at this point i dont think we need the qualifier anymore.

'authoritarian governments will soon be able' -> 'governments will'

what possible reason would they need more for

this is potentially a huge space. do you have any ideas about the segment you're addressing? I can
image projects that are

    - too dangerous: there are some plans floating around for making a tig welder out of a microwave transformer, which seems
                                                          cool but it might be too dodgy

    - too specialized: tips for grinding fluted cutters

    - too derivative: projects that require alot of infrastructure (i.e. a ccd and a xilinx)

    - too expensive: I found this neat application for my $150,000 low end used gas spectrometer

    - too substantial: construct this working harrier jet in your own back yard out of sheet metal and a file

do you have a bounding box in mind?
   

that may be true, but that doesn't necessarily imply that every random reader/listener/watcher is
more* authoritative

>> Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: 'the artist is merely the medium for his or her work.'

the writers, producers, costume designers, actors, etc are really irrelevant in the creative process. no, its the
talentless consumer thats really the creative wellspring of artistic work

no, this is wrong. having spent most of my life against the secret world, almost all of it is more convenient to classify than to make any kind of informed decision about what really needs to

at a tremendous cost.

its difficult to understand why you would assume that most classified material would be worth reading by anyone at all.

lorazepam

i worked for a startup and the CEO insisted on having some kind of ceremony in the parking
lot where...i think we burned some of their marketing t-shirts of our huge 'competitor' that
we were going to present a serious challenge to.

6 months later, they had shipped their own technically superior version of our product, and ran
it on all their existing platforms. they didn't even bother buying us, we just disappeared from
memory

does anyone know which startup i'm referring to? or is it really all of them

sure, i'm not saying no 9th graders can use gimp

but i would hate to be a 9th grader with no clue stuck in a class during the week
that someone was trying to teach me gimp

teach them some fundamentals...what is a bit, what is a tube, how the tubes get plugged together,
maybe how dns works at a high level just to give them some example of a simple distributed system,
and give some meaning to web addresses.

what a trivial von-neumann machine looks like

what a program is at a high level, how images are represented and manipulated.

how to write a simple game in something like scratch.

what you describe seems pretty tortuous for a 9th grader (learning gimp, ooo), even for one that
has an interest

actually give them some semantic reference for dealing with computers, rather than teaching them
about the details of the current crop of open source menu-driven applications

a joy? if you enjoy welding with marshmallows which are just as likely to slag off completely as make a decent seam

and to make it even worse you cant grind it, and machining a weld is hazardous due to the creation of oxides

but i guess it works ok. its easier just to cut things out of billet

not really. sitting at home looking through an extensive catalog is about the same
as driving 10 miles to my local strip mall, and spending 30 minutes in an
overly lit blockbuster outlet listening to advertisements while i consider the 4 new releases
and the same 500 titles that i've been looking at for the last two years while trying
not be be too annoyed at someone else's unrly children.

and i really dont mind taking the same trip the next day just to drop the thing
off, it gives me a sense of importance.

i guess its ok that the sysadminds coopted the work 'implemented' where one would normally
say 'installed'

but that kind of leaves the actual implementors without a word now

and in this particular usage, its kind of odd, because usually the best time to
find and fix these problems is exactly when its being implemented, rather than
when its being installed

stop bathing
be awkward around the opposite gender
come in at noon and leave after midnight
be extremely condescending towards anyone at the company who is not an engineer
never admit that anything is your fault
drink 20 cans of free soda a day
claim to be a libertarian if you dont already

whitelist by prefix instead of endpoint address