Not by my math. The largest on that Wikipedia page was over 10 m. That's over eight times the 1.26m telescope's diameter from 1815. Which is around 64 times the surface area. Please: better math, more precise statements.

The *EQUIPMENT* has come huge lengths. You do, however, lack the writers, acting talent, stage hands, etc., etc., etc. If you give me eggs and cheese, I give you cheesy eggs. A French chef gives you a souffle. Having the ingredients is only the first step.

Subject pretty much sums it up.

Joss Whedon is just such a fun filmmaker, even if he wasn't the director for this particular movie. Look at Buffy, The Avengers, even Cabin in the Woods, which was a thoroughly enjoyable re-imagining of the tired horror flick. And this one just so happens to be partially filmed in my town; I haven't seen the movie yet, but if you see a gas station with tanks right out of the 50's, that ain't no prop, it's for-real. (Though they stopped pumping gas five or six years ago due to the storage tank needing to be fixed up.) Really excited for this one.

Wups. Clicked wrong "reply to" link. Damn pho es.

Well, hell. Then I could *really* get my reading backlog taken care of. Win-win!

Before I posted, I searched to see if someone else had mentioned Gargoyle already. And, indeed... someone had. I really like it. It's *NOT* as powerful as (say) OpenWRT, but jeepers, it's got a nice GUI and pretty much all the features you discuss, and a decent (but not great) slate of plugins. I'd definitely recommend kicking the tires on it.

But will I? I dunno. I mean, I love playing around with computers and t-shooting, etc. Kind of like I am right now -- except getting paid for it. Yes, being able to knock off the zillions of books on my "to-read" backlog would be nice, and maybe finally getting a degree in... something. Perhaps learn some languages, and do some traveling. But I'll have a month's vacation by then, anyway, so I'm not sure I'm willing to "work at home" instead of "work at work." (And, oh yeah: my company doesn't mind me working at home. So I don't even have to sweat the commute.)

Ask me again in 20 years.

I'm replying because I modded the parent wrong, and this is the only way I know to delete a mod. I'm sorry!

I think I see the problem. I'm going out on a limb here, completely without anything other than your words to go by... but you're so willing to engage confrontationally, indeed, even looking for it. And yet you are an anonymous cipher to boot. I think you come to Slashdot to live the life you're afraid to in real life. You're clearly intelligent -- unlike you, I'm willing to acknowledge that in an opponent -- but your willingness to jump for the put-down, to leap with great alacrity to prove you're right, no matter how many disagree, and damn the facts... these all strongly suggest someone who's both deeply insecure, and deeply angry.

I'm sure you'll happily come back with some more of your snappy comebacks; you vastly prefer an argumentative stance instead of considered discourse. And that, right there, is another indicator of your anger and insecurity.

Is it the attention you desire? The need to put forth controversial opinions that you know will get responses? Are you aware that not all attention is good attention?

I ask these things rhetorically, because I don't expect you to engage; I expect you to attack, or ignore. Those are your phases; you're very binary -- and nowhere have I seen you be respectful of an opponent, so I won't even bother considering you as trinary.

I will concede, I initially found your tirades somewhat compelling; it's not often you find someone so willing to piss everyone off. But now that I've come to realize that's *WHY* you do it, it seems trite and silly. Enjoy your high-level linguistic skills, and sophomore-year social skills. I do wish you'd go somewhere where you could rant and rave to a more receptive audience; trolls are the bane of the Internet, and you most certainly qualify. But if you insist on being here, well, I can only hope your karma continues to drop. And I rather doubt you've risen to the point where the administrators bother smacking you down; I think it just falls into your whole need for importance and recognition: it *must* be them! It *couldn't* be because some of my comments are modded down...

Goodbye. I wish you the best... but I rather doubt you'd even bother looking for it. You want your lead lining.

And, no -- barring an actually thoughtful response, something I believe you're almost incapable of -- I have zero intention of reading anything else you have to say. I simply have better things to do with my time.

However, when *every single* political stance I've seen you take is of the same persuasion, well... if it looks like a rose, smells like a rose, and has thorns like a rose, it's a conservative stance. Perhaps it's your own thinking that's one-dimensional, to the point where you don't see the forest for the trees.

Though I do enjoy your attempt to smear my point by attempting to denigrate my logic. You're very good at verbal judo, and are to be commended. You'd make a fine debater. That does not, however, mean that you'd be one who used facts; I think we've already established that you're very willing to ignore them in the name of making your point. (In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, I've already pointed out several objectively factual statements you've made, the most obvious -- and demonstrable -- being your attempt to blame Obama for high inflation... when there isn't any. The others, while less concretely black-and-white, nevertheless stand.)

Though I have to commend you on one other thing as well: I saw you make a technical comment! Perhaps you are not here *entirely* for the trolling.

Valid points. I concur.

While I agree with you *in principle*, I can't agree with you as a blanket statement. If my CEO were an actual Nazi in his off-hours, or a cap-wearing KKK member, I think a) I'd be rightfully worried for how my company would be perceived based on my CEO, and b) I'd find his stances so odious that I wouldn't wish to continue being employed by him. BUT, while not wishing to be employed by him is easily solvable, I'd also hope that the BoD would share my opinions, and would force him to step down.

Furthermore, when I get hired, as a general rule, at the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for, they make me sign something about being careful when in the guise of a $COMPANY employee about what I say, regardless of whether I'm on the clock or not. While I don't know that the CEO would be forced to sign the same stuff I am, I *do* know that the CEO is the CEO 24x7, and that, by choosing that position, he really has acceded to the fact that his personal life and corporate life overlap substantially, and that one is no longer entirely distinct from the other.

So, yeah. Don't think he gets the slack. I side with the FF employees on this one.

Is that you'd almost certainly support the boycott of a company that was divergent from your political views.

Honestly, why are you even on this site? Slashdot is kinda meant for tech talk, and all you do is rant with right-wing Rushtalk.

I'm all over political discussions of a dispassionate, objective nature, but you clearly aren't. And this site, while certainly willing to engage the political side of technology, is, at its core, a *technology* site. And yet after looking at many, many of your posts, I'm yet to see *ONE* that discusses something technical. Have you noticed the tagline, "News for nerds, stuff that matters"? I'm thinking you're just here because you love trolling.

Please go away. Slashdot will be better for it.

There are many things to pick on in this administration; make no doubt about it. But several of the things you bring up are either silly or stupid.

1) Obamacare that nobody wanted; I'm sorry -- you don't like health insurance? Clearly, large segments of the population don't want it, but "nobody" is such a sweeping, wrong-headed generalization that it shows your huge bias.
2) Errr... the economy isn't recovering? Unemployment is down, the market is way up. Which metrics do you use? Yes, it could be *better*, even a fair bit better, but pretending it *isn't* is just stupid.
3) "Inflation rate that is only now beginning to hit home." WAT. After GWB left office, we haven't had inflation break 3%. Honestly, if you'd made point #2 well, you could have used the low inflation rate as a sign of a weakly growing economy. Instead, you're just speaking out your a**.
4) "Wildly expanded NSA surveillance." Citation, please. I'm not saying it's *not* true... but I won't believe it is until you prove it. What *is* true is that Edward Snowden let the cat out of the bag. Much of what he let out of the bag, however, predated Obama, and I see no particular reason to believe government snooping has changed much since... well, Hell, since before J. Edgar Hoover.
5) "Imaginary climate change." Okay, again -- screw what the politics of *anyone* is. Show me objective, not-cherry-picked proof. I'd say it's objectively demonstrable that the climate is changing; the only thing that is left to debate is whether its cause is humans or not. If you actually think the climate isn't changing, however, you may be immune to facts. Indeed, I think we've probably already demonstrated that.

Please. Informed debate is one of the things that makes this country great. Ill-informed spouting of kneejerk $PARTY talking points only shows your bias, and inability to objectively consider multiple points of view. Perhaps you don't *care* to consider multiple points of view, and that's your prerogative... but don't bother trying to ever convince anyone of anything.