The internet is a fad. All too soon it will be vastly different from what it was for the last 20 years.

Thanks to redundant backups, the average downtime of a cloud-top computer is likely much lower than that of a desk-top computer.

Unfortunately science isn't free and funding is not proportional to the number of scientists.

Oh, that may be believed, but its prevalence as a theory is due to the somewhat poor level of retrospect we currently have. I don't think anyone who's given it much though will believe it, anyhow. It's just that we don't have a simpler autocatalytic molecule to point to. While it's very likely that life passed through an RNA world stage; to imply it's the consensus on the origin of life is naive.

International Genetically Engineered Machines competition Look forward to some very affordable kits to be introduced this year.

It's probably an incremental title - the first (most) elite is elite 0, the penultimate h4x0r is elite 1, and so on... It's a privilege to be the best - a single digit is easier to type than a half dozen are, and 0 falls on the underused right-hand side of the qwertyboard.

Wasting your own resources is not better. Just have it slow down the rate of password attempts exponentially as the number of attemps increments.

You are also wasting your own CPU cycles. Just make it constant and lock them out after a set period of time.

I can't believe the headline applied... the paper is in Angewandte Chemie - which means Applied Chemistry... it's an applied chemistry paper, not an evolutionary/biology paper. Pfthpt.

Ideally Facebook would give you a reasonable blend of information about the people you care about, with minimal information about or from people you don't really like. However, suppose there were heuristically-identified vectors for promotional material. Not salespeople - just the subset of the population which has sincerely latched onto some given idea. These users could be located among the whole user base by filtering user communications and user networks (social graphs...). Amplify the signal of these identified people in the information feeds of their peers, and you will have used people's identities for advertising by suppressing the stream of ideas and information promulgated by your adversary. Paying to advertise your ideas is equivalent to paying for censorship against your adversaries. Marketing is fraud.

The study to which you refer does did not use a representative sample of the general population.

$600m is an insignificant amount in the world of stimulus packages.

On the other hand, one with a high IQ might be capable of applying that intelligence to behaving charismatically - but may choose not to do so. Who are we mere sub-140s to question the ways of genius?

Disparity man. If we took the riches of the world and distributed them evenly... you and I wouldn't be posting on Slashdot.