One little-loved sector, seen by some as the next dangerous dot-com fad, was social networking.
Applying the herbicide manually is also expensive since heavily armed police patrols must escort eradicators in dangerous areas dotted with land mines and dominated by criminal gangs.
After all, just as Georgia shook off an exaggerated reputation as a post-Soviet backwater overrun with gangsters, it now must erase its image as a dangerous war zone dotted with Russian tanks.
At certain stages of the tide, the waters are dotted with dangerous eddies, with strange upward domings, or with sinister pits.
"One silence had led to another, and eventually the silences became the life preservers dotting the dangerous ocean between them," Linda says of one of the secrets held fast by the novel's richly drawn characters.
Nightlife in Korea looks like a seedy and dangerous affair in the new 8-Bit "dot animated" music video for Seoul hip-hop duo XXX.
Eastern Europe is dotted with storage ponds containing dangerous industrial waste, many of them leftovers from Communist-era factories that no longer function.
Still, to use Hernandez and the nature of his charges to bolster an argument that the Patriots have lost their way is a dangerous stretch, a tenuous connecting of the dots.
There are still around 75,000 of the older DOT-111s on the rails transporting dangerous cargoes across the continent, he says.
Many economists have questioned whether the Fed's deliberate approach to tightening monetary policy, from exceptionally low rates in the aftermath of the dot-com bust in 2000, allowed a dangerous housing bubble to develop.
Mr Ponsot has affixed a thermal dot to his label that changes colour irreversibly when exposed to dangerous temperatures.
