Neil Hopcroft

“When there is the risk of an accident, the system calculates in the blink of an eye the required braking power, which is immediately supplied when the driver applies the brakes. In critical braking situations, the front seatbelts are also tightened as a preventive measure, while the inflatable seat cushions are pumped up and the […]

“The HYPNOTIZE element has a special post-markup-event constraint (it includes the so-called Brainwashing elements, which enable very primitive mind control): “you are liable for any mental damages inflicted by improperly placed tags.” “

“We can disconfirm that expert systems can be made amphibious, highly-available, and linear-time.” More politics – where I stand I know, wouldn’t it be a great publicity stunt if I crucified myself on the “Y” of Hollywood? “One of the organizers of the convoy, Chris Fenner, said the arrests were unfair. He said he didn’t […]

Looks like I’ve found a way to trigger Barclaycards fraud detection mechanism – make lots of small transactions in very disperate places in a short space of time – preferably in another country too, if you can.

Monitor Bridge (thanks ewx) One for Grandi (thanks, I think, to twicezero?) …and a couple of Lego links: Popular social scientists in handy Lego format Life-size Mars rover

Disposal Services Agency – a dangerous place.

Oh, and I’ve been playing with VoIP again, with some help from Grandi. So now I’ve got another number, which will eventually be wired through to my desktop, once I find a VoIP client that’ll accept incoming calls. Until then it probably just sends me emails with voicemail messages in them (assuming it does anything […]