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Consider it the Apollo 10 of Mars exploration.

Umm, no. I take it you didn't even read the summary of either paper.

The economists claim that “the high degree of diversity among African populations and the low degree of diversity among Native American populations have been a detrimental force in the development of these regions.” In other words, that only populations with the "right" amount of genetic diversity (i.e. matching Europe) are likely to be successful. The rest of the scientific community points out that they have defined their terms in a way that gives the results that they want, and ignore existing standard means of measuring genetic diversity.

Here in Massachusetts we have drug labs that can prove anything.

The only thing you should need the BIOS flash for is to boot from a RAID. I was assuming if he bricked the controller then it is also the RAID firmware, since otherwise you can boot from a rescue disk and run lsiutil to rewrite the BIOS flash.

The problem with skipping intermediate versions is that the on-disk format can change (more new stuff in metadata, for example). Each firmware rev only knows its own version and how to update from the previous version.

Might be helpful to record the phone call where they told you to upgrade the BIOS, also.

I've upgraded a number of LSI RAID controllers. Sometimes you can't skip intermediate levels, so if your firmware was way out of date that could be the problem. You also need to use the latest version of their tools.

The first time I heard this theory was in the movie The Thirteenth Floor. The time difference between the simulation and the simulator should be large, though.

Legal definitions may be different than scientific definitions. The scientific definition of a theory is "a hypothesis supported by repeated testing". The Texas legal definition of a theory is "witless piffle".

This would fall under "Business method" patents. As for recurring deliveries without reordering, maybe my weekly newspaper should print a story on this "new" business method. They've only been doing this since they started.

The problem is that the people gently handling your packages can see them too. If a shockwatch or tip-n-tell trips, they just rip them off and claim it didn't have one. A bluetooth transmitter isn't visible.

No they don't. They come out with basic skills, just like CS majors (or doctors, lawyers, and so on), and need to work with experienced practitioners in order to become proficient. The best graduates are usually the ones who spent some time as an intern and got an idea of what actually goes on in their field.

More likely the prosecutor is now going after Tufte.

Once it's going away, how would we catch it? It'll be going 25 km/sec relative to us.

Thanks, Teal'c.