Intellinet??

It's all about cost benefit. What is the cost to prevent outbound connections? It creates alot of work for me and something nasty is probably going to sneak out through a commonly allowed port.

What is the cost to prevent inbound connections, practically nil. If something wants in, I can make a judgement and allow it. I can limit the type of traffic or source of inbound traffic on a specific port. I don't have to trust random developer to use tight restrictions.

Allowing upnp on any sort of "secure" setting is irresponsible and dangerous.

This problem has been solved with key based authentication. You should look into it.

OpenVPN is very simple if you know what your doing. Unfortunately most SMB's don't, and they don't realize the need to pay someone who does.

Welcome to the age of virtualization and emulation.

I thought the flags were too small to be seen and I read a recent article indicating they would be bleached white by the sun by now.

If we had actually gone to the moon and left flags there.
(jk, only a true maroon would think the moon landing was fake)

Yeah, because there aren't other suppliers waiting to get a deal with Apple.

You can get enterprise class equipment under $100, although around $100 to $150 is more reasonable. The home equipment just can't keep up with higher speed connections in my experience. Sometimes they slow things down without people realizing it, sometimes they lock up and need a reset (inconvenient if I'm trying to remote in from work). I use pfsense on Alix, but mikrotik and ubiquiti are very good choices for home and small business.

List of lacking features in consumer class routers (that many would find useful)
* multiple subnets
*vlan
* utilization graphs (have you hit your cap?)
*VPN (sometimes they support an awful proprietary implementation)
*readable logs

This is more of a problem with people who don't see the up front value in someone who knows networking. Anybody who knows networking should be able to differentiate between an unmanaged, web-managed, and managed switch.
It frustrates the hell out of me to see people cheap out on the upfront cost and get upset when I have to charge them for all the time it takes to fix things. God forbid they listen to my recommendations.

All jobs are not about pay. Are you a good parent because you get paid more? Do you take care of your elderly relatives to get paid?

Teaching is about community and results. It requires a certain amount of money, but too much will damage the system.

Don't let the GOP give all our school funds back to their voters as tax rebates or dump it all into charter schools. Stand up for your community. If the school needs money, get them money. If the school needs new management, throw those bums out on their ears.

Get involved dumbass. Communities control their schools. The ones with problems are the ones where parents have ceded their responsibility so they can dive into the two income trap and/or get free daycare.

I nominate you, let's take a vote. ;)

Lawyer = 50K
compliant with Department of Labor, or state agency = free

You at least filed a complaint?

My understanding is that if the employers policies require 2 weeks notice and you give 2 weeks notice they have to pay you for those two weeks, whether they require you to work or not. I got a week of paid vacation at one place that didn't want to keep me around for the full two weeks.