GeorgeRichard

Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past, present and future communications. But I have no idea what protocols there are for such things, I'm just going off common sense, a notoriously sketchy starting point in the crazy world of the current US administration.

>>decorum and professionalism Yes, the hallmark of the Trump administration.

Surely it can only calculate its current position, calculating its future positions would seem to require a divination machine.

This is great fun--and accurate. My lettuce floated just like the picture I drew when I tested it in the bath.

Yes, the article does seem a little sketchy:

> Even by the standards of 1914, Russia was a backward country. Most of its citizens were serfs, often tied to the land they worked, like serfs in the Middle Ages.

Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861, more than 50 years before the start of the First World War.

> NUCLEAR WEAPONS laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases.

Because mass murder is their specialty...

This is a world that I have no knowledge of so I expect my comment is commensurately naive, but it does remind me of the days when I was an avid race-goer. If I bet on a horse to win that's all I wanted it to do; if the horse and jockey expended all their effort and won, fantastic, if they lost, better luck next time. Slow and steady may win the race in some circumstances but it's not the tactic most punters are hoping for. The analogy would be more complete if the loosing horses were sent to the knacker's yard and their stable hands all dismissed with only the trainers living to try, try, try again.

Fair enough, I must remember to wake up properly and think before I type. I suppose it was the lack of a preposition that threw me. The jibe about the quality of their journalism was gratuitous nonsense and which I regret and apologise for.

This is the second time that I have notice a title change in HN where the original article has "The Man..." or "The Woman..." changed in the HN title to "A Man..." or "A Woman...". Why is this done?

I don't know anything about facial recognition software so I'm probably underestimating the difficulty of alerting the system and it's operators to the interesting possibility of giraffes and zebras wandering around the urban environment.

> propelling you to a flood of potentials

I've been looking for this for a long time, the exquisite, electric pleasure of bathing in a flood of potentials...