I am all for automating stuff that can help you while driving, but what is the point of a driver-less car? If it is for safety, I don't see it working. What does the car do when it doesn't know what to do? Just stop? - that might be the worst choice. You would have to change the road infrastructure completely, and at that point it would probably be safer to not allow human drivers.

To the questions of suicide or putting down your dog: NOW. DO IT NOW. You will most assuredly put the rest of the world at ease.

What does Gnome not do that you want it to?

People always complain about this, but what are these awesome features I should be using that Gnome won't allow? I'd honestly love to know, 'cuz there must be all kinds of great workflow-enhancing, appearance-improving shit out there that I just don't know about and that Gnome won't permit me to use.

The only time I've run in to this was the spatial folder view crap, but that was trivial to turn off even then and IIRC they saw the light very soon after and made it a checkbox in an options dialogue.

Browser             OS                              Version Tested        Javascript Benchmark  Acid3 Result  Flash
-------             --                              --------------        --------------------  ------------  -----
Skyfire             Windows Mobile and Symbian S60  1.1.0.12052 on WinMo  14,659 ms              52/100        Yes
Opera Mobile        Windows Mobile and Symbian S60  9.7 beta              40,249.20 ms          100/100        No
Fennec              Windows Mobile or Maemo         1.0a3 on WinMo        11,391.20 ms           93/100        No
Safari              iPhone                          OS version 3.1.2      15,499.20 ms          100/100        No
Internet Explorer   Windows Mobile                  7                     74,537.60 ms            5/100        Yes
BlackBerry browser  BlackBerry                      OS version 4.6.1.199  Did not finish         13/100        No

[Skyfire]: Uses server to render pages. Web sites looked accurate but heavily compressed. Flash videos jerky, out of sync and will not open in full screen.
[Opera Mobile]: Can easily open multiple pages and switch between them.
[Fennec] (a.k.a Firefox Mobile): Slick interface. Fastest at loading complex pages. Clearly a pre-release product.
[Safari]: Multiple pages won't load simultaneously. User interface is serene and easy to use.
[Internet Explorer]: Slowest overall browser. Handled Flash the best of those tested. Flash videos can be opened full screen but become jerky and out of sync.
[BlackBerry browser]: Browser doesn't come close to a full Web experience. Slowest at loading complex pages.

I already read this in a short story...

Tomb robbers will break into my cryogenic storage facility, see the pretty lights, and break the machinery.

My semiaware body, badly in need of intensive care after having been hauled out of my cryo-capsule after an incomplete revivification sequence, will be shoved aside while the neobarbarians rip out the pretty wires as their Just Rewards for their efforts.

if you think that is an appropriate response to a fucking movie about a half-assed myth, then by all means, do the world a favor

That's a very interesting point. If you look at how various countries have developed nuclear power, most went for plutonium-burning breeder reactors. The cold war superpowers, the UK, France and Israel all went with fast breeder reactors for "research" purposes. Only later did commercial thermal reactors for power generation come online.

Nowadays with the IAEA keeping an eye on things, any developing country pretty much has to target a traditional HEU-burning thermal reactor design.