Does anybody know the projected steady-state water consumption rate when running in production? From the report on the test plan, it looks like they are assuming (rather optimistically) a 2% leak in the in-ground flow, but it is unclear to me what the evaporative loss would be during a production run rather than a test.

uhhhmmm... that's an ad, not a competition or a test with any validity. Their conclusions should be treated as a forgone part of a branding campaign. I would be curious about more information on the "competition", but in viewing the ad, they lost me as soon as they said that "putting together a PC takes concentration" while focusing on the VGA connector. Clearly they were pushing a message based on a the integrated monitor as a differentiator.

I second that

please mod up Jah-Wren Ryel's post and mod down the AC's post on Trabe and Lyme. What good is a mod system if it can't promote truth over myth?

Can you supply examples (or links which give examples) of the types of "real work" done "everyday on phones and tablets"?

I ask because I'm interested and I'd like to know if your comment is an informed observation or merely an opinion.

true, now we just need a way to order the microbes

The bit they are triggering is responsible for changing the color of fluorescence. From TFA:

According to TFA, this is a single reliable bit.

So far they can only write one bit eight times.

From the article

When the microbes double, the bit is copied. Just wait until the RIAA finds out!

Can we shutdown the defense mechanism, clear out the prions, and turn back on the defense mechanism before the brain cells die?

The article links to dtu.dk which contains an article called "The Milky Way Shaped Life on Earth" . That article includes a quote that I found suspiciously unscientific:

So I Googled it and found this article containing a refutation and further examples of over-reaching. I leave it to /. to comment on the accuracy of these links.

I'm so glad someone mentioned the OED. For an understanding of the history of English dictionaries read about Samuel Johnson and his "A Dictionary of the English Language". He began/entrenched the process of basing word definitions upon usage patterns.

(re-posting because I accidentally posted as AC)

Personally, I'd be tempted to find out everything I could about who hacked into my system and how they did it.

Would that be wise? I'm not sure. My guess is that you couldn't do such investigative work after calling the police, that it might help if you did it before calling the police, and that if you were in the middle of doing it and the police came knocking, you'd be in even more trouble.

I couldn't just delete it and not try to help - I'd feel guilty the rest of my life and wonder if I could have made a difference for some child. I'd have to call the police.

What would you do?

Normally /. is up in arms over any attempt to censor developers. Now somebody is saying "we won't censor developers, but we will make it easy for users to self-select" and they're getting trashed for it.

Seems a little hypocritical.