Two questions: Can the guy your neighbor get a signal thru your extender? What about the kid across the street running a rogue AP and transparent proxy?

Two questions: Can the guy in the hotel room next to yours get a signal thru your extender? And, can the hotel IT staff sniff said connection? What about the kid accros the hall running a rogue AP and transparent proxy?

The next step is to make some p21 specific RNA interference molecules and shut it down in an adult, non-regenerative mouse. Then clip its ear and see what happens.
Since it also increases apoptosis, would this make a good diet pill?

We have many ways of identifying people; biometrics is only one category. Every means of identifying a person is hackable in some way. I would feel much safer if authentication were based on multiple sources. In particular, GPS tracking, bluetooth presence, facial recognition, each time you enter a password, all should be used to build a continuous track of your location, with confidence ratings as you move between various protocols. Credit card purchases, boarding an airplane, logging in at work; all should verify that your location data says that you are where they think you are, with a continuous trail leading to that location, before granting access.

Peer review. Not from the other teachers who work at the same school, but from teachers all over the state or country:
What I envision is that all teachers should log some 4 or 5 hours per month watching a video feed of a few randomly chosen teachers, and then give those teachers (and their bosses) feedback. This will lead to both nurturing the good teachers and quicker identification of those who should not be in charge of kids. Even those who are watching may learn something from seeing another's approach. Good all around.
The feedback should not be anonymous to avoid the occaisional personal connection that may arise. A bad review from your husband's ex should be challengable.

I'll reserve my "Wow!" for when he covers questions like how much can it hold at room temp., how expensive is it, can you efficiently purge the CO2 and re-use the crystal, how much does that cost, what does this stuff weigh, etc.

Your VPN was through a WiFi access point. One quick token to a google database and it knew what hotel you were in.

I was watching on NasaTV and knew when to look. I didn't really expect much, if anything.
It was Awesome! At least as bright as Jupiter, and it rocketed (heehee) right past an airplane that was on the same line of sight. I saw from about six minutes after launch to cutoff, apparently at twice the height of the houses around mine.
Awesome - I saw a real spaceship launch. I DO believe!

All these whiners claim latency will kill this before it ever starts. Guess what? FPS is not the only game category. I game all the time, but latency means nothing to games like Civ4, Neverwinter, and thousands of others. Sure, lower latency is a great goal to aim for, but this platform is a good step towards moving MMOGs onto lower powered clients. The games are just an excuse to extend their reach to more customers in a "new" way, so they can sell them things.

I'd love to comment on the format of nasaTV. I'd love to just watch it. But they don't support ANY non-proprietary formats, nor do they support watching in a browser under linux.

Major fail, especially given their inherent nerd appeal.

The Scroll Lock key WAS extrememly usefull in the pre-GUI days. Back when programming a user interface meant x-y addresses on a dumb terminal and the command line was king, Scroll Lock would pause the screen so you could actually read what was going on. Even today, the little known control-s and control-q combination (stop and start) can help you read BIOS messages and other text when the scollback buffer isn't available.

Now, everybody who voted for Scroll Lock as useless can take your GUI-abstracted high level "programming" off my lawn.

This likely to become law just in time to obsoleted by voice recognition software. Honestly, I think going to all the trouble to implement it is not worth it just for that reason. All the proponents are saying it was a wonderful investment of their time. Learning to ride a horse used to a good investment too.

And I do mean Dr. Strange, tho Dr. Strangelove was fun too.

Always tastes better with lemon. Limes are for gin and tonic.