Small manufacturers can make a fortune just selling backwards compatibility adapters.

Making adapters completely negates the value/safety of creating a standard for tubing ends... but no adapters means introducing SOME new tubing means replacing ALL the old stuff, which would be kind of expensive. That's sort of a catch-22.

Mark Twain was wrong! (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/buy_land-they-re_not_making_it/173450.html)

I can't help but wonder exactly what prostate as a verb means. It sounds deeply unpleasant.

Not being a spelling nazi, but that one is too fun to pass up. ;)

Somebody's got a PhD in List Making...

I agree, GP must be granted an honorary: dr_mischief

... but news for nerds? I'm not seeing it.

Call me naive, but as I see it the interesting part of this community is the community response - opinion, insight, bullshit, etc. The "news" is less interesting than what people have to say about it.

He was all of history's great acting robots, including Thespomat, Acting Unit 17, and David Duchovny.

No the solution is to introduce something that consumes yeast waste. Ideally, its waste should also be an enjoyable snack for yeast cells.

Seriously though, while it seems to raise a red flag at least partway, couldn't the solution be to pair the yeast with something that produces waste is not toxic to the human system, or to use GM yeast with harmless byproducts?
Note IANA(Whatever-the-appropriate-letter-is)

Ahh, now we need meta-achievements.

Sorry, I just wanted to post in the AF thread.. :p