Come to Baltimore and try that.

Code generators, syntax highlighting, then on to integrated refactoring tools, things like Intellisense.... I give software engineers 15 years.

WTF does that even mean? It is useless speculating about what is unknown or is fiction.

That said, if they were arriving through more conventional means, we would simply see them: some mode of optical detection such as star occultation, sunlight glints, drive flares, and eventually just flat out seeing them via telescope (assuming we were looking).

Also we could hear them: energy discharge from drives, EM transmissions... assuming they communicate as we do.

So far as I know there are no deep space facing military radars - I once worked at the Maui Space Surveillance Site in Hawaii: basically the place is an Air Force observatory with awesome optical trackers and some laser tracking facilities. No massive radars pointing at Alpha Centauri.

Maybe we would get lucking with some ballistic missile early warning radars... but they would be fairly close in at that point.

I would willing to bet against that theory.

It is true, my post isn't shit.

and can not produce a decent web page to save my life.

I see what you did there.

Because PKI is more of a specialization, not a fundamental.

At least that has been my experience with fitness tracker apps.

But they do seem to work fine otherwise.

I have those speakers. The sound from them is so much "warmer" than from modern offerings.

If that was NASA stuff, it most certainly is US Government property. Good luck getting *any* government to act reasonably.

Interesting that "Starting a War" does not appear in that section.

That would make it all the more sweet.

Screw that. 15 years hard labor.

Increased rating/ad revenue. It is all about the profits.

The fact that terrorists exploit this to pass along their message - the media really does not seem to care about.