So they should bill themselves as a place where "regular people" meet? I don't know that anyone would show up. If you're looking for like-minded people, regardless of area, you have to search/find/look for some noun - might as well make it a fun one.

You may have missed the phrase in the write-up that makes highlights the difference between your father's garage and this place: "...crawling with a diverse crowd..." This is where people who build stuff can meet and talk about building stuff.

They do not. Therefore OP is lying about visits from the secret service.

And how is your real name and address associated with a slashdot user id? If the information is not there, no amount of gov't thuggery can magically make it appear.

I don't believe this. How did they get your address from your user ID or email address? Pics or it didn't happen.

Two seconds of Goooooogling:

Murdoch gives to GOP
Fox News Promotes Tea Party
Hannity shows rally footage

I suspect this won't get though your filter though. Good luck.

http://bash.org/?5775

16:9 for a PC is just a massive waste of screen space for most things because 90% of apps and web pages are designed, if not with 4:3 in mind, then to support 4:3 and so you end up with horizontal letterboxing all the time.

True, they are not designed for 16:9, but most are designed with a ratio of equal or greater vertical to horizontal. i.e. you can stretch the vertical as much as you want and it'll still look good. So just rotate the monitor and use 9:16. I do this on a few of my monitors, esp. the ones that I use for editing for reading the web and it works out very well.

If you use X, xorg.conf section:
Section "Screen"
        [snip]
        Option "rotate" "ccw"
        [snip]
EndSection

or your vid card manufacturer may have a custom app to rotate.

I think you may be missing the point of the grandparent post. This is the sound you just heard.

Tell that to the Egyptians. They seem to be making a pretty good go of it as we speak. They have not toppled Mubarik yet, but they seem well on their way to doing so. The protests seem to be "working" just fine.

I think the "this" in the GP was the question of why the kid is playing Mature-rated games, not the whole cheating thing.

Given that, I do think it's no one's business but the parents on what games, if any, the kid plays. We know nothing really about this kid, other than he plays games and is "autistic" yet people here seem more than willing to tell the parents that they are raising the kid incorrectly.

And the appropriate answer would be "none of your goddamn business".

You really should stop the drumroll before you say the word or else no one is going to be able to hear it.

Numb3rs, while it was on, featured mathematicians and physicists in staring roles. The lead was whip smart and used applied mathematics in every show. Definitely a good role model and a normal, although very smart, guy. And he had a hot girlfriend. So that didn't really hurt either.

I don't think he'll do it. I mean check out his nick.