You wouldn’t believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that have unlimited access to the hardware. I remembe...
What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable moment.
This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as...
They’ll like it even less if I hear any words from them, I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer.
There’s an unexpected lull in the traffic about two-thirds of the way to Darmstadt, and I make the mistake of breathing a sigh of relief. The respite is short-lived. One moment I’m driving along a see...
There isn’t very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn’t get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.
There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don’t know it’s there until it’s gone away.
The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors.
Summer in England THOSE WORDS ARE SUPPOSED TO CONJURE UP HALCYON SUNNY afternoons; the smell of new-mown hay, little old ladies on bicycles pedaling past the village green on their way to the church...
Sorry, I should have warned you. Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So...
Some invasions barely warrant the name.
Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind of thing do you think I’d bother with you? Her question takes him by surprise, rattling...
Olga noticed Mirium looking at her blankly. 'Don't you pray?' she asked.'Pray?' Mirium shook her head. 'I don't understand - ''Prayers! Oh, yes, I forgot. Didn't dear Roland say that on the other side...
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Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I’ll be waiting with a shotgun.
It’s not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we’ll need a way of defending it against legal threats. That’s what Gianni pointed out to me . . .
It felt like going commando in a miniskirt on a Saturday night in town, even after Jim sent an email to ensure that there’d be a shiny new Samsung waiting for me in DC. Not knowing I could check my te...
I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.
I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don’t think I’ve ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom—off-limits if I value my life.
Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner. For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born into an infinite, hostile universe and destined from birth to be nothing more than fodder f...