Uh, what? If it lasts "forever", that is literally the definition of non-reactive, aside from certainly types of catalytic action that do not apply here.

      When chemicals react, they reaction products are by definition different that the original component, that is the definition of reactive.
       

The fact that it is "forever" inevitably means that it is essentially non-reactive - meaning aside from completely unknown catalytic action, it *by definition* does not affect anything it comes in contact with.

It's just another attempt by the extreme environmentalists to panic people into doing whatever they say.

Agreed on the "wake from sleep" issue. My corporate Windows laptop, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't for no reason that I can see. I have always gotten it going again using various tricks.
My personal MacBook just works.

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n Newtonian terms the object would speed up as it approached the black hole and crossed the horizon, and it could never exceed or attain the speed of light, but would get kinetic energy in excess of it's actual speed. Things appear heavier as they are accelerated, and more and more of the energy is put into mass while the velocity only approaches the speed of light.

Coming around the object the same process happens in reverse, so the object isn't travelling at escape velocity but the pull from the singularity takes mass energy instead of slowing the object down. Without slowing down appreciably, the object should pop back out of the black hole and continue on it's original course.

        The part you are missing is that it can only accelerate to aproach the speed of light, as opposed to Newtownian mechanics where it can accelerate as fast as it wants. In classical terms, the mass growth/time dialation acts like a damping term.

Yes

Ask Dan Rather.

Nothing that reacts that violently to such a wide array of chemicals can hardly be considered a "forever chemical". It's a "5 seconds and it's something else" chemical.

Make that several decades, or rather. 8+ decades. Only wishful thinking from 1990-2021 ever made anyone think otherwise.

Your IoT/"smart" crap doesn't work a few years later? And you are somehow surprised by this, after story after story of DRM servers getting turned off, force "upgrades" on "software as a service" garbage, "the cloud" scam, and every possible indication that these are fly-by-night, short-attention-span entities?

        I'm sorry, but I don't have a lot of sympathy. You jumped on the hype bandwagon despite every possible indication that you would only going to be burned, and now, you got burned. Naivety has its price.

99.999% of us are never going to get these kinds of opportunities.

      What's stopping you? It took Shatner 93 years to get to this point.

        Oh, you mean making snarky comments on Slashdot is not sufficiently fulfilling?

Just get the "Vulcan Love Slave" series of holodeck programs. Makes you forget all about penguins. Or at least makes you think of them less often.

All of these boomers which have given me everything good I have in the world and a safe place to indulge myself in insulting them say we need to limit AI research because AI will "kill us all".

  FTFY

But here we find the real danger - people who wantonly deploy AI without realizing the limits it has,

      Which means everyone, including you.

That's one problem, but hardly the only one. The "training" materials are effectively a closed loop of reinfocing the correcteness or flaws of the training materials, partcularly when it comes to LLMs. The Microsoft Tay fiasco is an early example.

  In one way, it's no different from raising children, who inherit many of the proclivities of the parents. Unfortunately, with AI, that might take 18 minutes instead of 18 years. At the same time, most of the training is being done under the "tutelage" of people and systems whose capabilities for teaching future good citizenship are exceptionally dubious.

I was referring to the modern media era of outrage.

  What you are talking about was a completely different phenomenon - so I would suggest you are the one who does not understand history.

Who is this "we", kimosabe? This is a relatively new phenomenon, it started during the Vietnam War, when media started transitioning from journalism to activism. This was the start of the "church of eternal outrage". Now, today, journalists see it as their highest calling to challenge any authority, not because of any specific issue they have, but because they see their primary job as uncovering malfeasance, either real or imagined - or invented out of the clear blue sky.

    I was certainly not raised to be outraged from morning till night, that is what is so toxic about todays culture.

Also - why do we need farmers? I get my food at Safeway!