess would be something like raising the center of gravity by 500 meters. (The actual amount would require math, but this is good enough for now.)
So what would happen then? I'm guessing that the cable would still try to stay stretched "vertically" (hey, I read The Integral Trees). But with its center of gravity raised, its orbital speed would no longer be 1.000 sidereal days. This would cause "horizontal" movement. Which direction? Sorry, it's too early in the morning for me to be doing orbital mechanics in my head. (It's been years since I read The Integral Trees.) But it doesn't matter. Since the cable would have to have been planted on the Equator, this movement will take it across the GEO orbit, and it would probably take out a few communications satellites as it drifts.
And even after reaching its new orbit, the lower end will still cross GEO orbit. So forget about putting up new GEO satellites, too! (At least we could fall back on statites.) The result would be a liability lawsuit at least an order of magnitude above anything seen before, and maybe two or three orders of magnitude. It would probably have a major effect on the global economy, to say the least.
If someone wrote a SF book about this, they could call it "The String in the Sky", because that's what humanity would see every day to remind them of what happened.
Better go get the popcorn.
So what about those of us who wear prescription glasses?
Indeed. At $10K a seat (or even $1K a seat) the real objective should be keeping the companies that actually are your customers honest, and not paying for one license but using it for ten people. Using an existing license manager program means that you don't have to worry about bugs and weird stuff when rolling your own. This also lets the companies audit themselves when necessary.
Don't forget to put the symbols in blue and cover them with a random pattern of red stuff. Then they have to use that red plastic sheet that came out of a PASSWORD board game to read it.
Just as individual telegraphers could be identified by other telegraphers from their 'fists,'
...anonymous posters can be identified by their Frists?
Because the moon has Stuff. You can build things from Stuff.
...and they're going to bring their Makerbot 3D printer!
"At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034.
I'll be more impressed if they can get someone back from the moon.
164.041995 feet (164 feet ½ inches)
Thats 164 feet 1/24 inches for those of us who know math. WTF Google? That doesn't even round to 164 1/2 for any sane form of rounding.
As a further note, right now there's no way to trace that serial number to me.
They can identify that two pages both came from the same printer. Which includes sneaking into your house when you're not around and printing a test page. Or not sneaking in, if they already suspect you enough.
He promised Hope and Change... and now he wants to take our Change away from us!
You know some place in the US that doesn't have that .9 painted into the sign background? I've never ever seen a gas price that didn't end in .9 cents per gallon.
So how is a vending machine going to tell the difference? Are you suggesting that vending machine makers are now going to have to add some kind of laser scanner eyes to their coin mechs?
OS X 10.8 does more to integrate social networking
So does this mean we'll get Facebook / Twitter / Google Plus / Reddit / Digg / Fark / Something Awful / 4chan / EBaumsWorld / B3ta etc. "Share" icons hogging up every window's title bar? So I can "share" the latest crash log with a bunch of mindless blogheads?
That shit is getting real annoying. No I do NOT want to "share" every little bit of random crap I come across on the intarwebs with my "FaceTwatDitPlus friends circle". And now even /. has succumbed to this hipster crap.
Hey, Napoleon, did you hear that 10.9 is going to be named "Liger"?
This is a job for Adam Quark, UGSP!
I've spent years developing an immunity to bandwidth throttling!
The problem is that you don't just "pick a band". Frequencies are allocated, in ways that cause them to be effectively "owned" by companies. (Or they're general use, which means amateur radio or low-range purposes.) L2 was trying to to just that, by buying "picking" a cheap ground-to-sat allocation and wanting to use it for ground-to-ground purposes.