I'm not sure if the parent's post qualifies as a Tu Quoque fallacy or as a personal attack.

and it does seem incredible that we put the technology into small mobile phones without ever thinking of the consequences

I'd look at it the other way - I don't think there is anything unethical in terms of consequences of people taking photos of themselves. What's incredible is that people support laws, without realising of the consequences in a world where cameras are so commonly available and used these days, including among teenagers. The problem is the laws, not the technology.

I suspect there is a digital divide. For older people, the whole idea of filming or photographic yourself sexually just seems bizarre. Digital cameras are relatively recent, and many people would have been sexually active during a time when video cameras weren't available (or affordable). When criticising the UK's "extreme" porn law, which criminalises images of consenting adults, one of the attitudes I came across from supporters of the law, when I raised the issue of people taking private photos of their own acts, was "Why would you want to do that?"

Yet now we don't just have digital cameras, we have mobile phones which make cameras ubiquitous - it's one thing to say let's get the camera, but a phone camera is just there. Of course teenagers are going to be using them sexually, and that's going to stay as they become older - who knows, perhaps in a few decades' time, we might at least get more sensible views of censorship and laws that criminalise possession?

We dug him up quite a while ago when we were trying to find Jimmy Hoffa's body. Now that we're no long contenders in the 'Find Jimmy Pool' we let him roam free. Our bad, sorry about that.

It's hardly a bother, I had no idea how to answer his question (as I'm sure most readers don't). Instead, I was interested in the answers.

Even if I went through the Google I'd still want to ask Slashdot and the expertise here.

Parent is totally inaccurate. Windows supports OpenGL fine.
The issue is that Microsoft usually ships Windows with subpar distributions of graphics drivers for 3D support in general(not just OpenGL) compared to actual vendor drivers in terms of feature support beyond what you need to use basic Windows programs. Probably in some attempt to provide marginally more stable drivers historically under the assumption most users wouldn't need anything more than basic API support and everyone else would have their apps somehow manage to install/warn them to get a better driver package. This doesn't really work for WebGL, however.
Google could just have their installer get you to update your GPU driver, but overall this is probably a cleaner solution for long term support since you have about +/- 10 year support expectations for Direct3D on a GPU in a way that is far better tested than OpenGL for "last years model".

Steam on MAC is going to be very big.

Record the content, gather the raw materials, create the physical CD using equipment, and put the content onto it.

Divide by the number of CDs sold to find out the cost of a CD.

Divide by the number of CDs expected to sell and multiply by a reasonable profit factor to find a reasonable retail price of a CD.

Most (as in, more than half, with some estimates going up to 90%, but I don't think I've seen any that said less than 60%) Americans do have adequate health care. Usually from their employers. Can that be improved? Of course. A lot. But is it really "hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more?" That statistic could drop to 50%, 40%, 30%, etc. That would be worse, wouldn't it?

Yes I realize this. I was more trying to say that I am horribly biased on this one part of the issue. The only real way for that part to get through is for it to be viable either through insurance (how the bill is now) or through a single payer system (how I would prefer it). Anything else results in what you have already said.

Say it as you like, the fact of the matter is that not the EU but MS themselves came up with the browser ballot screen and they implemented it before the EU's investigation reached any conclusions, nor did the EU do any suggestions towards Microsoft on how to handle this situation.

... the mandatory requirement to purchase a product.

I have wondered in times past what would drive me to drop out. I think this is it. I shall not be forced under pain of fine and imprisonment to purchase another's private product. No. Enough.

Worse still than this bill's moral absurdity is the precedent it sets. There are legal scholars now who promote the idea of mandatory tort liability insurance for everone ([1]). No doubt they would be pleased to see this camel's nose lifting the tent's edge.

Mandatory medical insurance or go to prison? The irony is too rich.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=844210

I can't exactly recall, but wasn't there an article or two on Slashdot a while back about how perhaps it was better to allow known terrorist network sites to continue to operate, rather than to shut them down and have us not know where the terrorists communicate anymore?

I spent $700 on an IPS panel monitor a few years ago and am an avid gamer. Anantech, after constant complaints about input lag from many readers, began testing it in their monitor reviews. My monitor scored around a 50ms input lag.

That 50ms forced me to buy another monitor. My clicks lost accuracy in RTS games, my aim was off in FPS games, and I could see the delay when watching movies (lip movement didn't match voices). I bought a TN panel monitor of the same size and have them next to each other now, and only use the IPS panel for surfing and image editing. You can drag a window from the TN panel to the IPS panel and see it rubber band due to the delay.

I suspect that 133ms will make a majority of games that require fine accuracy unplayable from my experience with the above.

If forcing insurance to pay for preexisting conditions is theft, allowing an insurance company to arbitrarily raise rates to cover inefficiencies is graft. Our current system is not a free market system. I'll tell you the secret of creating a real capitalist health care system: require doctors and hospitals to publish their fees and compete on value and pricing. Till then, you've got a collusive system that removes consumer power.

Interesting, so Christianity isn't a real religion unless people are stoning their children outside the city gates for disobeying them about anything at all. And of course no Christian eats seafood, or wears two different fabrics at the same time, etc, etc. Great that clears it up, thanks!