Appears they've patented a delivery system where the source is other than giver or receiver...I wonder if Santa will have to pay per delivery or if he can negotiate a single license for all annual activity...

It is a great thing for the M&A lawyers and investment banks that these companies are too stupid to learn from others mistakes....

were no longer allowed to use arcane mathematical models.

Give a man a model, and he'll fret for a day. Teach a man to model, and he'll have major news media fretting forever...

1.1TB thanks to optical storage in 5 dimensions...3 more and we'll be driving cars through mountains. I can't wait. I just hope the researchers behind this work realize that no mater where they go, there they are.

watched Dancing, this is enough to make me watch it up until they vote him off...

True that the notes are yours as work product and all that...the bigger issue is how "negative" this is to the whole concept of education, research and learning.

I know in my econ (and stats, etc) courses, I *often* referred to earlier class notes in subsequent classes. I think it is really appalling that a teacher would actively seek to strip students of their academic output.