I don't disagree with you on any particular point. However, who do you suppose we trust to decide what is a software implemented weapon and what is not? Of course there are very clear black and white examples, but the in between is where we should be concerned. Consider the USA stance on export of encryption as a historical example of where it can go terribly wrong.
Emissions of CO2 on its own does not necessarily imply that there is a carbon footprint.
Besides the carbon footprint of transporting food, the food we consume is carbon neutral since the carbon in the food comes from the atmosphere. Therefore the CO2 gas we expel is mostly carbon neutral.
Cars are a different story since their carbon originates from ancient reserves(oil and coal) that has long since been removed from the carbon cycle. This carbon is now reintroduced to the carbon cycle, thus leading to a positive carbon footprint.
Put differently, if our food we eat consisted of carbon extracted from oil or coal, then we would be adding CO2 to the current carbon cycle, thus leading to a positive carbon footprint. However this is not true.
I don't see them claiming to have found the missing link.
In any regard, biologists are unlikely to use the term 'missing link' since it implies evolution is discontinuous, which is a common mistake the layman makes.
Although not this particular face recognition. I managed to fool face recognition passwords in the past with a simple photograph of the person. As you would expect it works perfectly fine.
Most world class athletes are already genetically superior by the measure of athleticism. Even though these favourable mutations or inherited traits have not been engineered, they still exist and it does enhance the athlete's performance.
This seems relevant to your questions. Among other things, it discusses which crops are best suited for salinated soil as well as improving conditions for crops in salinated soil using potasium fertilisers. Also relevant to your question, it discusses desalination strategies.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5871e/x5871e04.htm
The Linux Documentation Project has this to say about flushing of buffer cache: "In traditional UNIX systems, there is a program called update running in the background which does a sync every 30 seconds, so it is usually not necessary to use sync. Linux has an additional daemon, bdflush, which does a more imperfect sync more frequently to avoid the sudden freeze due to heavy disk I/O that sync sometimes causes."
Ah is see. Although I would not put it past people to protest nuclear fusion, it would be strange indeed, since nuclear fusion does not produce the same kind of radioactive waste(shorter half-life) as alternative nuclear technologies.
By just looking at the title and before reading the article, I though they meant that they are checking for illegal strings that are illegal to transmit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number