The New Horizons mission page states that the probe will fly by Pluto during July 2015. I don't know what the probe's ability to get data from Pluto is, but anything that helps restrict the range of observations is, IMO, a good thing: a month can pass quickly.

...the movie was "Catch me if you can" (no, I didn't read the link- why should I?).

That's strange because you can change your keyboard mappings (and even cycle through them on the fly through Control-Space). I acknowledge it is not a simple procedure to set up, but once you do it you don't need to think too much about it.

It seems the writer of the article hasn't learned there are no "dark sides" to the Moon.

Because you couldn't change the mapping, right? I agree that it's not the most comfortable keyboard ever, but I'm typing quite quickly with it, thank you.

That's what sanitary pads are for, you know.

Titillating idea.

Actually, while reading/watching about innate HIV resistance in subsaharian Africa, there was some information about the bubonic plague resistance being useful against HIV, which has already been mentioned. The same source stated that the genes providing this resistance survived in about 10% of the European population.

So no, most people survived the bubonic plague by not getting infected. Either that or those genes aren't really that useful otherwise.

Yes, if they think they never will make a mistake.

In a democracy the elected member of the government are expandable.

They are usually quite inflated on their own, I don't think they are that expandable.

Because recognizing that some tasks can't be left to individual greed if you want to achieve the egalité in the "liberté, egalité, fraternité" ideal is anathema. Yes, sure.

Think about it the next time your insurance company doesn't cover your medical bills (it will come).

You use "socialist" as if it was an insult. Unfortunately for you it isn't. Go whine somewhere else.

I think the word you are looking for is eructos.

Adding more cryptosystems doesn't automatically translate into greater security, as double DES showed.

AFAIK there are no signs of cetacean (or even water-dwelling) past in human evolution.