Actually the breathalyzer won't even help if a drunken driver causes an accident. Just because you have one in your car doesn't mean you will use it. Most drunken drivers probably wouldn't need a breathalyzer anyway to discover they are drunk. Indeed, I could imagine some using the breathalyzer to get themselves just below the allowed limit, where otherwise they'd have stopped earlier in fear of getting beyond.
ASBOs are not intended to punish the individual. There should be some evidence before the court that the behaviour in question has caused or is likely to cause harassment alarm or distress,
How are you going to explain VLANs, STP, and ACLs to your grandmother?
I have no idea what VLAN or STP is, but ACLs are dead simple to explain to your grandmother: "There'a a list giving detailed information about who may do what with the file, and the computer enforces that list rigorously."
Well, even for subconscious plagiarism you must have (subconsciously) known the original. The whole concept of clean-room reimplementation rests on the assumption that if you have never been exposed to the original, you cannot violate its copyright.
Unless the courts start claiming telepathic copyright violation, of course. But in that case, you should counter-sue for precognitive copyright violation: The earlier version is actually a copy of your version which was subconsciously foreknown.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm sure Apple had a bucket load of old Motorola pagers in the room when they were designed the push software for the iPhone.
Unlike copyright law, patent law doesn't require that you knew the patent for it to apply.
That simulation shows only half an orbit, therefore you don't see the string returning. however it's quite obvious that it's not in an escape orbit because that would be either parabolic or hyperbolic, and thus would never reach the opposite side of the original position.
Unfortunately that article contained zero information about what Google actually did. I don't know Safari, but if you can instruct it to not accept any cookie without you explicitly agreeing it should not accept any cookie without you explicitly agreeing. If it doesn't offer that possibility, get a better browser.
I've not even seen "megameter" used by professionals. Actually, the largest metric distance used seems to be "kilometer", used up to distances where the non-SI Astronomical Unit (distance earth-sun), and then later the Parsec (distance at which the earth orbit would be seen at a parallax of one arc second) start being used. For the latter, of course the Mega prefix is used again.
One homemade cruise missile (in 2050, I suspect making a cruise missile won't be much harder than RC airplanes are today. Heck, some garage tinkerers already have done similar projects) and the ENTIRE elevator falls.
Why a cruise missile? I think a small remote-controlled toy plane with a little bit of explosive on it would probably suffice. Remote control might be via satellite internet.
Good luck building a 300km high self-sustaining building.
The counterweight must be beyond the geostationary orbit because otherwise your elevator rope would not be stabilized. And if you have to go up there anyways, then why not put a terminal station there?
Well, I know a reason: It is also useful to go beyond, in order to use the sling effect for launching interplanetary space probes, or even just going to the moon.
Usually step 2 is get investors believe you and give you lots of money. Note that to profit, you don't need to actually manage to build the space elevator. You just must make sure that it doesn't look like fraud.
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Actually the breathalyzer won't even help if a drunken driver causes an accident. Just because you have one in your car doesn't mean you will use it. Most drunken drivers probably wouldn't need a breathalyzer anyway to discover they are drunk. Indeed, I could imagine some using the breathalyzer to get themselves just below the allowed limit, where otherwise they'd have stopped earlier in fear of getting beyond.
ASBOs are not intended to punish the individual.
There should be some evidence before the court that the behaviour in question has caused or is likely to cause harassment alarm or distress,
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/anti_social_behaviour_guidance/
Hmmm ... the music industry's behaviour surely causes harassment alarm and distress to many people. Can we get an ASBO against them? :-)
I have no idea what VLAN or STP is, but ACLs are dead simple to explain to your grandmother: "There'a a list giving detailed information about who may do what with the file, and the computer enforces that list rigorously."
Ah, so now we know what they did wrong with Marvin. ...
Well, that and the diodes down his left side
The point is not that they got punished. The point is how they got punished.
Room 101?
An apt name: They are ordered to exhibit anti-social behaviour, namely not talking to each other.
Well, even for subconscious plagiarism you must have (subconsciously) known the original. The whole concept of clean-room reimplementation rests on the assumption that if you have never been exposed to the original, you cannot violate its copyright.
Unless the courts start claiming telepathic copyright violation, of course. But in that case, you should counter-sue for precognitive copyright violation: The earlier version is actually a copy of your version which was subconsciously foreknown.
Yeah, they should have hired an audiophile. They surely know how important high quality cables are.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm sure Apple had a bucket load of old Motorola pagers in the room when they were designed the push software for the iPhone.
Unlike copyright law, patent law doesn't require that you knew the patent for it to apply.
No, Germany stopped doing that about 67 years ago.
Actually I found it quite ironic that the ebook reader is called Kindle. What happens if you kindle a book?
So you're saying it was planned to be finished in 2001? Given that the previous version is from 2003, I strongly doubt that.
That simulation shows only half an orbit, therefore you don't see the string returning. however it's quite obvious that it's not in an escape orbit because that would be either parabolic or hyperbolic, and thus would never reach the opposite side of the original position.
Unfortunately that article contained zero information about what Google actually did. I don't know Safari, but if you can instruct it to not accept any cookie without you explicitly agreeing it should not accept any cookie without you explicitly agreeing. If it doesn't offer that possibility, get a better browser.
Nobody forces you to accept the Google cookie.
I've not even seen "megameter" used by professionals. Actually, the largest metric distance used seems to be "kilometer", used up to distances where the non-SI Astronomical Unit (distance earth-sun), and then later the Parsec (distance at which the earth orbit would be seen at a parallax of one arc second) start being used. For the latter, of course the Mega prefix is used again.
Why 96km?
Why a cruise missile? I think a small remote-controlled toy plane with a little bit of explosive on it would probably suffice. Remote control might be via satellite internet.
Good luck building a 300km high self-sustaining building.
The counterweight must be beyond the geostationary orbit because otherwise your elevator rope would not be stabilized. And if you have to go up there anyways, then why not put a terminal station there?
Well, I know a reason: It is also useful to go beyond, in order to use the sling effect for launching interplanetary space probes, or even just going to the moon.
The counterweight is 1/4 the distance to the moon. Not the terminal station.
Yeah, it obviously should have been 96 Mm. :-)
Actually I wonder why the standard SI prefix "mega-" is never used on the standard SI unit "meter".
Except that in proper metric system, "kph" should be "km/h".
Usually step 2 is get investors believe you and give you lots of money. Note that to profit, you don't need to actually manage to build the space elevator. You just must make sure that it doesn't look like fraud.
The Shitsumi dam?