@PinballFan: The Shat would not approve...

@ursa: Yeah, those skylights struck me as unfortunate choices of design as well.

I believe that building would be a bitch to heat (depending on materials used) and even worse to keep cool (being all dark and without a slated roof).

@Googlo The Peasant: Or until you smell like wet dog. It could really be either, but I suspect either one or a combination of both may have played a part in that girl from the first paragraph becoming his ex-girlfriend...

@Sirusjr: The old lady really wasn't a problem. I'd usually check with her once a week just to be sure, but more often than not, I'd have a note in my mailbox so I knew where to look.

@realfirehazard: True. But it's still a federal offense, and if the cases rack up, it's much more likely to be investigated.

This is the reason that I only mail things via the post office. At the very least, if someone messes with my package that way, it's a federal offense.

@OverThereInThemTrees: More or less. Although I'd say leukaemia and HIV would warrant an analogy more along the lines of a broken wrist and several mangled digits.

@ckcallen: "Whatever is necessary" is exactly the point! How is quality of life altered by the treatment?

This would definitely sound reasonable if 3G coverage wasn't so spotty...

Not necessarily the route I would have gone, but kudos for the extra effort.

@Salacion: And I'm sure your name is not "Jane".

@shufflemoomin: The hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from HIV, and possibly full-blown AIDS, reading this kind of news (Gizmodo was even conservative in their article, I've read others that basically spoke of the Second Coming).

@barrlley: What I inferred by the term "cheat" is that this approach is not really a viable option of treatment for the vast majority of patients. Replacing immune system, including bone marrow, is in this case as much a case in point as it is therapy. Not only is the approach ridiculously risky, but the case of this…

It's not a cure if you replace the patient's entire immune system. That's a cheat, really. The HI virus can only survive and prosper inside specific white blood cells. If you destroy those cells, where is it going to go? And even if a small part of the virus is still present in the patient, using a cell line that…

@Niteman cometh: IPAD CRUSH YOU!

Broad statements like white=bad are in themselves bad and misleading. There are different types of metabolism, loosely dependent on blood-type, even.

@Ryan: Just a caveat on the hackintoshing of netbooks: Been there, done that. It's workable, and it looks nice. A few months later, you partition the thing and put Linux on it, and within a few weeks you hardly ever boot up the OSX partition anymore because the Linux system is soaring in direct speed comparison.

@Joseph9000: Priceless.

@Loonm: If it's newsworthy, at least the editors didn't know it.