On some roads I've seen signs that assert "Prayer Works". How would you design a protocol to test this assertion?

Domestication changes genes and presumably the epigenome. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to pick an undomesticated bird, perhaps a more "primitive" one than the highly domesticated chicken as the DNA source to "clone" a dinosaur?

The pictures of the bird are interesting, too. No explanation for them; probably because the larger image is a portion of the smaller image scaled up in size and reversed left to right. I guess viewers are to draw their own conclusions.

You forgot the windshield washing service.

BTW do Pringle cans hold liquids? The necks of Coke bottles are way too small for me. Well, whatever works for you.

"That was the best sex ever and BTW, I just gave you copies all my videos".

No, some with interpret it as written and others will interpret it as it should have been written so there goes the scientific objectivity of this Slashdot poll.

And some of us are older than electronic computers!

If it makes anyone other than those willing participants in the ongoing Security Theater debacle feel better then you can label it an unintended consequence.

Why would a TV manufacturer include this? What would the business model be? "Buy our ACME TV, it has real spy ware with a standardized interface that any ISP can use!"

"Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting"

It's not my TV or even yours in which it's installed, it's in the set-top box that decodes the signal and responds to the remote. I'll bet that if it's ever deployed DHS will have a back door.

"People just don't get it. The US government does not need to cut its budget by 3%. It needs to cut its budget by 50% or more."

We are in a recession/depression. Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs, lost their homes, lost businesses, their children their hopes of college, etc. In this financial state we are cutting down on government spending, thus causing thousands to loose jobs directly and suppliers to fire workers. It's been working so well that (snicker) that many want it expanded. This will result in more foreclosures, etc. But don't worry this is the road to prosperity; Greece and Spain, for instance, have had fiscal austerity forced on them and are watching their economy spiral down the drain. We should follow this model?

Governments role is to try to preserve jobs during fiscal downturns; if cutting government spending is needed it should be done in good times when the effects of this economic poison is diluted.

I work for a US Federal Agency and our notebooks were all encrypted about two years ago. I know that some problems arose from that but in my major problem is that it takes 10 or, more often, 15 minutes from boot to have a usable machine! We will soon need to insert a "LinkPass" card in our machines to be able to use them (we have had the passes for a few years), we must wear the cards in the facility, and they will be used to unlock exterior doors, too. It's going to be difficult to remember to take the card out when one leaves the vicinity of the office/cubical.

Informally, yes, but not formally: "Sure he is guilty, his brother is in prison for murder". And on and on.

This shouldn't fly. Christians, and perhaps Jews, have believed in original sin in which guilt has been transferred from Eve for millennia. They published but didn't file for a patent.