The downside of heirloom mechanical watches is you usually can't afford them until you're middle-aged, so you don't get to benefit from their lifetime build quality for very long. And likely your kid will just sell your prized Aqua Terra to some middle-aged bargain hunting watch collector.

I was recently looking to get a new router to replace my old D-Link DWL-2100AP & DI-604 combo and I saw that WRT1900AC and wished it was available.

I ended up getting a refurbed D-Link DIR-651 for $12.

The WRT1900AC is on $250 on the Linksys store site. And PCWorld gives it a pretty decent review, with caveats, and out of the box firmware.

Well, they gotta pay for that deal with Comcast to stop throttling their streaming service somehow.

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Got it right on the money!

Yup. Many of the early Unix folks were liberal arts majors who fell into computer administration, then learned to code.

A well-rounded education leads to looking at problems from different perspectives. Who wants to be blinkered by specialization?

Those who choose specialization, typically, are in it for the money.

Tax day...? Tax day? Tax day! Oh shhhhiiiiiiii....!!!

And this is the problem, isn't it? Corporations shield corporate officers from criminal prosecution. The is the reform that needs to happen in the U.S., and the world.

Criminal acts perpetrated by corporate agents need to be prosecuted. The agents, and their managers, up to the top level held responsible and subject to the criminal penalties.

Or, at the very least, if we're going to continue to wrong-headed assertion that "corporations are people", then corporations need to be held accountable. If the "corporation" commits a crime that a human would be sentenced to a prison term for, that corporation should be stopped from doing business for the time of the sentence. No production. No trade. No accounts receivable/payable activity allowed. Dead stop.

Corporate acts that result in human deaths, means the corporation gets the equivalent sentencing, whatever the normal human sentence is.

One of the huge problems in the geek community is the propensity to assume other people are stupid. Despite it's being true in many cases.

This is, typically, a coping method for self-esteem. That is, if you assume everyone around you is an idiot, then you feel better about yourself. Which is fine, as far as it goes.

It becomes a problem when it causes you to become blind to your own ignorance.

Technological and scientific expertise does not make one a whole person. How many of us bemoan our lack of dates? How many of us have issues with social interaction?

Elite coders often are completely ignorant of law (and vice-versa). A psychologists may not know his browser from his OS, but he, or she, may know how to help you cope with the loss of a loved-one. Etc.

The point is, think carefully before pointing your finger at someone and crying, "Stupid!"

"Assault rifle"? Or butch looking semi-automatic rifle? 'Cause I think those are legal. An assault rifle with selective fire options semi/busrt, or semi/full auto, are illegal. But I'm betting this is the usual hyperbolic "assault" rifle, an AR or AK variant in semi-auto. Which I get really frickin' sick of hearing. And I'm a commie-pinko liberal.

You could set up another server with 20TB (or more, for versions) and ssh rsync with a shell script & cron (or whatever) job. (Linux box, obviously). I did this for years, using keychain for authentication between servers.

Now we've switched to Windows Server, and I've got to find a way to replicate it using Win. Slow going.

Do they... at least give 'em a cup of juice after? And a cookie?

Of course the thing about justice is, does the punishment fit the crime?

I mean, I suppose you could go ahead and get all medieval about this, but what exactly happens when someone points a laser pointer at an aircraft? We're talking laser pointers, right? Not industrial lasers that can cut through stuff, right? Not sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads? Laser pointers, they don't seem like that big of a threat. They're not very precise either, so...

Are we talking about knocking out navigation, disabling hydraulics, burning a hole through the windows, disrupting communication? Or are we talking about an annoying glare, like at a rave, where the pilot could just look down at her instruments until the plane was out of range?

I bet a hefty fine would work pretty well.

You forgot "honest". A lot of pleas for an "honest" man. "Honest" about what?!

Yeah... I should have said vi.

No wonder Stark Industries is so successful. If Tony can modify Lego code to control an armored flying suit, imagine what he could do with... I dunno, the source code for... Emacs!