It doesn't seem to matter to Google whether or not you mark the property as private property. This is not the first time the Google maps van has entered property they had no right to. They have previously ignored clearly posted "No Trespassing" signs and entered private property: Google Maps Trespassing Again.

Trespassing does exist; it's just a matter of whether or not the property owner decides to enforce it or not - and Google saying that they provide opt-out functionality to removed pictures from Google Maps is no excuse for blatantly ignoring the "No Trespassing" signs in the first place. This is like saying I can get away with selling door-to-door even to households with "No Hawking" signs posted (which to be honest most door-to-door salespeople do anyway).

Considering where it was found, I don't think the researchers will be complaining. The interesting point to this story though is the fact that the "nearly intact" (FTA: "he appears to be about 80% complete") mammoth was found in L.A., which is hardly frozen Artic tundra.

If it was the composition of the soil in which the body was buried that preserved it for so long, then perhaps similar finds could be made in other non-tundra climes.

As with any new technology, there's going to be a large cost involved with the development and research in the early stages.

Reading the article, it seems that the patient can only receive their original T-cells, but with enough experimentation and development, it may be possible to create a 'generic' T-cell that is close enough to natural T-cells to be accepted by anyone's body.

If this is achieved, then it's just a matter of mass producing the 'generic' T-cell. It might even be possible to create a 'generic' T-cell that causes a mutation in the CCR5 cell in existing T-cells to render those cells inactive, which means that only a small amount would be needed per person.

If we can advance the process this far, the only remaining problems would occur with patients or people being innoculated who have naturally occuring mutations or extreme differentations in their T-cells that prevent the developed T-cells from working properly. But by the time we reach this hurdle, it should be easier to develop the necessary T-cells for those people as required.

Just a thought.

I don't think this is "un-patent-worthy". A company is free to patent a new technology that they think will make them money, assuming it doesn't infringe on other patents. I do think that this is another way to keep casual (read: only on the weekends etc) gamers interested enough to keep buying games that they have no real interest in completing.

Maybe they should put more effort into making games that casual gamers won't lose interest in, rather than admitting by way of patent that a great deal of games on the market just aren't made well enough or with a sufficiently interesting storyline to keep gamers interested...

You know, I've been using computer keyboards since the mid-1980's, starting with the Amstrad CPC 64 and I still get along fine typing using just one finger on each hand...

Mind not be as fast as you younguns, but I make way more typing mistakes.

Only if they were pushed into Linux...

To Admins: Will somebody please block the IPs of the adolescent, racist, small-minded morons who insist on posting this type of message. I know that I could raise the level of posts to read in order to block these out myself, but I shouldn't have to. I don't mind the majority of trolls or flamebait, but this is getting ridiculous. And yes, I really that the purpose of these posts is to incite this type of response, but their are too many intolerant, ignorant people in the world now without pathetic idiots like this influencing others.