According to their statistics being hit by trucks and cars was not even in the top 7 death causes for 2010. The 7th place (influenza and pneumonia) killed 5 children. This means that getting hit by cars will save (at most) 4 children a year, of those 4, you would only save the ones who were crossing the street right as a driver was making a left turn because Google Maps told them (as opposed to say, someone who was drunk driving).

Of course, all lives are precious and won't somebody, please, think of the children so at this point the question becomes one of assignment of resources. You could assign resources to cure malignant neoplasm (killed 48 children), or to improve safety and reduce assaults (killed 18 children) or you could write a letter to Google to ask them to reduce left turns. I will let you decide what would be more effective.

I wonder if they read their own statistics.

According to the document above, malignant neoplasm is the #1 cause of death for children under 13. Myabe they should send a letter to Google asking that maps also cure cancer.

I seem to remember device fragmentation was a gigantic problem that made Android impossible to develop for (and the main reason why many people chose Apple over Android). How will those poor developers adapt now that Apple has three phone sizes and two tablet sizes (or maybe more?)?

Owning a recording device is not an invasion of other people's privacy either. The article and summary do mention that the recording device was not recording. The case is definitely complicated and you do bear some responsibility if you are pointing a recording device at people who don't wan to be recorded; however, the civilized way to solve this is by asking politely, maybe complaining to the owner of the bar, or leaving the bar if it bothers you too much, not by assaulting every person with a recording device.

From the article:

Assaulting somebody because there is a potential to be filmed is something you do to other people.

If you take out your phone in public and I decide to rip it off your hands and run off with it, would you argue that I did not steal the phone becuase you had the potential to record me with the phone?? Don't you think the reaction is completely unjustified?

And even if wearing a short skirt is something you do to yourself that still does not justify rape, in the same way that owning technology does not justify people assaulting you.

Yes! Now imagine if she had been wearing a short skirt as well, then those guys wouldn't just be justified in assaulting her, they could also rape her! </sarcasm>

The company where I work is always looking for competent software engineers. Out of the thousands of people we interview every year, only about 30% make it past the first question (swapping elements in an array), of those who do, only about 50% make it past the second question (basic data structures questions, for example reversing a linked list), after that we get another 50% success rate in the on-site interview (this one actually has a slightly more complicated question, around the level of the 200 problem for Div 2 in Top Coder) and a 60% accept rate for the offers we give. This means that only 7.5% are competent enough to be hired and only 4.5% actually accept the offer we give them.

If you know of some place in the US where there isn't a shortage of competent software engineers I would be very happy to hear about it. But as things are we have to interview people from all over the world in order to get great talent. And initial salaries in my company are actually higher than the average pay for a software engineer in my city.

I had not tried it before; however, it is fairly simple and I was able to change them by doing the following:

• Use arrow keys to select the bullets (hint, you can use Home key + Left arrow key to select it right after pasting)
• Press windows key -> F (for Font)
• Press Alt+C (for Color)
• Use arrow keys to select color you want

And that's it, your bullets are now a different color (this does not affect text after the bullets). How would you do the same thing in your editor of choice with ~9 keystrokes? How is it that following those four steps is like "fucking your eyeballs with a cactus"?

Did you know that when you buy an app in the Google Play Store, Google sends the neighborhood where you live to the app developers? That is why I prefer the Lumia phones with Windows, because Microsoft respects your privacy.

Also, Microsoft only wants to know your location so that they can protect you. If something were to happen to you they would send an SMS to people you trust (they would get their numbers from your SMS history) and they would send an ambulance to your location (that's the only reason they got it).

You see? Microsoft is actually amazing and really cares about your privacy! =D You can get more information about how Microsoft is totally not stealing your data at http://www.scroogled.com/

You can tell I am serious and trustwrothy because I am using a smiley face: =D

I have had the same thing happen three or four times. Every time it turned out to be nVidia's graphics driver (to be fair, it hasn't crashed since the last update a couple of months ago).

Reminds me of this short story/essay by Borges: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html

I kind of liked the idea of the gold auction house because it let you grid less time and spend more time thinking about how you want your build to play. If you want to play a glass cannon, then you can get lots of damage gear, lots of attack speed and critical % and go out and play the way you wanted.

One of the (very few) problems I have with Borderlands 2 is that when you get to the higher levels (true vault hunter or higher) you have to change your build after you get any new weapons in order to still be effective, and you cannot play the way you want. For example, if you get a shotgun with very few bullets and very high critical you have to go back to Sanctuary and respec to get the talent that makes your reloads faster and doubles the damage of your first bullet. If you wanted to play with snipers, tough luck.

That said, I always felt the real money auction house was just a gigantic money grab and Blizzard purposefully broke Diablo 3 on Inferno so that you could not pass it unless you spent a lot of money (which has since been fixed in patches, I've been told).

I find it hard to believe that you qualified your statement with a "once the whacko dispatched the teacher" which supports my argument that killing 28 people with a machete is harder than it is with a gun but you still decided to start name calling.

Even though I'm sure you have given this some thought, I am afraid that you still have not grasped the full extent of the problem, violence is not a simple issue that you can just attribute to one cause (over abundance of whackos), and having easy access to guns and very little deterrent to using them most definitely increases violence.

Yes, better gun regulation will not stop massacres everywhere instantly (nothing will), but it will help reduce the problem. And yes, knife registration would further reduce the problem, as would putting everybody in protective spheres and banning all human contact, but those solutions are not practical, which is why you won't see a lot of people lobbying for those.

To be fair, the Sandy Hook shooting was one lone shooter, while the killings in Nigeria were hundreds of rioters with machetes. It is a lot harder for a single person to kill 28 people with a machete than it is with a gun.

I love how they say that you should experience improvements and your music should reveal more of the intrinsic beauty of the original event and the mid-range should sound more natural. I mean, it probably won't, but it should.