Global DMCA should be just enough to ensure that the entire globe sits on their collective wallets until the media companies expire. Three months should just about do it.

That's not bad news at all. The entire world is waiting for a reliable way of storing massive amounts of data on a permanent basis. If the report is based on truth then it might well be the answer to the vexing problems of lost data.... Counter-intuitively,if they make it too small it will be easy to lose the chip - back to square one!

Those imaginary diseases are tough to cure. You start with the head first and rigorously apply a sycamore mallet. 12 to 15 good shots usually brings permanent relief. If not, then there is the road-roller treatment. Most feel a little flattened after that.

The RIAA use of stand-over tactics, mostly sanctioned by courts that failed the little man, is an innovation. . . . . . . They will be swept away in time and few will mourn their passing.

Microsoft Security Essentials is free and does an excellent job. What's more, on a fast machine you will not be aware of it in operation. Works for me.

You're not judging the scientific value, but the presentation instead.

Many wild and ingenious scientific discoveries have been produced with less pretty and less well-documented publications. Perhaps it would be best to review the data instead?

Bacardi 151 is a form of suicide. Drink it neat for a few weeks and then kiss parts of your throat bye bye.

In games you always play the ball and not the man. . . Microsoft has come on the field all set to bring the man down but has forgotten to wear their shorts! . . . . . . Ridiculous is not quite the right word, but you get my drift.

My typo could have been worse. "Bullet" would have sent a very poor message. I am off to iron my tutu now :)

You are not wrong, but I doubt that your assessment will make any difference. The ballet box is the only way to get rid of these goons.

The insurance companies have the whip hand here. If they refused road accident claims for drivers on the phone/texting at the moment of an accident the problem would instantly go away. . . . . . . . If you also added large fines for bosses who demand that their employees answer when driving, then that would also go a long way to help reduce accidents.

There's the answer! If everyone who has downloaded or listened to a song without paying for the privilege was to turn themselves into the local police station to be charged for the theft of the material, we could bring the whole nation to it's knees in just a few hours. No policing would get done, major streets would be blocked by us felons and the constabulary would be well aware of the idiocy of many current copyright laws and their aftermath. . . . If we don't do this en-masse, then we deserve the music industry's planned future.

Doesn't this discovery also lead to the possibility of building super-sensitive gravitational wave detectors that really work....... Remember this - If you can't measure a phenomena, you have little hope of truly understanding it.

You are definitely not wrong. .... I haven't watched an advertisement on TV since the day I bought my first VCR. 22 years all told. My current HTPCs make it easier than ever to cut the rubbish out......... With the extra benefit of being able to time shift anything of value onto DVDs. If TV is not dead it has one foot in the intensive care unit and the other in the grave.

Don't forget a recent Australian court case where a 'distributed for profit' Electronic Programme Guide for Free to Air TV was claimed to be copyright by a TV network. . . . . . . . . The final High Court ruling is still awaited but the CH 9 TV network got a bucket of bad press.