Oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1216/

... very, very frightening me

Sorry. I'll get my coat ..

Damned sects maniac ...

I stand corrected - I clicked through on the first article link and not the second. If this is actually true it might bring the XB One back onto the list of potential purchases.

Unfortunately you have erred on the side of the user and interpreted the "Won't Require Kinect To Function" to be "I can disconnect it" instead of "We'll say it's mostly disabled in software except for the IR scanning part". I present to you this gem from TFA:

You have the ability to completely turn the sensor off in your settings. When in this mode, the sensor is not collecting any information. Any functionality that relies on voice, video, gesture, or more won't work. We still support using it for IR blasting in this mode. (emphasis mine)

Here you go:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/adrianth/ices96/paper.html

I first read about this in a Pratchett book - one of the Science of Discworld ones but never looked it up further.

Dammit - on the one day I don't have mod points ...

Good Sir, to whom should I address the invoice for the replacement of a coffee damaged keyboard and monitor?

Something like this perhaps?
http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html

Here's a link to a youtube version which starts about the time it gets launched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fg_JcKSHUtQ#t=126s

I was thinking more along the lines of Dr Who - 2x04 The Girl in the Fireplace.
Doctor: "What's happened to the crew? Where are they?"
Ship: "We did not have the parts,"
Doctor: "There should have been over fifty people on your ship! Where did they go?"
Ship: "We did not have the parts."
Doctor: "Fifty people don't just disappear! Where... oh... You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew..."

Or, to play devil's advocate, knowing he was going to kill Martin, he called the cops to help pre-establish his innocence in the upcoming murder

I remember that bollocks. I had an awesome minidisc player but the software that came with it was crippled and the way around it was to install Real Player which didn't enforce that 3 checkout rule *shudder*. I think that was the point where I decided I wanted nothing more from Sony.

You're both right. Sow is a female pig. Sow is also the act of planting seeds.

If I'm in a hurry and blow through a stop sign on purpose I get a fine. If I'm distracted by the guy behind me tailgating and blow through a stop sign and kill someone I'm up for manslaughter. My illegal activity, not stopping at the sign, is identical.

In the second one it is still your actions that cause manslaughter as a secondary offense, hence the differing results.

Yet, if you went on "a crusade against bad music" it doesn't mean you plan to murder Justin Bieber.

I respectfully submit in that case that you are doing it wrong.