I'm not debating that D-Link products aren't poor overall (most consumer hardware is). But i found that DIR-300 units with DD-WRT on it make excellent "cheap/fast" setups. Highest bandwidth setup i used them in is FTTH 10mbit and 11g wireless with WPA2. So far working extremely well.

Although brilliant and evocative, so far i don't think Amazon or Barnes and Nobles have ever even heard of the Gutemberg Project. I do agree there is a problem with limiting "old" content to circulate freely but i don't think it's part of an agenda by media moguls.

Serving the amount of content we are talking about is a massive feat. At this time there might just not be enough push for it. And yes, we _are_ going to lose very invaluable things. In the history of this civilization, the 20 years around 2010 will be a huge black hole in the records of the information age.

We have no widespread, easily replicable, established way of preserving data and we're generating more and more every day, without knowing how to practice safekeeping on the important stuff.

A sound footprint in the audible band is relevant only in extremely close range. Have you ever sat close to an F-117 "Stealth" Fighter in full thrust? It's silent only after it has blown your ear drums. What you want is Radar stealth. On top of that, Quadcopters of this size _also_ have optical stealth due to their small size.

This. Just create a truecrypt image on Dropbox and the privacy issues are solved. If there are other problems, like unsupported clients and whatnot like someone mentioned in a comment, then it might be wise to look elsewhere.

You all are completely missing a key part of the picture. Regardless of the environmental issues around nuclear waste disposal and all the arguments against coal power generation, Italy has one crucial difference with the rest of the world: Mafia. Mafia is in every aspect of the public life, especially public investment programmes and subsidies.

We have buildings crumbling and killing dozen of people, chemical plants exploding, all because of negligence tied to assigning public funds to mafia-owned companies that drain public money knowingly saving on safety measures because they are above the law and they will never pay if someone dies because of it.

Can you imagine what would happen in a power plant built using mafia contractors in the south of italy, close to rivers and farming fields? No thanks. We have far more pressing issues to solve before we can venture in something so volatile and risky.

We have a chemical chernobyl in the countryside region outside naples, lymphatic and bone cancers skyrocketing because of the widespread, systematic illegal disposal of wastes from the whole europe. Endemic corruption.

Even if i was in favor of nuclear power (which i am not, except for research), i cannot see how this technology can even be remotely safe in Italy. Italian scientists, traditionally supporting nuclear power, agree with me (cfr: Margherita Hack's claims about the vote).

This vote is not against nuclear power per se. It's against nuclear power *in Italy*, because we know we don't have the social, economical stability to tackle such a venture. The same reasons led to very harsh protests against building a massive bridge between mainland Italy and sicily. We can't really face modernization unless we get rid of this plague, and a lot of Italian people know this and voted accordingly.

Gief me that redundant now because i will make sure i deserve it. it's a FLUKE. A Hoax. A Fake. Hocus Pocus. Groundless MumboJumbo. This computer is not an actual product. It's someone with a particularly slow day at the office in need of some attention (that doesn't involve a pay cut) that pulled you a good joke. And for the record a design like that wouldn't be a flop only if it was twice as portable as the eeepc with none of the downsides. That clunky sad excuse for a k10 science project ripoff could have been made by a bored 16 dude that visited a pc modding forum for the first time yesterday by buying parts at his local Walmart. The pictures on that site have not been concocted by anyone with an even pale idea of what the words "design" (and not the fashiony meaning of the word, here i'm talking even about the bare minimum functional design issues) or "engineering" means.

And those most likely completely correct legal statements of yours (and the fact i've had national healthcare since the day i was born) are what still makes me proud of living in the old Europe no matter how shit, completely illegal, corrupt and misled my government can be. (and please note that as a citizen i'm doing whatever i can to change that)