We seem to be averaging fatalities in the dozens each year from shooting rampages, and the trend seems to be towards bigger and bigger numbers. While this would only put a dent in overall gun related homicides, it would put a dent, and a dent on the order of a few dozen lives each year seems worthwhile to me,…

It's what they did in Australia in the 90s.

Also, the Pearl MS shooting was not "thwarted" by the assistant principal. After the shooter had killed two people and wounded 11 others he left the school and was driving away when he lost control of the car. At that point the assistant principal approached the stopped car and detained him using his .45

You do know that we know that nobody died in that mass stabbing in China, so it is a perfect example of the benefits of gun control? Are you just counting on people not being able to do basic reasoning?

Since when is the fact that you can't fix everything a reason to fix nothing?

Of course nothing will completely eliminate gun homicides. But I am pretty confident that the right set of law would significantly reduce the fatalities in these regularly recurring shooting rampages that have become fact of life in America (look at the graph). And to me that is worth doing.

Me too. When iOS 6 came out I made the decision to wait to upgrade until a Google Maps app became available (and crossed my fingers it would). I installed the app the day it came out, did some checks to make sure it was usable, and then upgraded to iOS 6.

Absolutely. Actually, I can't wait. Read some of the articles and books on how complication and death rates fall dramatically when doctors have to use checklists, and you can't help but wish for robotic like consistency in how medical care is delivered.

But you have to be inside the network to do a brute force attack? Which means you have already compromised the network?

I donate every year around this time. For me Wikipedia is among the top ten reasons the Internet is worthwhile.

Stupid question, but don't the hackers need to somehow acquire a copy of the master password file from the computer they are attacking in order to do a brute force attempt to decrypt the passwords? And don't they need like an admin password to get a copy of that password file in the first place? And if they have an…

If the worm makes relatively minor changes to financial databases, rather than deleting them, then it could become a real nightmare to untangle even if the bank has good backups.

We have millions of people out of work, so I think it should be possible to put some person hours into this project without taking away from anything else.

I think I need to go file a patent.

And then the Chinese will use drones and/or satellites to see if any of its subs are being followed by a US trimaran drone, and if they spot a trimaran drone they will have their own drone ship trail our drone ship and blare Chinese pop songs with underwater speakers to make it impossible to track any subs.

I was reading this and thinking it sounded awfully familiar. It is pretty much the same as what they were saying about the X-30 "Orient Express" project back in the mid-80s when I was just out of college.

Based on my experience with doctors, I would gladly take 95% odds of being pleased with the experience.

For me using reviews to help select a product or vendor has nothing to do with trust. It's just plain old probability. If 95% had a positive experience, then the odds are I will too. If only 50% felt good about the experience, then there is a decent chance I may be disappointed. If many people say the doctor kept them…

Really, where is Racoon Lady? I noticed last time they used her they put a black bar over her eyes.

iCab Mobile, Reeder, Netflix, NY Times, New Yorker, Starmap HD, GoSkyWatch, RadMap (weather radar), Gaia GPS (offline maps, including topo maps), Rowmote Pro, Remote, Simplenote, Huffington Post, GasBuddy, Observatory. For me the iPad serves as a bunch of different gadgets that just happen to have the same form factor.