I am so glad that I grew up in the 3dFX Voodoo days for my gaming. The cards were relatively cheap, and spending $200 on one seemed like a huge sum of money. Like, this-is-your-only-Christmas-present money.

Upwards of $1000 for a consumer-grade video card? I've spent less on road-worthy vehicles.

So, a different kind of joke then...

Then I think we ought to at least give him Emeritus status!

They buried all the local infrastructure lines last year in my area. Power, communications, gas.

That actually could be a problem in a flood. Outside Plant techs are supposed to use sealed splice cases for telecom, but high voltage stuff is probably not sealed against immersion, so if the right vaults flood then the power goes out. On top of that the transformers are all at ground level too.

My neighborhood has buried electrical and low-voltage, but the main distribution lines to the neighborhood themselves are above ground. This seems like a good compromise, keeps the bulk of the neighborhood looking nice but means that if one neighborhood takes a hit it many not knock out otherwise-unaffected neighborhoods.

I think DNF's release was a product of some new company executives that took over Apogee not realizing that it was supposed to be a joke...

That depends on which Natalie Portman movie... If it's Léon, eew...

I think that this is more of a "government snitches get stitches" kind of thing, where one assumes that all functions of that organization are bad.

In my view, the problem is that since the police are the only official authority to take such crime-related complaints to in the first place, this leak punishes those that are simply trying to get justice served, who have no other authority to take their complaints or other information to.

On another note, isn't the point of "Anonymous", written into the name and everything, that there is no real structure, that there are no real decision makers beyond everyone individually choosing what they're going to work on, and if they're going to participate with an idea that someone else has? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare "Anonymous" the entity as a medium through which individuals can collaborate for their own projects?

I don't remember enough about the Fidonet nodes that I had access to, but the local BBSes were Stonehenge BBS and Magrathea BBS, both in the Phoenix area.

Stonehenge ran on Wildcat, and was interesting in part because it had the longest un-rolled Tradewars game going, with only two real players left, and not enough resources in the universe left for one to defeat the other.

This is Yahoo, not Earthlink!

Then try looking at high voltage manufacturers and at conference room furniture. Leviton, Legrand, and Hubbell all make electrical devices meant for installation in furniture.

I also suggest visiting your local college or university library. They're probably already using this stuff, and will have solutions for both power and data in-place. Take a picture of what you like and look for it on those manufacturers' product catalogs.

I've found that very little is actually new. There have been tablet computers for some time. There have been wearable computers. There has been "social media" since the days of Fidonet. We had "SMS" fifteen years ago with bidirectional alphanumeric pagers and TAP.

Very little is new, it's just reinvented again and again and again. And again, and again. Accept this and just do what you need to do. Eventually you'll come to understand it and won't be stuck with some weird, antiquated version of Firefox running on your Debian 2.4 box because you refuse to change. It doesn't friggin' matter.

Maybe all that he has to do is to get a kiss from the pretty girl...

After all, it worked for Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure.

Maybe Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase can make a movie about it...

And make sure that you keep your helmet handy...

They could all be Climate Scientists!

that could be their secret...