Why will you have nice accomodations? Do you own a company that either builds or can rely on robots? I don't, so I expect to live in squalor when robots can do 90% of all jobs. Of course, there will be a violent revolution once 90% of us are living in squalor, but we'll be fighting against an army of corporate killbots, so I don't see it going well.

If by "pipe dream" you mean computers were synthesizing speech five years before Star Trek came out, then sure.

"after that initial result, all further appeals cost the parent to prevent helicopter parents from abusing the system."

I think you meant to say, "to allow only wealthy parents to abuse the system."

I deal, on a daily basis, with people who are using hotspots and cellphone connections as their primary connections. Netflix, Hulu, torrents, all cramming their way through some poor little Android; the laptop, the console, the iPads and iPods all feasting on its misery. I think the speeds currently being offered just shouldn't be available. I don't think "4G" is a product whose time has actually come, and telling people it exists results in them using it as if it were a real connection. Don't ban FaceTime, just sell people the awful connection you can actually afford to sell them... The one that sucks too much to use FaceTime.

Seriously. "Abnormal"? I don't think I'm doing it wrong. At least, I've never gotten any complaints... *rimshot*

On the other hand, my circumcised penis has been greeted with relief by a partner who found the natural look repulsive.

It's like the white male of penis states... it isn't "superior", but it can be advantageous.

I've heard they don't use anaesthetic for some strange baby-physiology-based reason, and that horrifies me. I don't know if I could bring myself to have it done to a son; but I'm glad it was done to me.

As a test of speech rights, I'd say that anything that could conceivably slide in song lyrics should slide even when it isn't lyrics.

So while you can generally encourage people to shoot the police either in song or text, you can't use either medium to say, "I'm going to kill Officer Joe Blow," and expect to be left alone. Nor can you say, "Officer Joe Blow leaves home at 5am. Shoot him as he pulls out of his driveway."

Can I credit you with The Count of Monte Cristo?

But it's exactly like having twenty police officers on every single street corner hand writing voluminous logs of every plate they see, along with the current date and time.

Since that could be done without warrant, this is obviously perfectly fine, and not even worth thinking about.

I think they agreed to commend efforts to promote and enhance public safety and consumer awareness on the proper bonding of yellow corrugated stainless steel tubing.

I mean, it's not like they're just dicking around over there.

I assume Kinect2 will be 720p, or at least 640x480 in the depth buffer. I didn't actually count the dots, but the image in the article looks like it's 320x240. Unless Kinect2's sole improvement is higher framerates (including or achieved with onboard processing, perhaps), this looks like the same old thing. At most, it looks like someone is rendering the output of a normal Kinect with their only special bit of test software or something. It's really just an incredibly unremarkable image.

I don't think he's saying we should give up on reducing that number. I think he's saying it may technically have been avoidable in that case. It's not meant to be dismissive. It's meant to be food for thought.

OnLive has been "coming to" iOS for like two years now. They've had pictures of iPads floating around their site for ages, and I think there's an E3 video of someone using it. What have they actually produced? OnLive Viewer. So you am watch strangers play a game that you can't play.

It's an impressive service, but they should probably keep their eye on the ball and get it onto popular systems that have the important benefit of actually existing.

Yes, please.

Is there some reason this shouldn't go in the DocType? I'm terrible at writing valid HTML, so that's a genuine question.

Partisan gridlock is not the problem parties would like us to believe it is. On abortion, or gay marriage, or taxes sure. But they're always ready to work, hand in hand, to re-authorize the Patriot Act, throw money at the middle east, or commend efforts to promote and enhance public safety on the need for yellow corrugated stainless steel tubing bonding.