I usually fly out of JFK, but recently I had a flight out of LaGuardia. Imaging a system of bureaucracy designed by Kafka and Terry Gilliam and you'll be close. Every interaction is perfectly honed to create the maximum frustration possible. To top it off, the staff of every business present has become so numb to misery that not a soul gives a f* or will lend the slightest assistance in any way.
I would rather a 2 hour trip to New Jersey to fly out of Newark instead of going to LaGuardia.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Ok fine. The proportions are off. So let's do some guesstimates based on the total energy. According to this http://www.geologyinmotion.com... the 2011 Japan tsumani had somewhere between 31 and 3100 KILOTONS of energy. That's equivalent to the energy in 1 to 100 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. So I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how to power a line of giant squirt guns that deliver the equivalent of between 1-100 Hiroshima nuclear bombs of energy as a directed stream of water.

While you're at it, I think the military might be interested in your nuclear water cannon.

Why don't you try a mythbusters style experiment? Scale everything down. To simulate the tsunami wave, you will go to the beach and find a nice 4 foot wave. To simulate your massive high pressure water pump you will use a squirt gun. Use one of those "monster cannon" squirt guns. Wait for wave. Aim squirt gun. Fire. Record how you totally dissipated the wave's evergy, or not. I'm sure Japan is eager to see your results.

I would first confirm that the visitor is actually a Jehovah's Witness before shooting him.

I predict just before release they will name it "Microsoft Browser", keeping with their habit of trying to co-opt the generic term for a technology but only ending up making it impossible to do keyword searches for their software.

You heard it here first.

Fine. Then go after Google to stop playing drone videos with ads.

The singularity is the point at which we can no longer "see" (predict) future growth or trends, ie: the point at which we lose the ability to make predictions about the future because the A.I.'s have grown and are growing in intelligence faster than we can comprehend. In that way it is similar to a black hole singularity, in that we cannot "see" past the event horizon.

And hope the auditors haven't gotten a compelling visit themselves.

"thousands of years of evolution" doesn't get you much. Different hair color maybe. Natural evolution takes millions of years.

I get the bad feeling that Lee Drake has a problem interrupting people when they are doing other things, has social insensitivity, and has problems with appropriate behavior in an office setting. Oh wait, sorry that's just Slashdot.

The devices under my control (Chromecast and XBMC) will not be routing TCP/IP over their HDMI cables. If they even had that capability (they don't) I would shut it off.

> Ever since Winston Cigarettes the primary objective of television has been to deliver flashing lights and colours in order to captivate viewers.

There is some poetic symmetry that we've come full circle from Winston cigarettes to Winston Smith being watched by his TV.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner.

I have a "smart" LG TV. I didn't plug in the ethernet and I didn't configure my Wi-Fi password. All of my 'Smarts' come from the Chromecast plugin and the XBMC sitting under it. I'm not trusting the TV with a connection to the outside world.

Just another Wednesday at my house.

I once accidentally used a "repeat x until y" loop instead of a "while y begin x end", and I got real-time facial recognition. This was in a checkbook app.