Moy thinks that a charge-what-you-want market model will motivate benevolent hackers to create a full-fledged hacking arsenal and--if companies buy those exploits in volume--give researchers a significant new revenue stream.
The social messaging platform has been doing a remarkably good job lately of casting itself as the benevolent, human-friendly alternative to scary, all-knowing, all-conquering colossi like Facebook and Google.
It makes you wonder what people like this expect from immigration reform -- a benevolent stew of forgiveness and freebies, or an instant makeover from "illegal immigrant" to "U.S. citizen" with no strings attached?
No wonder: Many of the macro-economic variables are benevolent.
Although it also upholds the consensus principle, it is more top down, with Mr Berners-Lee acting as a benevolent dictator.
Science fiction is rife with intelligent, self-aware computers, from the benevolent "Mike" of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress to the murderous HAL 9000 in Arthur C.
The report compiled by the Teachers Benevolent Fund (TBF) said teachers' health and well-being could be improved by making face-to-face counselling available and offering advice on work, personal, financial and health matters.
The 13-year-old dramatically collapsed onto the floor after she learned she would be heading home -- or into the open arms of benevolent Mr. Hollywood, who is apparently waiting in the wings on line two.
If Mr Gore presses that issue, and finds others that appeal, he may persuade Minnesotans to remember their native liberals: Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Eugene McCarthy, who helped to foster among many Minnesotans their once-deep belief that government was more benevolent than meddlesome.
Inevitably the benevolent creatures inside are smarter, kinder, and wiser than the torch -bearing townspeople calling for their destruction.
But like any good privacy paranoiac, Kilpatrick can easily imagine how the face-tracking software he sells can be used for less benevolent purposes.
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The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.
When a young, dewy-faced Gwyneth Paltrow accepted the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare In Love, the world caught a four-minute glimpse of the Harry Winston Princess Necklace, glistening in time with every benevolent gesture.
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