What if this was planned by Apple all along, and this is how they "prove" to the FBI, NSA, and everybody else that it's a bad idea? What if they left some hints for these hackers?

I don't think Steve Jobs had that kind of devious mind (I could be wrong), but Tim Cook ... now there's a guy who hasn't got Steve Jobs persona but wants to leave his mark, and maybe this is the kind of subterfuge he'd pull.

Thanks for the name. Looked him up on Wikipedia, and ....
"He strongly felt that people working on the programme (notably Williams, script editor Douglas Adams and star Tom Baker) had stopped taking the show seriously: it was parodying science fiction, rather than presenting serious storylines. He also believed that Williams had allowed Baker too much influence on the show's direction, rather than confronting Baker over his increasingly comedic acting style. Nathan-Turner, together with new script editor Christopher H. Bidmead, decided Baker's creative influence needed to be reined in."
Yep, that's the new guy I hated so much.

Goes on to say he was the last producer for the first series. Gosh, I wonder why it got canceled when he was so proud of taking all the fun out.

I sort of want to agree with you, but I gave up on this most recent Doctor after, I think, the second DVD from Netflix; the first was atrocious, I kept opening a book while the shows were playing, and hoped the second DVD would be better. It wasn't. Plot holes, logic holes, and the way-too-woke nonsense (Guns are filthy, it's so much honorable to kill en mass; oh he's just having a bad day and is not really horrible).

I haven't watched one since. So I sort of feel like I have no right to write down my opinion, or agree with yours. But I will anyway :-)

Not the actor's fault. This was down to the producer / writers / somebody in charge. I felt the same way when Tom Baker's last season was handled by a new guy, who bragged about taking all the fun out of it, no more of that! this is a serious show! And bragged about making Tom Baker wear makeup, IIRC. But this one is much worse.

A different verb would help: engender dissent. Hence a diffuse but pernicious impact. But YES the focus on spelling, grammar, and punctuation is just class marker or snide stuff. Just because you know what a semicolon is and use it doesnâ(TM)t make you smarter. ;;;;;;;;;;; See? :)

Youâ(TM)re making several assumptions here.

I think the theorists got lucky on this one. My boss used to say, every once in a while the blind squirrel finds a nut. We were surprised by the truth because we lacked evidence, and so did the theorists. Conspiracy theories by definition aren't based on verifiable facts. It's easy to speculate a 1,000 things; hitting the target once is chance and doesn't prove the 999 of chemtrails etc. Also, the existence of a surveillance program was not a big stretch of the imagination based on what the gov't did in the past, but the extent was amazing. So, sure, don't dismiss theories out of hand, but do hold them at arm's length if they lack proof.

You can't safely generalize too much about what the law is. The law and legal theory vary from place to place. But generally...

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Sure it's fun to digress, but remember nothing someone else did or didn't do some other time forgives or even relates to the alleged misconduct of Minsky.

You win on concise :)

I'm surprised no one immediately questions a price of $880 for 440 MB - is Canada really that expensive, or is this a gotcha? - or the incredible unlikelihood that the customer would want to run up such disproportionate charges. Verizon knows what they are doing and that they profit enormously from confusion among consumers. My first argument would be the renter was entitled to think that renewal of the agreement meant renewal of the same agreement -- but even if not that the charges would be kept in the realm of sanity. There's some serious gouging going on here.

This is a misleading myth. Doesn't it seem a little odd that nature is doing better "than it has ever been"? Do you think it's the healthful effects of radiation or the elimination wildlife's #1 enemy, humans? Yes, in a weird way it is like an irradiated garden of eden.

"No ill effects" is also false.

Really, it's a question of money. As the article makes clear, nuclear is on life support not so much because of much-maligned activists and benighted citizens, but because like coal it can't compete in the market. Nuclear already benefits from a long history of billions of dollars in subsidies including tax credits and exemption from liability and the vague notion that the government will take up any extraordinary costs (which can be considerable -- the Fukushima cleanup decade is currently projected to last decades and cost over $200b...whatever the utility absorbs will surely come around to haunt tax/rate payers).

At most article seems to srgue for extending the life of some reactors, presumably with subsidies ro competsate for competition from much cheaper solar, wind, and gas -- note that 2 out of 3 are already carbon friendly. So the choice is whather to shore up old tech or pour on the carbon-free gas (ha) for the next generation. Building new reactors is a non-starter: it can't be done fast enough and reactors have a long history f cost overruns and delays. This is all without mentioning that, yes, there are unique safety concerns with nuclear.

And maybe more importantly, if it disagrees with the humans, can we figure out why? This is a problem with a lot of machine learning applications, but there aren't many where understanding the decision-making process is more vital than it is here.

Moore to the point, Moore's law was an observation of a natural trend. This is the opposite, typical of so much legislation.

Moore's law is like having a speedometer needle showing the speed, or a thermometer showing the temperature. Legislation which tries to change society pretends changing the observation will change reality: move the needle to slow down or speed up; move the pointer to raise or lower the temperature. In reality, you need an entirely different device to do that.

"So let it be written, so let it be done" sounds good in movies, but it don't do squat in real life except muck things up.

"like most non-partisans"...like most rational people actually...thanks for the hackery.