Um. That would require censorship. Of the family of the shooter. Of acquaintances of the shooter. Of the media. How far do you want to take this?

Yes. The things that absolutely must be learned from kindergarten through, say, sixth grade do not require computers. When I show my kid the universe of bugs, slugs, and beetles that exist under a log I do it in the back yard. With a log. Not with YouTube. When I have a percussion jam with him we grab whatever we can find in the kitchen to hear how things sound different. We don't click mice. We draw pictures with crayons, markers, and pencils. We use paper, cardboard, or whatever material there is. Not with a iPad.

I grew up in a physical world, I learned about physical things and how they were made and how they worked. Not in a logical way, but in an experiential way. I obtained a very intuitive understanding of the world in wich we live. Putting rote learning aside, this is the core of early childhood learning. Math, physics, nature, and art all must thave this underpinning if they are to be bodies of knowledge and skills that will inform a persons life.

Early education is about testing, sharpening, and tuning childrens senses. In that task real experience matters, screen learning is worthless. I'll even argue that screen learning is of little help in learning the 3 R's.

Background: I did not have access to a computer(TI 99/4a) till I was nine years old. My first task was, well second actually, after I hunted the Wumpus, I started learning BASIC. I am now a sysadmin by profession.

Shouldn't these phenomena be called vortexes? A tornado it a weather phenomenon that occurs under certain conditions on planet Earth.

Doesn't seem too long ago that I was having the same questions about Netscape Navigator 4.5. I survived.
 

Bad decisions were made. If you have ever had to deal with PCI DSS certification then you know what the credit card processing companies expect of their merchant customers. Now imagine the standards the credit card companies themselves try to adhere to. Some developers using BitCoin need to think about the security Big Picture before creating infrastructure for their projects/businesses. Keeping a BitCoin wallet containing thousands of BTC on a little cloud server is not wise.

Having said that, there is a solution in the pipe to help with this problem. Gavin Andresen, lead BitCoin developer, had his Bitcoin Faucet Linode server hacked. While only a few Bitcoins were lost he now is using this incident to support his proposal for Multisignature Transactions.

I think one aspect of this is the trend toward associating low pitched voices with authority. Megamedia news outlets are the best example. When the message in the media is of poor quality they then try to pump up the authority of the messenger. How do they do it? Deep, chest resonating, bass voices.

I've observed people's behavior and noticed that when a person is in a position where he or she wants to seem authoritative that the pitch of the voice drops. And when when females(or males with higher pitched voices) are in a situation where they need to have their authority stand on par with that of males many will use vocal fry to attain the low pitches they seek.

One wonders how this bug rates on Google's internal bug tracking system and if any of the "me too" people have contacted the vendor of their particular phone first?

At my place of employment, 250 employee co-operative retail with three locations, I set up a 2 node DRBD/Heartbeat cluster. It is running NFS, Samba, LDAP. Clients, 42 of them, g are $275 Zotacs(Mag HD-ND01-U) running Ubuntu 10.04. I developed a disk image with everything the way we want it. It takes me 10 minutes to set up a new machine and most of that is the unboxing part. Clients authenticate via LDAP and mount NFS homes via autofs. Some apps are local such as Firefox and Thunderbird. Other business apps are accessed via A XenApp/Citrix server using the Citrix Native Linux client. And then there are the HR and Finance SAAS applications. Now the clients could just offer a RDP connection application and the Citrix server could be a server providing virtual desktops. But why? It would add a few more layers of complexity with little benefit. The client machines are cheap, fast, easy to replace. The OS is free. The user gets the performance of silicon on the desk with the storage reliability of a server in the closet.