There wasn't enough fuel to sustain orbit. The team responsible for this went to heroic lengths to keep it in orbit --- including at one point venting the spacecraft's helium to give it a final boost. This was all done so the probe could keep sending back data, which it did happily. In the end we got approximately four times the expected data we wanted from the probe.
Not bad for government contractors.
Just make encryption that isn't ridiculously easy to crack illegal, or subject to severe regulation and taxation. Get an expert devoid of care for privacy (say, Dorothy Denning) to endorse the law on the Sunday Morning talk shows. Cast anyone who cares about secure encryption as a bitter and deranged malcontent. Tell people it's for the Common Good.
Problem solved.
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Dystopian sci-fi is not a feature of Social Justice, it's a feature of sci-fi itself.
He explored that solution, and it turned out to be a huge pain in the neck. Quoting Consmerist (first link in the OP):
Then there’s XO, which provides connectivity solutions for business. We confirmed with an XO sales rep that the company could, in theory, provide T1 broadband service (through CenturyLink). However, it would require that either Seth’s employer purchase the service or that Seth have a business license of his own. But even if that were possible, the cost would be exorbitant, starting at nearly $600/month with a three-year contract.
I could see his employer saying "no," and $600/month for 1.5 mbps is highway robbery.
...could make real names for themselves by writing, respectively:
Then every web page on Earth can pass the Programmer Bechdel Test just by consuming the web service.
However, I suspect that's not what the test is intended to accomplish.
s/succeed/fail. Original should read:
No, seriously: can you cite a study with a solid methodology to demonstrate that less than 70% of FLOSS projects fail? I ask because there's a lot of orphaned projects out there that most people have never heard about and that are effectively dead, their code either unused or in desperate need of replacement (because it's not being maintained).
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
