You could fit zillions of virtual Menuets in one single computer...

Something in the lines of Lego NXT, perhaps, but more open and flexible?

New brand of toys, manufactured from molten plastic harvested directly from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Asking for marriage advice on Slashdot... it doesn't get much geekier than that! Congratulations, you've brightened my day! Oh, my $0.02: ask people who have seen many marriages up close, but always from outside: find a priest. A good one. There are plenty.

They're not saying, 'cause it's in New Jersey! Sorry, bad joke, no offense.

Oh, the terror! What if the thief kidnaps you and tortures you to obtain the passphrase or bomb deactivation code? I suggest you hire Jack Bauer as bodyguard. No, seriously. Encrypt the disk and you're good to go.

I say it's the alien black oil from X-Files

Oh, Role Playing Games! I thought you meant "Rocket-Propelled Granades". Please stand by while the FBI knocks your door down.

Who's got the explicitometer to decide which domain to place content in? Censorship is getting increasingly surreal.

No, really. They know.

Can it share the road with taxis and delivery trucks? No? Sorry, it's no use then.

We know quite well how paper and ink age through the years.
We know quite well how to preserve paper for a long time.
We know how to efficiently encode digital information onto paper, using bidimensional barcodes.
We know that paper tolerates a big amount of damage without losing the information encoded on it.
We have ample experience recovering information from damaged -even charred- paper.
We know paper requires no energy to maintain the information stored on it.

If we combine these factors, it's not hard to conceive a long-term storage facility for digital data (could be encrypted - they're just dots on paper).

For data retrieval scan the pages, decode the dots, decrypt the bytes.

If we grow plants to make paper for backup, the plants wil sequester CO2 while growing to a profitable size.

How much enery and contamination is needed to manufacture and recycle LED lights, versus the same costs for traditional sodium lamps? In terms of contamination, I believe the whole lifecycle should be considered, not just energy consumption while operating.

1.- The author will not receive royalties whatever you do. It's part of the contract she signed with the publishing company. 2.- The publishing company has ceased printing the book, thereby implicitly ceasing their business of cashing dollars for selling the book. They do not want to continue doing business with the book. 3.- You want to read the book for personal use and not to make money with it. I would not have moral problems getting hold of a copy of the book, be it electronically or physically photocopying it.