There's more genetic diversity between populations across Africa than the rest of the world. I would think that suggests humans had dark skin for a time prior to spreading out.

Relying on cost-recouping-only for determining the duration wouldn't quite cover the entire purpose of patents. It's an interesting idea, but patents are designed to motivate disclosure of ideas instead of keeping them as trade secrets. The cost of development is not the only potential opportunity cost involved in publication via patent.

How not to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGoDns8wTA

My impression was that he only wanted to argue against the people suggesting Mozilla was somehow worse for copying features, by pointing out reversed situations. "We're innovating too!"

Oh, that's simple enough then. The only real reason I have a 'd' is that "define:" doesn't get you the actual definitions page anymore. You have to use the URL form I mentioned above.

For searches with other operators, just use 'g' as a keyword to force a generic google search, and then follow it with anything you want. :-)

I'm never Feeling Lucky, but that would probably be easy to set up as well.

[1] and [2] are easily enough fixed with bookmark keywords.

I have 'g' set as a keyword for google searches, 'd' for a search using the new definition results page, 'i' for google images, 'a' for wolfram alpha, etc.

For example, the definition search: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbs=dfn:1

As for [3], it may not be the same, but it's easily enough fixed with alt-enter to open in a new tab. That said, I usually hit ctrl-t to open a new tab first. It's slightly easier than alt-enter.

http://www.google.com/search?q=tote&tbs=dfn:1

I've actually been fixated on that concept off and on for the better part of two years now... Trying to find something, somewhere, to rule it out, in spite of numerous hints that such a scenario could actually relate to a lot of unsolved problems.

Anyone got a substantiated answer beyond "gravity doesn't work that way" or the like?

Many farmers may not understand it, but be careful with generalizations here and everywhere.
^^ Generalization noted, risk accepted. :-)

I have first-hand knowledge of farmers who are definitely aware of this issue. Now, don't get me started on organic farmers who nominally disavow the use of antibiotics, only to secretly make use of them...

Thank you. Great game, that.

If you and everyone else thinking about it take that stance, no one is any different from "the masses."

Note that the posted description makes no mention of proving anything, unlike the original submission... Confirming just means that further evidence was in line with expectations; not conclusive by any means. It's always good to hear that our understanding of physics is sound, even if new mysteries are more exciting!

The sad thing is that F6 requires an add-on to restore its old functionality in FF4; it was changed to selecting the active tab, rather than the URL bar text...

Set browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to true, or find whatever add-on is changing the behavior. That should fix it.