But your facilities insurance will want more money because you can have exercise-related injuries :)

Any trigger lock which doesn't put something behind/through the trigger itself is definitely garbage. Luckily, there's a number of them on the market with configurable pin holes that let you configure them for a variety of weapons. They're better than nothing! But sure, a crappy lock is the worst. In any case, a revolver can reasonably be locked with a cheap cable lock.

...gun won't register her fingerprint, and the man is enraged by the firearm and clubs her across the head with a blunt instrument. Thankfully, the trauma kills her almost instantly, and she suffers very little.

And neither of us have done any research into which of these outcomes is more likely.

It's still going to be easy to steal and use the weapon. Why? Because the system will, by definition, be easy to defeat. Why? Because the firearm must, by nature, by easy to break down and clean or repair. Nobody will buy a gun they can't strip down and repair unless perhaps they're literally not allowed to do that, and I don't see anyone proposing that yet. Safeties or mechanisms always boil down to something very simple and that means they will be very simple to defeat. Short form, you should assume that even if every firearm has a different system, there will be a defeat procedure in the wild for every firearm's safety, and probably available on whatever passes for the internet by the time a law like this actually passes. More likely you'll see an outright ban before you see a law like this.

Nah. Lots of weapons have had another safety added after their initial design, this is just yet another safety. But all your other points are dead on.

I would worry since that stuff is all around me, but I know from experience that there's no dirt in our soil, just a whole shitload of rocks.

To be honest, I'm buying an Ouya, and I'm going to use it to play emulators, run XBMC, and play whichever of my Android games can be coaxed to run on it without too many expensive additional apps. I expect I will cough up the five or six bucks to get some software to emulate touches from a game controller, which might even end up being a PS3 controller.

I am not even considering giving Microsoft or Sony my money in this generation. Ironically given how long I've hated them, Microsoft could have a chance at it eventually (when the device has had its price reductions, down the line) if only they would make Xbox Live multiplayer free. Or if this Azure linking actually paid off and they really provided something for your low low fee (and Live can be had for truly little money once or twice a year) and you got low lag servers running on their cloud computing service rather than getting to pay for shitty multiplayer matching and then getting to host the game over your consumer-grade internet connection as well, I might actually consider paying for Live.

I RTFA (yes, yes I did) and the article only briefly but assuredly mentions that you will be able to play single-player games without the internet:

(Donâ(TM)t worry; you can still play a single-player game without being connected to the Internet.)

What else remains to be understood is how Azure game hosting will work in practice (who is paying, and for how long?) and of course, wtf privacy omg policy bbq etc.

that is because, shock amazement, you did not RTFA.

[...] it also possesses a low-power standby mode, allowing Xbox Live and game updates to be pushed to the Xbox One overnight â" or whenever the box knows your usage is lowest â" without keeping the console all the way on. (Donâ(TM)t worry; you can still play a single-player game without being connected to the Internet.)

IMO the "right" solution for someone who didn't want to run any of the really fancy parts of DR-DOS was 4DOS, which just replaced command.com. I also fiddled around with a bourne shell (sh.exe) that I scrounged up somewhere that came with a handful of other useful utilities like ls.exe, and it was a joy to use in many ways but it felt inconsistent when running dos programs and having to remember whether a program specified arguments with dash or slash and so on.

4DOS had all the features that we had come to expect from advanced shells found on other platforms, like history and proper command-line editing. You could run it on DR-DOS or on MS-DOS, with pretty similar results either way. With MS-DOS you also needed QEMM (at least until 6.22 when Microsoft's memory management utilities became kind of halfway decent) but DR-DOS did at least have adequate memory management out of the box.

A person, or a corporation? A corporation is a legal fiction, created by the threat of force of a nation (in the end, it always boils down to force) and therefore it cannot exist without a nation. But a person who amassed sufficient capital (of whatever kind) to for example move onto an aircraft carrier[-sized vessel] in international waters, and who renounced their citizenship, might reasonably not be a resident of any nation. Problem is, when it comes time to make more money, someone will still try to collect some taxes from you. And also, nations like for you to belong to some nation so that they can decide how to treat you without having to think, based on your passport.

DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run predates DR-DOS. The issues with Windows 3.1 on top of DR-DOS were a whole other thing. I was surprised they were actually affecting people since it really didn't make sense to run Windows on DR-DOS anyway. You'd run MS-DOS and MS Windows, or you'd run DR-DOS without any GUI (they provided a DOS task switcher with multitasking which was actually fairly decent) or you'd run Desqview. But apparently many people were quite incensed that Windows wouldn't run properly atop DR-DOS.

Nobody needs the code to 1-2-3. But it would be highly interesting to have the code to 1-2-3 1.0, because it would be fascinating to see how it was done on such limited platforms as original PCs. I had 1-2-3 1.0 on a PC-1 with 448kB memory — 384kB of which was on an ISA expansion card. Those were the days, I guess.

I had a machine with 8" floppies, but it wouldn't run lotus. It would run Wordstar, though. But I actually ran it on the machine with 5.25" floppies, because it actually worked. I would say Kaypro 4 forever, but obviously I got rid of that long ago

No, see, Apple hasn't done those things, wholly-owned subsidiaries have done it... So it's both true and irrelevant