Someone go dig up history's last Five-Star general, Supreme Allied Commander / then US President Dwight Eisenhower, who banged his personal driver back and forth across the US & Europe during the entirety of World War II - and share this with him, so he can have a jolly good chuckle before going back to sleep.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/06/us/eisenhower-letters-hint-at-affair-with-aide.html

No one hired Petraeus to be a marriage counselor or church pastor; he was hired to conquer and pacify a sovereign country and its insurgency. Then he was hired to play the dirty pool of espionage & subterfuge.

Foreign Red Team has zero leverage against Petraeus with this information; all he had to do was own up to it, admit a mistake an move on. This affects his family and his marriage, not his ability to spy on and clandestinely kill people. In fact, the alphabet-soup spy agencies (NSA, CIA in particular) have come as far to allow openly LGBT employees for many years. As long as you're already fully out & fabulous, there is no leverage to be used against you. You are not a potential exploit vector for agressors.

I make no apology or excuse for Petraeus' actions - what he did is morally reprehensible. But it had absolutely zero impact on his ability to perform his duties.

.. Isn't VALVe Software (Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress franchises) working on a heavily optimized Steam client and OpenGL improvements for Ubuntu?

What prevents users from simply loading Steam onto their Ubuntu PCs along with all the tweaked OpenGL drivers and just rocking that instead of the default drivers?

HELP US GABEN, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!

Microsoft is pricing Windows 8 cheaply as, for the first time ever they are positioned to give you the handles and sell the blades, to borrow the old razor addage.

Who cares what Windows 8 costs - Every copy sold creates a potential income stream as they will get a percentage of sale on every piece of software moved through their online store, not unlike the Apple app store. How long will it be until CDROM drives start disappearing from even desktop PCs, as virtually everything is updated and/or sold through the Internet? Oh, you need to burn a DVD of your kid's softball game? Buy the USB slim external drive off Newegg for $ 40. Every Windows 8 copy exposes more consumers to the Zune market for music, TV shows, movies - you're getting the idea.

Microsoft probably has an internal calculation somewhere showing that they will make up the price difference between cheap Windows 8 and old sky-high pricing on Windows 7, Windows Vista, etc. within a year as they slice off a 20-30% chunk of every single game, desktop app and TV show you purchase through their digital store. Everything past that is gravy.

I'm cheering for Microsoft.

Competition is good.

I purchased an iPad 1, used it for less than two months and sold it to a friend for half what I paid for it. I wanted it to be so much more than it was - more than they still are. Steve gave his amazing presentation, I swooned - I drank the kool-aid. I was Captain Picard, carrying my StarFleet tablet around. Then I bought one.

They are just 10" iPod Touches.

I wanted to be able to prop it up and type papers on it. I purchased the sleek 3rd party bluetooth keyboard/case combo. They keys were a compromise, tiny, poor travel, poor to type on. So I bought the Apple wireless keyboard. Apple's Pages software was friendly, and easy to use, but failed utterly to have any true usefulness in a world where Microsoft Word so utterly dominates academia or corporate America. Printing was a nightmare. Moving documents to my PC required iTunes syncing. .. iTunes..?? The music store software? What kind of "computer" was this!? My dream of a sleek, cool Sci-Fi space man computer was dashed as I realize the iPad is little more than a toy for reading Facebook on the toilet and clumbsily tapping in replies to emails from your sofa at a blistering 15 words per minute.

A sleek tablet with integrated, nearly full-size keyboard/cover and full, actual Microsoft Office built in?? A solid, well-engineered stand that folds out of the tablet to support it without needing to buy a pile of 3rd party cases, folios, etc. ? Be still my heart.

Touch is awesome. Touch is great for web surfing and watching cat videos on YouTube. Touch, paired with NO keyboard or keyboard and a very lightweight word processing app was absolutely useless. The keyboard is an order of magnitude more efficient for actually doing WORK.

The Surface tablet brings us so much closer to the dream of the all-in-one small, lightweight portable computer. I have hated Micro$oft as much as any other linux-using, Android using Slashdot reader. But I am cheering for them on this one. I hope the Surface takes it to Apple, and takes it to them hard.

Competition is good.

I'm sorry, but the devil lay in the details, which in this case can be summarized as "After controlling for poverty and urbanization."

I'll take my numbers straight up & tallied, thank you, without being seasoned and cooked "after controlling for poverty and urbanization."

The FBI's violent crime statistics are accumulated from police departments across the country and presented factually. They are NOT collected, with altered numbers displayed "after controlling for poverty and urbanization."

A death is a death, a rape is a rape, an assault is an assault, and I don't want numbers fed to me that had such incidents numerically added or subtracted to arrive at an arbitrary score "after controlling for poverty and urbanization."

Above all: I realize we are all participating in a thought exercise in the comments today. My thoughts are with the people harmed in this incident and their families.

Now...
Can we please begin blaming the perpetrator and NOT the tool they used to commit their crimes?

Can we craft laws that give family members the ability to report troubling behavior to authorities, possibly forcing a doctors' consultation? How is it that in the U.S., you can be jailed and forced to take treatment for Tuberculosis, but persons who walk around month after month, year after year exhibiting a dozen classical red flags for behavioral illness are left to their own devices? - Maybe they'll never harm anyone. Maybe they'll shoot up a movie theater.

Please stop blaming guns. Where are all the guns in Western Europe, where Britain has a violent crime rate higher than the United States, or for that matter even South Africa?

SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/696036-britain-more-violent-than-us-and-europe

10 killed - 63 seriously injured - CLEARLY we need a background check and 30 day waiting period to buy AUTOMOBILES. What happens when a tragedy like this is intentional and not an accident? What could a sick person do with a Chevy Suburban in a crowded parking lot?

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222924,00.html
SOURCE: http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-05/justice/farmer.market.crash_1_movsha-hoffman-molok-ghoulian-brendon-esfahani?_s=PM:LAW

I'd rather gamble my life rushing a gunman to grapple their weapon away. The Tueller Drill / 21 Foot Rule says I'd probably win:
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
SOURCE: http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/102828-Edged-Weapon-Defense-Is-or-was-the-21-foot-rule-valid-Part-1/

According to a number of sources, gunshot wounds - with access to medical treatment - are survivable nearly 95% of the time. Fate is cruel; survivability has everything to do with where you are shot and what is damaged internally.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/nyregion/03shot.html?_r=1

This just in!
Another human being can pick a fight with you, or sucker punch you in the head, AND KILL YOU BARE HANDED.

SOURCE: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Man__bleeding_in_brain__after_club_fracas-139265238.html
SOURCE: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/02/27/20120227california-girl-dies-after-fight.html
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PoXH_-tUE
SOURCE: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2011/04/teen-killed-in-fistfight-near.html/
SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/fist-fight-left-miami-tourist-dead-caught-video/story?id=11445914#.UAnc_oa-zUY
SOURCE: http://www.katv.com/story/18633329/man-killed-in-conway-after-fist-fight-during-a-family-cookout

Guns can easily be vilified, particularly when troubling incidents such as this fill the headlines.
A gun can also prevent your 5' 2" 120 pound wife from being violently raped on the floor of her home in front of her own children.

When your grandparents are sitting at home watching Jeopardy as a pair of twentysomething thugs kick their back door in, I'm certain you will take comfort in the fact that in the U.S.,police response times to 911 calls can be anywhere from 6-10 MINUTES.
SOURCE: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/results/ps/policeresponse
SOURCE: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/10/20040510-122711-8996r/
SOURCE: http://apbweb.com/featured-articles/1188-response-times-city-to-city.html

Please look at your watch for six minutes and imagine yourself - or your spouse, or child - fighting for their life bare handed for the duration of it. It'll end OK, like the Lifetime movie of the week, because the good guys always win, right? .. right?

"Guns" are neither right or wrong, Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Protestant, Atheist, Good or Evil. They are no more any of these than a roofing hammer, tree branch, pickup truck, ice pick, 60 pound weight/gender advantage or any other tool a person might use to take - OR defend a life.

This story is about behavioral illness.

Thank you.

edit: revenue per month, not profit. However, this Jan. 5 2011 article suggests Facebooks' profits scale similarly to Google's. By which measure, Facebook is still a tenth or twelfth as valuable and 100% dependent on the success of their one property.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-details-leaked-company-is-much-more-profitable-than-everyone-thought-2011-1

Facebook is - or soon will be - flailing at the wind. Fighting an opponent they can't hurt.

Facebook is now facing a competitor that can afford to earn $ 0 from social media.
Facebook's survival depends on the popularity and eyeball count of Facebook to sell ads and revenue share (Zynga) agreements against.

Google, currently earning as much profit per month as Facebook earns per year, does not need Google+ to earn three cents in order to continue flourishing. While they would LIKE Google+ to be a runaway hit, it simply isn't necessary.

Once Google starts aggressively advertising Google+ on television, stealing 10, 20, maybe 30% of Facebooks' traffic, how will Zuckerburg feel then? Probably like the guys at Netscape after Microsoft purchased Mosaic, rebranded it as Internet Explorer and started giving it away for free.

Facebook's UI is a mess, it's privacy and security settings are not intuitive and the entire user experience feels stale and worn-out to many people I've talked with. The massive redesign that Facebook is preparing to launch, with Timeline and other UI tweaks.. while satisfying some, will probably feel like "work" to many - something new to learn, for what was supposed to be a simple, fun way to keep in touch with friends.

If Google has half a brain, they will ascertain the date of Facebooks' relaunch and start a massive national ad buy for Google+ starting two days prior and run a solid week after. Clean, simple, secure microblogging with video and photo photo sharing. They will steal millions of users.

Does this game have multiplayer cheats available for it?

I was excited when I installed Urban Terror for the first time a few weeks ago, and enjoyed it for a day or so.. before noticing that some guys were pulling off unbelievable sniper rifle kills, suspiciously high head-shot percentages and the like. Five minutes with Google confirmed the worst- There is a wallhack + aimbot available for both Windows & Linux, it's absurdly easy to find and operate, and works like nobody's business. It just sucked the enjoyment out of the game.

Part of the problem with all these multi-platform games built on the id software open-sourced engines is that.. bots have been available for those engines for years, and the bot coders have very little updating to do in order to make new bots for the latest X, Y and Z mods running on those id engines. The people making the new games or mods have limited time or resources to put into staying ahead of the bot coders. Sad panda.