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Or even this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0108TD78Y?psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/WT-AF-5v...

Did not take much google fu to find this sucker. 5v output from POE and passthrough to boot.

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POE is massively less common than 12V and you can build a 12V wifi controlled switch for less than $5.00 Anything commercial will be a very very niche device and will cost a lot.

What is more common, 120-240V AC. That is the absolute most common power on this planet. and Ethernet controlled AC switches are plentiful and easy to get.

Stop being a cheap bastard and buy one. $79.00 on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

If that is too expensive, then build one from a MSP8266 or get a better job.

I violated 3 today

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”

That's funny! I remember finding a few BASIC books in the late 1970s at my local library, but they were all oriented toward scientific and business computing. Payroll and accounting were very common, as those were the most obvious things for businesses to automate, and offer a good return on the investment of a computer.

The books back then hadn't caught up with the "fun" microcomputer revolution yet. I remember in particular Basic BASIC which an older friend told me would be the best book for learning BASIC. It had examples like finding the roots of quadratic functions.

I ended up going to Radio Shack and buying Computer Programming in BASIC for Everyone which was much more fun. Despite the picture of a TRS-80 on the cover, it was really written for mainframe/mini BASICs and gave instructions at the beginning for how to dial up with a modem and log in on your teletype terminal!

Once our school got Apple IIs, I sat down with the AppleSoft BASIC manual, some issues of Creative Computing, and David H. Ahl's BASIC games books, and never looked back!

Tell me again how Democretins are different than Republicidiots?

From a bumper sticker:

"Under Republicans, man exploits man. Under Democrats, its just the opposite."

This is common in education: people want to teach X, so they bluntly approach X.

I recently had a conversation with K.A. Ericsson--a brilliant man who has driven research in the area of learning and developing expertise--and our exchange included a minor discussion of using his Deliberate Practice in education. His interest was largely targeted at incorporating better educational techniques into the classroom, and he lamented that he only saw an improvement in *learning* and not an improvement in the long-term career of the students; I debated the merits of teaching the students the techniques of learning, rather than simply using them.

To put it simply: he found a better way to teach programming, mathematics, music, and medical diagnosis; I told him he should teach *that* *method* to students so they can independently plan their approach to new information and skills. We didn't debate so much as discuss. His largest problem in the field is the scientific one: it's ridiculously hard to measure those things, and he's a scientist and needs to formally identify empirical results. I'm an engineer: at the cost of a constant drift toward dogma (which, hopefully, the scientists can counterbalance with their research), I take pieces and assumptions such as "education improves a person's ability to thrive" and work on the individual pieces along the way, assuming that optimizing each input will optimize the output, which acts as an input to the next piece. In other words: rather than asking, "If I make people more academically capable, do they actually become more effective and advantaged in their adult lives?", I simply say, "We must give these people the ability to learn more effectively so they have more tools to use in their adult lives, thus giving them an advantage."

Now go back to the original topic: What's a good software engineering project to teach high school kids programming?

If you want to be a software engineer, you should know about planning, risk, and research. You need a cursory grasp of project management, specifically of defining requirements and breaking down the work; you don't need EVM, schedule management, human resources management, procurement, or all that other stuff. You need to learn to make decisions about architecture. You need not only languages, but methods.

People want to teach students programming languages and call it programming. "Can you construct a conditional loop?" "Can you make a class, and call object members?" They think that's the starting point. It's ludicrous, like teaching someone construction by starting them on building a small shed, instead of on the fundamentals of wood and fasteners and the proper architecture of a stable structure. Apprentices are kept under strict watch and taught as they carry out tasks of increasing complexity, not loosed on their own to build rickety hovels that pass as homes.

When I learned what little I know about plumbing, the first lessons involved copper pipe and an acetylene torch; we joined six inch lengths of pipes together with flux and solder. The construction students went on to learn about routing water supply and waste systems, using PVC and CPVC, constructing stable floors, and architecting a complete building with proper building practices. It was not about building houses, but about knowing how houses were built and why they were stable.

You must learn planning, architecture, and design patterns before you learn to build something which uses planning, architecture, and design patterns. The common-sense answer that the student can somehow force something simple to work is broken: this teaches the student bad habits of thinking, and forces them to do excessive work laboring to produce something with little understanding of how to go about it. You should focu

This is common in education: people want to teach X, so they bluntly approach X.

I recently had a conversation with K.A. Ericsson--a brilliant man who has driven research in the area of learning and developing expertise--and our exchange included a minor discussion of using his Deliberate Practice in education. His interest was largely targeted at incorporating better educational techniques into the classroom, and he lamented that he only saw an improvement in *learning* and not an improvement in the long-term career of the students; I debated the merits of teaching the students the techniques of learning, rather than simply using them.

To put it simply: he found a better way to teach programming, mathematics, music, and medical diagnosis; I told him he should teach *that* *method* to students so they can independently plan their approach to new information and skills. We didn't debate so much as discuss. His largest problem in the field is the scientific one: it's ridiculously hard to measure those things, and he's a scientist and needs to formally identify empirical results. I'm an engineer: at the cost of a constant drift toward dogma (which, hopefully, the scientists can counterbalance with their research), I take pieces and assumptions such as "education improves a person's ability to thrive" and work on the individual pieces along the way, assuming that optimizing each input will optimize the output, which acts as an input to the next piece. In other words: rather than asking, "If I make people more academically capable, do they actually become more effective and advantaged in their adult lives?", I simply say, "We must give these people the ability to learn more effectively so they have more tools to use in their adult lives, thus giving them an advantage."

Now go back to the original topic: What's a good software engineering project to teach high school kids programming?

If you want to be a software engineer, you should know about planning, risk, and research. You need a cursory grasp of project management, specifically of defining requirements and breaking down the work; you don't need EVM, schedule management, human resources management, procurement, or all that other stuff. You need to learn to make decisions about architecture. You need not only languages, but methods.

People want to teach students programming languages and call it programming. "Can you construct a conditional loop?" "Can you make a class, and call object members?" They think that's the starting point. It's ludicrous, like teaching someone construction by starting them on building a small shed, instead of on the fundamentals of wood and fasteners and the proper architecture of a stable structure. Apprentices are kept under strict watch and taught as they carry out tasks of increasing complexity, not loosed on their own to build rickety hovels that pass as homes.

When I learned what little I know about plumbing, the first lessons involved copper pipe and an acetylene torch; we joined six inch lengths of pipes together with flux and solder. The construction students went on to learn about routing water supply and waste systems, using PVC and CPVC, constructing stable floors, and architecting a complete building with proper building practices. It was not about building houses, but about knowing how houses were built and why they were stable.

You must learn planning, architecture, and design patterns before you learn to build something which uses planning, architecture, and design patterns. The common-sense answer that the student can somehow force something simple to work is broken: this teaches the student bad habits of thinking, and forces them to do excessive work laboring to produce something with little understanding of how to go about it. You should focu

This is the latest version. You can get an external antenna instead of an internal one, and it can be powered with POE (although the description isn't clear whether the module is included). This is last year's version.

These routers are indeed awesome. They have twice the RAM compared to most low end routers and enough flash to add more OpenWRT packages. With the USB port, you can add more on ext-root if the internal flash is still too small. They have freely usable GPIOs as through-holes on the board and a populated 3.3v serial port on a pin header. The one thing they do not have is a faster processor: You still only get a lowly MIPS core, so forget about line speed encryption. Without USB devices attached, these routers get by on one 1W. You can power them from a small USB power bank for hours.

Note that there is some confusion about flash memory size: There are two versions of the old model at least: 6408 and 6416, which come with 8MB and 16MB of flash respectively, but the customers who complain about getting a router with the wrong flash size mistake the size of data partition for the total flash size. If you have roughly 8MB free, then you have the 16MB version. The firmware needs room too.

This is the latest version. You can get an external antenna instead of an internal one, and it can be powered with POE (although the description isn't clear whether the module is included). This is last year's version.

These routers are indeed awesome. They have twice the RAM compared to most low end routers and enough flash to add more OpenWRT packages. With the USB port, you can add more on ext-root if the internal flash is still too small. They have freely usable GPIOs as through-holes on the board and a populated 3.3v serial port on a pin header. The one thing they do not have is a faster processor: You still only get a lowly MIPS core, so forget about line speed encryption. Without USB devices attached, these routers get by on one 1W. You can power them from a small USB power bank for hours.

Note that there is some confusion about flash memory size: There are two versions of the old model at least: 6408 and 6416, which come with 8MB and 16MB of flash respectively, but the customers who complain about getting a router with the wrong flash size mistake the size of data partition for the total flash size. If you have roughly 8MB free, then you have the 16MB version. The firmware needs room too.

This is the latest version. You can get an external antenna instead of an internal one, and it can be powered with POE (although the description isn't clear whether the module is included). This is last year's version.

These routers are indeed awesome. They have twice the RAM compared to most low end routers and enough flash to add more OpenWRT packages. With the USB port, you can add more on ext-root if the internal flash is still too small. They have freely usable GPIOs as through-holes on the board and a populated 3.3v serial port on a pin header. The one thing they do not have is a faster processor: You still only get a lowly MIPS core, so forget about line speed encryption. Without USB devices attached, these routers get by on one 1W. You can power them from a small USB power bank for hours.

Note that there is some confusion about flash memory size: There are two versions of the old model at least: 6408 and 6416, which come with 8MB and 16MB of flash respectively, but the customers who complain about getting a router with the wrong flash size mistake the size of data partition for the total flash size. If you have roughly 8MB free, then you have the 16MB version. The firmware needs room too.

The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war.

War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

In some ways, the U.S. government is the most violent government on earth. For example, the U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations.

ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population.

ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

With all respect, this guy wrote it.

Actually, its not a site. Its a book published by McGraw-Hill in 1980 by Ernest I. Abel titled... wait for it...

Marihuana, the First Twelve Thousand Years

Ah, yes, the old "General Ripper" fallacy. Everyone in the military is just a knuckle-dragging ape who thinks with the wrong head and is looking to shove other nations into the lockers during passing time every chance they get.

No, not every one of them (not even most of them), but some are and when the weapon is a nuclear warhead then things become a bit unbalanced. Read Kill Chain if you want to see how giving trained troops weapons increases the chance they'll be used (and misused). It doesn't just increase the chance, it virtually guarantees that they'll be used. It's like giving a little kid a hammers and telling them, "Now, don't hit anything with it!"

They sure do give a fuck if its THEIR civilians - their entire job is to protect those people.

Yes, but the fact is that they aren't bombing THEIR civilians, they're bombing the "bad guys" and who the fuck cares if a few million of their civilians burn in the process? They'll count it as a win, and the term they use for it is "mowing the grass".

Seriously, fuck nuclear weapons, no good is going to come of using them now that very tin-pot dictator can get his hands on one. "Oh, you blew up Shitstainistan? Fine, we'll blow up New York or LA or Charlotte!"

Nice conclusion jumping you've got there, you missed something though...

Possession of such a document is little different than having a digital or dead tree version of the Anarchist Cookbook (the buyers of which I'm sure Amazon could be compelled to release to investigators).

It would simply mean that such owners might get a second or third look to see if they are up to anything else that seems fishy, maybe even get a few extra screenings at the airport and digital checks to see if you've been chatting with any suspected/known terrorists... if so, then things could difficult for you.

I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would also like the tech companies to use such an ability for themselves, do a search for all copies Let_It_Go.mp3 with a given hash that was known to have been on a file sharing site and send them each bills... however neither means you are criminally or civilly liable.

Were you to have a copy of the plans for conducting an actual terrorist attack that happened, you had the copy before the attacks happened, and that document had limited circulation of say 50 people or so - that'd be pretty damning evidence.

Captcha: implicit, quite apropos

Nice conclusion jumping you've got there, you missed something though...

Possession of such a document is little different than having a digital or dead tree version of the Anarchist Cookbook (the buyers of which I'm sure Amazon could be compelled to release to investigators).

It would simply mean that such owners might get a second or third look to see if they are up to anything else that seems fishy, maybe even get a few extra screenings at the airport and digital checks to see if you've been chatting with any suspected/known terrorists... if so, then things could difficult for you.

I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would also like the tech companies to use such an ability for themselves, do a search for all copies Let_It_Go.mp3 with a given hash that was known to have been on a file sharing site and send them each bills... however neither means you are criminally or civilly liable.

11% negative reviews: NETGEAR Nighthawk X8

Quote: "The LVL 1 support team at Netgear took my information and had me try 2 beta firmwares that did not resolve the issue. They asked for all the devices connected to the router and screenshots with the config file. All the information was supplied and escalated to a higher LVL support group. ... My time is being used to beta test their product. They obviously know something is not right with the unit as my Actiontec GL1000 router works perfectly as does my Nighthawk R7000. The Nighthawk R8500 will lock up with no access to the internet or internal setup. All lights remain on but the unit becomes unresponsive and a power cycle is required to restore access."

I've had the same problem with Netgear FVS336G routers, random lockups. The problem: Configuration is more complicated than the manual suggests.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

Extremely negative reviews of one Netgear product on Amazon
NETGEAR ProSAFE FVS318G 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall (FVS318G-200NAS)
Customer Reviews: Average 2 stars of 5
Worked for Two Weeks, Then Nothing But Trouble
Locks up after 5 mins
both hardware and production support are horrible. I bought 2 and have to return both
Fast FW-Router when it works....
Bad firmware out of the box
Slow, solid and slow
Very ridiculous and disappointed.
Flakey administration; otherwise a good firewall for the price
Dont buy this - nothing but problems
brand new unit, updated firmware, Very Flaky. ...
Do not waste your time and money!
Quote: "Ive purchased 20 devices and many of them lock up within 5 minutes. Ive updated to the latest firmware and the issue continues. I am returning all of them. Do not buy this device."
fails consistently, less than consumer grade
Locks up twice a day
Dead on arrival
(Retrieved 12/27/2015.)

I sent those and a lot more negative reviews to Netgear Sales, Netgear Investor Relations, and the Netgear Media Inquiries email addresses. There was no reply.

If we all get together, we can end this deplorable practice in a few months. There is no reason why we have to allow this harassment to go on! It really pisses me off that most victims have to face this alone and afraid.

If you know anyone who might be a victim of this pernicious evil, or who falls into one of the demographics likely to be exploited by it, please make sure that they get a copy of the Survival Guide ASAP. It can literally change his life.

The rest of the book is pretty good too.

I can buy T shirts to the size and weight of http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-1... and get them shipped to my location, but not the laptop "not available for international shipping". And there are other laptops I can ship internationally, so it isn't an issue with the category. Same with NewEgg. I just want a 17.3 (or larger) touchscreen gaming laptop at a reasonable price, and there are none available here, and a few to choose from in the US that won't ship.

They already have a port of office for Android which is based on linux.

Office is not ported to Android. It is ported to Android with Google Play. There's a difference.

I looked at Microsoft's publisher page on Amazon Appstore. OneNote and OneDrive were listed, but not Word. I searched briefly but could not find a legit copy of Microsoft Word for Android outside Google Play Store. And the only way to get a legit copy of Google Play Store is on a device that ships with it. This leaves users of Replicant, Fire OS, and other operating systems based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without access.

Now most desktop and laptop PCs running Linux run GNU/Linux with X11, not Android. Android is more common on tablets and phones. In theory, it would be possible to compile AOSP for x86 or x86-64 run it alongside GNU on top of Linux. But you wouldn't be able to install Word because it wouldn't have Google Play Store.

Sorry but do you have a point here? You are complaining about the lack of Office on a proprietary version of Android on the Fire devices or "open source" fork of Android? Neither of those are stock Android. If you want a stock Android experience get a Nexus device from Google but the vast majority of Android phones and tablets ship with Google Play.

Android is fundamentally being developed by Google so what is your point exactly? Do you expect Red Hat Packages to work on some obscure Linux distro?

They already have a port of office for Android which is based on linux.

Office is not ported to Android. It is ported to Android with Google Play. There's a difference.

I looked at Microsoft's publisher page on Amazon Appstore. OneNote and OneDrive were listed, but not Word. I searched briefly but could not find a legit copy of Microsoft Word for Android outside Google Play Store. And the only way to get a legit copy of Google Play Store is on a device that ships with it. This leaves users of Replicant, Fire OS, and other operating systems based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without access.

Now most desktop and laptop PCs running Linux run GNU/Linux with X11, not Android. Android is more common on tablets and phones. In theory, it would be possible to compile AOSP for x86 or x86-64 run it alongside GNU on top of Linux. But you wouldn't be able to install Word because it wouldn't have Google Play Store.

Not with thermostats

I wouldn't bet the farm on that one....

I never want a fridge with a "warmer-cooler" knob again.

I have never had a fridge with one of those knobs fail to behave as expected. Meanwhile, my current fridge (which I hate) keeps "saving" me from myself by raising the set temperature of the refrigerator part so nothing freezes - Except it has an error of almost 5C, so instead everything stays slightly warmer than entirely safe.

LEDs are now $3.40/bulb.

If you are still buying incandescents at this point. . . I doubt you will ever switch from incandescents or trade-in your horse and buggy, for that matter. . .

instant-on

I think that's my number one pet peeve from incandescent fanboys. I've been using CFLs since about 2002 everywhere I can. I can't think of a single one that's taken time to come to life. The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.

I always wonder if I missed the bad old days of CFLs for whatever reason. No idea which country GP is posting from, but they'll ship to Germany from China. I mean, incandescents aren't contraband they'll seize at the border in the EU, are they? I also had no idea such a thing as vintage bulbs existed. If I ever have a private library, I think I'll be buying some of those!

instant-on

I think that's my number one pet peeve from incandescent fanboys. I've been using CFLs since about 2002 everywhere I can. I can't think of a single one that's taken time to come to life. The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.

I always wonder if I missed the bad old days of CFLs for whatever reason. No idea which country GP is posting from, but they'll ship to Germany from China. I mean, incandescents aren't contraband they'll seize at the border in the EU, are they? I also had no idea such a thing as vintage bulbs existed. If I ever have a private library, I think I'll be buying some of those!

"GM discontinued the rear door seals"

Can you make your own seals with silicon rubber?

"The door handles are wearing out and GM wants $1100 for a full set."

Toyota dealers near where we live are VERY aggressive. We needed a new window motor, found one online, and installed it ourselves. The motor cost $53, seems very high quality, and works perfectly.

"GM can't die ... fast enough." I'm guessing that's what is happening. GM is dying.

Here are Chevy Astro door handles: $12.55 with free shipping.

For people who don't want to destroy a subwoofer, you can get a shaker.

SuperKendall: Although you are right in absolute numbers -- the tide did raise all boats -- it raised some boat exponentially more than other boats, to such a degree that you now have some people that can essentially ignore periodic economic contractions, while others sink mightily in such times. Xyrus is correct insofar as the amount that the poorest got raised is negligible-to-the-point-of-ignorable compared to the amount the richest got raised. That's pretty much the whole summary of the discoveries compiled by Piketty's book that made such a splash in 2014.

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt in some areas. A few areas of corruption:

Finance: in 2008, banks were allowed to steal from taxpayers. Bank managers were rewarded with extremely high pay: The Divide. "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

Health care: The new health care system will further bankrupt the country. The ACA, Affordable Care Act, is NOT affordable. #1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Prison system: The U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations. ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population. ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

Violence: The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt in some areas. A few areas of corruption:

Finance: in 2008, banks were allowed to steal from taxpayers. Bank managers were rewarded with extremely high pay: The Divide. "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

Health care: The new health care system will further bankrupt the country. The ACA, Affordable Care Act, is NOT affordable. #1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Prison system: The U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations. ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population. ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

Violence: The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt in some areas. A few areas of corruption:

Finance: in 2008, banks were allowed to steal from taxpayers. Bank managers were rewarded with extremely high pay: The Divide. "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

Health care: The new health care system will further bankrupt the country. The ACA, Affordable Care Act, is NOT affordable. #1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Prison system: The U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations. ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population. ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

Violence: The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

A rather compelling argument has been made that widening income inequality is an inherent result of capitalism. The topic is covered in some depth in this book. Borrowing a brief summary from here:

...as long as the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g), wealth will tend to concentrate in a minority, and that the inequality r > g always holds over the long term...

To what extent this is a problem and what solutions there are can be debated. As long as you avoid debating with those who hold the insane position that all inherent effects of capitalism are good by definition.

This is why there are progressive tax systems. I thought it was obvious, what do you mean "argument has been made"? Was it a mystery why the US has tax brackets??

Highly recommended as a supplement to Piketty: http://www.amazon.com/Inequali...

Here's an excerpt from one of the reviews,on Amazon: "The author asserts that it is not morally wrong and that the conversation should be around the concept of - do you have enough (sufficiency) vs do you have the same as someone else (equality)."

This is a short book: highly recommended, along with Piketty.

Chaum is also building into PrivaTegrity another feature that’s sure to be far more controversial: a carefully controlled backdoor that allows anyone doing something “generally recognized as evil” to have their anonymity and privacy stripped altogether.

Whoever controls that backdoor within PrivaTegrity would have the power to decide who counts as “evil” - too much power, Chaum recognizes, for any single company or government. So he’s given the task to a sort of council system. When PrivaTegrity’s setup is complete, nine server administrators in nine different countries would all need to cooperate to trace criminals within the network and decrypt their communications.

So... my question would be... Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? who will appoint, monitor and document the decisions of these administrators and if necessary revoke their anointed status as the determiners of what is or isn't acceptable evil (e.g. is sharing a commercial movie evil enough to attract the attention of "the nine"... how about a casual statement calling for the non-constitutional overthrow of a government... clearly child porn would be considered evil, but what would the cut off age be, 16, 17 or 18... would planning to blow up a public facility in a western country be more evil than threatening to blow up a public facility in a country already mired in a civil war)? Will they be accuser, prosecutor, judge and jury? who will take cases to them and which legal system will apply... can they be sued in the event that they err? what will keep them beyond reproach and will their decisions be made public? will it be possible to appeal their decisions?

Lots of questions and no clear answers.

A rather compelling argument has been made that widening income inequality is an inherent result of capitalism. The topic is covered in some depth in this book. Borrowing a brief summary from here:

...as long as the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g), wealth will tend to concentrate in a minority, and that the inequality r > g always holds over the long term...

To what extent this is a problem and what solutions there are can be debated. As long as you avoid debating with those who hold the insane position that all inherent effects of capitalism are good by definition.