Mathematics is all the citation I need.

If you think you can have a permanent ring at 3650km up, then you need to research orbatal physics. just the sheer area needed to cover at a stable orbital point for a ring to stay up there on it's own for a short time, like a decade.. would require an immense amount of metal even in 1.78cm lengths. I actually think I am under estimating it, and they will need to launch every ounce of aluminum along with every ounce of copper on the planet into space to form this ring.

No worse than a skylight that is slightly better than a Hole in the ceiling. It still makes them horrible for any home that has to use HVAC and be efficient.

Actually you get light in the winter, It's a funky green light and very low intensity, but it's there.

Close. If we were to launch ALL of the copper found on the earth, every last scrap of it, we could do what they wanted, problem is there would be no copper left to make radios to transmit or receive with. This was the problem, Yes it "worked" but the scale needed would have required global strip mining and launching every ounce of copper that this planet has in it's crust.

solartubes are horrible heat leaks. they are the worst thing in the world to install in any home that has insulation. What I am waiting for is 3" diameter acrylic rod that will do this for me and not have the ungodly heat losses that the solatube junk does. I had all 3 taken out of my home because of the losses they have.

"First, where are they getting 14 hours a day of SUNLIGHT everyday,"

Nome, Alaska

Honestly it seems that every year for the past 4 years slashdot herolds this.

Then HAD will do it in about 2 days.

A very large dump of /dev/random named " Secret plans to over throw the government" and mail it to the NSA from a anonymous postal drop box.

It will utterly break the Best NSA cytologists brains for the next 10 years.

660 Exabytes wont even hold my midget porn collection.

I have my bug out needs all in order, Looking forward to the collapse and the resulting thunderdome.
Welcome to the new age!

The problem is with your Wifi router firmware. Upgrade it and it goes away. a LOT of low end routers freak out when they get a wireless complex connection request packet and WPA2 is enabled.

Only for people that dont do anything. I travel on the plane twice a month and I carry an 18" laptop. I want to know what these people think they are "getting done" on these tiny 13" ultrabooks and netbooks...

At least dont be Dusche-Bags and LOCK the bootloader/Bios. Give us linux dweebs a way to blow out the Chrome OS and install linux on it easily without a 20 second "ZOMG UR BookIZ Compromised!" warning on the screen...

Only if you design it wrong and put the video processor OUTSIDE the unit.

Someone is pissy that they dont have $300 for an OR...