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Remember when terrorism used to mean "The systematic use of terror as a method of coercion."

The highest I ever got on an IQ test is 134, and the lowest is 86.

I got a couple of others around 120.

So, take your pick.

I find it disappointing that the majority of posts here only want revenge with long sentences or even death, and only a minority want to change the system or put systems in place to make this less likely to happen again.

First?

http://www.google.com/patents/US974943

Patent from 1908

You already can, in a roundabout way.

If there's a site I want to be the first result after I've just typed just a single letter in the address bar, I type as little of the sites name as I can before it appears in autocomplete. Then I click the site, close the tab, and start again. After doing this a few times, Firefox usually gets that this is the site I want to go to after I've typed g or f or whatever, and puts it as the first result.

Used it for five minutes, and already found two great websites.

I don't know who's behind that search engine, but thank you!

I think the argument is, having extremist websites accessible is a situation that creates extremist groups.

Maybe he just didn't mention it, but nowhere in that post does it say that it was his father's wish to die if he was in such a situation.

Helping someone die who made their wishes clear, I'm perfectly okay with. But assuming someone wants to die, I'm not.

Whether his father made it clear or not, I don't know. It just isn't in the post.

Which definition of hacker are you using?

Inaccurate headline.

Electronic games have no detectable effect on the behaviour of kids aged 5 to 7, according to a single study.

I don't think it's enough to extrapolate to all kids of all ages, and it doesn't automatically supersede any previous studies that found different results.

UK minimum wage is £6.31 an hour which converts to $10.24, so slightly higher. Though maybe that conversion is too simplistic.

Wouldn't that just cause bitcoin to become more expensive, until it's so expensive the US can't afford to buy up the last few bitcoins?

Thank you!

I'd noticed repeated reports of Tesla fires, but wasn't sure if it was because they were more flammable, or just more likely to be reported on if they do catch fire.

This is the first thing I've read that actually gives any statistics.

Nope, not gone for me.

I wouldn't call PCManFM a "good" file manager. It's one of the consistently buggiest pieces of software I've used. Not major show stopping bugs, just a constant stream of minor problems every day with the occasional crash every few weeks.

It's existed for a very, very long time

Well this is going to get interesting, when they start reusing telephone numbers.

I like how the bottom of the list is so mixed. It seems to be extremely prosperous first world nations with so few social problems they get little crime, mixed with nations so poor, they can't afford police to catch criminals or prisons to keep them in.

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Yup, I did read the article. But thanks for the recap

The quick search I just made for suicide rate per capita shows the rate in Singapore is kinda average.

Your entire argument seems to be built around paranoid and hysteria and things you've seen in sci-fi movies.

We already have drones that kill and injure human beings. They're called missiles and torpedoes, and the third world has plenty of them too.

Also, there's this assumption that keeps getting made that humans will always make better decisions than machines. Personally, I think you're seriously overestimating the ability of scared, tired 18 year olds to make quick rational decisions under extreme pressure. Every single war ever, is littered with examples of human beings making mistakes, which end up with the deaths of allies or civilians, it's not even remotely rare.

And you know what, machines will make mistakes too, they'll kill their own side or civilians occasionally. But after they do that, their software can be improved and refined, over and over and over, with no limit. They will constantly and forever be improved.

A human soldier will not. There's only so much training you can give to someone in nine months before they're in combat.

And there's also the fact that machines are a helluva a lot less likely to think it's funny to piss on a Koran or to go rape some of the locals.

Crime rates are lower than they've been in a long time. And the reason we know they are, is the crime survey. The crime survey telephones a bunch of random people and asks them if they've been a victim of crime in the past 12 months.

The number of people reporting they're a victim of crime has been dropping since the late 90s.

The 2004 Tsunami killed 250,000 people, and that only managed to stay on the news for a few weeks.

Might be worth taking into consideration that an object will break up into multiple pieces during re-entry.

Thought the odds are still against anyone being hit by anything.

And electric cars have better and larger crumple zones making front impacts more survivable. This is due to them not having an inflexible engine taking up most room in the front.

Which kind of accident is more common? Bottom impacts or front impacts?

My god! Toxic cancer? That sounds even worse than regular cancer!

Woo! 8/9, only got the number of children question wrong.

The story's a pretty good example of how badly mislead most people are by the media. There are so many extremely important issues where the majority of people have completely the wrong impression. It's not just world development, it's nearly all issues.

Unity and Gnome3 drove me to lubuntu. Really happy I made the switch.

And I've heard the same or similar from many other people.

You didn't actually read the article did you?

The vast majority of air defence systems the US has gone against are SA-2 which is late 1950s tech, SA-3, which is early 1960s tech and a few SA-5s and SA-6's, which are late 60s tech.

Over the past decade and a half, things have started to change. Russia has started exporting large numbers of modern air defence systems, and modern digital upgrades to older systems. Systems that were designed from the start to be highly resistant to jamming and decoys and to be highly mobile.

Air defences have suddenly got a lot more capable in many nations around the world, while western nations are by and large still using the same defence suppression tools they had during the first gulf war.

If the US needs to attack a nation like Iran or Syria, it will not be a rerun of 1991. Instead of the US having a 20 year technological advantage over enemy air defence, enemy air defences will have a 20 year technological advantage over the US air force.