How this rock acquired omniscience and why its voice is exactly like Ms Sobel's remain unclear.

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Omniscience is especially hard to achieve in a dynamic industry undergoing rapid change, such as information technology.

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This omniscience comes at a price: its resolution is only 250 metres, so it does not pick up smaller clearings.

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Short of true omniscience, in any arms control agreement involving closed, totalitarian societies, there is always some degree of verification uncertainty.

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And in your omniscience you showed me all the results of those 14 million that you thought were the most relevant.

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Its implication, added to the well advertised fact that the best resolution of satellite photography could theoretically read license plates, gives the impression of omniscience.

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This is a much more plausible reason as to why the stock market is a leading indicator for the economy, as opposed to some form of investor omniscience.

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Lesson four is that phenomenally rich people disagree all the time, which means that in those instances half of them must be wrong despite the seeming omniscience conferred by all those billions.

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But we get no explanation from the Gray Lady, and despite its usual omniscience, it primly and disingenuously quotes both the claims of those who are convinced of the Iranians' ill intentions and Iranian government denials.

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