In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.

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He doesn't have details as to when the OS will reach behind-the-scenes hardware, but he stresses that this is definitely not an open-source project: some parts of the OS will always remain confidential to keep ne'er-do-well terrorists (and governments) from undermining the technology we often take for granted.

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Oh, and we mean that not just figuratively, but literally as well -- they could actually be caused to burst into flames by some ne'er-do-well half-way around the globe.

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