or ... you could selectively breed a population of women who would be willing to breed with engineers ... or is this just wishful thinking?

I can't wait for the infomercials about this new superlubricant!

... hookers sleeping with vice cops besmirches the good name of hookers everywhere ...

Taking a stab at it ... imagine an NFL football field, plus the stands, PLUS the parking lot.

It seems to me that the whole patent trolling industry is an abuse of the legal system ... at least in terms of what most reasonable people would think the legal system is for.

This has been considered in the US. We tried bar codes on a baby's backside. Unfortunately, with our average diet, the bar code expands in size exponentially over time requiring unacceptably large readers.

Number 3 is the only feasible choice of course ...

Aren't girlfriends creatures of myth like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Honest Lawyers?

How many early humans were tools ...

Exactly. The post is a reasonable supposition, but not an actual report on an article ... other than Techdirt's blog.

You have to hunt for it. One of the links to Techdirt has another link to a Wired article. The Wired article has a link to a justice.gov pdf file about the backlogs in the forensics lab. What I was unable to find was any article that linked the IP task force and the forensics lab backlogs and missing persons, and discussed the relative priorities given these. So, the title's statement that the FBI is prioritizing IP over missing persons is a reasonable supposition, but is apparently not being discussed in a main stream media article ... unless I missed a link.

I've looked at the Wired article and the Techdirt articles, and I'm pretty sure I can track down original sources in what might be called the "major media" that discuss the downgrading if emphasis on missing persons. Similarly, I can track down sources discussing the creation of a new task force on IP. What I'm looking for is a major media source that talks about the relative prioritization of these two. Did I miss that in the articles? Does somebody know of one?

So I'm guessing it's best to hunt these boar at night ...

They need to be fitted with lasers on their heads to kill off all the other mosquitos.

Don't I feel special!