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Yeah I’m not actually talking about the “Please place the item in bagging area” part, I’m talking about the second or two after I place it before the system registers the weight and re-activates the scanner.

Sometimes I’ve seen this disabled, on certain tills at certain supermarkets, and I can scan breezily. Not sure if the weight check feature was disabled completely or what.

You get a discount depending on how you scan.

I would be faster, if the tills didn’t have a bloody delay after placing the item in the bag, before it will scan the next one.

There’s more money to be made keeping it illegal. More risk, more reward.

Most of the UK illegal weed is produced by a monopoly producer. There’s the odd hippy growing their own, but the stuff the most prolific dealers sell all comes from the same source, up and down the country.

Did you give up making clever posts as well?

^{Sorry I couldn’t resist}

All of this is precluded by you using a browser that is authorised and approved by the government.

It doesn’t have to be, but the businesses making it claim it needs to be.

Fuck off with your device based verification system. That’s just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.

Instead of scanning a face or ID and uploading it to a service, we’re expected to run unverified closed source code on the device we carry everywhere in our pockets?!

The researchers are hoping that the tiny cyborg could allow the military to infiltrate hard-to-access space or be used in search and rescue missions to find survivors in natural disasters, according to a research paper.

In other words the researchers are clawing at reasons to justify their research. The Chinese military aren’t looking into this, following commands 9 out of 10 times isn’t reliable enough to even start development.

This is about as strategically useful as a bluetooh controlled robo-roach.