I've gotten in the habit of using google as a spell checker. It didn't correct my search for virii, so I went with it. After searching again and reading the first link that comes up: I agree, I sound like an idiot.

Newsflash: SOMEONE is already doing it on a scale so massive that human beings can't even come close to competing with. That someone is called The Universe, or more specifically in this case the Planet Earth.

Flu virii are replicating and recombining on their own. They do it all day every day in billions of organisms around the planet. By doing a tiny tiny tiny version of the same thing in a controlled manner in a lab, we can learn a whole lot about that natural process that will provide wonderful insights to help combat the really bad stuff that the evolution of these virii WILL produce at some point.

In all likelihood all of the combinations that these scientists come up with already exist somewhere.

This is why you subsidize research, not production.

They don't get specific in this article but they do say that the "methane is quickly destroyed in the Martian atmosphere in a variety of ways" http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html

There is methane in Mars' atmosphere. Methane breaks down pretty quickly, so it had to come from somewhere recently. "No Plate Tectonics" means there are no continents still moving around, but it doesn't mean the core is cold, or that it isn't still venting interesting chemicals (like methane) to the upper crust and atmosphere. You could easily have large pools of liquid water deep underground that have methane bubbling through them. That is a fine recipe for life.

Why is he riding so slow in all the videos? I'll tell you why, because taking your foot position all the way back to that ridiculous angle has that guy riding squarely on his junk. The slightest bump probably feels like huge kick to the nut sack. Most custom bikes give up comfort for fashion, but that takes thing to a whole new level.

Our industrial output is higher then it's even been. But just like farming it takes a hell of a lot less people to do it these days. And very sophisticated computer controlled production is getting to the point where even smallish production runs in the states can be price competitive with Chinese human labor.

It is actually a good thing that we sort of "lucked out" by offshoring a lot of our manufacturing jobs and shifted to a service economy earlier then everybody else. In the long run, as automated manufacturing continues to displace even the lowest skilled, cheapest human labor out there we will be in a great position while other countries whose economies still depend on those jobs will be totally screwed.

Most of the people in my office would fail your test.

Hogwash. For a couple hundred bucks or less you can get yourself an actual fully legal corporation registered with the state and everything. At least in Ohio, but I doubt the process in other states vary all that much.

Hold one corporate meeting with a quorum of officers in attendance a year, and take notes, and you keep your corporation fully legal in perpetuity.

If that is too much regulation for you to handle, I suggest you stick with your day job.

Until you are making decent money, turbotax online will handle all of you taxes for about a hundred bucks. And until you are making decent money, accounting standards don't matter, because nobody cares how you accounted for that $5 "business lunch" at subway. And once you are making enough money that somebody might care, well then you can afford an accountant.

And as far as health code and environmental regulations, exactly what kind of operation were you envisioning starting in your garage that would be affected? Are you really pissed you can't pack 30 children in there to make t-shirts with noxious chemicals?

In some sort of bizzaro world fashion the movie would probably turn out awesome.

Because it isn't about syncing just files. Your data is more then just your MP3s or Word Docs. iCloud is about syncing everything .

Once developers start buying in (and they will in droves), things like your Angry Birds game state will automatically sync between all your devices.

When ALL of your data is syncing between all of your devices, down to the level of individual app preferences, or which file you had open the last time you were using photoshop, without you as the user have to do any setup, click any buttons, or even THINK about it, all of the current "hard drive on the internet" style cloud services will seem antiquated.

I have first initial + lastname @gmail.com and I have a bunch of people with the same name combo that use the address when they fill out forms, all the time. I ended up getting enough personal information on one of them that I knew his real name, where he grew up, his highschool, his date of birth, his current address, etc. Pretty much everything I could ever want it I wanted to do some ID theft.

I tracked him down on facebook and sent him a message telling him all this. Since then I haven't gotten anymore of his emails, but other people are still doing it too.

Do these people think the emails just go to oblivion? I mean they are giving my email address when they do shit like rent a UHaul so I get all of the information on that transaction in confirmation emails.

I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.

Resale value. a 3-4 year old PC is effectively worthless. A 3-4 year old Mac can be still be sold for about 1/3 to 1/2 it's purchase price depending on condition and upgrades made during that time frame.

All they do is drop off a load of trash at my door every day.