Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

Just to clarify, which CIA are we talking about here?

Best Boy Grip - Canadarm2

As this particular product has been already above and as this thread is mostly about barcode scanners: You can now buy CueCats on Amazon Prime. I understand they can be modded and used in various projects.

" [...] why does Deckard need the slow and unwieldy Voight-Kampff machine to spot a skin-job when replicants can pluck eggs from boiling water and have trademarks built into their skin cells?"

False positives? Because the tests you suggest would amount to torture when performed on an actual human. And hopefully, in the future we won't do that anymore.

"Skin jobs". That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men "niggers".

1 kPa, that's like, what, about 10 Norris?

"They also get unlimited photo and video cloud storage [...]"

Untill the next smart guy comes along and shoves All The Porn^TM on it and "unlimited" is redefined as, say, 2 TB.

Cool.

Nicely done.

Can I just say that I'm looking forward to the upcoming Senate Hearings on Intelligent Transport?

"Yeah, well, for us, it's like the 1990s all over again with 3D GUIs attempting a comeback albeit with more powerful and capable hardware."

1. This.

2. You still look like a dick using it.

3. Whatever happened to all that "cybersex" I was promised 20 years ago?

"Joyce suggested using a "modern cryptographic identifier" [...]"

But, but, but - anything "cryptographic" is bad because terrorists?

Re: time zones

Do NOT feed developers after midnight.

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

".. Aldus PageMaker on early Macs' nine-inch screens ..."

Been there, done that... one 3.5" floppy drive, no HDD... "insert program disk"... "insert data disk"...

Still, a huge improvement over the CP/M & daisywheel-typewriter-as-a-printer combo.

"Also unknown is why Transtelecom put itself in the firing line by doing business with North Korea at such a sensitive time."

I strongly suppose they were asked to do so by the Kremlin. Asked as in tasked.

Somewhat off topic, but an excellent comment on the trailer-is-a-spoiler problem.

Life begins when the children are out of the house and the dog is dead.

"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's new book says the company has its groove back [...] "

Microsoft has/had a groove? When did that happen? And what else weren't we told?

Heh, you can read that as the private sector suing the administration for being efficient.

If you want to find extraterrestrial fast, forget boffins; give it to the telemarketers.

Has any AI system bought a ticket yet, and will be attending?

"In a bid to demonstrate how little he cared about the criticism, Hurd spent the next few minutes pulling up various pieces of research that supported his worldview, which he was at pains to add was “not from the Mark Hurd research department”."

Demonstrating how little you care... you're doing it wrong.

Why

the stock photo of a German Lottoschein, though?

The best way to stun people with iPhones is still to hit them over the head with one.

Please...

do not refer to economists as boffins.

Neither group deserves that.