Problem solved if you include a phase in period of like ten years. The are mostly worried about the sticker shock of needing to immediately go out and collect signatures like the census for currently utilized samples.

One thing I would urge the state senate to include is requiring the concent form to be a separate paper so that people are not signing off on it like a shrink wrap license every time they go in for medical care and get admitted.

You do have to register and purchase the copy. It does facilitate shifting the material to different mediums and media and making copies on the spot. So theoretically one can have kiosks that one can go to purchase music on the spot and those kiosks don't need to be specifically licensed. It also opens up online stores/cloud storage purchases rather than limiting them to physical media.

I remember years back; China was trying to make it's own media formats. Arguably I would say limiting physical purchases would actually give China better control to audit purchases. Copyright would actually be better enforced.

I'm still surprised China hasn't adopted digital money and started discouraging physical money.

Depends on the size of the company and if you can convince the lawyer to do it on his own dime. He could then subpoena customer records and inquire if anyone else has had security issues. How did the security problem happen and how could it have been prevented? No matter what the shrink wrap service licence says their are implied minimum standards and expectations. If people aren't getting what they think they are paying for then it should merit a class action.

Just this act might make it worth it to you to pay the lawyer yourself. Maybe $500 or $1000. It would get the companies attention. You would have their complete customer list and be emailing all their customer pasts and current asking for people to come forward with security issues. Just that act would bring awareness of the issue to other customers and have them asking the provider about security and guarantees.

The company will talk to you before they hand over customer records. You can likely negotiate to pay your minimal legal costs and to work with you and actually fix their security procedures. You might even be able to get a couple grand compensation in exchange for working with you to fix THEIR security issues.

Another thing you can do is write senators and congressmen and bring attention to the issue. Suggest a minimum penalty that companies are liable for, like $500 or $1000. Something that would make companies pay attention and not sacrifice security for convenience.

Aspirin is probably antagonistic of certain bacteria in the gut that produce waste products that promote cancer or it could promote good gut bacteria that eat aspirin and turn it into waste products that are good for you. To demonstrate that aspirin in and of itself in the blood stream is preventative of cancer you would have to do studies where it is administered intravenously.

I can't wait until we can actually decode DNA like a computer program and run simulations. Not just our DNA but the DNA of microbes in the gut. Then we will be able to better able to understand the complex interactions rather than simply doing statistical studies of multiple individuals. Modern medical research is comparable to research in particle physics where they take two thing and smash them together to see what falls out.

Although were not talking a lot of power it might be something if you could get the components small and efficient enough such that for each combo led+photocell you could power at least 1.5 other units. Not base 2 but still significant if you can get a billion such micro units working.

A think there are more efficient ways to harvest power from heat. I'm still waiting for process with micro rectifiers for converting heat vibrations directly to electricity.

Better yet round to the nearest dime on purchases. But all we really need is quarters.

Doesn't even need to be a federal mandate. Simply stop producing them and if retailers can't get them they will be forced to round. The amount of time wasted on counting pennies is shocking.

We should be able to get along fine on dimes and quarters.

Make them luxury items and limit them to where they will obviously improve the safety rate.

Specifically enable them to drive a person home after drinking. Have a option that allows a person to voluntarily lock themselves out of manual steering for a couple hours and only enables them to drive home on a well established and recorded route for the car. The vehicle will be able to identify itself to police as being in autonomous mode for which: while they may pull the car over remotely, they are prevented by law from issuing any sort of traffic ticket. The car parks itself if there is any sort of problem with maybe a few problems such as as the warning oil/engine light being able to be disabled. The car is able to stop at/near gas stations on the way home.

Very correct. The most out of anyone that commented on my conjecture. But what everyone missed is that the fuses/soft fuses don't need to be on the chips, just in the packages. A fuse bank layer in their packages is more reasonable and efficient than insuring and scraping otherwise usable processors.

The fundamental problem is we can't (and never will be able to) measure the universe with infinite precision. All we can do is struggle for slightly better precision and we can correlate.

The universe is ultimately one big equation. We can never even pose the equation let alone solve for it; there simply isn't enough matter. And the more matter there is to pose and solve the equation the more matter is required. It's by definition unsolvable. All we can do is approximate.

The Greeks had it right when they concluded that all "knowledge" is belief and nothing (as in something physical) can be proved. We can conclude, we can't prove.

Sealand couldn't possibly have guaranteed internet connectivity. All they will need to do is cut off internet access. Sealand will easily cave in at that point.

It would be better if they turned their service into an "app" and distributed their data into a torrent like cloud. The app would just be a frontend to browse/search the data.