It's a new name, you see. Fluorescent, Day-Glo, Neon and now UV Reactive! (I could never understand Neon. Neon is a very specific amber-ish colour that you get from Neon gas in a light tube, not that taser-lime colour.)
Rather than just using that paint for case mods, you could also paint things in your room with it. Like maybe posters and stuff, especially for music groups.
UV Reactive Posters. Right, I'm off to the patent office!
You don't say anything about what else you inherited along with the website: Was the previous web admin a jerk? Was the server a pustulent boil on the face of the university's net?
Don't forget the creepy port scanner who looks for installed trojans and exploits them to install his own software. For months now, every morning at 7:42 & 8:42 EST a port scanner checks ports 5554, 9898, 1023 and 445 using several zombies per scan, mainly from Korean and Japanese IP addresses. (There are plenty of other scanners but none so damned punctual as:42 Zombie Charlie!)
What's with the alleged part? When Al Ralsky alleges it, and so does everyone else, and there's massive proof that he did, you can skip alleged.
Don't make the mistake that if it's not covered by the U.S. CAN-SPAM law, that it isn't spamming, or that someone has to be convicted in a court of law before they can be called a spammer. He hasn't been convicted of being a major asshole, but it's quite safe to call him that.
The point is that there's no technical reason that they can't record to the limits of their storage. What if next year's box has 1 GB of flash?
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After I've disconnected the antenna, and put a lockbox around the I/O connector, I do. Anyone else can ask permission or show a court order to search the data.
In the case of a lunar cable, it's hung over the hump between the Moon and Earth's gravity wells with enough mass on the Earth side of the L1 point to balance the cable down to the Moon.
Can you give a time-frame for delivery of 44,000 km of continuous nano-tube cable to Earth orbit? (With some long-term durability tests under a wide range of conditions.) Should we sit on our hands or go on a break until then? How much insurance coverage against accidents will the unproven and potentially very dangerous Earth elevator have?
A bit of practice with elevator projects might be a good idea instead of trying to get it right the first time. We'd need new heavy lift capability to build a Moon base or an Earth elevator. Also, what about the Earth elevator counter-mass? (As well as other material needed during contruction like radiation shielding.)
You didn't say you were shifting the focus from the lunar cable. If there's a lunar base, then the cable makes sense.
Does the lunar base make sense? That depends on what it's used for. As a flag re-plant, it's pointless (although it could happen in a new space-race with China, etc) because it will only last until someone pulls the money plug. As a boot-strap operation it does make sense because it could supply water/air/fuel and materials to Earth orbit a lot cheaper than hauling it up Earth gravity well. Eventually it could show a profit. (True, the initial investment is large.) It wouldn't even need much of a human presense to start with because a lot could be done by tele-operated robots. (The time-lag is minor bitch compared to Mars.)
Or we could just give up on ever expanding into space and stick to the obviously useful things like communication and weather satellites.
It provides a cheap way to get lunar materials into useful Earth orbit. If a lunar base is to be more than re-planting the flag or a geek paradise, then it has to do something. A pipeline for air, water and fuel to their customers in Earth orbit would be a start. Over time, more complex manufacturing could be done there.
The resources invested in it would be small compared to a lunar base, and since no one would be riding it (too slow), there wouldn't be fatal accidents.
With more than one cable, it could be used for transfering stuff from place to place on the Moon. The equatorial cable shack could be supplied from the polar base.
You could get stuff to other places on the Moon by giving it a good toss off the cable, but some people might not want that bag of flour dropped on them from 10,000 KM. (Good thing no one can hock a loogie in a spacesuit.)
It would like when they were building the first highways across America. The company would build a "seedling mile" of good highway along a stretch of crummy road near some town. After people tried that mile of good road in the middle of a stretch of washboard, it was a lot easier to get them to vote for the taxes to pave more of it.
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Remember that story a few days ago about Lexmark printer drivers installing spyware that phones home with your printer details?
The US government recovered that font from the crash at Roswell NM in the 1940s.
Got a whole page of HTTP 500 error dump from Apache Tomcat/4.1.24-LE-jdk14.
EA is just following the latest trendy development methodology called Extreme Overtime.
Or a mix of enlarge and relax, which sounds like a spammer pill that didn't make the grade.
Starch glows blue under UV light, so you could always try spray-starching the cat. (You'll want to use the iron on the delicate setting.)
It's a new name, you see. Fluorescent, Day-Glo, Neon and now UV Reactive! (I could never understand Neon. Neon is a very specific amber-ish colour that you get from Neon gas in a light tube, not that taser-lime colour.)
You're right, could be risky. Rather than using this stuff, check around to see if anyone still sells Undark paint--it doesn't need UV at all.
UV Reactive Posters. Right, I'm off to the patent office!
You don't say anything about what else you inherited along with the website: Was the previous web admin a jerk? Was the server a pustulent boil on the face of the university's net?
Don't forget the creepy port scanner who looks for installed trojans and exploits them to install his own software. For months now, every morning at 7:42 & 8:42 EST a port scanner checks ports 5554, 9898, 1023 and 445 using several zombies per scan, mainly from Korean and Japanese IP addresses. (There are plenty of other scanners but none so damned punctual as :42 Zombie Charlie!)
Bleh!
Don't make the mistake that if it's not covered by the U.S. CAN-SPAM law, that it isn't spamming, or that someone has to be convicted in a court of law before they can be called a spammer. He hasn't been convicted of being a major asshole, but it's quite safe to call him that.
If he doesn't have a Palm, I'm sure he can find a cockroach.
The point is that there's no technical reason that they can't record to the limits of their storage. What if next year's box has 1 GB of flash?
After I've disconnected the antenna, and put a lockbox around the I/O connector, I do. Anyone else can ask permission or show a court order to search the data.
In the case of a lunar cable, it's hung over the hump between the Moon and Earth's gravity wells with enough mass on the Earth side of the L1 point to balance the cable down to the Moon.
The Earth does have plenty of dirt and water -- but some fool stuck it all at the bottom of a gravity well where it's not very useful.
A bit of practice with elevator projects might be a good idea instead of trying to get it right the first time. We'd need new heavy lift capability to build a Moon base or an Earth elevator. Also, what about the Earth elevator counter-mass? (As well as other material needed during contruction like radiation shielding.)
Would it help if we went out and shot everyone who was still laughing?
Does the lunar base make sense? That depends on what it's used for. As a flag re-plant, it's pointless (although it could happen in a new space-race with China, etc) because it will only last until someone pulls the money plug. As a boot-strap operation it does make sense because it could supply water/air/fuel and materials to Earth orbit a lot cheaper than hauling it up Earth gravity well. Eventually it could show a profit. (True, the initial investment is large.) It wouldn't even need much of a human presense to start with because a lot could be done by tele-operated robots. (The time-lag is minor bitch compared to Mars.)
Or we could just give up on ever expanding into space and stick to the obviously useful things like communication and weather satellites.
Remember folks, turn your fine-structure constant ahead tonight before going to bed.
The resources invested in it would be small compared to a lunar base, and since no one would be riding it (too slow), there wouldn't be fatal accidents.
You could get stuff to other places on the Moon by giving it a good toss off the cable, but some people might not want that bag of flour dropped on them from 10,000 KM. (Good thing no one can hock a loogie in a spacesuit.)
It would like when they were building the first highways across America. The company would build a "seedling mile" of good highway along a stretch of crummy road near some town. After people tried that mile of good road in the middle of a stretch of washboard, it was a lot easier to get them to vote for the taxes to pave more of it.