This entire article is alarmist, and I even wonder if that information can be used in a court of law. As the IRS points out, here is nothing wrong in owning an offshore corporation or accounts. As long as you report it properly.

International Business Corporations are ridiculously common. You don't have to be rich, many people with average income have those. It just depends on how you spend your money and the business you're in.

Not true. You pay less if you go Verizon or AT&T Prepaid. You also pay less if you go to a Verizon or AT&T MVNO. Same network, different brand and much lower price.

With Smartphones used so much for photography now, it's sad that we don't have at least 1-2x optical zoom on most phones.

Medical sensors are definitely more important. But I believe optical zoom would be used more overall.

And yes, it would be innovative because it's apparently a very difficult problem to solve on a massive scale and within a marketable pricepoint.

The response was fine. But maybe he could have simplified it a bit, maybe with sockpuppets

I think the Dr made some very convincing arguments. But from your counter-arguments I suspect there's no way of convincing you religion is not at odds with science. The Dr. correctly recalls that the church had many scientists in its ranks. Priests, monks, bothers, etc. Those where very intelligent people who contributed to science.

It's not about the few examples he brought up. But the idea that many in the churches ranks saw no conflict between science and religion.

The article ( and Slashdot ) somehow links the Netflix app to Encrypted Media Extensions but I don't see where this is confirmed.

It is also likely that Netflix used Native Client. NaCl may also explain why it's only available for certain platforms.

Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaml and it's use in WPF.

Just a cursory fact check should inform the "editors" of this article that international students are cash cows in many universities and actually keep many colleges open.

Ironically the burden is directly the other way around. International students help fund the programs that local residents benefit from.

How do you know they're less well-off than you?

That is not true. Corn Ethanol is not the best source of Ethanol but it's still Energy Positive.

I agree Corn is not the best crop for producing ethanol. But it can be used as a stepping stone since it's readily available here.

I'm guessing at some point Ethanol producing firms will seriously investigate other crops and challenge the Corn lobby. But none of this will happen until Ethanol becomes a bigger part of our fuel consumption.

when they put diesel in their gas engines.

Not every change deserves a corporate conspiracy theory. The fuel you use has never been just gas. There's always been many various additives, octane, levels, season mixes, etc.

High ethanol mixes have been available in many countries without a major collapse in infrastructure. I'm pretty sure we'll do alright as well.

First, we are only currently using fossil fuel based products to grow corn. That can easily change, especially with the advances we're seeing with green energy.

Secondly what research indicates that growing corn for energy on a wide scale would use more energy than it produces? There are many studies that conclude ethanol from corn is Energy Positive.

Safeguards can obviously be taken if needed. For instance, surprisingly it's also bad for the car to put diesel in your gas engine. Yet just about every station sell both types of fuel. Personally, I'm looking forward to E25, which has been used in Brazil since the late seventies and they seem to be doing ok with that decision.

It's suggested. As you found, you can type a lesser amount in the textbox. Where's the issue?