Aside from the obvious 'why wasn't the safety on' and 'what was a gun lying around with a 3 year old about' comments, what about the guns weight. Sorry, but those things are heavy. So much so, that I doubt that a kid that age could have lifted it. What else was going on?

Make sure his IP is static and use that to throttle.

Exactly. If we were advancing instead of regressing socially, then we wouldn't have even thought about such applications of this technology. Or if we did, we'd be repulsed by it.

Measures to prevent this were in place before the incident happened both in the US and elsewhere. The problem isn't the rules (pre-9/11 rules were enough). The problem is the complete moron who is employed to enforce them.

Another problem is that the typical moron walking around doesn't realise that one just plain can't do everything. A free society comes with risks. Deal with it. Hell, a police state can't prevent this sort of thing if the person wanting to do something is even remotely clever.

The point of airport security is to have a high probability of catching the clumsy and the stupid. Anything beyond that and innocent people are significantly compromised (by inconvenience and liberties and ...) for an insignificant (at best) increase in security.

All I have to say about this sort of thing is that the response is, again, just fucking embarrassing.

That was just the "justification" for it. The law really kills free speech in a most horrific way. In fact, pretty much every German freaked out over this and protested (unlike when similar things happened/happens in the US/Canada). It's nice that at least one politician is trying to get rid of it.

How exactly is a blind person supposed to play a FPS? How about something as simple as a platformer? Simply put, video games are a visual medium. Unless that game is specifically targeted towards the blind, this isn't going to happen.

Engineers get around technological limits. They do NOT get around physical ones. This is a limit governed by the laws of Physics. It can't be worked around without new Physics allowing it to. Remember, Engineering is built on these laws.

If the medical profession is any indication, yes. The numbers are such that women M.D.'s work about 80% (or there abouts - I believe that is Canadian specific as well) the number of hours as men do. And btw, that number comes from my feminist wife.

This also fits my personal experience. I've worked with and gone to school with many women. But, none of them were willing to do any programming beyond that in which was required. In fact, none of them were willing to even really talk about anything tech outside of work. For them, it was about the paycheck and nothing more.

But, to comment on my conduct on mailing lists, etc. I don't even read the name of the person that I'm responding to. I just reply to the content. Which brings up a likely cause (studies have shown this in the work-place) of this /perceived/ sexism; differences in the way men and women communicate. Men tend to be quite aggressive when the do so (relatively speaking) and this tends to get interpreted as an attack by women.

This also brings up another point. Namely, that, how arrogant does someone have to be, to think that the work-place will change to meet there needs? This is a universal thing, not just applicable here. Here, it must be said that women must understand that in a male dominated industry, that they'll have to learn to live, etc in it. That the industry isn't going to change for them and to assume that, and complain because that isn't happening is asinine. And before anyone spouts off about me being sexist or some such, I expect the same of myself when I enter a new work-place. The "outsider" climatizes to the new environment, or fails.

... they made 1984 a reality game.

Throwing money at security won't make something more secure. That's really up to who is doing the programming i.e. how competent they are. Just look at all the security products out there that have massive security holes in them regardless of whether they are commercial or open-source.

I do believe that you've entirely missed the point of that paragraph. They still wouldn't have to pay a dime. As in, who cares if they would have to offer the source to something where the source is already available.

The GPL is not the godsend that many people believe it to be. In fact, if looking at current (and past) business practice is any indication, the GPL would have actually hindered OpenSSH's adoption, not promoted it. Businesses really hate that viral open source thing in the GPL regardless of whether there code actually touches the GPL'd code. Just not worth the risk for many (most?).

Honestly, who cares? Should we even pay attention? The correct answer is no. Students don't see the value of Maths nor Science nor many many things. They don't see the value because they've yet to have the life experience that is required to see that value. Hell, most adults don't see the value of it even though it's right in front of there faces. In fact, every single Maths and Physics class I have ever taken required assignments to be handed in, in writing. And what about exams? It's just not tractable to setup thousands of computers, non-networked, for exams if students can't write. And if it's illegible, the student gets a zero.

So, yah, writing is kind of important.

To the teachers in the crowd, perhaps instead of bitching that the students don't understand the value, YOU SHOULD DO YOUR JOBS AND EXPLAIN IT TO THEM!