You are off by a factor of ten on the density of corn oil. 77 pounds per gallon should throw a red flag, since that is almost as heavy as lead. End result is corn oil has almost as much energy as the corn itself.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_density_of_corn_oil

I will say Bioengineering programs are much better as a result for R&D into biology. There is still push back as the changing of the guard is occurring with research guided by engineering methodology slowly gaining ground over almost random testing of traditional biology. Check out systems biology, where you need a strong background in math and computer science to create complex models to use your research results and guide your further research. Note, I was a PhD student in a MolBio program till I dropped out (classes were somewhat depressing how it was really the same stuff as undergrad but slightly more detailed) and eventually moved into programming for the game industry. Anyways need all the basic headway of traditional biology to have the rich amount of data that allows system biology to work.

Its not a new laptop but at least a 5 year old laptop the ThinkPad X30 it looks like http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-44111 Really its a weird comparison and he's arguing with things like a dvd/cd burner that I've not even used on my desktop computer in over 2 years at this point.

Being Slashdot and all I shouldn't be surprised but RTFA before stating check facts.

Really is annoying that Facebook defaults to http

That is actually more of a Chinese date format which is the format frankly that makes the most sense (at least for sorting). American's use MM-DD-YYYY as the standard though there is some use of DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD depending on the field.

Depends on the country, in the US retailers can sell you M rated games, sell you explicit CD's, and movie theaters let you into rated R films (though not NC-17 since that falls under obscenity which isn't protected speech).