Yeah. Funny thing is that after they ran it past the focus groups, it actually came in as being less desirable than the penultimate prize, which was being personally kicked in the nuts by Ballmer.

Fucking around on Facebook.

1. Create Genetic Engineered Crops
2. Crops perform better than natural crops, crowding them out both in the marketplace, and in the wild.
3. Profit!
4. Engineered crops later found not suitable for human consumption
5. Famine.

Yes.
http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/05/29/1449208/neil-gaiman-amber-benson-and-the-blood-kiss-crew-answer-your-questions

When they agree with the point we want to make. Otherwise, we belittle either the guy who cites them, or his source.

Bring it on. If I have to shove the fucking network admin over one more fucking wall...

Interesting question from this. After you clone it, is it an endangered species?

Also, did they find a male or a female? Assuming mammoths use an XY sex signature, would it be possible to engineer a female if it was male blood by putting two X genes together? Although it might be unviable if there's genetic defects in the X. Getting two of the same exact chromosome is generally bad...

Have you ever seen what it takes to get an elephant certified as "free range"? Seriously, if they have 5 feet to move in each direction, that qualifies. Regulation in the elephant farming industry is a joke.

I know it's wrong, but personally I like elephant veal. Yeah, I know. Some AC is going to point out that technically veal has to be made out of cows. But you know what I mean. There isn't an English word for "elephant veal."

Dunno. You might be able to get them to do it.

The whole thing seems like an April Fool's joke, until you realize that these are the people who thought that buying K-Mart was a good idea.

That's cool. I'm between jobs right now, so I have a lot of time on my hands. But the bright side is that just a few dollars from my unemployment check will buy a whole bunch of eggs, so I'm cool.

Say, why don't you tell me where you live, and I'll come over and we'll talk about that disease treating thingie you're interested in.

Projects like this are a great way to train new engineers for small embedded systems. There is a lot of work out there on 8-bit systems with a couple k of program space and a few hundred bytes of ram. At my place we actively collect books that targeted advanced computer programming techniques in the early 80's, because they line up good with the resources we typically have on a microcontroller that costs $1.27 now .

For example, given a 128x96 black and white LCD, create an algorithm that will draw a line between any two points. Oh, and you can only use integer math, and we'd prefer it if you kept division operations to a minimum, because we have to do division through a software library call...

The old-timers did that stuff in their spare time 30 years ago.

I would agree that it's up to them to protect themselves from other companies. But individual companies don't stand a chance of protecting against attacks from the resources available to a nation-state. It is reasonable to expect our government to take action to prevent hacking by the Chinese military and other government sponsored efforts, in the same way that we would it expect it to protect some office building in Hawaii from being burglurized by Chinese special forces.

Exactly. I am too young to remember, but my guess is there was a time when people were crying bloody murder about having a dynamic IP address, and bitching about how you had to pay extra for a static one.

Or make more little flies?