Posts by TeeCee

This could be a discrimination issue!

If he can prove that someone with a vivid imagination and a couple of coconut shells has been allowed to use the same train, he could sue.....

Creepy facial recognition.

"some company is going to cross that line."

Yeah, probably yours as soon as the advertisers work out how it can be used to sell shit to sheep.

NEW!!11!!! Facial recognition. Now available without Evil.......

Thermal tile inspection.

Hmm, just suppose that this had revealed that they were cacked.

As this is the last shuttle, what was Plan B if it couldn't go back? "Hello? Is that Baikonur taxis? Can we book three Soyuz from the ISS to Florida please?"

Live coverage.

Hmm, one of the lads in the control room just picked his nose.

Exciting stuff this.

This a Major Security Breach.

Entirely different to anything else that you may have seen recently related to Sony described by scaremongering hacks as a "Major Security Breach" and waaaaay more serious, so you can all forget about the other one now.

Please.

We Really Mean It.

OK?

Er......WHAT?

"...left-turn lane - detected using the GPS system combined with a camera that looks out for appropriate on-road lane markers..."

"...a safety feature, BMW said, essential if the driver is not turning left...."

Or, they could have just linked it to the indicator stalk. That way it would; a) both work when turning left on the continent and right in England, b) not slam the anchors on just 'cos you didn't blip the throttle when prompted, c) not depend on having bang up-to-date GPS maps at its disposal and d) not fuck up catastrophically due to lane closure / contraflow / other temporary road change.

Sometimes the overly complex technological solution is the wrong one and trying to build something that can second-guess whether or not the driver is / is not intending to turn just seems like one such to me.

Save yourself 10 bucks.

Presumably, by definition, there are no Customs officers in heaven.

Therefore, when taken by the rapture, just stick your cat under your pullover and smuggle it in!

May I be the first to say:

What a plank!

'....which may have been used to carry "subliminal messages".'

I take my hat off to the CIA lad who came up with *that* one to justify him and his mates sitting in a dark room watching the whole lot on Company time.....

Sheer genius. Wish I'd thought of it.

200 percent trade-in increase?

200 percent of what?

I wasn't aware of vast numbers of pre-loved PS3s knocking around (if there were, the secondhand price would be rather lower), so I guess that this moves the number from "perishingly close to bugger all" to "the odd few".

Rather interestingly, I noted last night on nipping out to buy a sub for the kids that XBOX live suddenly got a lot cheaper. Bog-loads of 12 month subs on the shelves at the new rate with a wodge of Live points now thrown in to boot. A dearth of 3 month ones though, probably not even worth the cost of stocking 'em. Now I'd hate to accuse MS of kicking a man while he's down, but.........

Oo looky!

The Sinclair C5 is all growed up now.

Collective noun for redheads?

That'll be "target".......

350 quid?

For a bloody web browser appliance? Someone's having a giraffe.

An extra 50 quid to make it actually usable on the move (the usual reason for the form factor)? They're going for the full bloody herd here.......

"To them, it just looks like black magic...."

MEEOW!! That should serve nicely to get the debate level down to flaming insults being chucked about amidst a flurry of handbags.

Popcorn please. Seconds out. Round 2.

Wikileaks?

Has a draconian NDA with massive penalties for leaking information publicly?

Is Assange after the Nobel Prize for Irony now?

Winning the Open Source category.

"Middleware? JBoss. Database? MySQL. Web content management? Acquia/Drupal. And so on."

Given the author's background it might be amusing to append: "Linux? Red Hat." to that little lot.

But then, as we know, all generalisations are wrong.......

"This picture was taken with an iPhone also."

You don't say. Blurry, rotten depth-of field, lopsided (presumably due to some "what you see is not quite what you get" effect), colour balance all over the shop and a pointilliste effect throughout.

I thought that the current crop of iPhone cams were *supposed* to be capable of taking an acceptable picture? That makes a 35mm placcy-lensed disposable look like a bloody Hasselblad.

Just sometimes these shiny-toy-obsessed dweeb shops should admit the limitations of shiny-toy tech and use the right tool for the job.

Hmm, something not right.

Why didn't you roll all the Banks "Culture" novels in as one entry? There are a few others in there that are series of books rather than specific titles of the series.

Should I vote for the Apples or the Pears here?

"pharmacueticals"

That's a snooker player's stash of nose candy. Right?

"...remove links to files that the Chinese government said should be taken offline."

There's a bit of a leap from there to "illegal downloads" as we understand the term.

They may just be having a go over the evil, seditious crap (e.g. some of the things carefully crossed out of Bob Dylan's playlist by the censors over there recently) that's found its way to the attention of the lumpen proletariat, courtesy of careless search engines.

That was my first thought when I saw: "We are aware that songs require approval....." anyway.