Why propose that tears caused by a fight might have significant chemical differences from tears caused by a sad movie instead of considering a hugely different state of mind for the male?

Occam's razor: maybe men who are having a tiff with a lover and see a tear will react differently than men sitting in an experimenter's room, smelling unlabeled vials.

Something like this being implemented is exactly how the internet could cease to be free in a very short time. Though your proposal sounds reasonable, It's not a far stretch to see such a tiered service offering increasingly slow service (relative to technological progress) to at all but the highest tiers, but then allowing extremely fast access to their corporate partners. Maybe the price gap between those services will also grow until eventually only a few will be willing to pay for the 'premium service' and everyone else will accept the non-neutral net as is. If it stopped there, then at least the only bias in the system would be towards big entertainment providers, but it's not hard to imagine the big news providers getting on board eventually too. Heck, there's already been a lot of pressure on the BBC to pay ISPs for the bandwidth its streaming content consumes

That leaves us with an internet biased towards non-independent media as well - exactly like modern day radio, newspapers, and television - but who's to say it would stop there? Maybe one day you find that the Financial Times loads faster than The Nation, or vice versa, etc etc.

This is exactly the sort of slow evolution that will take the internet from us, rather than an overnight transformation. It won't be much different that what happened to all other free forms of communication. And hopefully, it's exactly what the FCC trying to avoid by deliberating carefully on how to structure net neutrality regulation. If you leave any sort of gaps, even if they sound reasonable at the time, you can be damn sure they will grow until the net as we know it is unrecognizable.

But they showed a mechanism by which the body's cells can destroy the virus before the cell becomes controlled by the virus but after the virus has entered the cell. This is quite unprecedented as it allows that cell to recover, and therefore reduces the need for the immune system to have to launch attacks on our own cells, as occurs in a normal immune response and becomes uncontrolled in a cytokine storm.

In other words, this looks promising!

That is extraordinarily naive. You're saying that Google's profit is fixed and its prices are totally flexible, and that changing those prices wont' affect the quantity of business that it does. No way.

In reality, Google would probably realize that increasing ads (effectively charging consumers more) would drive customers to a competitor, say Bing, and so they would be forced to just accept a lower profit margin. Not such an outlandish idea given how much profit they would still make.

But your assumption that all tax avoidance by big corporations are passed on to the consumer in savings is nothing short of absurd, tea-baggish nonsense.

Buggy? No sir, you've just discovered slashdot's latest feature! Automatic selection of the most sensationalist headline possible, honesty be damned.

Sure explains a lot around here.

You didn't know that our Minister of Science is a creationist chiropractor?

Or that the government recently claimed that statistics showing a decrease in crime over the last years are not to be trusted?

Or even the recent slashdot story of the government meddling with reports from government labs on certainly "politically charged" scientific topics? Etc etc.

If that's the case, I don't see how you can make any claim about this being newsworthy or not from under the rock you are inhabiting. And frankly, even if every Canadian was properly informed and realized this government has set the bar for anti-science policy, why would the new development of some group finally standing up to said government on behalf of scientists not be newsworthy?

Both, of course. Generally speaking, we can only get the former when it allows for the latter as well.

Trash pick-up is a municipal service - they have every right to stipulate that you should follow certain conditions in order to use their service. If you don't want to use their service, I'm sure that they won't mind. But by agreeing to use it, you accept their terms, and if you violate them then you pay a penalty. Seems more like a business than a government in this way.

But, despite partaking in countless similar arrangements with government and business alike, you extrapolate this one contract to some sort of dystopian future with "Re-education Camps" and the like... really, come on. Take off the tin-foil hat and get some sun!

My new definition of irony:

A story on great leaps in progress being made because of openness being closed off behind a paywall.

At my favourite local coffee shop in Canada's Seattle, Vancouver, they do not have wireless. But they do have a posted manifesto explaining why they've made the conscious choice to remain internet-free; to improve the environment and mimic the social-hub that coffee shops originally were, back in the day.

After reading that - which makes a lot of sense if you've seen some of the other "jacked-in" coffee shops around here - I offered my compliments to the nearest employee. It does happen! And, by the way, this coffee shop is thriving - it seems I'm not alone in liking their vibe!

I know, right? There's nothing worse than people injecting politics into an otherwise technical discussion. Too bad it's all too common. . .

Huh.

This group has published a good deal of work in free-to-access journals, like this article which was published in 2005 and is on the exact subject of this Nature work with just a little less information on the mechanism of action. They just sought a little more attention (not to mention funding) for their impressive work.

I'm no fan of pay walls, but the fact that I didn't hear about the work published PNAS for five years, but did hear about the similar work published in Nature within a week of its publishing justifies their choice of journal to me.

tl;dnr: An older version of this paper is available without paying here.