"Flying Coffin." Interesting nickname. In my home country it was called the Widow Maker. Erich Hartmann, the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of air warfare, called it fundamentally flawed and unfit for service. Lockheed's money caused his superiors to force him into early retirement. 115 German pilots were killed in non-combat missions while piloting the F104.

Ohhhh, poor AT&T. Your regulator has some teeth and is preserving the bit of competition that still exists in wireless? We all feel so very very bad for you.

After all these years, I still consider the WRT54GL to be the best wireless router for home use. I don't know if that's impressive or sad.

Consider giving Tomato a spin for firmware. Very user friendly, especially for slightly advanced uses like bridging.

Bald-faced lie. Sorry, I'll stop now.

Everybody's a critic, including myself. So you're about to have to read some strong responses. But please keep in that, IMHO, there's still no place on the Web like Slashdot. So thank you for keeping it together, warts and all.

Linksys has always been a good solution for my SOHO needs. My short forays into D-Link and Netgear were both disappointments. I'm now running a couple of WRT54GL with Tomato on them. This is my favorite network yet. I may be missing out on fancy 'N' speeds, but my network works and works right every time day in and day out. I'll do with 'only' 54Mbps for that.

Not necessarily. The Fed could sterilize the move by selling off an amount of Treasuries equal to the value of the coin and destroying the money it receives. Then the money supply would be unaffected. Effectively the Treasury would be proxy borrowing by having the Fed sell Treasuries, which have already been counted against the debt limit, instead of selling new Treasuries itself, which it cannot legally do.

It's only inflationary if the money supply is increased.

I believe the technical term is Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

That was cool, but when clicking the link I really, really wanted to see quicksort done as a dance. Curse me and my expectations.

Anybody know of any entertaining visual representation of quicksort?

So in essence, the complaint is that Cox appeared more competent than an ordinary citizen is allowed.

This is the natural outcome of 'publish or perish.' If keeping your job depends almost solely on getting 'results' published, you will find those results.

Discovery is more prestigious than replication. I don't see how to fix that.

Annually, just to be safe. Others will be Googling you, so it's important to know what's out there.

Who'll want to create apps for it?

How'll that make Facebook any money?

All countries are referred to as "developed." It is now politically correct to divide them into more developed countries (MDC) and less developed countries (LDC). Ah, progress.