It's not just the basic chemicals but the molecules and how they are 'folded' which makes a MASSIVE difference to what happens.

I predict this will be technically correct but completely useless, as seen in that classic joke about mathematicians:

Two Physicists were riding in a hot air balloon and were blown off course sailing over a mountain trail, and were completely lost.

They spotted a jogger running on the trail and they shouted "Can you tell us where we are?" After a few minutes, the jogger yelled back "You're up in a balloon."

One physicists said to the other, "Just our luck to run into a mathematician". "How do you know he was a mathematician?" asked the other.

"Well, in the first place he took a long time to answer; second, his answer was 100% correct and third, ,it was totally useless."

Todays "social media" is much more of a bane than a boon, but for none of the reasons given by the Turkish PM.

The argument is NOT generalized-demolition vs specific targets, but WHAT you could be specific for (insert politico-religious/racial warcrimes here).

Any day soon we'll have $RANDOM TERRORISTS running around with little bottles of nasal-spray, each encoded to INFECT $ONE SINGLE PERSON with an insanely specific , desperately infectious, 100% fatal disease.

That has not and will NEVER stop $TELCO from selling services across this with "UP TO" marketingspeak which means "we fuck you royally for a service which is online but effectively unuseable".

.... when I say "shaddup and take my money already!" (where do I sign up for this magical island experience)

People are happy to "go explore and the consequences can go fuck themselves". In fact, some people are HAPPIEST in such circumstances.

Long before there was ever proposed a ONE WAY Mars Mission I was saying that the NASA/US insistence on human safety during exploration missions was THE WRONG ATTITUDE.

I said that should such a mission be proposed, with a well explained and clearly stated intention to NEVER even ATTEMPT to return these pioneers to earth (yes folks, you're gonna die out there - one way or another) they'd STILL have squilliions more applicants than they could ever accept.

And I was proven right.

The Same Goes for this (as yet hypothetical) 'Google Island', there's be literally thousands of people who would rationally consider all the possible negative outcomes and despite everything still choose to explore-the-possibilities.

To deny such a thing is true is to completely misunderstand something fundamental about what it is to be human.

For some opportunities the reward is so great that it is worth any risk.

And before anyone tries to belittle such an atitude, remember folks that without such a pioneering risk-accepting attitude The US of A would never have been discovered (by anyone). In fact without such attitudes your great-to-the-umpteenth primate ancestors would never have left the trees (ditto THEIR great-to-the-umpteenth fishlike ancestors and water).

Shaddup And Take My Money Already!

Somebody confused the difference between DATA and INFORMATION.

To stop the terrorists we need MORE INFORMATION, not MORE DATA.

See: Signal To Noise Ratio.

Or, perhaps (ie MORE LIKELY) this has NOTHING to do with Catching The BadGuys and EVERYTHING to do with BEING SEEN TO BE DOING SOMETHING (aka Security Theater, The ONLY thing we have to fear is fear itself, The BEST way for a government to control the people is keep them in a constant state of fear)

Absolutely! And now their teacher should invite some random scientist/professor to teach the class a lesson on "the scientific method, research bias, double-blind testing, proper control cases". Could easily be covered (at a very basic level) in one class.

THEN walk the students through an extended version of the experiment, at least attempting to identify a potential cause for the lack of germination.

What these students did was excellent, while they're still excited about it someone should show them how to make it even more awesome.

Did you miss the part where the government TRIED TO do exactly that last year, and THE NRA LOBBYISTS SHOT THE LEGISLATION DOWN.

Yeah, but so does Mickey Mouse - and NOBODY takes him seriously as A World Power either.

The vast overwhelming majority of users would look for accurate fast repeatable action.

After all, The Internet Is For Porn.

You, sir, are mentally deficient.

VDSL technologies do NOT provide a 100Mbps service.

They provide an UP TO 100Mbps service.

As the bandwidth capacity of the service is dependent on copper-length and quality the provider MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES REGARDING SERVICE QUALITY.

However, with a fibre service, they DO provide guarantees, because fibre in the last mile is a truly digital service, either it works or it doesn't.

And when it works, it works at the full service specification, none of that WEASEL WORDING like "up to" which means they can charge you for 100Mbps service but if all you can get is 2Mbps YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE.

This is ONE of the MAJOR problems with ALL copper-in-the-last-mile services, it's all about THE PROVIDER legally being able to provide a FUCKING AWFUL SERVICE and still charge you premium service pricing.

AAAAND don't get me started on the MASSIVELY HUGE difference in upload speed between copper vs fibre in the last mile.

I have no reference to show for it but I read an article last year where there was DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE (someone did a study somewhere) that "feeding bees corn syrup" was most likely one of the factors contributing to CCD.

Again, this news was shouted down with "well if you can't prove that it absolutely in all cases leads CCD then we're not gonna change our practices".

Here in Australia a recent report showed that Coal Seam Gas exploration in this country was waved past all the usual environmental checks-and-balances by over-eager Government departments promised literally thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue.

And when I say "waved past" for example there was a specific case of an "environmental impact study" which *completely dopped* an entire chapter (er, the only chapter) evaluating contamination of the water table, which (oddly enough) was actually THE PRIMARY ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN.

Time and time again we see The Industry just bypassing ALL concerns in the interest of "but but but we'll make bazillions in profit".

Let me say this clearly: UNBRIDLED GREED AND LACK OF CARE FOR THE FUTURE WILL MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT UNABLE TO SUSTAIN HUMAN LIFE.