The data from WMAP indicates that we're living in a Big Freeze universe. Although it's still possible that enough dark energy may exist to reverse it, it seems unlikely.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_fate.html

I voluntarily send my location to Google every 2 hours (via Latitude). Why should I care if they know where I am? I mean, what exactly are you, some kind of spy?

Nobody cares where *you* are. You're just not that important. Sorry to bust your ego-bubble.

They only really care where people are in aggregate. That information is far more useful.

And if where you are does actually matter, then *turn it off*. Simple enough to do, really.

If the data sent is more than one packet, I'd be shocked.

Not. Eventually the universe will run down too.

It's highly unlikely that they did full sequencing on these samples. Full sequencing is expensive and time consuming.

Generally they only sequence the specific parts of the DNA that the particular research happens to be interested in.

Based on the fact that it's impossible to brick an iPhone from jailbreaking, like I stated previously.

Wake up and learn to read, dude.

You don't even know what "brick" means, do you?

"Bricking" means, basically, turning the device into a functional brick which does nothing whatsoever. It is not possible to restore a bricked device, under ANY circumstances. There is no such thing as "unbricking". The term makes no sense.

If you could restore it to functionality, then it was not "bricked".

In point of fact, yes, you could. The iPhone has a special mode you can boot it into that will allow you to do a restore regardless of the software on the device. The fact that you didn't know how to do it does not invalidate my original statements.

iPhones cannot be bricked by jailbreaking. Period. This is a statement of fact. If you disagree, then you're wrong. It's that simple.

Jailbreaking cannot "brick" your iPhone. You can restore it to factory settings by simply doing a "Restore" in iTunes. This has nothing to do with the current software on the phone at all, since restoring wipes the phone entirely anyway.

Nope. Quite the contrary, in fact.

50 mg is a whole frickin' lot of nicotine. A normal cigarette only delivers about 1 mg to the user, maximum.

No, you know two people who have some pretty hardcore permanent brain damage who happened to consume a lot of LSD.

Correlation is not causation.

Funnily enough, Google says you're wrong.

Again, citation needed.

Any jailbroken iPhone and the MyWi app works perfectly for this sort of thing as well.

I'm fairly sure that Randi would accept low power 2.4 Ghz wavelengths (aka, Wi-Fi) as being in the "paranormal" arena. Man cannot detect that directly by any known means.

See my other response: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1600484&cid=31674750

Good for you. If you need to fund some research into the phenomenon or pay for your meds, then I bet that million bucks sure would come in handy:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html