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• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  This isn't surprising but it's still sad. My nephew was suspended after he took an empty shell from his dad's rifle and put it on a keychain on his backpack. His dad was impressed with his son's injunuity. The teacher...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  Step 1: Create mediocre but possibly controversial film Step 2: When it doesn't get picked up and sold cry foul Step 3: Profit!...
• Commented on Video of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan
  @21:Mermaid: My post wasn't meant to be personal but if you want to take it there feel free. It's easier to get offended and angry, good luck with that. Wikipedia/wiktionary make great litumus tests. You may feel free to peruse...
• Commented on Video of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan
  Mermaid: Maybe you should review the definition of dumb. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumbness "The state of being dumb (either mute or dim-witted), that is, not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism or from an inability to speak." Lots of dictionaries don't include the...
• Commented on How to incorporate escrow of your keys and passwords into your estate plan
  Create a file with your passwords, encrypt it using your wife's public key and your lawyers public key. You could also have an alternate version that was signed with your lawyer + one other person (sibling maybe?). Then you can...
• Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
  Cory, what about bayesian analysis? The iranian revolutionary guard doesn't need to know the contents of your traffic to arrest you and throw in you in a deep whole, they just need to know that you're trying to hide something...
• Commented on Military attorney: Waterboarding is "tip of the iceberg"
  I love that this story comes right after a post on an 1800's surgical kit. Context fail....
• Favorited BBtv: Aquabats! Supershow! sneak preview (animation, music) on Boing Boing
• Commented on People who use barrels to catch rain from their roofs breaking law, says State of Colorado
  A lot of states of laws very similar to this. Its the same in Utah. Someone recently a car dealership was trying to use rainwater to clean cars (thought they'd be green) but was stopped. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4001252...
• Commented on Viagra orgy leads to man's death
  Well, as far as I understood Viagra causes a stress response in the body making blood vessels constrict (hence erection). The active chem in Viagra is pretty well targeted but I would think that if you took enough it would...
• Commented on Easy Encryption
  If you really want to protect your drive because you think the NSA is willing to spend tons of money to get at your data you need thermite http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/?thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/ :) Also, I use OS X and keep an encrypted disk...
• Commented on Mysterious "roar" from outer space
  FTA "Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe." Sounds like the real discovery is radio waves that travel the speed of light! That would...
• Commented on Actor slits own throat accidentally in suicide scene
  Now he can always say that he is a method actor....
• Commented on Stem-cell trachea transplant was endangered by EasyJet: "your cell culture is a security risk"
  @Tamu I assume the team of scientists that were supposed to give you a sense of irony were also stopped by airport security?...
• Commented on Prop 8 - The Musical -- starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, and many more...
  @JesseO As another CA resident, I agree with #3: the No-On-8 people didn't seem to have any sort of message whatsoever. I'm sure it didn't help that they were outspend to the tune of something like 500 million to 1,...
• Commented on Beauty mask instructional video
  someone please remix this with villain voice overs and creepy music...
• Commented on Soviet bunker as theme park
  @#6 MARCELO Lithuania is probably a really nice place to visit if you're white. DO NOT GO IF YOUR ARE BLACK. Lithuania is probably one of the more racist place on earth and you WILL GET JUMPED. This theme park...
• Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
  Fake Sarkozy says really quick in french while he's talking about hunting "on peut tuer les bébé phoques aussi!" or "we can kill baby seals too!" Poor Palin couldn't understand 90% of what he said....
• Commented on Palin's nightmare
  @ANTINOUS My comment is meant for both sides. Though you are right that it applies more to Obama than McCain. I think that's because McCain supporters are only his supporters because they don't like Obama whereas people genuinely believe in...
• Commented on Palin's nightmare
  Palin is in some ways right, Obama will not give us a smaller government and he hasn't shown a strong commitment to protecting our rights and freedoms. Then again, neither has McCain. They both voted for FISA and neither of...
• Commented on NSA enjoys eavesdropping on US soldiers' phone sex calls
  Think about! Those soldiers could be terrorists talking in phone sex about their terrorist plans! what a joke......
• Commented on Homosexuals should carry warning tattoos, says London Stock Exchange chaplain
  "fellatio kills" lol We should force all shirts that could show cleavage to read "Breasts cause shin splints!" That way anyone with way word eyes could be reminded of the terrible danger of breasts....
• Commented on Lost: condom mobile
  So if they found their condom mobile without equipment doesn't that mean they accomplished their goal? Condoms distributed to the people! Kind of like a robin hood staring ron jeremy!...
• Commented on Neuros open set-top box lets you crowd-subtitle the presidential debate
  #3 & #5 Because the set top box is grabbing the chat from the net it's not subject to any of those pesky FCC regs. Plus you opt in or out of the room so I don't think there is...
• Commented on My-- *Our* BoingBoing Future
  @rushkoff my first post was serious :) I don't really think there is enough detail on how this would work is the only thing or if it necessarily has a place on boingboing. On some level it seems like you're...
• Commented on My-- *Our* BoingBoing Future
  My only question is when do I get some whuffie and how do I start or join an ad-hoc?...
• Commented on You deserve a medal for your many victories
  #10 Bobsyeruncle - You beat me too it! You really are old, old, old school!...
• Commented on Video of a guy who makes his own vacuum tubes
  ooo, wouldn't it be cool to have a big steampunk style calculator built using vacuum tubes?...
• Commented on CALL YOUR SENATOR: Stop proposal to make taxpayers responsible for MPAA's copyright claims!
  @JONATHAN_V You forgot option C: RIAA uses legal methods to pursue copyright claims Every other industry enforces it's own copyright, why? Because they know their IP the best. Are we going to train a special unit to understand the intricacies...
• Commented on Sandwich bag has fake mold printed on it to discourage thieves
  @SEKINO Indeed you should. When I started working at my current employ I bought a weeks worth of sandwhich making stuff, really good turkey and cheese and stuff. I put it in the fridge and went back 2 days later...