[ballstothewalls]

I think it is sad that our some of our brightest minds are hard at work trying to get people to click on advertising links.

[michaelochurch]

For most of human history, the brightest minds were hard at work coming up with new ways to kill people. (No, I'm not trolling you. For every brilliant mind in science, there were scores in warfare.) Advertising and finance are progress.

I agree that it would be better if those people were working on clean energy and cancer research, but I don't think the situation is that bad, compared to the historical norm.

[yuhong]

This needs to be traced:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3891677&cid=44076497

An important information from the "confidential" studies here for example would be what kind of monitors were tested.