Get off my lawn!

You clearly don't understand what the service provides, but I'm glad that doesn't inhibit you from responding as if you do!

Using your example, they don't test you for dick cancer. They check your DNA for indicators that you might be more likely to get dick cancer. The appropriate response to the results is to keep that in mind and every so often have a doctor check to make sure you don't have dick cancer.

Chrome is the new IE6. A site I maintain has dropped IE6, but has recently been required to make CSS tweaks to fix box and other layout issues with Chrome.

I wonder if "smugglers" includes people trying to sneak an extra few ounces of shampoo on to the plane.

When a pilot loses their gauges, the worry is that the aircraft will hit the ground, not something in the air.

I wish I could get CAPTCHAs right 90% of the time.

Some one with knowledge of the code discovered a bug in the code. That happens for closed source as well. Most people who use open source don't look at the code so it's essentially closed source.

I'm guessing you think the space transport should look like this. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111029002561/en.futurama/images/7/75/Lynn.png

Gas companies would happily back this against the power companies. Probably will not be cost effective for the average person for a very long time. I'm curious about whether this would follow the same buy back requirements offered to solar panel power generation.

The universities and other entities involved with funding the research are not shafted when these startups happen. Spinoff companies are great for universities. They get paid for their ownership on the patent(s).

I work at a research management company.

In the US, companies treat people more like interchangeable parts, not as people.

...which were previously served using Apache. None of these stats will ever be able to convey the usefulness of site content based upon web server software.

Ran out of mod points, but your post adds some more insight in to the situation. Firing someone for doing what they normally do is a dick move, unless the camera guy was previously told not to do that.

Nothing wrong with a company turning over information after receiving a warrant. The issue with the NSA is that they collect everything they can without a warrant, but (fingers crossed) promise not to look at it without one.

Rolling your own server is great, but email's fundamental purpose to to send and receive. Unless you are certain both end points and all hops in between are secure, it's pointless.