It's still evolution. It's change in response to the environment. LGT (Lateral Gene Transfer) is a Big Deal in the bacterial world - it evolved. You can amplify the effect by causing a selection pressure (ie, put an antibiotic in the flask). But, you can also have de novo point mutations that cause antibiotic resistance - that's done thousands, if not millions of times a day all over the planet. The clever little protists have figured out an even more efficient way to do things.

That's certainly evolution in action.

"When all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you looked at TFA, you would notice that what the company has is a way of tailoring long chain hydrocarbon manufacturing through algae production. It can be longer chains like cooking oils, it can be shorter chains like fuel oil. The tech is interesting is that they can actually manipulate the algae well enough to change the final product without resorting to high pressure / high temperature methods like seen in an oil refinery.

What they can't do yet is produce the products in oil refinery-like quantities. That's something they need to do in order to sell it as a fuel, but they've figured out there is potentially a market in smaller quantities of different oils.

Whether or not that happens commercially remains to be seen, but it's a different play on building up to the next Exxon.

I don't think they will ever get there, but who knows?

Well, no one in the high tech field will likely hire you. You're still on dialup.

I'm not so sure how stringent things are. A good friend called me a number of years ago and asked me if I remembered all of the times we had done drugs together. "All of them?" - yep, he was supposed to right them down.

Now, that was college in the 70's and I can't even exactly recall what drugs we used, much less when we used them. They also contacted my father, who at the time had a TS clearance, and asked him. He told them to stuff it. (He was in a couple of years of retirement, didn't really need the clearance but they didn't pull it.)

He got the clearance and the job. He didn't write down the details, just told them he did a fair bunch.

But doing drugs in the 70's won't even get you disqualified from being president. Being gay these days, likewise.

Now, complaining to the local water board about the drinkablitity of what comes out of your tap, that might be problematic.

Now you're using Senators as a proxy for understanding a definition?

You're on pretty shaky ground, there.

(Of course, he can't possibly have a fair trial. They don't want him to have a fair trial. They want him to have a plane crash or a heart attack or better yet, to be found in a compromising position with an underage age dragon of the opposite sex and then have a heart attack while flying a plane.

Are you kidding? You state this on Slashdot?

There are dozens of reasons NOT to have a Facebook account. There are even good reasons for not having a Linkdn account (been spammed there more times than I care to recall). Twitter?

Good grief kids, you can have an active social and professional life with just a telephone. It's not hard - billions of people do it.

PHP? You're fired....

Soylent Green?

True enough, but you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you putative scary monsters come from people complaining about government services. Who's next? People who don't pay parking tickets?

Boo!

They saw themselves on YouTube and went "Oh, Shit".

Ah yes, damning with faint praise.

No, you fools! Russia has nothing to do with this. He's just IN TRANSIT. He is just wandering through an airport. In the civilized world, that is international territory for the purposes of free transit. He's not 'visiting' Russia.

Why should they bother? Since when has reality had anything to do with what we post?

You must be new here.

I don't think he has been formally accused of 'treason' - which has a very, very narrow definition in the US. He's been accused of 'espionage' which is different.