Obligatory "keep your Jesus Off my penis" reference:
http://youtu.be/5ApoSMY2GtA

Someone ate me a "P".

I think at this has nothing to do with Kim Jong Un but with a mad military machine running on autopilot.
The wheels within the machine have no chance to survive but by producing even more hawkish and outlandish threats.
There's no way out because there is nobody to talk to. Kim Jong Un is just stuck as the Master-Puppet, however there is nobody behind the curtain but a headless chicken.

I guess that even the Chinese do not have much of an influence because if they build up pressure DRKs only possible reactions are more outlandish.

> An R/C aircraft might have steel and other really hard materials that could do more damage.

So somebody dropped a castiron drone from somewhere above the plane?
I see no other way to make an aircraft made of steel or similar fly.

Maybe a castiron quadcopter with a nuclear reactor?

> Can you dial a useful number without looking at your phone?

"Siri, call Sam's business number!"

So Apple does UEFI, too?

> Except European countries have very low amounts of gun violence precisely because they strictly control guns with laws.

No, it's because we are living in socialism and everybody knows that there's a shortage of everything in socialism.
So basically we're trying to keep up with guncrime, however, we have a shortage on bullets...

Interestingly life-expectancy in Germany (at least for men) seems to be highest in Bavaria :)

http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/article13303516/Wo-die-Menschen-in-Deutschland-am-laengsten-leben.html

> The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care

Average life expectancy:
USA: 78.1 years
UK: 79 years
Germany: 79.3 years
France: 81 years

I think I'll keep my German mediocre universal healthcare.

(Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427ev8tivmaqoj )

OTOH, maybe people who are into blowing up planes for religious reasons are those who would never stick something up their arse, let alone a bomb.

That whould leave us with
a) people blowing up planes for non-religious reasons
b) people with bombs not hidden in their anus

People about to blow up saudi princes on ground seem not so sqeamish though:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5347847.html

> The first question the software would have to answer is how does it demonstrate it's working. How do you quantify "success"?

That's a solved one, google "tiger repellant rock"

> What is it that makes everyone think that airplanes must become flying fortresses instead of
> just being as secure/dangerous as the rest of our lives already is?

Because people already are frightened because of flying itself and giving away control to the pilots/team/ground staff.

I'm curious whether frequent flyers are as impressed by the security theater as casual flyers. For myself I worry more about the taxi-driver to/from the airports

could bring aboard a hand-grenade, untracable, in a body-cavity, remove it on the loo and detonate it without it being damped.
This needs absolutely nothing except from a somewhat dirty imagination and lube.

The fact that this does not happen all the time tells me that there are way less people eager to blow up planes than we are made believe.

Now please take this rope and explain why Apple should support FreeBSD

(Except from the obvious one that FreeBSD is a cool and very nice and stable Server OS and jails and ZfS are great)

s/thing/think/