While it grieves me so to contradict a popular opinion, a common misconception is that a language will remain a medium for communication without rules.
Allowing too much variance in meaning, spelling, sentence structure, and so on will eventually lead to different languages entirely. None of us speak the King's English, or Spanish by-the-book in everyday speech already... our conversation is peppered with idioms, movie quotes, and slang.
Without a master set of rules to reference and abide by, in no time, it's like I'm talking to my brother-in-law's kids in County Cork.
..."avoid a shooting war", "national security or law enforcement need"....
Why does it always come down to those things?
Does the USA actually have any enemies like that or is it just the (government created) national paranoia?
It makes for a better sound bite than We hate to put your bank account's password at risk, but it's for some plausibly useful future reason that we do so.
That's the thing about the world's oldest profession: even when it's done poorly it's still pretty good.
Give me an elderly woman who is skilled in canning and preserving food and a clean, reliable camouflaged water well. You can keep the young lovely things.
It would wreak havoc in the urban population centers if it ever mutated into an airborne pathogen, but since it is widely believed to be spread via host-to-host contact and human bodily fluids its capacity for epidemic is low.
A partially immune host, one who's symptoms delay or remain minor, could conceivably have much more time to spread the often fatal disease, but it's not going to "take off" due to poor transmission rates.
Humans have exhibited an ability in past plagues to leave oozing, infected bodies alone... but if something this virulent ever learns to spread like the flu there will be no more overpopulation worries.
It's not like there are no winners here, doomsayer.
The added competition should at least drive down the retail price of the information for the NSA.
And can't poor Jeff get a little slice of the smartphone pie. I understand he has drones to build, and the butler in his third home only has a single assistant.
It can be designed with the ability to spontaneously lose its flying capability, and then right itself for continued travel on the ground.
There are a handful of marginal uses that come to mind, but in most, there's little incentive to combine the two vehicles. A remote all-terrain vehicle could be designed to carry a container delivered by (or to) a UAV.
Ronco tarnished a generation with the Do-It-All gadget mindset, but there are seemingly inevitable compromises in exchange for multiple functions.
Pattern recognition is an interesting way to put it.
We are predisposed to pattern recognition. Selection also likely accounts for the fortunate ones... whose patterns of recognition proved causal rather than corollary, such as this leaf cures that malady.
I see you're a traveling man, said the patrolman who pulled my friend and I over in his father's "Mason-marked" truck in Mississippi, You boys go ahead on.
Heinlein's but don't rule out malice still applies.
Look. I get that the NSA has these incredible resources (thousands of personnel, alone), but they're still all working for the government: the king of big company bullshit with a side of no incentive to work hard. I'll kiss a pimple on your ass if there aren't many hundreds of others' disenfranchised like Snowden who lack either the luxury of being able to leave or the courage to do so.... these folks commitment is plausibly not legendary.
If they can buy a guy in on the production side of the coding, it just saves a lot of work.
Very few men work as nurses. Is that a problem that needs to be solved?
I am willing to postulate the minority male student population at your local nursing school are, by and large, pleased with the disproportionate female>male ratio.
Don't you see the irony?
Young women will use this opportunity for a career in IT to bag more than their fair share of geeks.
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Bold, public, optimistic predictions are an historically cheaper way to fund nationalistic fervor than actual deeds and accomplishments.
Good luck if the contractors are the ones who built roads and infrastructure for the Sochi Olympics.
Allowing too much variance in meaning, spelling, sentence structure, and so on will eventually lead to different languages entirely. None of us speak the King's English, or Spanish by-the-book in everyday speech already... our conversation is peppered with idioms, movie quotes, and slang.
Without a master set of rules to reference and abide by, in no time, it's like I'm talking to my brother-in-law's kids in County Cork.
This is what the US government should be doing: protecting US banking interests and keeping depositors safe from malware.
The thing about leaving Heartbleed viable as a backdoor for national security exploits is that it exposes one's own citizens to attacks such as this.
..."avoid a shooting war", "national security or law enforcement need"....
Why does it always come down to those things?
Does the USA actually have any enemies like that or is it just the (government created) national paranoia?
It makes for a better sound bite than We hate to put your bank account's password at risk, but it's for some plausibly useful future reason that we do so.
There are almost certainly ongoing exploits of vulnerable systems.
People will very often tell you their intentions if you listen closely enough.
Give me an elderly woman who is skilled in canning and preserving food and a clean, reliable camouflaged water well. You can keep the young lovely things.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it.
Can we just be NANCs, rhymes with yanks,
and acronym's for North American Non-Canadian?
A partially immune host, one who's symptoms delay or remain minor, could conceivably have much more time to spread the often fatal disease, but it's not going to "take off" due to poor transmission rates.
Humans have exhibited an ability in past plagues to leave oozing, infected bodies alone... but if something this virulent ever learns to spread like the flu there will be no more overpopulation worries.
That's where the ancestors of most of our athletes and 2.3% of our Presidents hail from.
Hold on Mom, I'll be right back. I have to watch another commercial first.
The added competition should at least drive down the retail price of the information for the NSA.
And can't poor Jeff get a little slice of the smartphone pie. I understand he has drones to build, and the butler in his third home only has a single assistant.
There are a handful of marginal uses that come to mind, but in most, there's little incentive to combine the two vehicles. A remote all-terrain vehicle could be designed to carry a container delivered by (or to) a UAV.
Ronco tarnished a generation with the Do-It-All gadget mindset, but there are seemingly inevitable compromises in exchange for multiple functions.
People ahead in guessing games such as these are probably more likely to regress to the mean than to continue defying probability.
We are predisposed to pattern recognition. Selection also likely accounts for the fortunate ones... whose patterns of recognition proved causal rather than corollary, such as this leaf cures that malady.
Luck plays a role in any contest. Including life.
It is that kind of thinking right there that pretty much guarantees there will be no F&F nine and ten.
I see you're a traveling man, said the patrolman who pulled my friend and I over in his father's "Mason-marked" truck in Mississippi, You boys go ahead on.
Heinlein's but don't rule out malice still applies.
Look. I get that the NSA has these incredible resources (thousands of personnel, alone), but they're still all working for the government: the king of big company bullshit with a side of no incentive to work hard. I'll kiss a pimple on your ass if there aren't many hundreds of others' disenfranchised like Snowden who lack either the luxury of being able to leave or the courage to do so.... these folks commitment is plausibly not legendary.
If they can buy a guy in on the production side of the coding, it just saves a lot of work.
A partial burn is when your girlfriend tells you that, of all your friends, you have the largest dick.
Shit! I left the Vaio in my Tesla.
At worst, the illusion of choice is still a galvanizing force if the politicos need to be reassigned.
If this takes off, law enforcement personnel might be wearing of them soon... the cars are already set up for recording with dash cams.
The one thing government has streamlined is the tax collection process.
Very few men work as nurses. Is that a problem that needs to be solved?
I am willing to postulate the minority male student population at your local nursing school are, by and large, pleased with the disproportionate female>male ratio.
Don't you see the irony?
Young women will use this opportunity for a career in IT to bag more than their fair share of geeks.