I'm not even sure how to differentiate a scammer from a legitimate "give me money for this thing I want" campaign.

It's called 'enlightened self-interest', a much better position than altruism.

I wouldn't trust a programmer that waxes his balls. If he can't make good decisions involving his nutsack, can he make godo decisions involving language design?

Seems like a perfectly good decision to me. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking; I suggest you try it.

security breeches

Is that some kind of Victorian chastity device for men? Sounds unpleasant.

'I also want to stress that this case is not about policing people's freedom to browse the Internet. The materials that were downloaded were not stumbled upon by chance â" these had to be searched for and contained very dangerous information that could have led to an explosive device being built.

Great, so you can't get arrested for browsing the internet, only for searching the internet.

Do any large corporations/companies push AGAINST gay marriage? Or are they either for or quiet?

WalMart and ExxonMobil come to mind (ranked 1 and 2 in Fortune 500, no less). There was a whole thing recently about Target and Best Buy making large campaign contributions to an extremely anti-gay candidate.

I think we're getting to the point where "Kepler detects planet" is just not newsworthy anymore. Even if it's a small planet.

There's no technical reason that we would want to create chimeras.

Sure there is, most genetically engineered mouse models (for example) involve a chimeric step in their creation: stem cells with the desired modification are injected into 'donor' blastocysts and implanted into a host female, producing chimeras which are then bred for several generations to create homozygous offspring.

A perfectly reasonable parsing of the headline is that insect populations are becoming resistant to GM corn.

Do these people also believe that our calendars are predicting the world will end in 9999?