Muhammad used beheading to great effect. Google Banu Qurayza

ISIS are in fact faithfully following the 7th-century teachings of Muhammad. Those who sugar-coat things by claiming it's "anti-Islam" are simply deluding themselves.

No, Islam is fundamentally different from other religions. It's a fascist ideology whose goal is world domination; read any of the Islamic writings to see Islams attitude towards non-Muslims. This fascist ideology is cloaked in religion in order to call those who criticize it bigoted.

I don't believe that killing terrorist breeds terrorism. Eventually, even the dumbest of the dumb will realize that it doesn't pay.

In the short term, the only effective answer to ISIS is to kill them.

The universe is plenty big enough. 2^64 is about 1.8x10^19 and there are around 10^59 atoms in just one average-sized star. That leaves 5.5x10^39 atoms per bit. That's a lot of atoms; a lot more than a trillion kilograms, in fact.

The universe is really, really big..

Come on, everyone! Camp out and pay $600+ for a device that's gonna cost much less a few months later! Be L337!

From: Apple Monitoring Service
To: Apple Customer
Subject: Alert

We have detected unusual accelerometer activity in your iWatch. We believe you are left-handed and were visiting some porn sites.

Sincerely,

Evil Apple Overlords.

Regulation's goal is not to stop stupidity. It's to reduce harm. If you think seatbelt laws, automobile safety regulations, etc. have not reduced harm, then you're living in a fantasy world.

Tell that to all the babies in the United States who were not disfigured by Thalidomide because of the courageous actions of the US regulator. There were some, but it could have been much, much worse.

Cell phone use (talking and texting) has skyrocketed over the last decade. The accident rates have not risen in correlation with it.

Wrong. Accidents caused by distracted driving have increased dramatically. For example, see here:

"In 2013, distracted driving fatalities surpassed both impaired and speed related fatalities in fatal motor vehicle collisions investigated by the OPP. A total of 78 persons died in distracted driving related collisions compared to 57 impaired driving deaths and 44 speed related deaths last year.

So you react to my post with ad hominem attacks rather than refuting what I stated. As a "weak-minded idiot" and "easily-led child", I deal with people like you by ignoring them until they contribute something useful to the discussion.

Since the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cell phones impair drivers as much as over-the-limit blood alcohol does, the penalties for cell-phone-distracted driving should be as severe as for drunk driving, and we also need a campaign to stigmatize it the way drunk driving has been.

I've shopped at our local Home Depot, but here in Canada everything's been chip-and-PIN for quite some time. So... am I at risk? It's not clear from the news media whether or not the chip-and-PIN system has protected me from this breach.

I'm Canadian and I'm completely fed up with Can-Con rules here. CBC Radio is pretty decent, but CBC TV is crap. If Canadian TV producers wanted Canadians to watch Canadian shows, here's an idea: Try making good shows once in a while.

(Funnily enough, my favourite TV channel is... TVO (TV Ontario), which is funded in part by the Ontario government, and which produces excellent kids' shows and great adults' shows like The Agenda. But for the most part, Canadian shows are crap, apart from documentaries and a few comedy shows, and the shows produced by private broadcasters are usually much worse than the ones produced by public broadcasters.)

Our DSL is not particularly unreliable. However, our servers are spectacularly reliable. They run Linux on decent hardware and we almost never have a server failure. Our most common cause of a server failure over the last 10 years has been power failures long enough for the UPS to decide we'd better shut down.

The fact that a well-managed cloud service is multiply-redundant is of little consolation if your crappy DSL line goes down for 6 hours and your salespeople cannot access the CRM tool.

What's more likely to happen: the loss of access to Amazon cloud services/internet, or a local box getting cacked

Unequivocally for us: Loss of Internet access happens far more often than a server failure.