This is a potentially useful bit of microbiology. Eventually we're going to have to clean up landfill sites and the like, so what would be more useful than a bug that strips all the iron out of a pile of stuff and deposits it in sediment? Scoop garbage into tanks, let the bugs do their work, collect the sludge at the bottom for processing. If we could engineer these bacteria to eat other stuff like copper or various types of plastic, we could potentially reclaim a lot of what we call "garbage" on the cheap. As for the Titanic? Well it's been almost a century now, I think it's time to let the old girl go.

Why aren't they just a "gang"? Is it because this crime has to do with technology and is, therefore, magically different than any other crime? If these guys had robbed all the banks in the city the traditional way, we wouldn't call them a "bankgang" or a "robberygang", would we? If they skimmed money the traditional way (bribes and scams) would we call them a "financegang"?

Now all he needs is a motorcycle with a nuclear warhead sidecar tied to his heartbeat and some glass knives and he can live out the rest of his days as the world's biggest badass. As a plus, the US government will do absolutely anything to make sure he doesn't die, ever.

They should be using the lasers to freeze sharks so that we can have frozen sharks with frikken freezing lasers on their heads.

In Soviet Russia.

In Soviet Russia, shark laser freezes you!

This will be gamed by spammers before it even launches.

"Okay, so grandma's in the bedroom, but why is her breathing and heart rate up so much? Her body temperature's too high, it's almost like there's a second reading there... And why's the accelerometer going off rhythmically once or twice a secoOHGOD!!!!!"

Here's a question that's never answered: the Climate Research Unit's email server was hacked, correct?

So where are the hackers?

Where's the outcry, the calls for the guilty party to be found and punished? What about the blog that received stolen property and leaked it without first going to the authorities? All the "heh heh, manbearpig" comments aside, the media sure was quick to blow some cranky comments by stressed out, human scientists out of proportion while conveniently ignoring this part of the whole sequence of events. You know, the hacking part of hacked emails?

But anyways, correct decision here. Of course, does anyone wonder why scientists are reluctant to open their findings in this environment?

I'd better run a full scan just in case.

Not like I've been to as many porn sites as would be necessary to be statistically likely to have gotten infected. Several times over. Nosiree!

Ordered mine last week, got it in Wednesday. Very lucky, as it's not a bad phone in the slightest.

Use my pen knife my good man!

On the CBC (including embedded google map)

Canadian beavers: showing the rest of the world how it's done for millions of years.

Absolutely. I'm going to guess that you're not a fan of the Obama administration, or of Democrats or "libruls" in general. That's fine. But do recognize that it was your hero and his bunch that got this war started, for bullshit reasons, and that made this situation possible. Any punishment should first and foremost go towards them.

That said, Obama, while I'm one of those people that wants to see him pull your country back into the rational world, is prolonging the occupation. Every day he's not actively moving people out of that hellhole, he's ultimately responsible for what America does there, and if serious reparations aren't paid, there should be investigations. Good job getting a tiny scrap of sensible health care squeezed through the gauntlet Barack, it's a foot in the door, now handle the other giant mess.

How many slashdotters' parents do that? I'd say a good deal many of them.

This affects more than just you. Or maybe it does affect you: what's your setup at work like?

That cough sounds nasty. You should have your building checked for asbestos.