It is from onerous to impossible, this kind of exhaustive search...not to mention forays into probably unconstitutional invasions of privacy. For every tourist who wants to enter the US?!?

Seems to me it is going to be SELECTIVE. This orange-hued administration will have it as one more weapon in its arsenal, trotting it out and applying it to those it chooses.

...I stick to my before-2013 Porsche

"...you insensitive Claude"

Oh, I'm so ready to hire an attorney who does not read what he files!

> an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.

I make $3000 a day but a $4 increase in my daily costs created pressure.

At Caltech we had developed an amazingly fast (femtoseconds!) Write-Only Memory.

The few times I leave my Linux machines and have to use Windows, it is always Windows 7. No 8, no 10, no 11. Sorry M$, count me among the losses. It was the least bad version of Windows, and a paradise compared to current versions with all kinds of telemetry, spying, ads and bloatware.

McCulloch-Pitts and Stephen Cole Kleene have entered the chat.

(Motivation for regular expressions)

I underestimated innovation!

"--DID YOU SAY A BILLION??"

"--Yes, I said a billion..."

"--Whew! For a moment there, I thought you said a million"

...somewhere in my basement. Is it coming back too? Should I fish it out?

#nostalgia_aint_what_it_used_to_be

...when, PACE Turing, you won't be able to tell apart an AI "friend" from a human friend.

Used Skype a lot, right from the start. Happy with it. Then MS bought it...and I promptly uninstalled it. I knew they were going to screw it up.

...is what I'm using right now to post this. It is kinda slow in booting, and responding, but considering the >7 windows it is a win. Of course I have Linux machines available for real work! :)