Electric cars could eliminate noise pollution. What did our bright lawmaker mavens did? Legislate it so electric cars must play artificial noise, because someone might be jaywalking with a nose in their smartphone.

So I'd expect 50 years of the equivalent of having a person walk before the car waving a red flag before we can enjoy the benefits of new technologies.

Wine: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on POSIX+X.
WinXP/Vista/7/8: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on NT.

Neither is native in this sense.

And how much is that in degrees? :p

It's a FTP client! If you use passwords there, you're doing it wrong.

It's an ancient protocol that sends logins and passwords over the network in plain text, and you're concerned with storing them on your disk unencrypted?

Well, he already has the crown.

"keep cookies until you close your browser" means you can't elect to keep a cookie. I for one don't want to type in my Slashdot login every time, yet I don't want to allow 95% of sites to set permanent cookies. In Firefox, you can do it (clunkily) even with no extensions, or comfortably (defaulting to session cookies) with Cookie Monster.

Chrome has no equivalent for this functionality, with or without extensions.

"apt-cache show chromium-browser|grep ^Architecture:" says "amd64" for me.

Mod: +1 Hopeful.

16:10??? That's still crap! Why won't you get a proper 16:12 one? Narrow strips are bad in landscape, but if you try to put them in portrait they in turn are so narrow they're useless again.

Just compare screen aspect ratio to paper sizes -- designed for ergonomy rather than Hollywood execs' wishes:
16:9 1.77
16:10 1.60
16:12 1.33
A3/A4 1.41
letter 1.29

1920x1080 2x2 means you get an useless aspect ratio. A pair of 16x18 displays is nice, no matter how many 16x9 is utterly pointless for any use other than watching bad movies.

He doesn't deserve clemency, yeah. For clemency, you first need to do something wrong.

Except that in this case the answer is 100% "yes, duh".

Medal of Honor is for Bradley Manning.

It hasn't advanced a bit since 15 years ago when IBM advertised ViaVoice. Unless you're the person a particular speech recognition tool was tailored for or someone with almost identical speech, all you get is nonsense poetry that vaguely resembles the rhythm and rhyme of what you said.

That's for selected contrived tests. For real-life cases, you get far less, like that 7% figure, or for quite a few test cases even 0%.