I ran a DNA synthesis lab for years. Had 4 computers hooked up to oligo synthesizers. I named them Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine. My boss hated it, could never figure out which one was which, even tho they had a huge letter written on the front of each one.

All the other ones were functional. HPLC for the HPLC machine, etc.

Another Canadian political party siphoning off left-leaning voters.

Hey! I consider myself a small-c conservative, but I mostly support the ideas of the pirate party. Don't think they're just a bunch of lefties. Freedom isn't factional. I think the problem is we don't separate people's political/economic views from their social views. I believe that socialism belongs in..well... society. People should take care of each other, because they want to, because they think it's right, or whatever. But government should be more conservative. And I think there are many more like me. I'm really tired of this right vs left thing, and whether an idea or policy is right wing or left wing. You can believe in social socialism and political conservatism and economic liberalism without being inconsistent. A real conservative would believe in staying the hell out of the whole copyright mess anyways. And a real socialist would believe in legislating everything. So how did this get turned around? I just wish there was a conservative party to vote for that wasn't socially conservative.

um, I hope that isn't what it's supposed to do, because if it's an active IR system, it's gonna be waiting billions of years to get a return signal.
I think what you mean is it'll be detecting the IR that is already out there.

The best security is to pick an obscure poison. Take it in small doses until you're immune. Coat the keyboard with it. Better yet, get a keyboard that automatically dispenses the poison.
Evil maid now equals dead maid.

My only problem is, now that the maid is dead, who's gonna hide the body?

Wow, you're too bitter to be a Canadian by birth, and you didn't apologize once. So..er.. where you from originally?

The ending of a number in binary indicates its oddness. 2 (0b10) is the only prime that ends in zero in binary.

which would make it very odd indeed.

why would I do that? I already got it weeks ago off the Pirate Bay.

and later

must be pretty small teeth to be able to inject insects with a poison.

This is for medical devices. There is lots of biotech that is outside this area. I work designing DNA synthesizers, and they are not covered by this at all. There are ISO standards they may want to meet, but this may not be one of them.