Posts by Thomassmart

Re: Need an independent TPC-Cloud Benchmark

Useful for situations where the cloud provider decision is based on facts, but it rarely is in my experience.

Re: Contacts, anyone?

An alternative approach could be to stop trying to get organic lenses to focus where the shouldn't, and find ways to send data directly to the optic nerve? The visual equivalent of those bone conducting audio devices?

Re: Hear, hear! @werdsmith

"If you illegally sell arms you dont get tried for a list of murders."

Actually that sounds like a pretty good idea, for legal sellers too.

Make creators and sellers of (cyber) weapons at least partially accountable for how they are used. Then they might apply a bit more scrutiny to the people buying them.

Re: General (5 stars) Electric

For pipeline inspections they often use petrol drones that can fly for a few hours, and a canister of petrol is probably easier to carry around than batteries

Re: Potentially a good idea.

b) carrying a pocket knife of any size

Looking at knife crimes in London and other cities I don't think this is a bad law. Also, Singapore is all city, it's not exactly the wild outback where you need a leatherman to survive

c) feeding pigeons

If you had been here during bird flue epidemic you would know why

d) public singing of 'naughty songs'

I've never know it to be enforced, plenty of it happening in the central bar district, and around geylang if you include hokkien songs

e) not flushing the toilet

Never heard of this one, but considering the constant high temperature and number of immigrants that may not be familiar with a toilet, I wouldn't say that's a bad law

f) walking around naked in your own home

Are you aware of how close the apartments are in sg? Mate of mine can see his neighbours going to the toilet in glorious bushy detail.

g) same-sex relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Singapore

This one annoys me and many others, but as far as I'm aware it's never been enforced on 2 consenting adults.

Re: euphemisms for the women now, have we?

Funny coincidence, "mouse" is the Chinese version of our feline euphemism. "Bird" being the male chicken equivalent.

Usually that's related to badly made environments/experiences, not modern hardware

Re: "A clear mandate for destroying the British economy, then."

....and recommended Linux as a better solution, and probably something about bitcoin.