If you could "fix" high functioning autistic so that they could be completely normal what kind of effect might that have on scientific fields which attract such people?

I'm not sure that's an apples-to-apples comparison. Toying with the way the brain functions is quite different from repairing a physical abnormality.

I would liken curing color blindness to curing a physical ailment, not a mental one. Would you have any moral qualms about using medical science to repair the legs of a man bound to a wheelchair?

I hate Vista's Explorer with a passion.

Windows 7's explorer is even worse. I use Vista at work and Windows 7 at home. A lot of other posters are saying this, and they're right: Windows 7 is basically just a glorified service pack for Vista with a less hideous color scheme.

Sadly, for every nice new feature in Win7, there's three other changes that baffle and anger me. For example, Win7 explorer no longer displays the amount of free space available on your drive. That decision just makes no sense to me. Another thing I find annoying is that when you drill-down into folders in the right-hand pane, the left-hand folder tree no longer stays in sync.

Sure, Vista explorer will randomly decide that some code folder actually has music and display columns for "artist" and "rating", but at least I can tell how much free space I have on the drive at a glance.

these missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike.

It disturbs me that there exists a radio signal, however well encrypted, that can launch Russia's nuclear arsenal remotely.