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Comment Re:Mutations (Score 1) 130

If they escape, they won't have time. If they don't escape, there won't be any pressure on them to do so.

When they escape, they'll have plenty of time as they'll be escaping along with chunkettes of their growth medium, containing the synthetic amino acids they need. As the bacteria grows the concentration of synthetic amino acids will decrease relative to population, creating the pressure to adapt to not need it. Further, no pressure is necessary for an effective change to come about - all specialization is random, and it sticks around if it is not detrimental.

Comment Re:Until... (Score 1) 130

Evolution would not (realistically) happen because bacterial leaks would have too little time to undo all the changes and re-adapt to natural-only aminoacid environments, the adaptive pressure against synthetic aminoacids would go from zero in the lab to 100 in the wild immediately.
The possibility would had to be taken account if there was a natural way to keep the bacteria in gradually decreasing concentrations of synthetic aminoacids, you would then give a chance for the reversion to take place slowly and over many generations.

You're assuming the lab is perfectly clean and the modified bacteria and synthetic amino acids are perfectly contained.
None of those things are true. They are all false.
And such changes don't take place "slowly" in bacteria because bacteria churn through "many generations" rapidly.

Comment Re:The time for "from scratch" is gone for ALL of (Score 1) 302

how about 'it would take me more time to figure out that your halfassed shit won't do what i need
than to do it myself properly'

it sounds arrogant, but its true more often than apparently you can conceive

This. Look up any software / IT service sales page and answer these 3 questions.

What is it called?
What does it do?
How much does it cost?

If you can't answer those questions, you don't want to buy the product.

Comment Re:Only for the first year (Score 2) 570

Define "device".

"Device" has always meant the motherboard.

Nope.
Plenty of things from CPUs/GPUs to add-in cards will trigger the authentication check to fail.
The license never specifies what a "device" is. The closest you'll get to specific licensing language is with their server software and the distinction of CPUs by core and by socket.

Comment Re:Only for the first year (Score 1, Insightful) 570

http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...

Relevant portion:

This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge.

Define "device".
Upgrade the CPU in your old desktop and your free, lifetime license will go out the ...
In the past they had the option to call a toll-free number and simply state that it's the same device and they'd give you the reauthorization key. I've used it and it's painless. But there's no reason to believe that that option will be offered in perpetuity.

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