Think of the drone strikes! Tin foil is not enough. You need real tin hats.
Put that light out!
In those days, we did not wet our knickers and give up our privacy (much), and carried on regardless with a stiff upper lip.
I don't know what went wrong, but this is just as small part of it. personally, I blame cheap hard disks.
FTFY
Several Prime Ministers have been spied upon as potential Soviet agents - so the answer you are looking for is YES
They are spies - they spy on everyone if they did not spy on everyone, how would they know who to spy on? Should you trust them? If you dont know how to think for yourself, then the answer does not matter.
It used to be because the labour content was exported, but robots are replacing the offshore jobs/manufacturing.
It is time to come up with a new model of who gets what, and why. and how to implement it.
Or Ebola just may do it for us.
3D is a bad idea. It makes your head hurt because you are experiencing the impossible. If it does not make your head hurt, then it is doing you harm.
Please can we have using TLAs without explaining them made a criminal offence.
Well GCHQ and the NSA have unlimited access everywhere. I don't know about anyone else.
For a project starting in 1983, and expected to last 8 months, Basic seemed like a good idea. By 1995, it should have been obvious to everyone that a re-write in ANYTHING ELSE was justified (not that I would personally recommend using Perl to write a Basic interpreter to re-interpret the original Basic code or using Snobol4 to translate the Basic into Fortran).
I could have used C instead - the project would probably have taken a couple of weeks longer, but would have saved countless people years of grief. I have C programs from the 80's that compile on *BSD unchanged, and still work as intended*. It was a toss-up at the time.
My point is that the language choice may be influenced by incorrect information about the external world - because the external world is subject to massive change.
* I had to rewrite some C from the 70's cos they were written for Idris and all in capitals
Yes its true: my lawn is written in Fortran, but my Mum's has an Ibjob border.
Happiness is twin floppies.
