They _are_ the original series. Same sets, same costumes, same props, just a different cast.

It's not a "reboot" or "reimagining", it's actually an attempt to continue the original Star Trek as though it had never ended. While there naturally are some differences in writing style, the similarities to the original series are amazing.

If you liked Star Trek (1966), watch it. If you preferred Star Trek (2009), then it may not be your thing.

$ man rm

Where's "rm --preserve-root" when you need it?

You may want to read Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" (Or watch the movie "Infinity", with Matthew Broderick as the famous bongo player if that's more your thing) for another example of this. Being able to apply research skills isn't something unique to any one field, and having only one patient to worry about can make things a lot clearer.

It's not about being unable to communicate The use of square brackets is about ethics in journalism.

Or, more to the point, proper use of quotations as described by most style guides in the English speaking world.

This means that North Korea is VIOLATING RFC 1918! Forget all that other stuff, this must be stopped by any means necessary!

I think you've missed the obvious reason. A desktop takes up too much space on the table at Starbucks.

True, but Louis Wu is more quotable than Gil the Arm.

"It was a standard surgical job. Owen could have had it done anywhere. A hole in his scalp, invisible under the hair, nearly impossible to find even if you knew what you were looking for. Even your best friends wouldn’t know, unless they caught you with the droud plugged in. But the tiny hole marked a bigger plug set in the bone of the skull. I touched the ecstasy plug with my imaginary fingertips, then ran them down the hair-fine wire going deep into Owen’s brain, down into the pleasure center.

No, the extra current hadn’t killed him. What had killed Owen was his lack of willpower. He had been unwilling to get up.

He had starved to death sitting in that chair."

-- Larry Niven, "Death By Ecstasy", 1969

By the post secondary level you wouldn't have noticed as much, but in K-12 gifted students whose needs are not being met will frequently exhibit poor academic performance. If it's an urban myth, then it's one which the New York State Education Department has fallen for.

"Current addiction is the youngest of mankind's sins. At some time in their histories, most of the cultures of human space have seen the habit as a major scourge. It takes users from the labor market and leaves them to die of self-neglect.

Times change. Generations later, these same cultures usually see current addiction as a mixed blessing. Older sins -- alcoholism and drug addiction and compulsive gambling -- cannot compete. People who can be hooked by drugs are happier with the wire. They take longer to die, and they tend not to have children.

It costs almost nothing. An ecstasy peddler can raise the price of the operation, but for what? The user isn't a wirehead until the wire has been embedded in the pleasure center of his brain. Then the peddler has no hold over him, for the user gets his kicks from house current.

And the joy comes pure, with no overtones and no hangover.

-- Larry Niven, "The Ringworld Engineers", 1980

You could save even more time and effort by using rlogin with a very liberal hosts.equiv file.

Or were you suggesting that every compiled version of dropbear has already implemented all of stribika's recommendations without any need for additional configuration? If so, feel free to elaborate on that claim.

...a better way of dealing with the need for leap seconds?"

Well... It could be worse. The last time we let the clocks go off we lost almost two weeks trying to fix it.

Let's just keep up with the leap seconds so that nobody has to cancel Christmas again.

As a dedicated audiophile I wouldn't touch this product unless it came with directional audio cables (honestly, half of you plebians have yours plugged in backwards!), headphones with integrated vacuum tube amplifiers, a solid gold power cord to preserve the fidelity of the charging signal and a place to put my Shakti stones. Not being able to install my own high performance teak knobs is also a big problem.

I don't know what Sony is thinking here.