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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by schiffern on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:34PM (#7152844)
I'm all for figuring out how to use the nanobots we have (aka biology).

Advantage: they self-replicate royalty free, something the nanobot company would never allow.

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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Crito on Thursday January 30, 2014 @06:33PM (#7154145)
> "Advantage: they self-replicate royalty free, something the nanobot company would never allow."

Such restrictions, or similar, might be a good idea in general. A gray-goo excursion would not be fun. Algae blooms cause enough damage as it is, and at least there are things that eat algae.

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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Ygg2 on Friday January 31, 2014 @05:12AM (#7156058)
Just evolve to eat metal. Easy. There. All is fixed.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Drakim on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:55PM (#7153940)
You just need a DRM server which each nanobot must obtain a proper license key from every cycle.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by TTPrograms on Friday January 31, 2014 @02:17AM (#7155729)
Monsanto disagrees.
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