That sounds like a problem you have there. That is not my experience. The makerspaces I know well in Seattle: Metrix and ALTSpace, are nothing like that. All are truly welcome and encouraged to come play. And the same for the O'Reilly makerfairs. And not via some politically correct faux-welcoming "outreach" either. We have a lot of different kinds of people, working on all sorts of different kinds of projects.

Projects similar to what you describe do happen at spaces like this, and in fact *AT* this very space.

One of the regulars at Metrix is currently working with some friends to build a UAV quad copter.

The widely reported FireSheep project was written and demoed at Metrix.

Recently a class was taught at Metrix on how to pick locks.

A team of geeks working at different space in Seattle launched a balloon to the edge of space.

Your ignorance and apathy is showing. What about trying showing up, looking at what people are doing, and doing something really cool yourself.

If only there was some sort of worldwide network of computers full of information. And if some organization would regularly read all that information into their own computers, and then index it, and give us some sort of simple UI where someone could type something like "hackerspace cleveland" and get a list of all the hackerspaces in Cleveland. Or maybe just one of the computers in that big worldwide network could have a name like "hackerspaces.org", and someone could connect to that machine via some protocol designed to carry hypertext, and find documents about hackerspaces in each city.

That would be great.

Too bad there is nothing like that.

Didn't LiveJournal have this years ago?

How's that Hope & Change working out for y'all?

It has taken Google ten years, a huge study, and suffering under what is their #1 cause of employee turnover, to learn something that is in nearly every good book on management? Most other companies can't do it because they are too stupid to be wise. Google can't do it because they think they are too smart...

If your ISP claims to have IPv6, and isn't advertising their DNS servers over the DNS IPv6 anycast address, they are stupid. If they claim they can't, they are lying. If they claim it's someone else's fault, they are evil.

Why are you believing them?

I was learning Eiffel and had been coding in Ada for a couple of years when Java showed up. I was surprised then that Sun's language designers had given us a language that was already 15 years behind the state of the practice, let alone 30 years behind the state of the art.

These are all "Cloud Providers", not "Cloud Platforms". Cloud Platforms would include Eucalyptus, VSphere, and OpenStack.

The "rules" that the judge explains to the jury are not the actual rules. Ferex, the rules about nullification, a judge will lie out of his black robed ass about.

And the metarule for dealing with judges are the same as the metarule for dealing with cops. Specifically: listen a lot, believe little, say nothing