Remember how graphene was first made? There's even a YouTube video on it now! Ban this dangerous sticky tape and pencils before terrorists get their hooks - I mean hands - on them!

What's the point of making a rugged system that can survive all that and then putting Windows on it?

Don't forget the 20% Pay-As-You-Spend as well (aka VAT), and the £2-per week tax on stupidity, aka the Lottery.

The prediction fail with that watch is the idea that you need any form of input. These days, phones, tablets, and smartwatches are purely consumption devices, designed to pump content into your brain, force you to watch ads, and take money from your pocket. At least, that's what the big corporations want. How many futurists saw that coming?

Is Free Speech so important to the USA that you can't relinquish it to a 12"x4" piece of metal on your cars?

US plates have always amused me. In the UK car number plates are highly regulated. They have to use a particular typeface, be a specific size, have a yellow background for the rear plate, white on the front, made from certain reflective materials etc. You can't even adjust the letter spacing to make words. If your car is "M35 EXY" you can't change it to "M3 5EXY". There is a market for custom codes but most of these are historic plates that have been transferred from old vehicles and are
more likely to be interesting than codes in the current scheme (I saw a Rolls Royce with plate "BR 2" - my initials - recently).

You've get several hundred square feet to plaster the rest of your car body with messages, so why so precious about your plates?

Hmm April 1st has a long tail this year...

Next year I'm not going to believe anything until the middle of May.

$23 for a side view mirror? Bargain! Some of these things are integrated into the door panels, with controls into the interior and embedded turn signal lights, and cost hundreds to replace. Plus installation.

Meanwhile I smash my side mirrors with impunity, since Land Rover door mirrors are £8 each and fix on with a wrench and a screwdriver.

Wow the union situation in the USA is so screwed up compared to us lefty commies in the UK. Can you seriously stop your workers getting together and discussing their wages and conditions? Appointing a spokesperson to come and ask you for an extra two minutes toilet break every day? Would you just fire the lot of them and re-hire?

But crudely put, employment law is there to try and bring the dicks up to the level of the good guys, rather than bring the good guys down to the level of the dicks. So if you're not a dick, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

You sound like you think you own your employees and consider them your private property. Didn't you guys have a war to stop that a couple of hundred years ago?

Which is why in civilised countries we have unions and employment law. If I have a grievance like she did with my employer, I go to my union, I don't resign. They understand employment law, contract law, case law, and I have a right to a union rep at meetings with management. Why resign? Does she have a legal case for suing the company? Because I know that's how you leftpondians prefer to do it.

I think you just described the OpenGeo suite from Boundless except with less Java because enterprisey.

Another idea would be something based on Django with the GeoDjango functionality, a simple model for location with picture and whatever other attributes you want in your model, and job almost done. Buy some hosting and run it, or plug an Rpi into your home network and punch a line through your router.

The headline is that the prediction was overestimating three times in the past three years. So what?

Google's Flu Trend plots don't have uncertainties on them, so they'll never be exactly right. So they either have to be overestimates or underestimates. In any three years, you are going to get at least *two* under or over estimates. So post-hoc, saying "ZOMG! There's three overestimates in three years!! #EPICFAIL LOL!" isn't very meaningful.

Until Big Data People understand statistical uncertainty and are happy to put prediction confidence intervals on their data, this will keep happening. However, prediction confidence intervals are an admission of uncertainty, and uncertainty is weakness, right? And we won't have any of that in our corporate Big Data strategy document. Mr Statistician, you're fired, we're hiring some more Big Data Scientists.

You don't know they're dead. They could be halfway up a mountain deciding who to eat first.

Friend of mine was one of the 16,000 complaints. I think the gist of his argument was that if you read the weather wrong in London, you'll get wet walking between the bus stop and your house because you didn't take an umbrella. If you read the weather wrong in the Highlands of Scotland, you die.

So are those "No copyright in this it is a fair use" messages I see on youtube not legally enforceable? I mean, I'm only listening to this whole album for criticism... Sheesh! Whoodathunkit.