Well they did not really escaped my memory and I can add a precision to your precision: the weak interaction bosons are W+, W- and Z.

But are are gauge bosons fundamental particles? They are not used to build compound particles, this is why I did skip them.

You have poor memory :-)

• 6 quarks (up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom) and their anti particules
• 3 leptons (electron, muon, tau), their 3 associated neutrinos, and their anti particules

IMO there are speech that deserve censorship.

In 1934, fascists groups almost succeeded a coup in France, their own divisions being the reason why they did not take power. France was leaning the same way as Spain, Italy and Germany, but decision was taken to forbid fascists groups in 1936. In the end, France had its own fascist regime in 1940, but a military defeat had been required to get there.

Of course drawing the line between limiting the ability fascists ideas to spread, and abusive censorship is not easy and should be watched carefully by the people. But I do not think it should be bluntly discarded.. WWII taught us that some speech can really hurt beyond words

What about people that have been in contact with the tagged person? I guess they will carry some tagged DNA as well. How false postiive are avoided?

Sure, whatever harm we do to the ecosystem, the nature will prevail. The problem is just that a new environment may not allow human life at all.

Change to the ecological status may indeed be a disaster for human life

When the only comment scored 5 claims the article is crap. I guess we can trust the wisdom of crowd and skip the paper.

All major ISP do that in France since they installed triple-play boxes at customers home. The box does cable/DSL access with TV and phone over IP, and is also a WiFi router. Once you have an ISP controlled WiFi installation at each customer house, it is easy to provide the hotspot service.

Unlimited storage means unlimited cost, for fixed revenue. It looks like the recipe for disaster

Errr... Is that funny or insightful?

Perhaps a clerk encountering a transgender with incorrect record is a rare enough situation that we can just let the DBA handle it? OTOH for the person that just changed sex, it means a lot of delays, at least if he/she cares to get the record changed.

There have been experiments of light bulbs as down link: the bulb adds HF data signal in light emissions, and mobile devices can use it, leaving traditional WiFi spectrum used for just up link. I thought this was what this story was about and I must confess I am a bit disappointed.

I appreciate your concern about crypto, but note that secure communications are useless if the device has remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. crypto increase code complexity and therefore the odds to get such a vulnerability. I am more comfortable with administering network switches over serial line rather than over SSH, but I am not sure we can find a similar approach with implanted medical devices.

US officials seem to contradict themselves here. How can Edward Snowden be at the same time be (1) a liar that did not have access to sensitive stuff, and (2) a traitor that disclosed sensitive stuff worth extradition and prosecution?

If FDA really wants secure devices, that means we will have patch cycles for medical devices. This is not a very desirable perspective: What happens if you pacemaker is down after a patch? Will you need a doctor to patch?