On the contrary, deer and large boar would be gone in months, if not weeks if such a situation arose, even in rural areas. Most of North America's large game lives in cities. That is how it would go down, we aren't that different from rats. The enjoyment we derive from speculating about these situations intrigues me. It is some sort of escapist fantasy that drives preppers and the posters on this poll (including me). While I am aware I am not immune, I have no idea of the underlying psychology of it.

I just noticed your sig. Quite relevant.

You really only need enough food to last until the first person comes looking for food. Tell the kids its pork. Also, don't worry about prions, you probably won't survive the incubation period in that sort of situation anyway.

cia factbook and the gp both said 19 million per day, not month

I propose a 7 macro limit.

Telling people what they need to be doing, and then never punishing them won't work. If people start getting fired for failure to follow security practice, it would stick more. And communicating good security practice doesn't require a consultant or speaker. There are videos out there; examples of what to look for. I agree hiring a big name to train everyone at your company who uses a computer is a waste of funds better spent, but ignoring the human element is willful ignorance. It is disingenuous for someone with a security background to even hint that technology could ever reach the point that it could prevent users from insecure behavior. The fleshy computers have to get patched too, and when they stop accepting patches, you ditch them and get new ones. You find out if the patch was installed by testing them.

Why does everyone hate gnome 3 so much? I viewed it as an upgrade. Windows 8 doesn't look that bad either. Unity seems a little clunkier than gnome3, but still quite usable.

I don't know about vastly, but yes there is significantly less gun crime in Europe. Not just that, less violent crime in general. But you are mistaken in saying Europe has banned guns. It hasn't. That leaves many other potential sources of our violence problem. Long working hours, wealth inequality, urban sprawl etc. The violence is concentrated in our cities though which isn't at all intuitive as poverty is at least as common in our rural areas. If you neglect our cities the violence is on par with other developed nations. I am hopeful that the study about lead and violence is accurate and we just have to wait a decade or so to watch the tail end of that effect taper off. It makes sense it would be worse here because of how much more we rely on automobiles for transportation.

If you own the mill you can make yourself a firearm without consulting the ATF as is mentioned in the summary. 3d mills are considerably more expensive than 3d printers which is the only reason this story is a story at all.

The UK has the most stringent gun laws in the EU (though Germany is close) and even there you may own rifles and shotguns. Belgians and the Czechs have very active firearm cultures that are not related to hunting. I know Switzerland is not a member, but they are in the region and they also have such a culture. The remaining states mostly have hunting related firearm cultures from what I have read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_RCWS

These turrets count I think. Israel has at times said they are keeping a man in the loop, but the technology doesn't require it, and at times they have said they are in
"see-shoot" mode. This is essentially indiscriminate area denial that is easier to turn off than mines. It does have the computer vision and targeting aspects of a killer robot, just not the path finding and obstacle avoidance parts.

Among the software developers I work with about a third (including myself) touch type. I have not noticed that the touch typists produce code faster, or better. It seems to be an entirely independent variable. I think I may have noticed a slight correlation between those who hunt and peck and their fondness for graphical software creation (UML etc.). Using the mouse to make that parameter const instead of typing it drives me insane, but if you can't touch type, perhaps it takes the same amount of time. Even that though is only a slight correlation, lets not make touch typing a holy war like vi and that os pretending to be the other text editor.

Leaf owners in Arizona are finding that they have lost up to a third of the range in less than a year due to the hot conditions. Even in ideal climates they lose 20% of their range a year. That is how LiPo works. I agree that 270miles is a range suitable for most, but by the end of 5 years you will be down to 88 in a nice climate, and the battery replacement is going for about $8k for the leaf which is a much smaller battery pack than the tesla's.

Also a note about calling a car with a 900lb battery pack a roadster.... don't. I want my electric powered miata/mgb/lotus as a daily driver as much as anyone, but the batteries simply aren't there yet. If the wealthy want to have them as a toy that is great, but tricking normal people who need a car that just works into getting one is dishonest.

Using their numbers, we would have to introduce security measures that made passwords 1000000% more difficult to obtain, than they currently are, in order to put credentials on par with mules in terms of value. Having N mules available and N+1 passwords available, the amount of crime would be no less than if we had N*10^6 passwords available. They do not mention why we cannot remove the ability for a money owner (mule) to initiate large unrepudiable transactions. They indicated this was usually via western union or moneygram. What harm would we do society by removing those methods? Security is very hard. I don't believe we can make credentials even close to 1000000% more secure, and if we do not, we will only drive up the price of those credentials by an insignificant amount.

Not even just an ide, emacs is "a great OS with a terrible text editor attached" I don't know anyone who just uses vi anymore either. Most use vim. I use add-ons for autocomplete in C++ to vim. Only thing I miss is an integrated debugger, I find clewn to be kind of unwieldy.

Does someone know if there are add-ons for vim that will parse your header hierarchy and create temporary ctags files when you open a Makefile? Or a gdb integrator that is at least a little bit less painful than using gdb? I would like a visual studio style ide for linux if I could get one.

Apple didn't pay their dues, considering the way the samsung case went in the UK they probably don't lobby/bribe anywhere in europe. Not that I think the case had merit, just that if they had paid they would have won. No one has ever been maimed by a 5.5v fan have they? Whatever manufacturer did pay, looked at the differences between their product and apple's, and found the difference between the two that was easiest to use, then lobbied/bribed the regulators to regulate that difference in their favor. It happens a lot.[needs citation] Any power we give the government, is a power the corporations can buy. People should just start voting for whichever candidate got the fewest campaign contributions, probably wouldn't fix anything, but it would be interesting.