It's a flap (and high-speed aileron). In a 'gentle' ditching, it would have been one of the first things to hit the sea, at over 100mph. I'd be amazed if it wouldn't be one of the first things to be torn off the plane, after the engines.

Hopefully Boeing can work out whether the damage is consistent with ditching or an uncontrolled impact, but I wouldn't make any claims yet myself.

So, basically, it only sends all your stuff to Microsoft if you don't turn off that 'feature'?

Apparently this also applies to driver updates, which have a much greater chance to brick your system, or at least prevent games you played yesterday from running today.

As I understand it, that's because Window 8 and above don't actually shut down, they do some weird partial hibernate thing.

Besides, my Windows 7 box boots in under ten seconds anyway. Most of that is in the BIOS.

Back when I was writing Windows drivers for plugin cards, there were certain motherboards that we'd detect and switch the motherboard bus to the slowest possible speed, because the chipset was a heap of junk that didn't work properly at higher speeds. Anyone who said 'but it works on Windows!' clearly had no idea that it only worked because we'd intentionally turned off most of the features.

Much simpler to not record it in the first place. Given how useless the British cops have become, many people I know there wouldn't even bother reporting a crime to them unless they needed a crime number to make an insurance claim.

Not when I'm wearing my night-vision goggles.

Actually, I was there a few months ago, and the local newspaper said they were turning off a lot of the CCTV in town, but, don't worry, because CCTV hadn't actually reduced crime rates anyway.

Uh, no. Our ancestors 'evolved' from electric car drivers to ICE car drivers, because electric cars sucked.

They'll continue to suck, for most drivers, until there's a dramatic improvement in battery storage and charging.

Except 'cloud gaming' has been tried, and doesn't work. For strategy or point-and-click adventure games, maybe, but for FPS games--which are typically the ones that need the CPU and GPU power--the network lag is simply too high.

The only way to make it work is to have servers local to every subscriber to keep ping times low, and then you've lost all the cost benefits of 'The Cloud!'.

That's great!

Oh, hang on. I don't have a console.

Not to mention the film crew standing behind the camera...