Um something something and your high horse... Nobody's coddling the kid here. If you actually read the article you'll see he's thought through all the points this thread has made. They're not just rewarding him for effort, but for an actually useful find.

If you read the article, he used the same number. Also he explained that though you can use tracking for flat arrays, maintenance costs discourage most people from doing that. So his experiment concluded an improvement for the static array arrangement.

Law 1: not true. In a competitive market, the corporation that can give customers the most value will keep the most value for itself. What you say is only true in monopolistic and (sometimes) oligopolistic environments. In this case, however, the market is pretty much an oligopoly. That's why the government has to step in to determine if this merger is something that allows AT&T to compete better and provide more value to the customers or if it's something that will altogether transfer more value from customers to AT&T.

Uh... that's not how it works. Just because you get a cut doesn't mean you'll get an infection nowadays. Granted, that assertion comes as a result of other pieces of modern society like clean water and soap to wash away a wound, but penicillin itself is not directly responsible for the quality of life we enjoy. Most in the US for example don't ever critically need to use penicillin for much of their lives.

What does this have to do with what I wrote? I'm pointing out that the parent to my post is assuming something based on his faulty understanding of history. Yes fiction strangely predicts reality in certain cases, but that's a different topic altogether.

With the existence of auto-immune disorders as a warning sign, I can see that this will have lots and lots of trouble getting approval.

Did you even read that? That's wiki's list of fictional medicines.

We've had etch-a-sketch for years now. The most of the point of printing is so that it doesn't get erased.

As mentioned, android is not bundled with every google search you perform. This is not leveraging the monopoly, merely running a side business. I think ideally google would like to see android generate revenue for them in non-search arenas.

Summary is a bit inaccurate, leading to uninformed comments and questions on this thread. From the article,

The researchers found that the rats chew the bark of the poisonous tree and lick themselves to store their poisonous spit in specially adapted hairs.

They do not eat the plants. They chew it. This is the same way people chew certain herbs and then apply it to wounds to numb the pain. They don't eat those plants - if they did they'd be in poor health indeed.

I believe that looks like a jail cell.

It might be illegal, but nobody knows it; everybody who wants one will probably just get one (I used to live in China). Not that I agree one iota with it, but I can definitely understand the government's need to control thoughts: it's lead to great stable economic development so far; they operate in what has always been the prevailing mode of government throughout history; they have a different idea of morality (one that's not necessarily wrong) - that the individual rights are weighed much more lightly compared with the greater societal good. In addition, though not overtly, our media is also structured in such a way that they passively try to control our thoughts.

That aphorism sounds nice, until you consider how well Wikipedia, Firefox, and LibreOffice are doing.

I'm not sure your argument is complete. Is it fair that Walmart can keep using the money you paid for Halo long after you stopped playing Halo? Your information is the payment. Though I agree with you: services and companies should be a lot more upfront about what you're paying for their "free" service. I bet not a lot would change (maybe 1% of facebook .5% of google users would stop using the service) but at least people would feel better. And this provides a path to progress: if every service listed the price clearly, it's easier for competitors to lower the price ("oh they track everything but we only track your click habits, and that information expires 30 days after you stop using our service").

To be honest with the bandwidth/data plans as abysmal as they are right now in the US, those extra bits seem too steep a price to pay for the effect they provide.