Hang on a minute:

Gameplay responsiveness, sure, but... graphical quality? If I was testing a system like this, I'd be asking about that as a way to identify people who were just agreeing it was better because they thought it was what I wanted to hear. Graphical quality should not be affected by how quickly the streamed game can respond. There's something fishy about this.

I came here to say the same thing. The entire point of proper, fully autonomous vehicles is to take the idiocy of individual drivers out of the equation. Switch seats as much as you want, you aren't the one driving.

Well, he "took the bait" and got a 5: Informative for it. So... zing?

Well, yeah. Ethical discussions (indeed, many discussions) are often all about semantics. Semantics matter.

You probably already know this, but for the sake of everyone else; while many theoretical situations have ways to "take a third option", this is arguing the metaphor rather than addressing the dilemma. The idea here is to put forth an ethical dilemma between letting many people die through inaction, or taking an action that saves them but killed a few others. The details of the people on each side can be relevant, but the mechanics of how each side would die (and possible specific other ways the situation could be resolved) is not.

Well, just for fun; answers, no links.

This story says it's from the "sounds like Mint works for you" department, and I think that's your answer. If you're going to have to look after them, then it makes sense to go with what you're most familiar with, especially as Mint shouldn't be too alien to XP users.

Aaand, that wasn't meant to be none-AC, but whatever, I suppose it clears up the issue!

...Yeah, no, I'm not Tom. If I was, I probably wouldn't be asking you to tell everyone why I'm wrong, would I?

So. Plain answers. No random links. Go.

I'm more interested in this part:

People no longer have to ask permission to quote from or parody the work of others, such as a news report or a book, as long as it’s “fair dealing” and the source is recognized.

As a Brit who does indeed already back up my media, yeah, it's cool that that's moving from "illegal but unenforceable and unenforced" to "legal", but finally getting proper Fair Use laws? That's major. With the increasing use of digital media as primary, disc ripping is on the decline anyway, while home-grown content creation and mixing is definitely on the rise. That will have a much larger effect on more people, now and moving forwards.

So just to check; Windows is like malware because it's badly coded, but it's also unlike malware because it's badly coded.

I love Slashdot.

You may think I accidentally copied your joke*. The truth is we made the same joke twice, in quick succession, to get through background noise.

*(despite specifically looking through the replies to see if someone had already done it before I posted... how did I miss this?)

I think it's clear the article summary was sending out two versions of the same sentence one after another to cut through background noise.

Good catch, thanks for that!