The issue with this is that you are only looking at firearm death's.

First, there are close to 2.2million guns in private ownership in Australia.

The numbers you should look at are overall crime rates. Something that I cant seem to find a number on. Guns in private hands reduce overall crime, not deaths by firearm or just violent crime. From the Armed lady that stops a rape to the armed grandma that stops a robbery, all crime is effected.

There was an article a couple of years ago on /. about a company that would launch something the size of a coke can for $300.

I think there should be an open source project to design a satellite that is the size of a coke can. Could be fun, maybe some arduino's, a few solar cells, maybe a miniature ion engine that runs on a CO2 canister from a pellet gun. It could be a lot of fun to see just how much you can fit inside a coke can.

Hay, I was. I downloaded the code posted to usenet and installed Slackware 0.99b

There are a few of us old farts still around! We remember when Microsoft still produced a stable OS called DOS. lol

Commodore 64 had GEOS in 1986

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

So Apple and Commodore beat them to the punch. lol

Hmm I dont own a ford, The Edison light-bulb has been replaced by CFL's, and I quit using Microsoft back in 1995.

You have to love progress!

Wow, I still have a copy of Minix 1.5, full reference manual and the 5.25" floppies it came on. Minix was a Great OS, even on the XT's.

Windows phones and Tablets are less than 3% of the market. Why even develop for such a small market share?

Android (Which is linux) has 51% of the phone market and 61% of the tablet market.

It's not the year of the Windows Phone or Tablet, just like it is not the year of the linux desktop. :P

Ill agree with this, I am using a $9 keyboard that I have had for 7 years.

It is so well used that the following keys have no letter on them, they have rubbed off over the years.

sdfghlcnmertyo'"~123456-= (Caps Lock is now "ps lock") (Backspace is now just "Ba ")

I really don't think an expensive top of the line keyboard is needed. Grab you a cheap on that feels good to you and use it.

How the hell do you connect an "Unmodified" original NES to the network? They did not even have network capabilities.

He is making noise about common carriers that are refusing to move is product based on it's potential to produce a weapon.

If they are common carriers they are not able to deny service based on a political view. That is like an ISP trying to block all republican sites on the Internet because they are owned by democrats. Which I can now say because the FCC has applied common carrier status to ISP's and called it "Net Neutrality" lol

The guy posts a good comment and you pick on his use of the word "to"

Heres your video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes, but the ITAR laws prohibit it.

You should know by now that the Constitution is just a piece of paper that no one pays attention to.

Is this the year of the Windows phone?

You mean like companies looking for 10 years experience in Windows 2012 or 10 years experience in RHEL 7?

Will it be the year Microsoft takes the smart phone market from Android (aka:Linux)?

This is starting to sound a lot like the year of the Linux desktop.