I trust Fox are honest with their advertisers and are absolutely clear with them on exactly what percentage of the viewers will actually watch the advertising.

But when you have London suggesting context, it could be the Boston closest to London rather than the largest one.

If you talked about going to the Midlands, buying a computer for an arts project, and then mentioned the Mac, it would be a lot less obvious what you were referring to.

Plus, adding extra context information is rarely a bad idea.

I think fraud's a little ore complicated than that. Unless he gained directly from it to the homeowner's detriment it probably isn't.

Being prosecuted for a crime probably doesn't count as detrimental under the law..

Doesn't it typically make half of what you say right?

They're not patenting mathematics. That's not possible. They're patenting applications for the mathematics.

It depends what you're doing. For coarse gestures, it's great. But this seems to allow mouse like precision.

There are techniques. The hands image could just be an application designed with hands in mind and makes an assumption about shape. For hands passing over each other, there are various computer vision techniques that can make good inferences.

Well? Clearly some people would rather pirate than wait. However amoral and impatient you see it, they're not going to stop. They don't have a problem here. HBO has the problem. If HBO wants people to stop they'll need a better tactic than telling people off for not wanting to wait.

Yes. I put it badly. I'll link to Wikipedia's page on the Flynn effect instead

If you had, well....you start to realize how stupid the general public is, and wonder how they managed to not drown looking up at a rainstorm with their mouths open.

That just means they were previously even more stupid.

IQ test certainly seem to be showing a gradual increase, as do other tests correlated to intelligence. The thing is, the really stupid people stand out.