This is, for the coder in this situation, also damned good advice. GTFO soonest if you don't want to be chained to the oars in a sinking ship.

+1000 to all of the above.

Yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing.

When my mom and dad were 65/69, I bought them a Winbox simply because that is what everyone else has, so getting software and help would be trivial. That was 15 years ago and they are on their 3rd. Mom isn't here anymore but dad uses Skype, plays poker games (I send them game CDs) and such and he is in his 80s. We Facebook daily.

Sometimes "best" simply means what is most common, or maybe what you, the one who is going to be helping him, is familiar with. For him, the Winbox was handy because he could use it sitting down and the screen is big.

It's crazy.

The environmentalists don't appear to have anyone on their team who understand the amount (or even the magnitude) of the energy consumed globally to make it all work. That, or their desire for renewables is biased by an anti-capitalist desire to collapse the economy. I don't know.

Brass tacks: We need -massive- amounts of energy, we will need even more, and there are two options - hydrocarbons and nuclear.

The governments of the world should all have Manhattan-style projects to solve nuclear fusion, alternative fission reactors, and solve the battery storage problem - be it super-cap technology or something else.

Instead we waste time dicking about with windmill foolishness. Sigh.

Keep it up. Go team.

I expect the innovators will move on to more friendly climates. My dad taught me to never count the US out - you guys have the best of everything and the worst of everything. Nowhere else produces more nobel prize winners.. or more criminals.

I wonder if that time is coming to an end.

Nuclear energy is too important. Renewables are a joke. It's low quality, low density power from a thermodynamic standpoint. We're either going to burn every bit of carbon and then go nuclear, or go nuclear. Either way, we have to master this technology, and we (humans) will. The only question is what happens between now and then.

Myself, I'm going to encourage my kids to learn Chinese. Sigh.

Just need to link the science (published) and the genotype. It's all open.

Next up is banning people from sequencing their own genomes without a MD.

The real story here is who's the loser - it's not you; your DNA is your DNA, and the sequences are there or they aren't. The insurance industry are the ones who are actually worried about these tests - all of a sudden you have data they don't, and they can't apply their actuarial models anymore. Hilarity ensures.

May we all live in interesting times.

Your plan fails when there are no jobs. This is a distinct possibility in the coming decades.

It's called a guaranteed minimum income.

The writing is on the wall, and creative endeavors that humans enjoy will dominate more of society. Isn't that what we all want? To do what we want?

The concept is from the right, it's been around for a long time, and it's a fairly straightforward implementation. If a society is rich enough that the production costs approach zero, then ..

Of course, it smells a lot like the dreaded socialism monster. Or worse.. red pink communism!

There's no rocket science here. It will happen eventually, as the poor people get to vote. Either with ballots, or otherwise.

There's two unique things about the US:

#1. Absolute freedom of (written) speech, at least for the most part, to a degree that I am not aware of existing anywhere in the civilized world.

#2. Private citizens can own handguns and assault rifles for their own protection and uses.

Fight for those rights with all you have, because once they're gone, I doubt the world will ever see them again. Particularly #1.

If an idea is so repulsive, the place to discredit it is in the open, not to push it underground into the recesses of the underworld, lending credence and appeal to the idea through it's illicit nature. The written word is not a place for the state, any more than the legislature is a place for preachers.

Nobody should be put in jail for their words. Not even vile ones.

Use brightly colored cables, get metal cable tray and rattle can spray paint it a contrasting color. I've seen it done very well, and it does add a near technical feel to a space.

Any interior designer could help you; if you're going for image, then that's probably not a bad idea anyway.

If you're not going for image.. drop tile. :)

Wikipedia is editable by anyone. And no one has come through dd-wrt here that I didn't give them the password to do so. No one. I used to watch the logs while the NK and CN folks hammered on it for hours at a time, but that got boring although I did occasionally cost someone their net account if they were being a big enough pest to DDOS me. Those sorts of attacks have actually decreased, I think they've some sort of a fingerprinting thing now that tells them if its a vulnerable target, so they don't waste a lot of time doing dictionary attacks like they did 5 years ago. The proof is in the results.

I once bought a Siemans router back in my greenhorn days, lasted about 15 minutes before somebody bricked it. I made circuit city eat that one. I had an old slow wintel box with 2 net cards in it that I ran the X86 version of dd-wrt on for 4 or 5 years, stripped, headless, booted from a CF card switched read only. It Just Worked(TM). And this much lower power consumption Buffalo NetFinity with the real dd-wrt reflashed into it has now been standing guard for about 2 years.

So all I can say is, let the results be the proof you need.

Cheers, Gene

Sorry, I don't buy this for more than 10 milliseconds. D-Link customer in Mumbai has an attitude that the customer is a dummy, and when he calls in to get some help with a real problem, he either gets the brushoff, or they ask for the seriel number and suddenly discover the device I bought new from Wally's (I'm out in the puckerbrush, Wally's is as hi-tech as can be driven to locally) a week ago was sold, then returned as defective over a year ago by another dealer , and has been marked as having been destroyed in their records. So I asked for an email confirming it, took the router and the email back to Wally's, got a 100% refund and mail ordered a Buffalo Netfinity that I had to reflash with a real dd-wrt image since their branding covered a menu item I had to have access to.

The next D-Link product that crosses my threshold will be after I hear reliable reports that hell has frozen over a year ago and pigs are using it for an airport runway. IMO its dd-wrt all the way down.

There's lots of add-on cases that provide this functionality...

That kind of discipline is great, but our brains are hardwired to seek high calorie foods, to which snacks fit right in. Most people just aren't going to overcome the urge to eat too much at least some of the time.

Case in point, the country with the most fat people is the one with the most "all you can eat buffet"s. For most people, it is easier and better to simply limit the amount of temptation than it is to deal with that temptation when it is 10 feet away...and salty, and rich, and sweet, and chocolaty and....

Excuse me, need to grab a snack....