Lights! They're turning on.

'Unfortunately', we also have a responsibility to ensure the safety of others, not just ourselves. When you drive your car, it's not just your life on the line.

For that very reason, as soon as self-driving cars reach a critical point of safety over normal drivers (perhaps at least 25% lives saved?), it's a GOOD idea to implement it ASAP. I like controlling cars too, but the roads are not for joyrides.

Why can't they all have slice of the liability pie? Not everything is a boolean value.

So THAT'S what OS stands for. Thanks also for linking to an overview on Wikipedia, since I had no idea otherwise! (initially thought DDOS was a type of OS).

There is nothing wrong with a Basic Universal Income, or negative income tax to help offset the coming automation revolution. We can start by offering a small amount (£20 per person, unconditional), and increasing gradually as more jobs are automated.

Excellent point. The 3D-ness of a real piano's sound is surely the main problem when it comes to synthesizing a piano.

Could that 'warmth' simply be emulated by an adjustment of the equalizers? Perhaps an increase the amount of bass or mid-range may get the effect you're looking for.

If so, digital can emulate the older vinyl, but the reverse isn't true.

You must've made an error or reversed the sides.

The difference is that there are people who can eat what they want and stay thin. Leavings things to evolution is often the safer bet.

WebP is much worse. For example, try the 'Clovisfest' picture, and set quality to small, or especially 'tiny'. BPG is so much better it's not even funny.

The difference is substantial - very substantial.

Try the "Pont de Quebec at Night" image making sure "Mozjpeg" is on the left and BPG-x265 on the right.

Then hover your mouse cursor over the image. Everything to the left of the cursor is JPEG, and everything to the right BPG.

Tell me you then can't see a difference.

Many laptops don't have space for two SSDs, and even with a desktop, it's cumbersome to have two drives, instead of everything on one.

And never mind 2TB, 3D SSDs should manage at least 10TB right?

That option seems to be really popular on Slashdot. It's not something I or the majority of the population would gladly accept however.

What a shame that your glorious robots would never get to taste, touch, see, hear, or actually experience anything.

Qualia.

...coming to the rescue yet again.

So if you said "Wow you've got more coffee in that cup that all the lakes in the world combined!", he'd think you were serious?