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• Commented on Pope damns medical patents
  So how are we to fund medical research then? I'm not saying the current system is without its faults but currently 2% (ish) of lab based research ends up bringing a product to market, which is then only under patent...
• Commented on Logo for "Silence of the Chips" program to give off-switches to RFIDs
  Just a thought, but isn't such a system already easily implementable from a third party point of view. If wikipedia explains things properly a system already exists in some passports so they can only be read when they are open....
• Commented on Special Experimentation Zones to solve big problems?
  Who'd have thought everyone would be so unremittingly negative about this. The idea, as I understand it, is to create a zone aside from the political world so you can try things like legalised prostiution, or legalised drugs and see...
• Commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  A lot of that is in the form of guarantees don't forget. Most of this is liablities, compared to something like WWII which is actual physical spending. If you cross your fingers and say a prayer some countries might even...
• Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
  Sir Alec Jeffreys is pretty famous around my parts, although I did go to his university (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Jeffreys). Sir Tim Berners-Lee is pretty famous too. I think the problem is the lack of revolutionary and easily understandable science/technology. Those two both...
• Commented on Stiglitz: America's double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world
  It's also worth noting the IMF is taking a very different view of this crisis in the poorer countries that have been hit. If they weren't you could make a much more reasonable claim of hypocracy. How dare you not...
• Commented on Stiglitz: America's double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world
  bodly? boldly. Also its worth pointing out that America is not demanding anyone else pay for its bail outs, unlike other crises...
• Commented on Stiglitz: America's double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world
  Of course everyone is bodly assuming America is right now and wrong then.......
• Commented on Search algorithms are editorial decisions
  I'm not sure to what degree Google really does set our agenda. Can google really destroy you by removing you from search? It would make starting a new business tricky, certainly, but anyone already established would still be visited, and...