All us /.-ers, being highly experienced software jocks, know perfectly well that anything sent in an email might as well be posted up in Times Square. It might have made it a bit more difficult for the bidders to find out the names of the other bidders, but even if each one were sent a separate, one-address, email, the info is on servers all over the place (insert lame joke about asking the NSA for the other bidders' emails).

You can see it in the image collected. Just bend over a bit more to get closer to the monitor...

This is global capitalism at its best :-) . Now all the US (and Korean and Chinese and Japanese and...) chip manufacturers have a whole nation of potential new competitors. The New Russia is out to crush all economic competitors! Communism within the borders but Capitalism to conquer the world!

(you can assign your own level of humor, sarcasm, and paranoia to this post.)

"You just pucker up and blow...."

Well, we'll know for certain when he starts up a computer cluster called Mycroft.

Just dropping in to say that anyone who names a company after a pinball game has my vote.

Plus I loved that machine.

easy for you to say, being dead and all.

FTFY :-)

I'm guessing you mean W-h there :-). I understand there's a common abbreviating method for words which puts a slash between them ("w/o" for "without") but for scientific units, a slash always means division.

Speaking of acronyms ...

I see what /. did there. (probably unintentionally)

Let them try to figure those abbreviations out!

(and yes, for you OCD-ers I made them up out of nothing).

BTW, Does anyone use TTFN any more? that one far predates things like internets and even chatrooms.

Hey, I'm from Baaahston and I don't get the joke, you insensitive clod!

Really, now, if you take a couple steps back it becomes clear that the primary downside of GMO is patents. The court cases over seeds, and bits of genetic material, which have merged with other varieties of plants, are just plain ugly.

There's also that little problem of preprogrammed 2nd-generation infertility. Be really funny if that jumped a few species here and there.

Insightful my ass. Apparently you've got no f@*&ing idea what a "liberal" is. -- or that it is, or was, the far Right that railed against additives such as fluoridation. Pretty much the only people against GMO are those who either have skin in the game (small producers of edibles) or are stubbornly ignorant of the meaning of genetic modification.

Only if they actually get some bids. I'd love to see a scenario where only one bidder shows up and (despite the $200k honest money requirement) bids 50cents.

Oblig: why doesn't the USgovt put it on eBay with a BIN of $Xmillion?