slashdot users use facebook?

Or,:

"In 10 plus years, we are going to have a half-baked approach to what we thought was the future more than 10 years ago and now realize _was_ the future! Dang!!"

Look at Google's hiring criteria. Gee, They don't do well with social media? But the IQs are enormous! Hire based on social skills if you want to do social media.

It is worse than that. If a music script says "improvise", or a sci-fi script says "technobabble", one can do anything, using creativity, deliberation, whatever and however. All the rover is doing is operating according to pre-defined algorithms -- defined by the programmers. There is nothing "autonomous" about it.

Sure, right. Because Wikileaks has also given us equivalent info on Russian espionage.

Wait, they haven't? What's going on here?

Really, how much does a comma cost? The Oxford comma is not only the more simple rule, it is unambiguous.

Now if you think about it, this could be an unnecessary comma for some folks, or in some situations where it is really not needed. But in information theory, redundancy is a plus--it avoids common errors. For example, in common English text, a period (or other end-marker like a question mark) ends a sentence, an extra space may follow, and a capital letter begins the new sentence. Three indicators that say -- OK, sentence ending, new one beginning. Very useful practically, because it reduces parsing time.

Why should they, if the U.S. does not?

Or perhaps you confuse "indict" with "immediately convict"?

Certainly if U.S. citizens, say employees of the CIA, engage in economic espionage of say, China's Baidu, why on earth wouldn't they file whatever legal claims they can? And I think they should.

Elon is all out of ideas, begs 5th grader to do his job for him

Yeah, what's it been? A month?

China -- were we spying on you with this tool? Show the world -- show us the software and hardware spy tools you have found.
U.S. -- innocent drone? Show the world -- show us the software and hardware tools on our innocent drone-- certainly this should be transparent?

It did serve a purpose. A long time ago. Now it unnecessarily makes some citizen's votes more powerful than others.

Exactly. Prepare for Vlad the Poisoner's October surprise.

Maybe there is no real tablet market. Only an Apple gadget market.

Warning, the above tinyurl in the posters sig sends you to http://www.tkqlhce.com/ a site banned by the hosts file I get from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/ .

Say what you will about nuclear weapons but they are probably the only reason that humanity hasn't fought World War III yet.

But you wouldn't be writing about it if we had.

nope.