My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website, and expect that information to be kept from all the world's eyeballs, you're being incredibly foolish.

I couldn't agree more. What I don't care for is now my consumption of other content on the internet is being shared, via Facebook, without my consent.

While you're correct in your analysis of the statement, you're incorrect in regards to the technology. Yes, flu is an RNA virus but the manipulations of the genes that are expressed on the VLP - is all done with DNA. I'm guessing they clone the gene into their expression platform and the cell lines do all the work to put it together.

Now the big challenge is to prevent the patient from developing anit-vector immunity so that they can use the VLP delivery system again against different targets.

Again, and I say this as a Google Voice user, I don't think GV is a huge threat to wireless carriers. While, yes, GV can cut down on your incoming minutes since we all LOVE our cell phones we'll still have them as a primary way for GV to reach us. I'm happy to listen into someone leaving a message on my Google Voicemail and that, typically, uses my wireless minutes. It's probably because I don't have a direct line to reach me at my place of work or a landline at home. Now, if I divert my voicemail and read the transcription (which can be pretty spotty) that will cut down on my incoming minutes.

I think a lot of people just want the flexibility of GV and how that plays into an already interconnected lifestyle. That lifestyle will only benefit the wireless carriers (till some other wireless data network comes into play and lets me VOIP directly through GV through my handheld).

I look forward to a few cosmetic updates to the GV mobile webpage and I'll live without a free push of my incoming SMS to GV.

I don't disagree with you that Google's international rates do compete with that of AT&T. However, so does my buying an a prepaid international calling card. International charges shouldn't be a revenue issue for AT&T since there are so many other ways to avoid their horrible rates.

This is from the quote of the day a month or so back:

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

        Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)

I've found this to be true working at a biotech startup - I don't know if that's good or bad for our future.

I think in the time I saw this parent, a few dozen comments appeared in the parent above coming to the same conclusion.

Trolls abound!

Really?

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org

(For Windoze users, that's under "My Network Places" or whatever they'll call that in 7.)

The "at home" biology and chemistry labs will be awesome. Particularly fun lab exercises: dissection, analytical and organic chemistry, molecular biology and genetics. Even my small liberal arts college had a NMR. Come to think of it, that'd be fun to have at home.

It's hilarious that on my iGoogle page, as I expand and read this story, that there's an ad to "Find Your Perfect Ukrainian Bride."

It's too bad this won't do much for the toner cartridges of the world that use page counters to estimate the quantity of toner remaining. I'm pretty sure our HP color laser and Brother multifunction aren't actually out of toner when they say they are. I've heard of these companies using an odometer of sorts to count to x pages of toner life and then call it dead regardless of actual toner usage.

Another point against Ecofont if they recommend laser printing over inkjets.

Gore's Nobel Prize isn't in a scientific category.