Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis
At least five American men have shot off their penises since 2010.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/yet-another-responsible-gun-owner-shoots

The problem for the "responsible gun owner" is that they have to be responsible every. single. time.
Why not use technology to help with that?

Or do you accept that a certain minimal number of children accidentally killing each other and dudes shooting themselves in the dick is the price we pay for freedom that is arbitrarily unregulated.

It's also an overcomplicated solution. OBD can get pretty nasty if you want access to esoteric stuff or manufacturer proprietary crap; but a basic, bluetooth-capable, OBD dongle that'll report the rough outlines of how a vehicle is being used is quite cheap indeed and not especially complex. I wouldn't necessarily want to try dead-reconing with nothing but that output; but answering "Am I driving right now?" is considerably less demanding.

The pedant in me desperately wants to point out that Spock is half human and feels emotions too.

Liberia is/was classified as a "fragile state," despite being near the bottom of the failed state index.

Cultural issues exacerbated the spread, but the actual problem is the Liberian Government's inability to (or decision not to) mobilize resources and quarantine infected patients or infected areas.

People are already calling for the President's resignation and arguing that the her poor *handling of this plague has pushed Liberia back towards being a failed state.

*and a general inability to create a viable healthcare system during her 9 years in office.

It's not really polite to say so that bluntly; but the difference is that measles deaths are basically optional(1st world anti-vaxxers) or just another bad thing that happens to poor people in poor and unpleasant places. By contrast, Ebola is currently just another bad thing that happens to poor people in poor and unpleasant places; but we've got basically nothing available to do about it if it spreads beyond the usual outbreak sites(yes, unlike the usual outbreak sites, we have limited supplies of high grade medical isolation gear and some interesting experimental drugs; but nobody has enough of the cool tech to deal with an outbreak of nontrivial size, especially if they want their medical and logistical systems to continue handling routine functions and care at the same time).

There are loads of places far less poor and squalid than Liberia and the other oubreak sites; but without any good options on the table it wouldn't take long to run through your supply of isolation wards and fancy positive-pressure protective suits even in the most upmarket first world locations with well regarded research hospitals and such, were the population to be affected.

Was she asleep for, oh, the past quarter century? We've put together a neat little system (really an untidy patchwork of them) such that you can't touch something Turing-complete, drive on a substantial percentage of reasonably major roads, or do just about anything involving commerce without it dropping into the gigantic database somewhere and she's freaking out about somebody's little model airplane with a gopro?

It is the case that there are quite a few values of 'somebody' where worrying might be a good idea; but as a relatively petty footnote to the Orwellian world we've already put into operation. Pretending otherwise is clueless at best and actively dishonest at worst.

Those BLR guys are going out of their way to produce something ridiculous.
You can train recognition software using real language samples and some grammar rules.

Why would you assume that we can't strap these two technologies together?

We've done everything we can in our Active Directory network to overcome roaming profile issues. Even with folder redirection, you have a huge fat ntuser.dat for prone to corruption. Users' home folders on a server, with discrete text-based configuration files would be a dream.

Did you know that in 2014 you still can't safely put risking profiles on a DFS share?

Metro is dying before our very eyes. It has been deemphasized in Windows 8.1 and by Windows 9 will be little more than a fancy start menu.

For chrissakes, most suppliers if enterprise systems I deal with still happily ship you Windows 7 Pro machines, or at least heavily advertised downgrade rights. "Business class" systems still ship with Windows 7 preinstalled. The enterprise customers never bloody wanted Metro to begin with, and so act as if Windows 8/8.1 didn't exist.

OpenLDAP, NFS and home folders on a file server.

Jesus Christ, Microsoft junkies well and truly believe there's no alternatives.

Come again? The theory that it was a meteor impact was actually incorrect until Shoemaker found high-pressure quartz polymorphs? The preponderance of evidence supported it being a meteor impact decades before that, there were no other plausible explanations for the formation that fit the evidence. The discovery of the polymorphs coesite and stishovite provided a unique unambiguous indicator, but in no way was required to demonstrate that the meteor crater explanation was correct. The real significance of the polymorph discovery was to provide reliable indicators for other formations of uncertain origin. The original Shoemaker paper (Science, Vol. 132, p. 220, 1960) makes no claim that it "proved" that Meteor Crater was a meteor crater, the paper assumes that as a known fact.

Who watches TV these days.

Old people.

A cohort of TV viewers die every day and are not replaced by younger ones.

although if it looks really illegal, probable cause can come into play, and its reasonable for it to do so.

they are facts dickweed.

you got better data? bring it on.

the worlds scientists would love to see it.
no one wants to think that we're destroying the world. its not a rational want.
but it is the current reality.

that's not radical.
we could build a smart grid and enough solar to provide for the entire country and cut off all emissions in 5 years (expensive, but doable). that's radical. :P

point is theres lot of options that vary only timetable and cost.

the only thing lacking is political will, and as long as half the country believes scientists are evil money grubbing bastards who lie to "get rich off research funding" it always will be. we cynically say things like "Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy, only to be exposed by a plucky group of oil billionaires", but half the country sees that as reality instead of as a joke.