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Yeah, but you don't go around telling the creator of the jigsaw puzzle that you put it together in a way they haven't described and that this might result in damages, but not if they just listen to what you have to say.

Motives be damned, as far as Microsoft knows, anyone that discovers a security vulnerability is a potential extortionist and they'll treat you that way.

What is it these people are looking for from Microsoft? Recognition that they found a vulnerability that anyone else could have found? Money or employment, maybe a resume booster? Why would anyone BOTHER to go looking for vulnerabilities in the largest operating system in the world for ALTRUISTIC reasons? It doesn't make sense. Did they expect anything other than being "spurned"? Honestly ...

Toyota RAV4 EV's sell for more than their original MSRP 10 years ago right now on eBay. Residual value is a matter of supply and demand, this 'analyst' sounds like he wants to mess with the demand part.

Except you can opt out at http://oo.apple.com/ on your iOS4 Device.

Had no idea the sun paid that exorbitant licensing fee! I guess we'll need a bigger telescope to see the THX sticker.

Yes, storm chasers have the right to chase a storm, but they are blinded to the fact that they also have the RESPONSIBILITY to do so safely.

You have the right to go out into the street and start yelling racist stuff, but you'll probably get hurt badly if you do. Storm chasers have the right to be on the roads, but that doesn't mean they're not causing other people harm while doing so.

Anything that includes circuitry would be affected (destroyed) by magnetic storms from the sun. In 1859, telegraph wires visibly sparked across the United States due to a geomagnetic solar storm, the largest recorded in history. I just hope my phone in my pocket doesn't take my leg off.

Indeed, apologies: bad migraine.

*cell=sell ... too many synonyms :-/
"...and sell these renewing stem ..."

Research is a noncommercial endeavour, and as such patent infringement cannot occur. What these "researchers" were trying to do with these brains was something akin to a commercial endeavour, whereby the can extract the stem cells within the dead children's brains, grow them as eternal cell culture and cell these renewing stem cell cultures to real researchers. If they were performing non-profit research, they could use whatever technique the wanted to ... it's like a hobby.

You can go tinker with your car and fabricate a new intake manifold on your own to make it go faster, and not be afraid of being sued for patent infringement because you used some company's design for an intake manifold. When you start racing professionally with that car seeking sponsorships and purses, then you've committed patent infringement.

AT&T offers SMS/MMS/Data blocking on an account. In fact, it's even at online check-out on their webpage. It asks if you want to disable SMS, MMS, or Data from any line so that you won't get charged and won't receive any of those things. You can also opt to pay per use, or to buy a set amount or an "unlimited" amount. Can't miss it.

Also, the higher altitude regions, such as mountains, have higher electromagnetic energy due to being closer to the turbulent atmosphere. It's possible that this could result in hallucinations of all sorts, and explain the many mystic experiences of such regions.

For those that suffer from migraines, these lights and balls should be familiar as "aura", or scintilating scotoma. For migraineurs, these lights last longer because they are caused by changing bloodflow to the occipital lobe over a longer period of time. It most assuredly activates the same neurons that this magnetic stimulation of neurons produces. I would not be surprised of reports of concomitant parosmia, or olfactory hallucinations, with the display of ball-lightning caused by magnetic fields.

Actually, the APOE4 allele that predisposes to Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia also embues its recipients with a higher IQ. The hypothesis is that the brain burns out quickly, so perhaps chess players do become progressively more illogical as they burn out their logic circuits quickly in earlier life.