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Not sure but it looks to me when you zoom in, that it follows the surface to the point where gullies and ridges pass through it, try this for a better view. Many of the "whitish" traces appear to have been applied multiple times so you can see some parts of the trace has faded a bit and right near the pushpin you can see vehicle tracks both on and off the trace at maximum magnification.

Another interesting one. Looks like a structure of 15 mile salt water pools or something: http://maps.google.com/maps?&hl=en&ll=40.431269,90.784149&spn=0.87493,1.370544&sll=40.452172,90.788269&sspn=0.437332,0.685272&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=11

Even Internet Explorer supports H.264

Windows Internet Explorer on PCs also supports WebM as long as the proper codec pack is installed.

WebM sucks!

Could you please tone it down and say why you feel WebM is inferior? Otherwise, your post is just as much misinformation as the ones you criticize. Does your skin dry out on sunny days to where it feels like rock?

Is this an antenna farm, or an array of mirrors?

These looks like a bunch of buildings that have been bombed.

Anyone recognize the street layout in the original picture? DC? London?

Is this an antenna farm, or an array of mirrors?

These looks like a bunch of buildings that have been bombed.

Anyone recognize the street layout in the original picture? DC? London?

It's possible they're solar panels... in many areas here in Germany solar panels are put on all new houses built, or renovated. So they're actually quite common. Take the small village I used to live in for example:
Guntersen. Those panels are far less "blue" than the ones you're talking about in China though, so I'm not really sure the Chinese ones are solar panels.

I don't know, but it reminds me of this:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=24.492362,-111.502454&spn=0.013376,0.022724&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6

Curse my poor memory and google skills. BTW, the phrase you want to google is voter intimidation in America

Are you actually asking?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936

In Brazil

Yeah, it's pretty obvious once you see some of the other examples of targets in the same area (e.g., fake airfields). My guess is either regular bombing targets or targets set up for automated systems such as cruise missiles that might have an optical camera stage for final targeting, as in "here's a pre-loaded optical image of the target to match" once the missile is close enough.

But none of these things are as weird as the complete 1:500 scale 3D terrain model of part of Kashmir (Aksai Chin) at another Chinese military base. That thing is huge: 900x700m in size.

You are refering to this: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=de&ll=40.481426,93.490906&spn=0.053011,0.077162&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&z=14 That is no moon (runway)!

I just took another look. It appears that there are 4 "airports" there. And yes, I see the bomb damage on the tarmac. That makes sense for practice. it makes more sense to hit the planes on the ground, rather than hopefully damage the runway so they can't leave. :)

    I'd guess they have multiple runway mockups, so they can practice hitting different arrangement airports. Or possibly they had drones of some sort arriving/departing, to practice more advanced stuff (hit 'em while they're taking off or landing). Possibly one could or would have been used for drone air traffic. None of them really seem to be set up to handle real aircraft. I didn't see any signs of support equipment, or even marks from heavier aircraft using them. An expendable target drone is just a big RC airplane, so it wouldn't necessarily leave much in the way of tire marks from landing.

For those who didn't see it, here's a link.

Slightly west of there. This appears to be one of those.

If you zoom out a tad, you can see the much mentioned 'green arrow' location.

I just found a town (or camp?) in the middle of nowhere: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=74.668035,112.940269

do these "roads" match up with the roadways of any real city anywhere? Like target practice with a poster of your favorite enemy. That would be disconcerting.

Hard to match the roads, but there are a couple of cratered mock airfields nearby which look alarmingly like the Taipei Airport in Taiwan.

Could just be an innocent coincidence, I just checked the obvious target.

do these "roads" match up with the roadways of any real city anywhere? Like target practice with a poster of your favorite enemy. That would be disconcerting.

Hard to match the roads, but there are a couple of cratered mock airfields nearby which look alarmingly like the Taipei Airport in Taiwan.

Could just be an innocent coincidence, I just checked the obvious target.

whats the Arkoma plate. According to Google, your post is the only existing reference for it on the entire Internet:
google for arkoma plate

Additionally, Wikipedia says that the Arbuckle mountains were made by an aulacogen during the Ouachita orogeny, not by a plate. I thought Oklahoma was pretty far into North America lol.

Not saying that you're wrong. Just asking for more geology lectures plz ^_^

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=en&ll=40.472808,93.517685&spn=0.105121,0.165997&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.323926,84.990234&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13

... the funny electrical thing, which reminds me of HAARP?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=en&ll=40.472808,93.517685&spn=0.105121,0.165997&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.323926,84.990234&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13

... the funny electrical thing, which reminds me of HAARP?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

There is crazy shit all over that desert! What is interesting is that the canals to the north look like they pull water out of nowhere. It almost looks like the water table is very shallow there, just dig a deep trench and it will channel water.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.441134,+90.828180&hl=en&ll=40.444596,90.843372&spn=0.127374,0.264187&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=66.320747,135.263672&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13

Are these the ponds of algae I read about yesterday, designed to feed Chicken Little?

"The main change is that sites that are not in English will be translated then included in the search results." Was this really a problem after Google made location-based searches MANDATORY? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?fid=7777da521339a9b40004ab2af2c53153&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=03bbc6e63646c7e1&hl=en I use duckduckgo.com

"The main change is that sites that are not in English will be translated then included in the search results." Was this really a problem after Google made location-based searches MANDATORY? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?fid=7777da521339a9b40004ab2af2c53153&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=03bbc6e63646c7e1&hl=en I use duckduckgo.com

Someone who knows someone who has been to that blue thing just told me that it is a potassium fertilizer plant.

Some more to the west including a landing strip (?) at 40,4737 93,4536 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=de&ll=40.463797,93.434086&spn=0.074705,0.15398&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&z=13

From the discussion :

Jean-Baptiste Queru:
"I do not intend to globally tag Honeycomb releases, but I will
consider tagging 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 in frameworks/base so that
application developers can match the code that's running on devices."

(IMHO, not good enough to not release the entire platform.)

And this mess:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&aq=&sll=37.128297,-116.044807&sspn=0.110312,0.234833&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&ll=37.128297,-116.044807&spn=0.110312,0.234833&t=h&z=12

but WTF is this? http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

There is a divot/crater in the ground at one point, and you can see the colouring on the floor of the crater with the vertical wall visible. To me, it looks like some type of powder or paint.

Not that! See the green arrow! http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.460662,93.359842&spn=0.053615,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

There is another one here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.457528,93.398981&spn=0.021225,0.052056&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=15

captcha: mineral

South of there, what is this!?!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.110179,93.994217&spn=0.037745,0.077162&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

Looks agricultural. Maybe they're growing tea or some other crop. Probably have a good set of wells nearby or an aquaduct.

South of there, what is this!?!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.110179,93.994217&spn=0.037745,0.077162&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

Looks like a village/town with farm land

South of there, what is this!?!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.110179,93.994217&spn=0.037745,0.077162&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, bordering the city limits of Denver, tried disposing of liquid waste by injecting it 12,000 feet below the ground. The result was a series of damaging earthquakes in Denver, up to 5.0 - 5.5 magnitude. USGS wrote a report in 1990.

The Victorian warehouse at 1000 Bannock still shows steel L-braces affixed to the exterior to hold the brick building together from the 1967 earthquake damage -- notice also the long crack running clear through from the back wall diagonally up to the roof.

It wasn't just Denver. I was living in Leadville, CO at the time and some friends had a hobby mine that went into an old fault line. Gold concentrates where there are breaks in the rock because that's where the water moves. When those earthquakes started, the latter third of their mine collapsed (because it was into looser rock adjacent to the fault line). The first time they were like what? and dug it back out and started shoring it, and then the second one hit, and then the third... and they were completely freaked out because the earthquakes were happening on a very regular basis, since the deep well injection dumps were being done on like the third friday of the month, and the earthquakes were happening like half a day later, so they were having earthquakes on the third saturday of each month. Pretty weird. That ended up with them abandoning that mine, although once the Rocky Mountain News started writing articles about the connection between the Arsenal and the earthquakes, they stopped pumping crap down through the water table into the underlying rock.

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, bordering the city limits of Denver, tried disposing of liquid waste by injecting it 12,000 feet below the ground. The result was a series of damaging earthquakes in Denver, up to 5.0 - 5.5 magnitude. USGS wrote a report in 1990.

The Victorian warehouse at 1000 Bannock still shows steel L-braces affixed to the exterior to hold the brick building together from the 1967 earthquake damage -- notice also the long crack running clear through from the back wall diagonally up to the roof.

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=nerd+test&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

seriously though, I haven't bothered to fill any of them up since I was 18 and.. well too white and nerdy, obviously.

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=nerd+test&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

seriously though, I haven't bothered to fill any of them up since I was 18 and.. well too white and nerdy, obviously.

ORLY?

I found the print view

I scored 6 out of 20. I don't care, it's a test of random facts, not a test of skill.

According to someone who gave me and my housemate a ride home (and some confused looks) after clubbing on Saturday night, we're geeks since we were trying to work out something physicsy from first principles (I don't remember the details) while dressed, essentially, as humanoid robots from the future.

I didn't hear that cars were recalled.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/index.html

This was in the late 90s. There was no option for a male voice, and BMW had to recall the cars. I guess the American buyers of the same model didn't have a problem.

Ah, please not again the stupid Clifford Nass story. I don't believe it. We already had it on /. Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female

If you want official and fresh information you can find it here:
Navis: Women's voices are much more popular than men's voices
(Google translation)
In short: 56% prefer female voices, 9% male, 45% do not care (2% prefer voice speaking in dialect)

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The Kargus guy involved got 3 years, and the hacker himself 2, but with 18 months suspended.

AFP report here

It's full of Santorum!

Thor SCHMUCK listed an app of mine as a malware, others removed it once I passed Computer Associates 21 point test for removal (which got downgraded to NO THREAT levels - that's also happened to men like Dr. Mark Russinovich on his pstools suite in the past, & Nir Sofer as well - write them, ask them, they won't deny it (Nir & myself have had LONG discussions about that bogus practice by bogus security tools vendors).

On "bogus security tool vendors"? CA is the worst... & got caught in criminal accounting scandals:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Computer+Associates%22+and+%22scandal%22&btnG=Search

Later? CA SOLD OFF THEIR BOGUS PC SECURITY SUITE THAT LISTED MINE & OTHER FOLKS DECENT TOOLS AS MALWARE ALSO!

Hilarious - when I took & passed all 21 questions on their malware removal test? It should have been REMOVED totally from their list (and "Thor Schmuck" is the one who submitted my single ware to CA mind you, he's not a security researcher & doesn't have a security cert, or even a CSC degree afaik either - he's NO EXPERT!)

Clue/New News/NewsFlash: Your attempts @ adhominem attacks, illogical & off topic as they are? Shot down easily... per the above & what's next below too!

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Jeremy Reimer? LMAO - the infamous TROLL online who is no longer allowed to write for Arstechnica & iirc, hasn't since 2007 or thereabouts??

He trolled & stalked me, off topic the ENTIRE time, & was shot down along with his "self-proclaimed expert" on EXCHANGE SERVERS (Jay Little) who literally said he was an expert on exchange no less (but didn't realize memory optimizer code techniques could UNHALT lagged or frozen Exchange Servers, which I produced Microsoft's own documentation on no less & FAR more in favor of those programs too)? Please... Reimer, since he is unqualified & incompetent in computing, later brought in a Jarrett DeAngelis as another "henchman" when Little failed miserably (& trolled + stalked me to another forums after that too @ NTCompatible.com & got BANNED for it)? StarKruzr/Jarrett DeAngelis, then a doctoral candidate @ Notre Dame ENDED UP AGREEING WITH A GOOD 99% OF WHAT I STATED IN FAVOR OF MEMORY OPTIMIZERS & other things technical too!

Was hilarious! Reimer's pal Waarheid also was caught posting @ Windows IT Pro forums as Veritas... just Reimer doing it himself no doubt, after impersonating myself on his own puny forum nobody goes to, mind you, which he HAD TO ADMIT TO, under his ISP & law enforcement forcing it... lol!

He's TRULY, pitiful.

Reimer impersonated me on his forums, admitted to it, & also tried to impersonate Mr. Martin Meszaros who denounced he @ Windows IT Pro forums for it via email posted there, mind you... Reimer then posted libelous photos of myself he did edited to 'discredit me' only ending up looking like a childish fool there... he also email harassed me repeatedly & when his ISP Shaw of Canada put he on a tracking ticket, along w/ a det. Felton of Vancouver BC got ahold of him? He stopped... COLD!

(Was the BEST & FUNNIEST part of all)...

APK

P.S.=> You CAN verify that here, easily -> http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internals-and-architecture/the-memory-optimization-hoax#feedbackAnchor

See unlike yourself? I use REPUTABLE SOURCES & valid concrete verifiable documentations... unlike impersonations of myself & libelers of myself like Jeremy Reimer & arstechnica bullshit (I even caught them impersonating me there, editing my posts, & postings as alternate registered account guises to do so in GOD & MWNH (Man with No head, more like MAN WITH NO BALLS, lol) using the SAME EMAIL ACCOUNT to do so... they're pitiful, just like you!

... apk

IF U get "hit" by it? I list how 2 remove & detect for it 1st w/ a free tool here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2523490&cid=38046054

Easily, & with tools Windows users already own, in about 3-5 minutes time taken to do so...

(Funny you omitted I posted that much too, eh? NOT!)

APK

P.S.=> As to this? LMAO, ok:

"not it has not, do your homework" - by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14, @03:55AM (#38046366)

Ahem: I did my homework ages ago on that account...

I.E.-> I can't be "hit" by this, per this -> http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

That guide of mine on securing Windows uses MANY multiple "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" security measures, that stop this type of crap for myself & many others IF FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER, for one thing!

PLUS, I am not that stupid to open Word docs from strangers (or even friends) w/out scanning them, & I have AntiVirus/AntiSpyware in place for that in MS Security Essentials, regularly updated here, too!)

Per that guide? Well... You can SEE that I try to turn others onto that too, per that guide above & for nearly 1.5 decades now online.

Soooo - "Better luck next time" in trying to "get the best of me"... lol, no small wonder you post as AC to me - you're NOT confident enough to face me with a registered "luser" name here, lol...

... apk

Firist - It only serves the purpose vs. fools that don't use up to date anti(virus/spyware) that are aware of this via their signatures db's, as well as firewalls n' other layered security measures which I noted in my posts here in this exchange, trolls or not off topic & illogical adhominem attackers though most of them are!

(Still - on those "taken advantage of" by this? Yes, there is plenty of that though as Fluffeh & I discussed here already, sometimes knowingly but mostly by those who are just not aware of or care about online security).

Their loss.

One CAN effectively "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" protect oneself vs. this & other threats like it, like so:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

NOW, most importantly/additionally, per my subject-line above?

* HOW TO REMOVE DUQU & DETECT FOR IT (even IF you're not using updated antivirus software aware of its current builds.variations etc.):

FREE SCANNER (written in multi-platform PyThon which you would need to install the runtimes for) -> http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/06/0354207/open-source-tool-scans-for-duqu-drivers

REMOVAL TECHNIQUE (with tools you already own as a Windows user no less, takes 5 minutes time, TOPS):

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1.) BOOT UP from your Windows installation media (read only environs is why) & use RECOVERY CONSOLE

2.) USE THE DISABLE COMMAND on DUQU's driverset:

DUQU KNOWN DRIVERS LIST:

jminet7.sys
cmi4432.sys
nfred965.sys
nfred965.sys
nfred965.sys
nred961.sys
adp55xx.sys
adpu321.sys
iaStor451.sys
allide1.sys
iraid18.sys
noname.sys
igdkmd16b.sys
igdkmd16b.sys

(the RC listsvc command can show not only services, but also drivers too, like those - should it add more, & they don't "look right"? Look them up on GOOGLE, & if they are not legit & this thing adds more over time (it does, that list above's larger than ones I posted last week on this)? FRY THEM, after you're SURE they're not legit drivers that is!)

3.) Once those are disabled? FIX THE BOGUS BOOTSECTOR USING RC's "FixMBR" command to clear the bootsector of this rootkit!

4.) NOW - Should this rootkit/botnet "haul in" MORE malware, & iirc, it does?

You can delete that a couple ways!

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A.) RC DEL command

OR

B.) ProcessExplorer in usermode/Ring3/RPL 3 operations by halting infected processes (running the dll list via dll injection on the libs/dlls below), by having the DLL view list pane visible & highlighting all your running processes to check for that, OR if it hauls in just plain other badware running on its own).

DUQU DLL LIST:

netp191.PNF
netp192.pnf
cmi4432.pnf
cmi4464.pnf
netf2.pnf
netf2.PNF
netf1.PNF
netf2.PNF
iddr021.pnf
ird182.pnf

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* DO THAT, exactly the way it's noted? This thing's HISTORY... in 3-5 minutes time, tops!

(Yes, it works... it worked for me on the allegedly "indestructable rootkit" that used hello_tt.sys a few months back for a paying client & will work on this too, provided its design like that rootkit just noted, does NOT protect its driver init. areas)

See... once those drivers are killed off in Ring 0/RPL0/kernelmode + the bootsector's cleaned? Cake to NUKE the remaining usermode malware, per the above, also! Very easy, very fast, & VERY EFFECTIVE too.

HERE ENDETH THE LESSON...

APK

P.S.=> Drivers & DLL list courtesy of SYMANTEC:

Per

Right, because WHO is comprised of nuclear physicists, oh wait, it's World Health Organization, not Radiation, it's an agency of UN, not IAEA! The ExtenE report also had a professor of Occupational Medicine on the panel.

It seems that you are also ignorant about the WHO's arrangement with the IAEA. The WHO is unable to publish anything on radiation impacts that the IAEA does not agree with. Health impacts from radiation are the only kind of health matter that the WHO must get outside approval from an outside body before publication. The IAEA is mandated to increase nuclear power use. How is that for bias?

So you ignore the results they come to and assume there is some grand conspiracy to make us all highly radioactive.

When faced with conflicting results from two separate groups of credible professionals, the only reasonable conclusion is that the issue is still controversal and neither results can be accepted. You are the one ignoring results of the conflicting data so that you can peddle your beliefs as facts.

We can't just sit on our asses muttering "there's not enough data" when people are dying in thousands in coal mines alone, and this is definitely attributable to energy production, unlike future possible life shortening.

Really? Do I have to waste time trying to convince you that all deaths are life shortening, and closing down coal mines would be an attempt to decrease future possible life shortenings from coal mining? Perhaps this is how your mind attempts to cope with your cognitive dissonance?

Just like there is statistically proven lung cancer increase near coal fired power plants (which isn't easily curable, again, unlike thyroid cancer).

Nuclear fallout causes various forms of illness, not just thyroid cancer. In fact, it also causes lung cancer . . .

There have been hundreds of trials related to X-Ray, CT, radiation exposure to mouse, people living in very high background radiation areas, etc. and they agree that the LNT approximation is wrong, so any study using it as approximation will be wrong, we don't know by how much, but the WHO report (just like most of data from those trials) would suggest very.

Again, external exposure is immaterial to this discussion . . .

Because fossil and hydro don't kill people? There are only 3 sources of energy that we know that work: fossil, nuclear and hydro. All three kill people. But you somehow can't wrap your head around that idea! We've got better data to support that nuclear is killing less people than the other two than to support AGW. Yet the politicians wave the "Anthropogenic Global Warming" flag, because there's no "radiation" in it, so the general population doesn't throw rationality out of the window and don't yell "conspiracy!".

I am starting to get a picture of your warped view of the world. Rather than claim the rest of the world is stupid, I think a much more reasonable answer to why nuclear is only at 13% now is simple economics. Building nuclear reactors requires a large amount of capital, an extensive period of construction time, and government insurance. During the last 50 years, only certain governments had the resources and the agenda (nuclear weapons) to make the investment. These days nuclear weapons are not such a high agenda item for the most developed countries. Additionally, globalization has made the world much more sensitive to all risks. In the current financial climate, investors have little appetite for 2 year lon

I'm going to respond with Yes/No* as well, with the caveat that, while not technically cannibalism, eating vat grown human meat seems to be deserving of it's own particular ethical term or category, somewhat analogous to incest.

Incest is considered to be a taboo, because babies who's parents are closely related in that manner have a greatly increased risk of doubly recessive genes being expressed; and you tend to get cleft lips, mental retardation, and various other physiology problems. It's a great example of a social taboo or group behavior whose roots can be explained by genetics and natural selection. And my hunch is that eating cloned human meat will prove to have similar biological, genetic, and survival related ethical problems.

Specifically, going onto a diet of cloned human meat is going to have epigenetic factors related to the microbial gut flora. So, while there won't be the ethical or survival problem of killing another human; the act of eating the flesh alone is going to affect one's gut flora, gut juices, composition of chemicals absorbed into the blood, and epigenetic gene expression. People who eat artificially grown human meat are bound to go a bit loopy; and odds are it will be in a not-good way. Maybe not as bad as being down-right cannibals, but it will be an intermediary step. Possibly useful in certain survival situations, but otherwise to be avoided as much as possible.

Also, I highly recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which is an absolutely fantastic book on how the science of growing cells in petri dishes got started...

They hope that brand recognition will help with adoption. Look, another Google product! Except another Google product now means something from well known hypocrites like Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin, so I'm not touching them with a 10 ft pole.

--
I'm an arrogant asshole, so I work for Google now.

Have you got evidence that the NBA in fact doesn't reflect society? Yes, we can all think of why there might be more black 7 foot tall guys in the NBA that in society, but there's no excuse for not having the evidence to hand. The assumption that evidence will turn out as expected, especially for things that seem obvious, will make people not bother to check reality against what they're saying. This goes for all sorts of issues, such as the cause of ulcers, whether lower taxes increase government revenue, whether people act rationally, and so on.

Yes.

"Apparently the league is currently 71.8 percent African-American, 18.3 percent international and 9.9 percent white American and there's a problem."

Need more?

"For some reason, blacks have come to represent the vast majority of players in the NBA, even though they form only 12 percent of the U.S. population."

The above quotes are from links available on the first page of the search results I linked to. They represent the trend of data returned by the Search, and are not intended to be linked directly to the articles in question.

United States Census Info (to reflect "society")

White persons, percent, 2010 (a) 72.4%
Black persons, percent, 2010 (a) 12.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2010 (a) 0.9%
Asian persons, percent, 2010 (a) 4.8%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2010 (a) 0.2%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2010 2.9%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 16.3%
White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 63.7%