Last time I checked, Scotland was still part of the UK. We practically invented New Year.

Yup.

I'm the son of a teenage mother and I'm doing just fine, thanks.

As far as is consistent with being someone who posts on Slashdot, that is ...

The spiffy file navigator was fsn. There's an X/OpenGL version called fsv
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
which I still keep around on my Linux box because it's just so darn pretty.

I was scrolling down to see if anyone had beaten me to Alexei Panshin. Drat.

"Rite of Passage" is one of the great science fiction novels. There isn't anything very groundbreaking from the science angle but the characterisation and plot are brilliant.

My teenage daughter assumed that Panshin must be female because his teenage girl protagonist is so believable. Her gradual (partial) transcending of her own cultural blindness is excellently done, and the way Panshin manages to use her as a highly sympathetic POV character from what turns out to be a really quite disturbing culture is done with a lot of subtlety.

Yes indeed:
http://xkcd.com/908/

The population of Japan frequently rioted against the oppressive ruling class. For example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu#Economic_and_social_crisis
and many other examples throughout Japanese history.

Your teacher may have been Japanese, but they can't have known much history...

I think you're probably thinking of Thailand.

Exactly right on mind uploading.

Though possibly those who voted for "mind uploading" have simpler minds than those who didn't, which would therefore present less of a technical challenge ...

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There is a Befunge program for chess which is 1.5KB, and plays legally at least. Proof either of the great ingenuity of the human race or of the fact that some people have way too much time on their hands.

Somebody has to say it ....

I *like* Unity (even though I've been using Ubuntu since Feisty.)

Am I alone? Guys? Guys ....?

A large proportion of the population (5% or so, and by no means limited to one-eyed people) don't have stereopsis, the ability to fuse the slightly different images from two eyes to get a three-D image. For them, all these gimmicks are (even more) worthless.

BTW lacking stereopsis is *not* the same as having no depth perception. The brain interprets many "monocular cues" subconsciously to create a sense of depth (near objects look bigger than distant objects, if you move your head, near things shift more than distant things in your field of vision, etc.) Because of this, most people without stereopsis aren't aware of lacking anything and you need to do fairly complicated tests to pick up the lack. (It's also not an all-or-nothing thing, people may have different degrees of stereopsis.) Stereopsis is really just the icing on the cake of depth perception in real life. That may be part of the reason why attempts at 3D in movies and TV aren't all that impressive, come to think of it, though I'm just guessing there.

[I'm an ophthalmologist.]

It's a myth that doctors take the Hippocratic oath, at least in the UK. Never have done. It explicitly forbids abortion, incidentally.