Carpet cleaning robots need lots of smarts to navigate around obstacles. And putting all that computing power on every one is expensive, especially when they’re only being used part of the time! With fast networking, there’s a great solution – outsource the heavy thinking to the cloud. Unless David Cameron has his way banning encryption, or we make it too easy for law enforcement and spies to access the servers:

But a camera-equipped networked robot that free-ranges around your home is a fucking disaster if it isn’t secure.

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The media are all getting excited about the tax Amazon will pay now that they’re recording UK sales in the UK. Except they’re forgetting that corporation tax is paid on profit, not revenue. And Amazon barely makes a profit…

It’s the profitable companies that we need to get paying more tax in the UK! Apple, Starbucks and Google. But maybe this will put more pressure on them.

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