I don't want to see dead people, all the time, not in real life nor in the digital one.

So the Godfather Tony in Prison doesn't have the copyright on the kill orders he sends from prison?

So when can we expect mercury harddisks?

'Good relations' with management go quickly downhill once you reel in the money and they don't get a major cut.

Don't tell anybody, do it on your own machine and sell anything under a nom de plume.

"Also, what the heck is the tech connection here?"

People can use their computer to find out in which city to live, instead of getting shot.

Where I live, (Luxembourg, 0.8 murders per 100.000) there's usually only between 4 and 10 wives a year who get killed at home by their husbands, very seldom by gun. Some years it's the other way round.

Heck, somebody tried to kill Gaston Glock here, the guy who manufactures the 'plastic' pistols and appropriately the moron used a plastic mallet to hit him in the head 7 times to no avail.

IOW even if you want to kill a 70 year old, don't send a 67 year old hitman.

PS. He'll get out next year at age 84, so if you want to kill a 87 year old ...

From WP
"In July 1999, Charles Ewert, a business associate of Glock, hired a French ex-mercenary to murder Glock with a mallet in a garage in Luxembourg in an apparent attempt to cover up embezzlement of millions from the Glock company.[2]

Although Glock's injuries included seven head wounds and the loss of about a litre of blood, Glock was able to fend off the attack by striking the hitman twice. The hired killer, 67-year-old Jacques Pêcheur, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attack. Charles Ewert was sentenced to 20 years as a result of Pêcheur's testimony.[7]"

""In most cities, the vast majority of violence takes place on just a few street corners, at certain times of the day, and among specific people."

'This literally sounds like the easiest policing job ever if they know all this...'

Exactly. Just round the corners and off you go.

The secret is so well-kept, that only he knows it.

Has he _met_the UN?

I'd like to know which brand of microwave lasts 17 years?

That will be the death of crystal meth.

Seems like they licked it.

But they were always right before when they said:

The weather will be better or worse or it will stay as it is.

"...University of Washington to bring the deep sea online..."

I'd prefer if they'd bring the high mountains online, there are millions of people there every year, in the deep seas not so much.

"This libraries, holy damn. As a kid, my mom would take me to the library, and I'd get physical books. Was that convenient? Hell yes. I loved every minute of it, from the smell of the library to the heft of the book in my hands."

You mean the smell of mold spores and the billions of bacteria from previous readers, who not only took it to the toilet, but also licked their thumbs before turning every single page?

No thanks. I prefer illegally downloading a sterile copy.

http://popcorntime.se/ is dead already.

"So how does a 40 year old computer system get replaced and only doubles the number of flights capable of being tracked?"

VMS simulators are not that fast, after all only planes and trains and a few factories use it.