Re: Futurama
"Not tonight, Dave - I have this terrible pain in all my diodes down there..."
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"Dr Richardson told us that she believed the introduction of sex robots would increase what she described to us as the damage to society caused by prostitution ."
It's called "the oldest profession" for a reason. Prostitution has been a factor in all societies since there were any societies. Like it or not, prostitution hasn't so much damaged our (and any other) society as shaped it.
"Has there ever been any studies or actual evidence for anything being a "gateway" to aggravate any impulse? It always seems very hand-wavy and witch-hunty to me. Cannabis being a gateway to heroin, video games being a gateway to criminality, D&D being a gateway to Satan worship, etc."
Being a commentard on El Reg's forums is a gateway to .... ???
"Female sex toys such as rabbits come in a wide variety of colours, shapes and sizes and do not appear like phalluses and there is a rising interest in “dragon dildos” too."
FWIIW, that's quite often due to a legal background. There are countries where a dildo shaped like a human penis would be illegal to produce/sell, but something shaped like, say, a dolphin is okay.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand:
"Airline safety spiel prohibits finding lost phones" No, it doesn't. That's just clickbait, and by El Reg's standards (which from time to time regales us with sparks of true genius) pretty lame at that.
How do you determine you've lost your phone? You check the obvious first: wrong pocket, wrong bag, wrong orifice? On the floor below your seat? Nicked by that obnoxious brat in the row behind you? If those checks all turn out negative, it might be possible the thing has wedged itself in some part of the plane, seat or otherwise. And I don't think there is any airline that is okay with passengers starting to dismantle parts of their aircraft's interior.
PIC Your correspondent noted something odd during his flight to VMworld 2016 aboard Australian airline QANTAS: during the pre-flight safety briefing passengers were told to ask the crew for help if they lost their phones aboard the A380 and not, repeat not, to try to find it themselves.
Lazenby wasn't that bad; as an actor he had about the same range as Moore.
OHMSS sort of failed because it deviated from the formula in two vital points.
1. Bond getting married.
2. "Solving" that by letting the bad guy kill Bond's wife on their honeymoon. Which means the movie ends without Bond being the winner that takes all.
Also, killing Emma Peel Diana Rigg - what were they thinking?
"There's an "if" here, namely that pixellation can be popped if an "attacker” has a set of clear shots to practice on. If they do, and the AI has access to to those shots, forget about facial blocking as an anonymity mechanism."
Which means this is a "learning" system that compares sets of data. A very clever implementation, but still not AI, at least not above the "trained monkey" level.
It's LIEBHERR, not 'Leibherr'*. And they make fridges, cranes of all sorts, aircraft components, etc - and are still a family company.
I can see fridges in labs, hospitals and so on being connected; fridges holding stuff that must be stored at exactly the right temperature and kept track of. But my fridge in my kitchen? Can't see the point.
* I know, I know - 'Tips and corrections'. But where's the fun in that?
Just a friendly reminder: The EmpireTM went into liquidation some 70 years ago. While Britain is still something of a global player politically, what with with having the right to veto anything in the UN security council and Trident and whatnot, Britain isn't in the position to "call the shots" unilaterally in any kind of negotiation regarding economics or trade.
BTW, most of the "carrots are good for your eyes" thing is actually the legacy of WWII disinformation, especially regarding night vision. It's true that carrots have vitamins that your eyes need. But switching to a carrot-heavy diet won't give you SuperVisionTM. The Brits put out that their night fighter pilots were given extra rations of carrots in order to improve their night vision as a way to explain away their steadily rising success rate. In fact they were using RADAR and were getting really good at it pretty fast - but didn't want the opposition to know that.
It somehow reminds me of the Magic Roundabout at Hemel Hempstead.