If ever we needed a hero to come back to save this sorry site...

You don't need a pilot. You don't need in-flight service for a 30 minute flight. You'll need highly skilled baggage handlers. People and their luggage will be charged by weight. You need security guards (we'll call them flight attendants). And you will need an army to protect the rocket technology from falling into foreign hands. And you'll need a hefty insurance policy for when it goes boom.

I'm definitely not convinced DVRs account for much of anything, percentage-wise.

I only watch DVR. I may stream on comcast on-demand once in a while if there's a new show I may want to try out. But if it is something I may watch regularly, I'm going to record it and watch it on my schedule -- without the bloody commercials. I don't have much time for entertainment TV. I'm just as likely to stream a tutorial or MOOC video on Youtube.

The information security professionals should define security standards, security auditing standards, and security reporting standards, much like we have in the financial realm, for all publicly traded companies. And they should lobby the SEC and Congress to mandate that these be filed with them just like quarterly financial statements. Actually, its far more likely that we can get the Europeans on board with this, and then it will eventually trickle down to the US.

The poster you are replying to seems to be lacking some perspective. $140K it not "lower-middle-class" in any part of the US. It may be "less than average" in a few select ZIP codes, but in any major city, including SF & NYC, it still counts as firmly middle-class or above. He may feel average compared to his peers, but that's what happens when one has above-average peers.

Need something like that to continue to use the f5 VPN plugin. Seems to be what f5 is recommending for their Linux users. They still don't have a reasonable replacement for that POS plugin they distribute.

As many have already pointed out, the number of foreign students at U.S. universities is astounding, especially at the sort of universities likely to get this funding. You'd be doing nothing more than teaching our adversaries how to attack us. This should be taught at military academies and via specialized ROTC training.

Specialized ROTC training for computer engineering grads (none of this namby-pamby CompSci shit) will provide college funding for students and a ready-made qualified talent pool for the military to draw from.

Anyone who ever seriously considered Intel's "maker" products for embedded use (as I did) would quickly find that they were power hungry and over-priced. Either one of those problems would be death in this market.

Marketing can cover a lot of sins, but these together are really hard to overcome. "Let's market the shit out of this shit" only really works when aimed at consumers or executives. Makers are engineers. They can smell the bullshit from miles away.

It's a healthier marketplace without such inferior offerings in it.

I pity the poor guy with the email address "foo@example.com".

We've got plenty of individuals ready to go to Mars today. We've got .01% of the funding necessary.

SparkFun sold these products. Do you think you were going to get a critical review about this product from one of their larger resellers? Of course SparkFun is going to present them as something exceptionally good. The purpose of those videos to to advertise the products in them.

Many times when people get a job at Walmart they are given food stamp and welfare forms during orientation.

Where is this claim backed up?

What has become of this site?

RTFM. Wiser words were never acronymized.