Actually, in HHGTTG, the natives were dying out - it was the phone sanitizers and marketing executives that became the humans.
For what it's worth, I see the intervention of the colonists as the cause of the human race beginning to shift from nomadic hunter gatherer to cultivation. This was one of the major milestones in human civilization, and it seems like that's what the BSG writers were going for.
I too wish that they had explored the possibility that Kara was the daughter of a Daniel, and I also didn't like how much of "Gods plan" worked into this. Still, I supposed it could have sucked more... it could have been Battlestar Galactica 1980 all over again YEuuuch!
What's with all the really uptight censorship and recording/movie industry "yesManning" going on down in that part of the world? I'm really glad the Kiwis came to their senses on this one, but it seems like this success is just a drop compared to a much bigger bucket.
I know, I know, I'm preaching to the choir, but judging by some of the more recent legislative gems we've been hearing about it just seems like lawmakers around the world are either insane or bought and paid for (or more likely; BOTH).
Just my $0.02 worth, but I had a Philips Pronto (fully programmable universal remote with touchscreen). You could build your own graphics for buttons and lay it out any way you wanted, it could have subpages and macros and just did everything. The big problem I had with it: touchscreen didn't allow for easy no-look usage. I got very sick and tired of either having to look between the remote and the tv when I was trying to perform certain operations, or if I was working on a FF/play kind of thing, I'd often miss the second button unless looking where my fingers were.
In short, a really good remote (in my opinion) needs programmable HARDWARE buttons. I use a Home Theater Master that was never sold direct to consumers... had to buy it from a gray market reseller on Ebay, but it was worth every cent.
I've played with a Universal remote app on my smartphone. Yeah, with a little work, I could get it set up as nicely as my old pronto, but I'd still have the physical button issue. For me for everyday use, I need my hardware buttons, but I could indeed see it being useful to have duplicate functionality on my smartphone.
I dunno about anyone else, but when I'm sitting and watching TV, I'm either totally wrapped up in the show (wouldn't want to have some smart device calling for my attention or adding other "enhanced experiences"), or if I AM doing something else, then I've got a laptop in front of me and I'm not really paying attention to the TV anyway.
A lot of folks have already made similar suggestions. Here's how I'd fix it:
Firefly Dr. Who (30 years worth) Farscape Star Trek (all of em - even if you don't like em, they stil count) StarGate (SG 1 and Atlantis) Logan's Run Blake's 7 Eureka BSG (Classic and modern) Max Headroom Andromeda Sliders Lexx Red Dwarf Threshold
And sure, add in the Fantasy Genre - we're used to the mix on bookshelves Xena Hercules that Robin Hood series I didn't watch, but heard was ok
You can get some great stuff by expanding the definition a LITTLE BIT The Prisoner The Twilight Zone The Night Gallery Buffy the Vampire slayer The X Files
Fill it out with the occasional miniseries Hitchhiker's Guide Dune V Neverwhere Goremangast 10th Kingdom
Now, add in all the SF movies available, and you've got a network that could have a reasonable "primetime" with series we love and remember with movies galore and it would probably take quite a while to get to where you're repeating yourself.
I bet they'd turn a profit. If they added in the occasional original series, all the better. If you REALLY felt you were short on stuff, there's a lot of CyberPunk Anime that would qualify (when judging this, just imagine if the show was live action instead - if it's sufficiently SF, go for it)
Instead, they decide they're too science fictiony?
Wrestling... WTF?
IF you're gonna do wrestling, GIVE US ROBOT WARS and BATTLE BOTS! That is the kind of wrestling that SciFi fans would actually watch.
I thought that one of the benefits of all these zillions of cable channels was that you could afford to have a real niche, but still gather enough of a national audience to make it viable.
I believe this is kind of what Obama was aiming for during his innaugeral address. His subsequent actions (moving forward on Iraq withdrawl and closing Gitmo) seem to support it.
Here's hoping that America gets our noses out of world+dog and that those prone to violence and extremism will go back to killing each other instead of focusing their ire on us.
I know, I know...way oversimplified, but still, I think you make a good point.
By defining our lives and curtailing fundamental liberties due to over-inflated panic about "therrists", we are actually doing the work of the terrorists for them. It's like a sick force multiplier.
Honestly, on 9/11, when I first heard about the attack, my first thought after the initial shock was "Oh gods, our gubbmint is gonna feel they gotta 'do sumthin', and we're gonna end up screwing ourselves worse than the bad guys on the planes" (yes, I actually do think 'gubbmint'... kind of indicating scorn and lack of faith in their ability not to be made of FAIL whenever they get involved in something.)
Reading TFA, it seems to me that there IS something that the end user can do to protect themselves: Look for the https:/// in the address bar and DON'T LOOK THERE (favicon.ico area) FOR THE PADLOCK... the padlock should be down in the statusbar area where it always is.
Out of reflex, I always check that my URL starts with https:/// and I check the cert when I'm dealing with someplace new. Now, I'm just always going to check the cert... even if I'm connecting to a site I use all the time.
If Moxie really wanted to make things tougher, they could maybe add a cert to their tool. THAT would make it so you'd only notice if you read the cert and realized it wasn't what it was supposed to be.
If I am required by law to keep my router logs for two years... well, no way my router can store that much data, so I need have it send my logs off to a syslog server or email them to me or something. I'm sure I can figre it out, but that is BILLABLE TIME. For someone less tech savvy, they might have to buy a new router or hire someone to set things up for them, costing them actual money.
IANAL, but I believe that when federal government passes a law that mandates something that costs money, the state can resist it if there's no associated funding... State vs local governments have something like that too. Sucks that we little folks don't get the same break.
Of course, I live in Massachusetts... whose idea of "Universal health care" is to fine the crap out of you if you can't prove you have insurance. I am used to being sh*t on by da gubbmint.
Ok, done being histrionic now./annoying bill DO NOT WANT
Totally with you. The world wide web is a terribly hostile place at this point. We've got so many tpyo squattres (that was deliberate), and legit but hacked web sites delivering malware/spyware, and so many idiots who really think some Nigerian interior minister is seeking their help that I predict EPIC FAILURE.
There are also a lot of peopole interested in promoting the idea of climate change, whatever it takes.
I'm firmly in the "there are a lot of things we could be doing better, but I'm not gonna sit here and panic that we're in the ~end of days~" camp myself.
I'd love to see more solar, wind, wave/tidal, and nuclear power. I'd love to see electric cars that can be charged fast enough so that they have an effectively unlimited range (in the way that petrol/diesel powered cars do... ya know, barring mechanical limitations). I'd love to see us find ways to reduce our consumption of foreign AND domestic oil sources so that we've got petroleum left to make plastics/polymers out of in a hundred years. I'd like to see sustainable population growth and development.
There are natural cycles - solar max/min, orbital variances, and probably many other natural cycles we're not 100% on top of yet that I bet have a pretty big effect on climate and general habitability on earth. Does that mean that I don't think we should do our best not to "sh*t where we sleep?" NO.
I call for sanity on both sides. Maybe if folks worried more about what we can do reasonably instead of panicking or being in denial, we could actually make the world a better place.
snip... It's not his job as a network admin to worry about what will happen to those passwords.
I have to disagree there... if your management has no concept of the importance of keeping root level passwords in as few hands as possible, then they're probably not savvy enough to know the difference if one of the many folks with such access causes a problem / breaks something.
What I'm getting at is that if the management insists on letting that many chefs in the kitchen, then I betchya they will be totally surprised to find that the soup is ruined and will come down hard on the head chef for it.
When Childs said he should have gotten out, I think he meant that he should have left the job, not that he should have given them the passwords.
As a former network admin, it WAS my job to worry about the passwords. However, at that place, the CIO (my direct boss) was very technologically competent, and in fact, he filled in for me when I was sick:). That was a small company though where the other IT folks were DBA, and a bunch of developers, so the CIO and I were the only ones who touched the routers/firewalls and most of the servers. However, our DBA had root level access to those systems he needed to touch and in a pinch, I would have given him PWs for anything he needed. The difference: I would have changed those afterward. Not cuz I didn't trust him, but because "need to know" doesn't mean that once you needed to know, you always do.
At my current job, I'm a software engineer (really, the software Janitor... I clean up after others) so I personally have a lot of access, but it's not my place to give PWs to anyone else... that's our network / infrastructure folks. All depends on what you do and who you work with.
If things went down like Childs said, then he was indeed doing his job correctly. I've got root level access to all our Linux servers and several of our AD domains due to the work I do. However, I'm not the network admin. I would not give any of the passwords to anyone (including my boss, the head of IT), and instead would direct the requester to our head network/infrastructure guy.
I happen to know that he would refuse to just give out root passwords to management just because they wanted it. The only people with that level of access are those who need it for their work. This is how things SHOULD BE.
Now if Childs was the only one with the passwords (which from the standoff, I guess he was), then he may be guilty of forgetting that you NEVER put all your eggs in one basket. Were I in Childs' position, I would have been concerned what would happen to my network should I get hit by a bus. However, I can't believe he wouldn't have a PFY to share the info with. You always gotta have a second.
What about looking at whether it evolves, i.e., adapts to become fitter in their environment? Doesn't apply to fire, nor rocks (which change, but these changes don't make them more likely to survive).
In my way of thinking, Humans and fire are a lot alike:: Both tend to spread and grow until all available resources are consumed.
Gibbs' Rule #13: Never involve lawyers - it just makes things complicated
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Here's my summary:
"Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" may get you acquitted in the end, but that doesn't apply to all the things that happen to you BEFORE the trial: Cooling your heels in jail while charged, having every piece of technology you own seized as evidence, incredibly high legal fees, yada yada.
So, I guess the summary of the summary is:
Keep yer nose clean.
I suppose if you look at all the RIAA cases that routinely pop up here on/. you can easily see what he's talking about: look at all the costs and hardships those accuesed have to go through... The old lady who had probably never even listened to an mp3 in her life could probably attest to the pain. No reasonable jury would ever have convicted her, but that didn't stop the RIAA from causing her a big bunch of trouble.
My biggest complaint about MS's Vista versioning (and possibly Windows 7 - we shall see) is partly due to me being an IT geek:
I've got a win 2003 server and active directory at home. Have had a domain set up like that since NT 4.0 Server several years ago. I did it originally to give myself hands-on experience setting up / managing a domain where a mistake would not cost me a job. However, over the years, I've kind of gotten really used to having my network at home make good use of AD, so I've kept going.
Now, on Win 2K and Win XP, this wasn't a big deal - buy pro, it's a superset of home with AD hooks - runs everything else just fine. However, along comes Vista and I get a distinct impression that if I went with Vista Business, I might have trouble with some of my gaming stuff. My only option there was to buy Ultimate so I could essentially have the Multimedia / game features of Home but be able to join a domain. (even on WinXp Media center laptop, I was able to hack the registry to get it to join my domain)
With the number of PCs I have, this gets expensive (which is why I'm only on Vista with two of my um... embarrassingly lots).
So, I have this uneasy foreboding that I'm going to either end up having to dish out quite a bit more for the Ultimate edition with all sorts of crap I don't want/need, or I'm going to just stick with what I have until I'm forced to migrate.
The music industry should not be able to have it both ways: EITHER they get to charge some kind of "we're losing money" tax or they get to go after pirates, but not both.
Look at Canada where every blank CD / DVD has a built-in fee that goes to the recording / movie industries to make up for the piracy that they feel you will engage in, but they'll STILL come after individuals.
Will a black hole suddenly swallow the world so quickly that we'd have no warning? (Would that be the best of all possible bad outcomes?) This would imply that they generated such a large black hole that it grew within a matter of seconds (or perhaps minutes) into some world-swallowing gobbler - or that it generated a black hole that went undetected and fell into the earth until it grew into a world swallowing gobbler.
My guess is that this teeny black hole would immediately start falling toward the center of the earth - gobbling up bits of matter that encounter its event horizon as it goes. When it got to the center, its momentum would be fairly high (32 ft/sec/sec accelleration for the entire radius, assuming that the event horizon gobbling up matter effectively reduced any drag/resistance to zero).
Anyway, I'm too lazy to calculate the velocity, but I'd wager that it couldn't overcome the escape velocity of the Earth, so it would "fall" right through the gravitational center of the Earth and then start to be slowed by the gravitational attraction. This process would continue with the black hole gathering more mass as it cuts its way through on repeated oscillations. In fact, it might even end up in some kind of elliptical orbit. This would continue for a long time, until the core of the Earth was eventually replaced by this ever-growing black hole. All this mass moving about would probably cause eccentricities in our orbit and if it gobbled up enough, I wonder if it wouldn't mess up our magnetic fields after a time.
I'm just guessing here, and IANAPP (I am not a particle physicist).
I like these thought experiments... of course, someone with a calculator and more free time than I would probably point out how every word I stated aside from INAPP is utterly wrong.:P
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Actually, in HHGTTG, the natives were dying out - it was the phone sanitizers and marketing executives that became the humans.
For what it's worth, I see the intervention of the colonists as the cause of the human race beginning to shift from nomadic hunter gatherer to cultivation. This was one of the major milestones in human civilization, and it seems like that's what the BSG writers were going for.
I too wish that they had explored the possibility that Kara was the daughter of a Daniel, and I also didn't like how much of "Gods plan" worked into this. Still, I supposed it could have sucked more... it could have been Battlestar Galactica 1980 all over again YEuuuch!
What's with all the really uptight censorship and recording/movie industry "yesManning" going on down in that part of the world? I'm really glad the Kiwis came to their senses on this one, but it seems like this success is just a drop compared to a much bigger bucket.
I know, I know, I'm preaching to the choir, but judging by some of the more recent legislative gems we've been hearing about it just seems like lawmakers around the world are either insane or bought and paid for (or more likely; BOTH).
Just my $0.02 worth, but I had a Philips Pronto (fully programmable universal remote with touchscreen). You could build your own graphics for buttons and lay it out any way you wanted, it could have subpages and macros and just did everything. The big problem I had with it: touchscreen didn't allow for easy no-look usage. I got very sick and tired of either having to look between the remote and the tv when I was trying to perform certain operations, or if I was working on a FF/play kind of thing, I'd often miss the second button unless looking where my fingers were.
In short, a really good remote (in my opinion) needs programmable HARDWARE buttons. I use a Home Theater Master that was never sold direct to consumers... had to buy it from a gray market reseller on Ebay, but it was worth every cent.
I've played with a Universal remote app on my smartphone. Yeah, with a little work, I could get it set up as nicely as my old pronto, but I'd still have the physical button issue. For me for everyday use, I need my hardware buttons, but I could indeed see it being useful to have duplicate functionality on my smartphone.
I dunno about anyone else, but when I'm sitting and watching TV, I'm either totally wrapped up in the show (wouldn't want to have some smart device calling for my attention or adding other "enhanced experiences"), or if I AM doing something else, then I've got a laptop in front of me and I'm not really paying attention to the TV anyway.
Omg, I need to turn in my geek card...
I forgot Babylon 5 /hanging head in shame
A lot of folks have already made similar suggestions. Here's how I'd fix it:
Firefly
Dr. Who (30 years worth)
Farscape
Star Trek (all of em - even if you don't like em, they stil count)
StarGate (SG 1 and Atlantis)
Logan's Run
Blake's 7
Eureka
BSG (Classic and modern)
Max Headroom
Andromeda
Sliders
Lexx
Red Dwarf
Threshold
And sure, add in the Fantasy Genre - we're used to the mix on bookshelves
Xena
Hercules
that Robin Hood series I didn't watch, but heard was ok
You can get some great stuff by expanding the definition a LITTLE BIT
The Prisoner
The Twilight Zone
The Night Gallery
Buffy the Vampire slayer
The X Files
Fill it out with the occasional miniseries
Hitchhiker's Guide
Dune
V
Neverwhere
Goremangast
10th Kingdom
Now, add in all the SF movies available, and you've got a network that could have a reasonable "primetime" with series we love and remember with movies galore and it would probably take quite a while to get to where you're repeating yourself.
I bet they'd turn a profit. If they added in the occasional original series, all the better. If you REALLY felt you were short on stuff, there's a lot of CyberPunk Anime that would qualify (when judging this, just imagine if the show was live action instead - if it's sufficiently SF, go for it)
Instead, they decide they're too science fictiony?
Wrestling... WTF?
IF you're gonna do wrestling, GIVE US ROBOT WARS and BATTLE BOTS! That is the kind of wrestling that SciFi fans would actually watch.
I thought that one of the benefits of all these zillions of cable channels was that you could afford to have a real niche, but still gather enough of a national audience to make it viable.
Ok, /rant
except that you've basically just got a monoalphabetic substitution cypher... not exactly rocket science to figure out and automate.
Hmm, a very apt analysis, except I disagree with '''There's no "Mt. Doom" for IP to actually go to die.'''
Very Clearly, Duke Nukem Forever has found its way to Mt. Doom. :p
I believe this is kind of what Obama was aiming for during his innaugeral address. His subsequent actions (moving forward on Iraq withdrawl and closing Gitmo) seem to support it.
Here's hoping that America gets our noses out of world+dog and that those prone to violence and extremism will go back to killing each other instead of focusing their ire on us.
I know, I know.. .way oversimplified, but still, I think you make a good point.
By defining our lives and curtailing fundamental liberties due to over-inflated panic about "therrists", we are actually doing the work of the terrorists for them. It's like a sick force multiplier.
Honestly, on 9/11, when I first heard about the attack, my first thought after the initial shock was "Oh gods, our gubbmint is gonna feel they gotta 'do sumthin', and we're gonna end up screwing ourselves worse than the bad guys on the planes" (yes, I actually do think 'gubbmint'... kind of indicating scorn and lack of faith in their ability not to be made of FAIL whenever they get involved in something.)
Reading TFA, it seems to me that there IS something that the end user can do to protect themselves: Look for the https:/// in the address bar and DON'T LOOK THERE (favicon.ico area) FOR THE PADLOCK... the padlock should be down in the statusbar area where it always is.
Out of reflex, I always check that my URL starts with https:/// and I check the cert when I'm dealing with someplace new. Now, I'm just always going to check the cert... even if I'm connecting to a site I use all the time.
If Moxie really wanted to make things tougher, they could maybe add a cert to their tool. THAT would make it so you'd only notice if you read the cert and realized it wasn't what it was supposed to be.
THAT's scary.
If I am required by law to keep my router logs for two years... well, no way my router can store that much data, so I need have it send my logs off to a syslog server or email them to me or something. I'm sure I can figre it out, but that is BILLABLE TIME. For someone less tech savvy, they might have to buy a new router or hire someone to set things up for them, costing them actual money.
IANAL, but I believe that when federal government passes a law that mandates something that costs money, the state can resist it if there's no associated funding... State vs local governments have something like that too. Sucks that we little folks don't get the same break.
Of course, I live in Massachusetts... whose idea of "Universal health care" is to fine the crap out of you if you can't prove you have insurance. I am used to being sh*t on by da gubbmint.
Ok, done being histrionic now. /annoying bill DO NOT WANT
THIS
A thousand times THIS!
Totally with you. The world wide web is a terribly hostile place at this point. We've got so many tpyo squattres (that was deliberate), and legit but hacked web sites delivering malware/spyware, and so many idiots who really think some Nigerian interior minister is seeking their help that I predict EPIC FAILURE.
That is all.
There are also a lot of peopole interested in promoting the idea of climate change, whatever it takes.
I'm firmly in the "there are a lot of things we could be doing better, but I'm not gonna sit here and panic that we're in the ~end of days~" camp myself.
I'd love to see more solar, wind, wave/tidal, and nuclear power. I'd love to see electric cars that can be charged fast enough so that they have an effectively unlimited range (in the way that petrol/diesel powered cars do... ya know, barring mechanical limitations). I'd love to see us find ways to reduce our consumption of foreign AND domestic oil sources so that we've got petroleum left to make plastics/polymers out of in a hundred years. I'd like to see sustainable population growth and development.
There are natural cycles - solar max/min, orbital variances, and probably many other natural cycles we're not 100% on top of yet that I bet have a pretty big effect on climate and general habitability on earth. Does that mean that I don't think we should do our best not to "sh*t where we sleep?" NO.
I call for sanity on both sides. Maybe if folks worried more about what we can do reasonably instead of panicking or being in denial, we could actually make the world a better place.
OMFG that had me laughing my butt off.
Ahh, but when you put a URL in Windows Explorer, it detects that it's HTTP and runs Internet Explorer.
IF MS didn't bundle IE into the default OS, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Not that I'm saying I totally agree with how completely wrapped up IE is with Windows. It's far too embedded as far as I can tell.
I have to disagree there... if your management has no concept of the importance of keeping root level passwords in as few hands as possible, then they're probably not savvy enough to know the difference if one of the many folks with such access causes a problem / breaks something.
What I'm getting at is that if the management insists on letting that many chefs in the kitchen, then I betchya they will be totally surprised to find that the soup is ruined and will come down hard on the head chef for it.
When Childs said he should have gotten out, I think he meant that he should have left the job, not that he should have given them the passwords.
As a former network admin, it WAS my job to worry about the passwords. However, at that place, the CIO (my direct boss) was very technologically competent, and in fact, he filled in for me when I was sick :). That was a small company though where the other IT folks were DBA, and a bunch of developers, so the CIO and I were the only ones who touched the routers/firewalls and most of the servers. However, our DBA had root level access to those systems he needed to touch and in a pinch, I would have given him PWs for anything he needed. The difference: I would have changed those afterward. Not cuz I didn't trust him, but because "need to know" doesn't mean that once you needed to know, you always do.
At my current job, I'm a software engineer (really, the software Janitor... I clean up after others) so I personally have a lot of access, but it's not my place to give PWs to anyone else... that's our network / infrastructure folks. All depends on what you do and who you work with.
If things went down like Childs said, then he was indeed doing his job correctly. I've got root level access to all our Linux servers and several of our AD domains due to the work I do. However, I'm not the network admin. I would not give any of the passwords to anyone (including my boss, the head of IT), and instead would direct the requester to our head network/infrastructure guy.
I happen to know that he would refuse to just give out root passwords to management just because they wanted it. The only people with that level of access are those who need it for their work. This is how things SHOULD BE.
Now if Childs was the only one with the passwords (which from the standoff, I guess he was), then he may be guilty of forgetting that you NEVER put all your eggs in one basket. Were I in Childs' position, I would have been concerned what would happen to my network should I get hit by a bus. However, I can't believe he wouldn't have a PFY to share the info with. You always gotta have a second.
In my way of thinking, Humans and fire are a lot alike:: Both tend to spread and grow until all available resources are consumed.
Frightening future world ruled by Steventology... truly frightening.
Ya had me up till the iPoo.
Also a valid summary.
Gibbs' Rule #13: Never involve lawyers - it just makes things complicated
Here's my summary:
"Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" may get you acquitted in the end, but that doesn't apply to all the things that happen to you BEFORE the trial: Cooling your heels in jail while charged, having every piece of technology you own seized as evidence, incredibly high legal fees, yada yada.
So, I guess the summary of the summary is:
Keep yer nose clean.
I suppose if you look at all the RIAA cases that routinely pop up here on /. you can easily see what he's talking about: look at all the costs and hardships those accuesed have to go through... The old lady who had probably never even listened to an mp3 in her life could probably attest to the pain. No reasonable jury would ever have convicted her, but that didn't stop the RIAA from causing her a big bunch of trouble.
My biggest complaint about MS's Vista versioning (and possibly Windows 7 - we shall see) is partly due to me being an IT geek:
I've got a win 2003 server and active directory at home. Have had a domain set up like that since NT 4.0 Server several years ago. I did it originally to give myself hands-on experience setting up / managing a domain where a mistake would not cost me a job. However, over the years, I've kind of gotten really used to having my network at home make good use of AD, so I've kept going.
Now, on Win 2K and Win XP, this wasn't a big deal - buy pro, it's a superset of home with AD hooks - runs everything else just fine. However, along comes Vista and I get a distinct impression that if I went with Vista Business, I might have trouble with some of my gaming stuff. My only option there was to buy Ultimate so I could essentially have the Multimedia / game features of Home but be able to join a domain. (even on WinXp Media center laptop, I was able to hack the registry to get it to join my domain)
With the number of PCs I have, this gets expensive (which is why I'm only on Vista with two of my um... embarrassingly lots).
So, I have this uneasy foreboding that I'm going to either end up having to dish out quite a bit more for the Ultimate edition with all sorts of crap I don't want/need, or I'm going to just stick with what I have until I'm forced to migrate.
We shall see, but I'm leaning toward the latter.
Wow, scary since I can easily go through 6-10 cans in a day.
MUCH prefer Sugar-based coca-cola over the corn syrup as well.
Marv Albert? /ducking
So true.
The music industry should not be able to have it both ways: EITHER they get to charge some kind of "we're losing money" tax or they get to go after pirates, but not both.
Look at Canada where every blank CD / DVD has a built-in fee that goes to the recording / movie industries to make up for the piracy that they feel you will engage in, but they'll STILL come after individuals.
Seems to me they shouldn't get to charge twice.
My guess is that this teeny black hole would immediately start falling toward the center of the earth - gobbling up bits of matter that encounter its event horizon as it goes. When it got to the center, its momentum would be fairly high (32 ft/sec/sec accelleration for the entire radius, assuming that the event horizon gobbling up matter effectively reduced any drag/resistance to zero).
Anyway, I'm too lazy to calculate the velocity, but I'd wager that it couldn't overcome the escape velocity of the Earth, so it would "fall" right through the gravitational center of the Earth and then start to be slowed by the gravitational attraction. This process would continue with the black hole gathering more mass as it cuts its way through on repeated oscillations. In fact, it might even end up in some kind of elliptical orbit. This would continue for a long time, until the core of the Earth was eventually replaced by this ever-growing black hole. All this mass moving about would probably cause eccentricities in our orbit and if it gobbled up enough, I wonder if it wouldn't mess up our magnetic fields after a time.
I'm just guessing here, and IANAPP (I am not a particle physicist).
I like these thought experiments... of course, someone with a calculator and more free time than I would probably point out how every word I stated aside from INAPP is utterly wrong. :P