They should just chip it out of flint, it's more traditional. That said, I am in favour of gun control laws. However nothing will prevent someone intent on breaking the law from just ignoring any law meant to hinder him.

Then turn the pyramids in a rockery, and the Sistine Chapel in a storage room. Sometimes humanity has to do something just so that it has been done. You might argue that climbing mount Everest didn't bring any advantage to humanity, but you don't consider all the research that went into it, and all the spinoffs that end up benefiting you later. Perhaps the techniques that went into building this boat will allow your next car to weight 100kg less, use less fuel (or batteries) and as a return pollute less (yes, electric cars pollute too).

If they use a different system to detonate a bomb (and now they know the cellphones won't work, so it becomes more likely) then it will delay any call for help from the area. Can't they just set up the towers so that a new, unknown, or unregistered foreign number can only make and not receive calls? Then it's a matter of asking people crossing the border to register their number if they want to receive calls, and that makes them more traceable. In any case nothing beats good detective work, most of these "security" measures seem to be just for show, and easily defeated. Why people always seems to think that the bad guys must be stupid? Too many action movies?

Other sources seem to show that children exposed to technology might actually end up learning better than otherwise. http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

"A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found 78% of Android developers were 'very interested' in programming for Android smartphones" I don't know, but I'd expect the near totality of Android developers to be interested in programming for Android, unless I am missing something? Maybe 22% of them are forced to program for it?

All forms of direct solar power usage have a way too small energy density to be currently considered for a commercial plane.

So here's the explanation. I store a small jar of olive oil, with a few dried chillies in it. Capsaicin is soluble in fats, so the oil gets saturated in it. It gets extremely hot, so it must be added to food with a little care. I suppose it could classify as an hot sauce, though I prefer to consider the "Olio Santo" its own condiment. The name is itself a bit of a joke, since it refers to the oil used by the catholic priests for the last sacrements.

What is odd is that it seems Microsoft is following after Canonical in this case. First it was Aero vs Compiz, now this silly "PC OS as tablet OS" thing. Looks like all it takes to give Microsoft the final death blow is to create a popular distribution and then do something incredibly stupid with it, waiting for them to spend enormous resources in copying it.

I think using the pulseaudio network streaming in this case is probably overkill. If the audio does not need to be monitored in realtime you can just record it to a network share with any sort of audio recording software. Even just plain arecord from alsa-utils.

You can presume that a malicious plane will not bother with advertising its position on ADS-B. As a matter of fact it will probably try to be as undetectable as possible to radars or other sensors. So radar coverage will most probably keep on being in place, even if purely for military reasons.

Unless it's a weapon

If all you are interested into is just running the game, it runs fine in Wine. On my machine even Skyrim runs fine in Wine, just marginally slower than when booting in Window XP, and my hardware isn't too recent either.

There goes my retirement plan!

I only use Windows to play games (the ones that can cause some issues under Wine), so it wasn't that big a deal. Anyway, I had avira blocking explorer.exe and cmd.exe from running. Luckily they still ran fine if I logged in as administrator, so I just added them to the list of exceptions, and seems to work properly now. At least good enough for my scope, which is playing games. No big loss, though, Skyrim works perfectly fine in Wine....

Man, in his place I'd probably have said "Well, it's my job"... Unfortunately most people can't seem to recognize sarcasm.