These tiny little things have wonderful characteristics, for instance they're the biggest kind of matter that has shown wave behaviour. They probably don't have an use in this precise moment. Lasers started just like that: as a 'pointless' curiosity.

This is interesting: according to the poll, the group with the highest likelihood of believing in a God-guided evolution are the people with post-graduate studies, at 42%.
Think about it. 42% of all American PhDs believe something along the lines of intelligent design? That's news to me. But it makes sense, it's the best way to join religion and science.

Is this slashdot?

And it was also covered by the BBC.

Heresy! How you dare! Alcohol has to be the one and only bad drug, otherwise you can't legalize pot... ... ... ...

Suppose that someone inherited from his father an Y-Chromosome without the "Manliness Gene". Then he would not have a functioning reproductive system and leave no offspring. The "Manliness Gene" can be lost by a random mutation, but the mutation will never be carried on to the following generation, unless a new sex-determining mechanism already exists.

The new certificate system will be invitation-only, and then will be shut down.

As a Latin American and EU citizen, all I can tell you is... this is not new, get used to it!
Also, bear in mind that "US government" is not equivalent to "US people".

And in order to enforce the code verifying process, you'll be required a permanent internet connection... oh wait.

Why do you need immunity if you're not planning to do anything wrong?

There is an excelent Stanford course in youtube.

Hopefully this leads to people being able to put their children through Bokanovsky Process so that we no longer have to deal with mental diseases like Alzheimer's.

Occupy Wall Street in the beginning was the globalization of European Protests... I mean, Greece and Spain were on fire, with people fighting the police on the streets, many months before anything in America.

Exactly. Libero, using the unaltered latin root: liber, not libre.
What is the difference between LiberOffice and LibreOffice? They are both ugly names, but at least the first can be pronounced by anyone. You can even market it with a picture of the Statue of Liberty and sell it as the American Dream fullfiller... but nah, they stuck to their ideology...

Suppose a Microsoft employee became a serial killer or a child molester, does it mean it's Microsoft's legal responsibility?