Exactly. Number 1 rule for any science fiction or fantasy story: Stick to the rules for your universe. Anyone can accept that magic works a certain way, what they can't accept is when your characters or your story forgets to behave within your rules.

I like to think of the wands as a bit like a resonant megaphone. The magic comes from the wizard, and the wands just amplify and focus what comes out.

Swish and flick the wrong way and you screw up the frequency with a magical Doppler effect.

True, but it puts the scale of the SLOC into perspective. I doubt IOS is significantly smaller than the Linux kernel.

A backdoor might be hard to hide, but a backdoor enabling flaw might not be. Just as with any problem, you don't always have to solve it in one go, you take "bite sized" pieces and solve them.

So you don't enable a backdoor, you just introduce a flaw which makes it easier to exploit another flaw downstream.

As long as humans are reproducing, humans are evolving. Even if it is evolving humans most adapted to pushing a button labeled "produce child" and having a robot nanny care for the child its entire life.

Pressures are not removed, they may change, but they are never removed until the last of a species dies.

Terrorist: "Hi, Bob's business freight courier service? I've got a lead on some test petroleum product I need shipped from the seller's address in Indiana to my office here in Fort Worth, TX. It's all packaged up and ready to ship. Just arrive at the loading dock and use the dock phone to call my number and I'll be down to accept delivery."

Petroleum product meaning standard fertilizer/petroleum mixture so favored for explosives. Office being the target building. And the number he calls from the dock phone will be a call to the trigger.

The point of this is to say that there are so many ways that this can be accomplished today, that it is kind of silly to worry about AVs when the potential exists in a billion different ways today. The key is to catch them before they are ready to call Bob's Courier Service. Once it reaches that level of maturity, from a counterterror perspective, you've failed.

Soldier: "Yes. We saw a family take refuge there after telling us about the guys on the ridge."

The lack of flexing on the display when I opened it was a big factor for me. Some of the laptops out there made me feel like I was going to put a crack in the display.

Ok, so I use a MacBook Pro for my laptop, but Thunderbolt peripherals are sorely lacking last I checked. Anything out there was expensive, or very niche. I'd much rather have 2+ USB ports on one side of my mac than my unused Thunderbolt ports.

The specs are great, but I can't use anything with it.

Invert it. Robots prepare the food and you cook it. It's pretty damn near what I do now for my dinner. When I lived in DC, I got used to a place called "Let's Dish" it's one of those places where you prepare your meals from a list of recipes each month. You then stick them in your freezer for when you need them. Later the 'cooking' is basically just adding heat/sautéing/baking and you have a full meal in 30 minutes or so. It ends up being cheaper for me because even with the overhead of "Let's Dish" they buy their ingredients in bulk and my meals end up being about $3-5 per serving. I'm not careful enough in my meal planning to beat that.

So what do I mean by invert it? Robots in the preparation, humans do the final cooking. The early work such as chopping, slicing, packing, marinating, sorting are the kinds of mindless timeconsuming portions which seem to be right in line with the type of work a robot could do. The final cooking and cleanup requires much more subjective actions which are suited to humans. Thus invert it and you could have robots prepare your meals except for the final steps.

(Personally I love the make and take places because I always know that a meal has 6 servings, will take 30 minutes from freezer to plate, and keeps me from impulse purchases when in the grocery store)

To add to that, I'm frustrated with the generic names for products. I'm sure you realize how frustrating it can be to troubleshoot issues via search when the product names are: "Google Play Music", "Google Books", "Google Play Store", "Google Voice", "Google Photos"...

It bothers me when I hear of regulatory organizations "investigating" to determine if a law has been broken. If the agency directly responsible for the enforcement of a law cannot immediately decide if an action is illegal how can anyone reasonably expect a regular citizen to know if they are breaking the law?

Oh your doctor's office might not be doing it directly, but whatever service they signed up with to manage their data sure as hell is.

For me I like the precision when dealing with fevers. You have 6-7 degrees between healthy and ER.