Select a pc old enough not to be Rohs compliant but without many hours on it. For CDs use only archival-quality ones from that Japanese company with the name that starts with Tai. Seal the CDs in airtight metal containers. Put dissicant in the containers and flush them with nitrogen. Use silicone to seal the containers. DON'T use any sticky tape of any kind for anything. Have your welding shop build an airtight steel case out of.25" plate. Wrap the pc in heavy vinyl (but don't tape it!) and wedge it and the boxes of CDs in with dry wood (NOT plastic). Add lots of dissicant, close up the case, flush with dry nitrogen through the fittings installed for that purpose, seal them, paint the whole thing with several coats of epoxy paint, affix a brass plate explaining what it is, put it in your (above ground) vault...
Oh. Wait. You said FIFTY years. Just put the stuff in a box with a note taped to the side and stick it in a closet. It'll be fine.
> The black hole might survive, if it was being fed by the LHC.
There is no was to "feed" it.
> Cosmic rays don't have the continuous stream of particles to feed the black hole like > the LHC will.
What are you on about? "Feed"? If a black hole is created it will come zooming out of the beam intersection point at a relativistic velocity just like all the other collsion debris. It isn't going to have a string attached.
Relativistic black holes would also leave the vicinity of the Earth at high speed. In fact, it is difficult to see how black holes that were not moving at far in excess of escape velocity could be created.
> What happens if one of these black holes happens to intercept a spacecraft as it leaves > or re-enters the atmosphere? Does it do significant damage?
No. Try to understand how small these holes would be. They are so tiny that in the unlikely event that they hit the nucleus of an atom they would almost certainly pass through with out interacting at all with any of the subatomic particles there. Your spacecraft is going to be hit by cosmic rays with far more energy and with a far higher probability of interacting.
> Various scientists have said this will not happen because the black holes would decay > before they could do any damage.
The argument is stronger than that. Even if the holes don't decay at all their collision cross-sections are so small that they cannot get big enough to matter before the sun turns into a red giant and swallows the Earth.
An even stronger argument is that if the LHC can create such holes so can cosmic rays and yet we are still here.
The waiver isn't for YouTube. It's for the White House, and it isn't really a waiver. It's more of a legal opinion to the effect that linking to YouTube does not violate the cookie policy. That seems reasonable to me, though I don't see why the White House can't host its own videos.
> Visitors to the official White House blog will receive long-term tracking cookies > whenever they surf to a web-page with an embedded YouTube video -- even those users > that do not click the "play" button.
Unless, of course, they choose not to accept the cookies, in which case they don't receive them. The videos still work fine.
> The market is clearly choosing Linux over OpenSolaris. One way to combat that would be > to make OpenSolaris GPL3. It would then attract open source developers...
OpenSolaris is already Free Software. I see no reason to believe that such a license change would attract more developers.
Won't work. Some sonofabitch will always jump up and crown himself king, and some mob of stupid bastards will bow down to him. Then another one jumps up and you have a war...
Government may not be a necessary evil, but it seems to be an inevitable one. The best we can hope to do is minimize it.
> During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed...
Bush has already moved out most of his stuff. It's not like he was expecting to stay.
> Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked.
He's not renting an apartment. The White House is fully furnished. Obama gets to pick the furnishings for the private quarters from the White House collection (I'm sure he has already done this).
> For what? Hiring paid actors to say good things about a product?
False and misleading advertising. They deliberately concealed the fact that these "reviews" were paid ads with the intent that the public be misled into believing that the imaginary reviewers were real people who actually used and liked the product.
> People believe what anonymous strangers say on internet about some products. Why does > this surprise anyone that companies would put reviews of their own products ? It is not > illegal...
While it is not likely that any action will be taken over such a trivial thing it is not at all clear that what they did is not illegal.
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Select a pc old enough not to be Rohs compliant but without many hours on it. For CDs use only archival-quality ones from that Japanese company with the name that starts with Tai. Seal the CDs in airtight metal containers. Put dissicant in the containers and flush them with nitrogen. Use silicone to seal the containers. DON'T use any sticky tape of any kind for anything. Have your welding shop build an airtight steel case out of .25" plate. Wrap the pc in heavy vinyl (but don't tape it!) and wedge it and the boxes of CDs in with dry wood (NOT plastic). Add lots of dissicant, close up the case, flush with dry nitrogen through the fittings installed for that purpose, seal them, paint the whole thing with several coats of epoxy paint, affix a brass plate explaining what it is, put it in your (above ground) vault...
Oh. Wait. You said FIFTY years. Just put the stuff in a box with a note taped to the side and stick it in a closet. It'll be fine.
What makes you think it does? Perhaps 10% of all infections fail. So what?
I would imagine that it requires signed code.
> So first, is this idea crazy?
Yes. Do it.
> Second, how would we go about packing/preserving various components?
Pack it all in cosmoline.
If not your teacher is guilty of theft.
> The black hole might survive, if it was being fed by the LHC.
There is no was to "feed" it.
> Cosmic rays don't have the continuous stream of particles to feed the black hole like
> the LHC will.
What are you on about? "Feed"? If a black hole is created it will come zooming out of the beam intersection point at a relativistic velocity just like all the other collsion debris. It isn't going to have a string attached.
Relativistic black holes would also leave the vicinity of the Earth at high speed. In fact, it is difficult to see how black holes that were not moving at far in excess of escape velocity could be created.
> What happens if one of these black holes happens to intercept a spacecraft as it leaves
> or re-enters the atmosphere? Does it do significant damage?
No. Try to understand how small these holes would be. They are so tiny that in the unlikely event that they hit the nucleus of an atom they would almost certainly pass through with out interacting at all with any of the subatomic particles there. Your spacecraft is going to be hit by cosmic rays with far more energy and with a far higher probability of interacting.
> Various scientists have said this will not happen because the black holes would decay
> before they could do any damage.
The argument is stronger than that. Even if the holes don't decay at all their collision cross-sections are so small that they cannot get big enough to matter before the sun turns into a red giant and swallows the Earth.
An even stronger argument is that if the LHC can create such holes so can cosmic rays and yet we are still here.
The waiver isn't for YouTube. It's for the White House, and it isn't really a waiver. It's more of a legal opinion to the effect that linking to YouTube does not violate the cookie policy. That seems reasonable to me, though I don't see why the White House can't host its own videos.
How can you say that autorun is turned off if things can still run automatically?
> Visitors to the official White House blog will receive long-term tracking cookies
> whenever they surf to a web-page with an embedded YouTube video -- even those users
> that do not click the "play" button.
Unless, of course, they choose not to accept the cookies, in which case they don't receive them. The videos still work fine.
> The market is clearly choosing Linux over OpenSolaris. One way to combat that would be
> to make OpenSolaris GPL3. It would then attract open source developers...
OpenSolaris is already Free Software. I see no reason to believe that such a license change would attract more developers.
> Have there been any cases where animals wandered through the automatic doors into some
> large store?
Yes, but not nine million of them.
Is it really true that you have to edit the registry to turn off autorun? There isn't any clicky? Amazing.
Won't work. Some sonofabitch will always jump up and crown himself king, and some mob of stupid bastards will bow down to him. Then another one jumps up and you have a war...
Government may not be a necessary evil, but it seems to be an inevitable one. The best we can hope to do is minimize it.
> I like to bash the gov't as much as the next patriotic American, but they've made some
> fine contributions to our community.
I was thinking of "helpful" legislation.
Let's just hope they don't try to "help".
Qt was already Open Source, of course, under the GPL.
You mean. for example, Debian GNU/Linux on ARM ?
> Belkin would be long out of business by the time they got around to it.
By the time who got around to what?
> it's an incredibly common event, and happens everywhere. Usually the payment's indirect,
> though, but not always.
I was merely noting that what they did is probably technically illegal. I don't expect anyone to take any action over such a trivality.
> Heck, you want EA to go sue everyone who gave Spore a negative review because of the
> DRM?
Now there is a complete non sequitur.
> During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed...
Bush has already moved out most of his stuff. It's not like he was expecting to stay.
> Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked.
He's not renting an apartment. The White House is fully furnished. Obama gets to pick the furnishings for the private quarters from the White House collection (I'm sure he has already done this).
Why would you ever expect a company to post negative reviews of their products on their own Web site?
> For what? Hiring paid actors to say good things about a product?
False and misleading advertising. They deliberately concealed the fact that these "reviews" were paid ads with the intent that the public be misled into believing that the imaginary reviewers were real people who actually used and liked the product.
> People believe what anonymous strangers say on internet about some products. Why does
> this surprise anyone that companies would put reviews of their own products ? It is not
> illegal...
While it is not likely that any action will be taken over such a trivial thing it is not at all clear that what they did is not illegal.