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Another use of interfering with quorum sensing is keeping bacteria docile, even when they've multiplied to levels where they could be threatening to the host.

> Maybe there arose an enormous threat and he was desperate to stop it. Even an existential threat - an actual one like another nation-state pointing world-ending numbers of nuclea…

Obama is Commander-in-Chief of the DoD, which the NSA operates under. Literally speaking, the president /is/ the highest commander of the NSA.

> attitudes about drugs generally don't affect whether an officer will make an arrest (until laws get changed). This is untrue: officers operating under the same set of laws within…

If I had two white characters in a comic strip, with one being a stereotypical "loser" being arrested by the police (let's say in a comical manner, over a single joint) and the oth…

I would guess, much like another respondent, that such behavior was directed at /both/ genders of critics, and not specific to women. Do you have any evidence that this response, i…

> sexism Wait, wait... how did you get sexism out of this particular issue? I'm not saying the dude isn't sexist or an asshole, but all of the characters in the offending strip wer…

> Do you see anyone besides techies and the libertarian fringe talking about eternal and perpetual surveillance? Just last night, I was asked about the leaks by a 50/60ish bus driv…

> They have access to food pantries, soup lines, and other community support. In many places, these resources don't account for all of the demand and have absolutely no chance of m…

US hackers for the NSA have been able to publicly admit to performing offensive cyber actions for years, usually by mentioning they were on the "offense" side of the program when t…

I don't know that this automatically follows: lots of companies produce equipment for other companies to use on making profit in markets they themselves don't work in. It's entirel…

> In practical terms this means that any individual or business hosting having a Facebook profile page or blog on Tumblr could be sued. This just says that they're responsible for …

But they may only use the storage once consent has been given, which can only happen after a warning has been issued. The two clauses seem to indicate that consent must be before s…

Because having to program a hundred DSLs in your super-language is as (or more) annoying as just learning a handful of different languages (and runtimes) in the first place.

> I'd rather see legitimate reasons why removing 20% time is a bad idea for Google's operations. Technology has a viable lifetime before you need new technology. As a technology co…

But if you're trying to stop mass car theft by people simply opening the doors and driving off, taking the keys out and locking the door is pretty effective. Sure, professionals co…

> I see a problem with collecting information without probable cause or a warrant. Though I may not agree with drug laws, I do not see the problem with convicting individuals who a…

You have to remember what we mean by 'size': there are four things in the set {ball, kite, hat, glove} because we can line them up one-to-one with {1, 2, 3, 4}. For an infinite set…

The top comment is even relatively insightful.

I have a tough time taking moralizing about the rule of law from an administration (likely illegally) massively spying on their civilians while firing missiles at cafes from remote…

> I'm not interested in arguing how far the response to 9/11 was from some policy ideal. I'm trying to dispel the notion that as long as "only" a few thousand people are dying annu…

> it's not because Americans are irrational > One thing our society values highly is justice, and that often requires a disproportionately expensive response to an unjust act, and …