To follow the goatse.cx standard, I believe it should be http://oldermanwholikestofondleyour.co.ck

It's only $250 to register a .co.ck address!

Keyword: Inconvenient. Just tell them that you're really busy and can't come over for a few days. I've got shit-tons of work to do, etc; I'll get to it as soon as I can. The more inconvenient your "services" become, the more "convenient" the alternatives become, whether it's learning not to click on the spyware or getting a new system.

Just thought I'd note that this is absolutely, positively the wrong thing to do if the problem is malware and viruses.

That's totally useless. What we really need to know is how to package lots of bad loans into a derivative and make it worth a fortune. That and how to hide a CEO's income from the IRS. This science stuff just pollutes the mind, and distracts us from putting more money into another Wall Street shell game.

Well, that settles it. Larry Ellison would never fudge the truth.

Open source is probably what Obama had ACORN use in his secret muslin elections in Kenya! He's going to use open source to ban Christmas!

Maybe, just maybe, one or two of them might have an iPhone or an iPod. I know that most people use the amazing Zune, but there's a few iPods and iPhones out there. So maybe there are a few jurors that have a decent feeling about Apple.

Considering bacteria have one circular chromosome, changing the number of chromosomes would be quite a feat. Besides, changing the number of chromosomes is not a huge leap in biological terms. Chromosomes split, duplicate, and recombine all the time. Look at Xenopus (a type of frog used in research); it has two nearly identical (but not quite) sets of chromosomes -- they call this condition "pseudo tetraploid". The two nearly duplicate pairs are in most cases completely redundant, as the genome duplication didn't happen that long ago in evolutionary terms.

The problem with your quick dismissal -- "Easy DNA sequencing" isn't that easy. It's a hell a lot easier and cheaper than it was 20 years ago, but it's neither cheap nor effortless.

"Easy" DNA sequencing (e.g. short-read sequencing systems) are still rather expensive, and require a good deal of skill. Even archiving and preparing 40,000 samples would be an enormous challenge. The costs for a "full genome" read of an E.Coli genome (say, 1 or 2 lanes on an Illumina short-read sequencer) would run in the thousands of dollars. "Fine mapping" a mutation by PCR sequencing the candidate clones for generations between the ones that you have full sequence data on (and to confirm the mutations in the whole genome reads) would run at least $5-7, not counting labor costs. Then there's the analysis of the data to consider.

Let's see you make 40,000 generations of disk-to-disk copies on a 1.44 Mb floppy disk, "diff" them all to figure out when every bit flip happened, analyze the significance of each bit flip to the data and executables on the disk, and then get back to us. That would be several orders of magnitude easier than this analysis was.

And how, exactly, is that different from the DVR that Time-Warner wants to put on my set? It fast-forwards through ads as well.

I visited the High Desert Museum just south of Bend, OR a few years back. It wasn't huge, but it was pretty well done.

The "butterfly house" at the Durham Life & Sci is spectacular.

The Harvard botanical museum is worth a quick look; the displays of glass flowers and plants are worth a look.

And, at least to a rough approximation, the vehicles which cause more road damage (heavy and/or overloaded vehicles) pay more, as they use more fuel. The driver of the F250 hauling bags of cement pays more per mile than the driver of the Mini. But, I'd bet that the F250 is responsible for a few more potholes than the Mini.