Posts by LaeMing

Re: Incredible (Talking Toilet Paper!!)

Better that than toilet paper that aggressively wants to be used, TalkieToaster-like.

Advertisers would love it, but the people charging them to present the adverts on their behalf would loose out, and they are the ones who have no incentive to offer such a thing.

Unless a 'disruptive player' shows up selling that specific service as an advantage to people. And assuming they can survive the wrath and associated dirty-tactics of the status-quo cabal.

Re: Ethical according to whom?

Tell it to the various Native American nations a few centuries ago!

Why mess with facial recognition at all? Just have a scanner for the mandatory QI ID code tattooed on everyone's tongue.

Re: Rise of the sexbots?

@ Smooth Newt - STOP IT! Or you'll go blind!

Greg didn't wear his safety-glasses. Now he doesn't have to --->

That percentage calculation was using HUGE amounts of power!

Yes, non-smokers are very expensive on the health system too, they just incur the expense a few decades later, often at the same time as drawing on aged-welfare.

There is probably a reason the governments of the world don't outright-ban tobacco.

The "poor motorist" doing 5 or 6 kph over the speed limit is just as much a real criminal as these people. If you either can't control your vehicle or couldn't give a rat's arse about the lives and safety of others then get off the road. And ideally stop stealing oxygen while you are at it.

Re: This country

http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

Re: Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower.

Or your comment in the web cache, even.

The "top" already had plenty of other options. The Pill is just more convenient.

Re: That video . .

He is the leader of the bit of the world who vehemently likes to see itself as the free world.

Re: What confidence?

I must admit, using the term 'cyber world' undermines my confidence quite a bit!

Re: Hey, we have to keep funding the wars...

The US tactic is:

1 - let some other nation develop fusion.

2 - liberate the fusion reactor in the name of freedom.

3 - profit (but only for the 1%)

I read that as...

...profiling and molestation.

Still fits.

Re: Well I for one . . .

You have to fly really close to a star and heat up the cargo hold if you want to get rid of them.

There is Facebook?

Re: Karma

He also clearly wasn't too worried about the company and its employees when he chose to start drunkenly kicking the Uber driver around.

This individual's sole contribution to humanity will be the day he no longer continues consuming limited planetary resources.

Re: Vote with your wallet.

I have some nice 10cm diameter by 40cm long cylindrical (rounded on one end even) toner cartridges here you might like to borrow.

The makers of Red Dwarf's Kryten would agree with you, Pascal, that being the explicit reason his head looks like a novelty condom while an earlier model android in his line looks much more human.

Re: Same old catch phrase

It's what the dumb masses want. The rest of us get encrypted VPNs.

Re: "...Bastards, the lot of them."

Speak softly.

And carry a 23" shifting spanner.

Re: Need I say anything...?

He used the wrong hole. God was in the cubicle on the other side.

Re: Kept going by PS4?

Which might be why AMD is working towards being a supplier of ARM cores too.

It isn't the popular figurehead Hanson per-se, but her shadowy handlers that you really need to worry about.