How about: I don't really know, but I have a good idea where to look for the answer. Then go hit the local library (grasp!!) for books on basic human biology.

I did not find putting the box back to the sleeve too hard. Maybe every box is different?

Right. I would agree this crap is for security if, for example, mobo manufacture can put a jumper or something in that would by pass secure boot. This way, people who are the weak link in security, who wouldn't know what a jumper is, stay "secured" (as secure as you trust the vendor from whom you buy the hardware has not tinkered with it), while the rest of us who actually has a clue, can go on doing what we have been doing: actually owning the hardware we pay good money for.

Yes it would. A particle with negative mass is just a particle that if you exert on it force to the right, it will accelerate to the left. A particle whose velocity vector and momentum vector are in the opposite direction. Besides this vectoral reversal, relativistic dynamics applies just as well to it as particle with positive mass.

Indeed, in semiconductor physics, it is perfectly acceptable mathematically to treat absent of electron on the valence band (called hole) as having a negative effective mass and negative charge. It is just more convenience and intuitive to instead consider hole as a pseudo particle with a positive mass and a positive charge. So that's what we do. The same physics is mathematically identical to that of the Fermi sea of the Dirac equation. Negative mass is not too terribly interesting in this respect, unlike the tachyon, which has imaginary mass.

How about put up X amount of money for the review period? Some fraction (half?) of what the alleged infringer expects to make in that period. You get your money back if patents are upheld, otherwise, you pay for your false allegation.

I would love to see them use that money and make a commercial that say: "Buy Samsung, because the other guy is a complete doushbag."

A physical object that is commonly-agreed upon medium of value change. That's cash by definition.

By artificial scarcity. Quote from Warren Buffett:

Right, because moving a couple hundred pounds of the stuff for any substantial purchase can easily be kept secret...

Until one day, they decided that your card is too old to support. By that point, nouveau would probably have decent support for basic 3D primitive, but by no mean optimized. For really old card that neither driver support, the user is screwed.

Is that base on your culture stereotype? In fact, in the Chinese education system, there is an explicit method of claiming that you are not good with math and science (and vice versa): in high school, a few years before the all-important college entrance exam, the classes are segregated into "wen-ke" and "li-ke". "Wen-ke" or literary class, emphasizes literature, history, political science and has a very light role for math and science. "Li-ke", logic classes, emphasizes the opposite subjects. Students are taught equally everything upto that point. Afterward, they concentrate on their area of studies. They even receive different consideration on college applications.

Indeed, there is a debate in the Chinese blogosphere now that some people, most journalists and authors who came from a "wen-ke" background, claiming that mathematics more advanced than middle school is useless and the blogs of scientist and engineers who claim the opposite.

I will tell you categorically this is not true. I have Chinese textbook from 1-12 from a few years ago. trigonometry is what they go up to. Now, some older textbook from the early 80's (right after the culture revolution) did include calculus, but that was dropped in the 80's.

What I think do make the point you are trying to make largely valid is that Chinese student teaches what in the state we called Advanced Algebra by end of middle school (equivalent to 9th grade here since they have 6 years elementary school). The three years of high school essentially consists doing a LOT of exercises and prep-exam in preparation for the "gao-kao", the be-all college entrance exam. Look at China, South Korean, and Japan is you wan to see what standardized exam will turn your education system into. It is horrific.

Check out this article (in Chinese, but the picture speaks for itself): http://bbs.gdou.edu.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=73378&do=blog&id=3436 The picture showcases a girl who recently finished her gao-kao with all the prep-exam she did in high school, every single one of which she kept. I think there are some rumor that the picture is actually a fake, but many on wei-bo (Chinese twitter) are echoing that it is not an exaggeration.

I agree with your larger point that the traditional lecture style education is not good for everyone.

We do. Some physics department, like the one from which I got my PhD, offers research in physics education as a PhD program. Student do research and gather data in classroom and apply the same statistical analysis techniques to asset the effectiveness of certain teaching techniques. Unfortunately, they usually do not get the same respect in the department as more traditional thesis topics. Usually there are a few (<5) faculties out of the whole department who actually care about physics education that they accept student in these topics. The APS is starting to recognize it as a specialty, but only treats it as a "special topic". We are getting there.

When I was TA-ing to pay my way through my degree, I recommend KA to many intro physics students. Then after talking to a lot of them, I find the result to be kind of mixed. Some find it helpful, other not and it somewhat surprised me that it did not correlated with grade. The worst case is that some thinks it's helpful when in fact it did not (and you can tell by asking conceptual questions that is only a twist of the problems covered in the video). Totally anecdotal. However, fellow students who actually engaged in physics educations research tents to agree that a one way dictation, abet using video, do not help student who lacks a good conceptual foundation to begin with. And this guy, who also did a PhD in physics education, also agree. I do think the world is better with those video than without though.

Then why do we pick them out to be special and give them tax exemption? Don't answer that.

From GP:

It is not inconceivable that the so-call god rewards conviction and the full exercise of the intellect that he bestowed as the ultimate virtue? The way I see it, religion, Abrahamic religions in particular, is precisely the kind of quick-and-easy way for a deity or deities use to rule out dumb and uninquisitive people . Promise people reward in the unforeseeable future and see how many people open their wallets. Not much different from your run-of-the-mill direct-marketing scheme. Probably what I would use if I were an omnipotent god. People who believes they are right without evident lost the ability to investigate whether it is so.

The diameter of the sun is 1e9 meters. The distance to the closest star, Alpha Centauri, is about 4e16m (40 lightyears)...Let's put that in context:
Suppose the sun is the size of a grain of sand, say 1mm (1e-3mm), the distance to the nearest grain of sand is 40 kilometer. So a collision between galaxies is basically collision between empty spaces...

So...it's foggy in the office?