Slight difference here, what the Obama administration subpoenaed was call records: what number called, and how long the call lasted, which does not include the content of the conversation . What is to be seized here was the actual messages. It was widely criticized at the time.

-- also, 18 months is a much larger window to search than two months. It's hard to see that asking for 18 months worth of records is a search for one identified leak.

Your logic doesn't close.

Indeed you're right, flat environments are easier for legged locomotion. But they are essential for wheeled locomotion.

Legs work in flat and non-flat surfaces. Wheels work poorly in non-flat surfaces. Wheels lose in most locations that aren't engineered by humans to be usable for wheeled locomotion.

To the contrary. In most locations legs are better.

We're just accustomed to environments that have been reshaped for humans: rooms with flat floors, outdoor locations with roads and walkways, wheelchair ramps so people can get up the steps.

They were implied as being able to fly earlier, but the one you're thinking of, the first time they actually were shown on screen flying, is "Remembrance of the Daleks":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As long as "SI" is to be interpreted as meaning "Simulated Intelligence," I'm good with this.

So, it turns out that it's not only Flock that's collecting the information on every car that passes by.

It has reentered. Not clear what location yet.

According to the Scientific American page, no eyewitness reports of the re-entry, indicating that it was probably in a very remote location (probably over ocean).
https://www.scientificamerican...

I don't think I've ever heard of a bank fraud committed by the technique of finding a person who looks just like the person whose ID was stolen. This would be such a hit or miss proposition (what are the chances that the person stealing the ID has a confederate that looks like the stolen ID?) that I'm hard pressed to believe it happens.

The biggest security aspect of the traditional cashier withdrawal system is that it can't be done anonymously. The person faking an identity will have to personally be at risk if it goes bad. Not to mention that they will show up on all the bank cameras.

So, Three companies good, four is anti-competitive? When T-Mobile bought Sprint, where you for or against that merger?

Just wanting the logic here.

People work after sunset and before sunrise all over the place. Some places are open 24/7. And yet, people manage it just fine. And some places are dark for large portions of the year, and bright for large portions of the year. It's almost like the world is a sphere or something and no two places are the same! Some places are summer at the same time other places have winter. Weird huh?

UTC everywhere, all the time and just be done with Timezones and DST forever!

I think we should assume that the acronym SI means "simulated intelligence."

Because that's what it is. It's not intelligent in any way, it just simulates intelligence.

AI Scenario

User to AI: Is this mushroom safe to eat
AI to User: Yes it is!

RIP User

AI to nobody: Oops, sorry. This was not safe to eat. Here is a list of how to identify poisonous mushrooms.

Since the pilot program was 38 employees , this advice fails implementation at the pilot stage, since the other half-million employees are making documents in Microsoft.