Posts by eLeft

Lester Haines: RIP

RIP

Perhaps LOHAN should deliver a small portion of his ashes into orbit, so he could continue to smile down on us?

Palestinian Facebook flaw-finder getting $10,000 payday in online appeal

Facebook should double whatever the on-line collection makes!

100 million self-driving cars will be sold globally in 2035 – report

I would have thought comparing the black boxes of the cars involved would I identify the cause whether it be user error, manufacturing error, third party error or just "bad luck". There will always be a need for insurance but based on car reliability not age, shoe size etc

Any non-automated vehicle should be retro fitted with warning lights and squawk box to let the "intelligent" road users there is a Muppet behind the wheel. Picture the Ferrari with the flashing tit on top!

Ahoy! Google asks US gov't to help sink patent 'privateers'

The Little Guy

Any patent reform needs to take into account the interests of the little guy; the lone mad inventor, the small start-up and not just big business.

It needs to to do this via increasing the focus of patents and by effectively nationalising patent portfolios such that a patent become a nation's intellectual property with the licence money minus admin costs paid to the patent filer. Since all patents are held at a national level the little guy will not incur excessive legal bill protecting his IP, and nations will benefit from increased innovation,and be the gate holders against stupid broad patents.

Thus more beer for the little guy!

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

The only cigarette advertising still allowed

As I understand it the only advertising allowed to the cigarette companies is the packet and how it is displayed. These companies often provide the shelving, and use their "salesmen" to monitor all outlets to ensure their own products are prominently displayed and stocked correctly. This information is then fed back to HQ via IT.

Ensuring all packets are the same mundane colour with writing in the same font would destroy this form of advertising. Then sell them from below counter so customer does not know what is available unless they ask. Then mandate all product are the same colour so they can be differentiated by the consumer.

Finally ban the lobbying of all tobacco products in Westminster.