A record number of amateur radio operators...in 40 years the population of amateur radio operators has increased from ~.15% of the population to ~.23% of the population, and the vast majority of that growth was 20 years ago.

The 90's saw 189,000 new licenses added. The next decade the number dropped to 17,000 new licenses.

It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.

I think it is less that "people" aren't interested in how things work, anymore, and more that nobody cares about amateur radio or clunky robots.

The modern generation of people who would have been building Heathkit things years ago are building weird stuff out of Lego robotics or writing software, or any number of other outlets for inquisitiveness and ingenuity that didn't exist 30 years ago.

This doesn't make cable subscriptions more attractive.

All it does is make hulu less attractive than it already is.

If you gave Uwe Boll the kind of money and backing that gets thrown at Michael Bay, they would be essentially the same person.

Kurt Sutter is basically the same guy, too.

Here is a novel idea. Play the games you bought for the original PSP on the original PSP that you still own.

So crazy it just might work...

I wish they would go back to doing urban legends and myths instead of recreating obviously fake viral videos and lame "omg blow up this" ideas from people on their godawful forum.

Either that or just scrap the entire show and let Grant do a new iteration of Mr. Wizard.

Also a version of Noscript that isn't garbage. Because the attempts at cloning it that exist are garbage.

My experiences were similar when working from home on projects with other employees, but this also happened when working offsite in general, even on multi-month projects at client offices.

When working on projects which were mainly staffed with consultants, the downsides did not exist.

Overall the benefits of working from home as often as possible seem to outweigh the negatives unless you are have other people actively trying to horn in on your job.

The worst part about the Raptor cuts is that they cut it after the most expensive part of the program.

The cost per plane would have dropped significantly since the lines were already up and running. Meh.

Oh man, you got me. You're right. You should always let programmers design your interface and user experience.

The pinnacle of usability will be the result.

The article said "plug into TVs" not "dump in box behind TV."

A word of warning.

I used to use [companyname]@mydomain.com for everything I signed up for. It worked great for a long time. The only downside was having to use a catchall address, but not a huge deal.

Unfortnately what will eventually happen is someone will troll through whois records or just grab random domains from existing mailing lists, and start sending out spam from random strings of letters/words @ that domain. Still, not a huge deal, except when they are sending out hundreds of thousands of emails that appear to originate with a domain you have a catchall account on, two things happen.

1) A good number of the addresses they have on their mailing lists are themselves email address harvesters which means you now get spam to hundreds of new email addresses.

2) Thousands of those messages will either bounce or generate auto replies, which are now in your inbox.

I've had the same email address for 14 years so it has gotten slightly out of hand. My procmail filters will blot out the sun, but unfortunately, only a medium sized chunk of this garbage.

Is that it seems like it was designed by programmers and not in a good way.

The punishment for not sending it is far worse. Why, one woman in Ohio failed to send the letter and was later murdered in her sleep by a ghost.

I think it is unrealistic to expect a wooden desk to process MRI images when the human brain itself is often incapable of processing a "joke."