No.Not in comparable, developped countries (E, Canada, Australia...=

I went to the 2 WaPo ones. Abstracts:
1- "The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world and the highest per capita rate of firearm-related murders of all developed countries."
2- "America sees far more gun violence than countries in Europe, and Canada, India and Australia" (rates of firearm death are 5 to 500x higher in the US than in EU/Canada/Austramia...)

I guess it's not that important, it's only human lives. As long as the gun lobby keep cashing in ....

1- links ? It's always interesting to check the accuracy of such claims, and the minutiae and funding of the studies
2- restrictions prohibition; Australia did prohibition, and it works. Maybe you don't care about kids and bystanders getting killed, but I do.

Or yours, according to the Australian example: "the firearm homicide rate fell by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate fell by 65 percent, in the decade after the law was introduced, without a parallel increase in non-firearm homicides and suicides. That provides strong circumstantial evidence for the law's effectiveness."

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/02/did-gun-control-work-in-australia/

Facts can be sooooo irritating.

Yep. let's wait until we fix the all world before tackling the very specific problem that guns are available in general, to any nut in particular, and guns kill people.

Oh my. I remember Better of Ted's "the good news is: our security system is NOT racist, because it doesn't see blacks" episode, but never had an inkling it was based in reality.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/better-off-ted-racial-sensitivity,71599/

I'm still wondering what I'd want to go back to carrying a watch for. Alarms and notifications seems kind of not enough for the trouble, and I really can't imagine what else a piddly screen can be used for. As a headset it'll seem weird (the hand ! the hand ! talk to the hand !) and they'd need beam-forming for my conversations to be private... but maybe that will get accepted ? I keep hoping someone will come up with something compelling, but so far...

I'm guessing the same thing happened at previous olympics, only the gov did not brag about it ?

Ubuntu seem to be trying to go for mainstream with easier/better looking UI and tools - but they feel unfinished, actually buggy and not feature-complete; at the cost of pissing off the historical Linux community by going their own way on a lot of topics seeming to distance themselves from and piss on the community and the mainstream projects. I'm wondering who's left ? They also seem to be spreading themselves very thin. Could we have an nice, finished, desktop OS, instead of half-baked / pipe-dream stage phone, tablet, ...

It's an exception, where your own local station acts as a server. For brodcast media, it's pointed at.

Not at all. ChromeCast is a very different beast than miracast/ariwhatever....: the content is *not* streamed from the master to the slave, but *pointed at and handed off*. The slave then directly connects to the server, the master then can even be switched off with no consequences.

I've racked my brain trying to dream up a smartwatch I'd want, couldn't really hack it. Maybe Apple will come up with something nice.Or maybe they'll come up with something shiny, magical and overpriced

At least he didn't kill anybody else.

shockinger that Google haven't come up with an ad supported product for those cranes. Especially since I've been told they are already in the cloud ?

I'm gonna hit the little red cross now, and NOT shift+ctrl+t it back.