Everybody's complaining about the weaponization of this, and I agree they don't need any more toys, but I think this is a good thing because it's a great step towards laser launching systems and away from chemical rockets.

The military may have done it but it also could be adapted to commercial usages.

Heck one thing I can think of is dismantling large ships in boneyards. This would be good for any sort of metal recycling in fact.

So is it going to freeze before it hits the top of the bore then? If not that means we're releasing whatever is in that water into our environment. That could be really really bad any way you look at it.

I'm not hopeful enough that it could release something giving us extreme life-extensions.

I mean we're going to contaminate something that's been isolated for a long long time.

Once you pop that bubble so to speak the place will never be the same. And what's the chance that there's organisms that are harmful to our current ecosystems? Can I get a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?

Unfortunately I can't a way to restrict web management to the wired interfaces on my beat up little DD-WRT'd Fonera. Unless of course my eyeballs are failed today that is.

And anyways that means I'd have to have a wire strung around just to do the management of my wifi. I can do that of course but it's damn inconvenient if I put the router in say the attic or something.

From TFA: "Although at the moment the vast majority of the keys belong to various DD-WRT firmware, there are keys from Cisco, Linksys, D-Link and Netgear as well."

Damn. I missed it. Thanks for pointing that out!

So how does this affect things like dd-wrt, open-wrt, and tomato where custom firmware is in place?

Unfortunately all too true.

I mean seriously WTF is up with that? Just because I'm over 20 years of age means I don't have the ability to innovate? I'd rather see money given to people who at least have some life experience and haven't had a chance to ever try out their own ideas, dreams, and inventions!


Yes grumpy old man is grumpy.


And while there are a million ideas out there done by people regardless of if they completed school or not encouraging people to not finish going to school just puts barriers in their way for when they DO want to innovate.

Unless you're one of the individuals that can self-learn easily you're only making it harder on yourself if you leave school.

Incidentally on some elevators if you continue to hold the floor button the elevator goes into "express" mode and skips stops to reach the floor you're pressing on the panel.

I used this to great effect while attending crowded conventions. I stopped of course when it became clear to me how much of an asshole I was being to people in general and handicapped people in particular.

That said its often disabled with a key now due to abuse.

You can order an awful lot of things over this service called...what was it?...oh yeah! The Internet!

As for what to do with the time? I can easily come up with a ton of hackish projects using internet purchased or recycled materials. Or hell he could even do something as insane as....learn to program! ;-)

After experiencing urban, suburban, and rural environments I'll take the quaint shithole any day.