Hmm. So maybe the dark matter is in invisible pdf objects.

It would be a shame for the museum to deal exclusively with the internet. I'd rather see that as a part of a broader museum covering the many areas in which Bell Labs did important work.

I wonder how much would have to be done to make it safe for museum or educational use. Some of the Murray Hill buildings have, or had when I was there, not only natural gas lines but hydrogen lines in the walls. Some labs used very nasty chemicals, such as hydrofluoric acid.

If the problem with the exemption would be that pilots might forget to turn off the deicing system, how hard would it be to add a reminder? Say, every so many minutes a message pops up asking if deicing is still needed? Or How about monitoring the temperature and turning the deicing off and issuing a message if it gets too high? It seems like these would not be difficult.

My understanding is that there is much less technology devoted to controlling the location of aircraft on the ground than there is to controlling where they are in the air. There are no automated warnings when pilots mistakenly enter a runway they shouldn''t be one nor are planes in the process of landing alerted to the presence of aircraft or other obstructions. Monitoring this is all left to the air traffic controllers, who do it manually. It seems likely that this situation could be improved if there were better software systems for monitoring what is happening on the ground.

In any case, I don't see how it broke anything. It wouldn't be hard to clean up.

It might also not be a legal problem if the cameras only operate outside of business hours.

The way the digital ad industry talks, you'd think that advertisers had a god-given right to target people.

I've come up with one scenario where the use of such a camera might not be nefarious. Suppose you run a gym or swimming pool, someplace where there are showers or a locker room used by the public. You feel a need to monitor the area in case of assault (sexual or otherwise) or theft. You place cameras of this type that record to an encrypted drive not accessible from the net. Only a top manager has access. Footage is deleted after, say, a week. Nobody ever looks at it unless there is an allegation of a crime, in which case the police are given access to the footage for the relevant period. Whether this would comply with legislation probably depends on the jurisdiction, but it might be ethical.

This is a good reason not to use a teleprompter. I understand that some people inexperienced at public speaking may need one, as might people not presenting their own material, but someone like de Niro giving his own speech should be able to do just fine without one.

Chaucer postdates the Norman Conquest so the differences between his English and present-day English have nothing to do with the conquest. Homer's Greek is, to begin with, a different dialect from the Attic dialect with which the most familiar Classical Greek materials are written. There were some substantial changes too, but they are not enormous. The Greek of the New Testament is what is known as Koine, a somewhat simplified version of Classical Attic that had become the lingua franca of much of the Eastern Mediterranean. (The language in which Pontius Pilate and Jesus conversed, assuming that was a historical event, was almost certainly Greek, as Jesus (the man) would not likely have spoken Latin, and Pontius Pilate would not have spoken Hebrew or Aramaic but would have known Greek.)

I don't know about sports, but elsewhere important measurements are typically made multiple times by more than one person. Delegating the task to one person, who did it just once as apparently happened here, doesn't seem responsible.

The show was apparently a big disappointment, with fewer viewers than anticipated on the basis of his previous show. But, even if it did well, Apple may be sufficiently interested in sucking up to China that it would be willing to forgo the revenue from the show.

I wonder if, in this day and age, this matters to Stewart and his audience? Can't he keep going on his own? This kind of show doesn't require elaborate production facilities and staff. He can do it at home with a equipment I'm sure he can afford. And he can stream from Youtube or a web site of his own. People don't watch his show because he's on Apple TV - he has an established reputation and should be able to attract his viewers to his own site.

In the case of South Korea, NK doesn't even need chemical weapons. NK has a lot of conventional artillery close to its border with SK, camouflaged and fortified, aimed at Seoul, which is within range. In a few minutes they can destroy Seoul. The US could eventually destroy these installations since NK has little by way of air defense and the US has the firepower, but not before Seoul and its inhabitants are destroyed.

Actually, it turned out that his invocation of war time powers was unnecessary and the illegal behaviour of the convoy could have been dealt with under ordinary law. Deliberately blocking roads and harassing local people is not legal at any time.