Accordingly, the Patriot Act transformed NSLs from a rarity into a routine tool.
"To have this as a routine tool strikes me as pretty chilling," said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of law and computer science at Harvard University.
A report this year by a National Science Foundation panel, "Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure," called for new financing of $1 billion a year to make grid-style computing a routine tool of research.
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While President George W. Bush oversaw the beginning of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of missiles fired from drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, Mr. Obama has expanded their use beyond Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia and made them a routine tool of counterterrorism.
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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a routine tool to determine the diffusion coefficient.
Groundwater flow models have become almost a routine tool of the practicing hydrologist.
Quantum chemical methods have become a routine tool for studying molecular systems.
SuperMC is still in its evolution process toward a general and routine tool for the simulation of nuclear systems.
High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) has become a routine tool for determining the structure of materials at an atomic scale [4].
