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• Commented on Ford truck with RFID tool tracker
  This sounds like tool DRM. Get Cory Doctrow in here stat....
• Commented on Tear-free onion engineered
  Oh great. Next thing you know we will be eating seed-free fruit....
• Commented on Sex gadget expose on Mississippi tv news (where they're illegal)
  If enough people misappropriate the term "beg the question" when they mean "raise the question," then it actually does mean "raise the question." This is how English has always evolved, and will continue to do so long irregardless of our...
• Commented on Funny mugshot of flexible faced man
  Scrambling an innocuous comment like the one I made above is pretty lame. It's especially lame considering how many posts Cory Doctrow makes per day about various freedoms on the internet being compromised....
• Commented on Funny mugshot of flexible faced man
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• Commented on Nature releases genome papers under Creative Commons licenses
  And a careful reading of the Nature release shows just how much Nature actually cares about making papers freely available: For many years, a more generous arrangement has been made for papers reporting full genome sequences...These papers are freely accessible...
• Commented on Nature releases genome papers under Creative Commons licenses
  As with most of these "open source" science publication stories, there is not a given example of what difference this will make. Are there really guys sitting in their garage working on human genetics who are a Nature article away...
• Commented on Dinosaur "mummy" discovered
  You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex....
• Commented on Brits! Petition the PM to stop national children's database
  I'm not in favor of national databases by a long shot, but it would really help to get people to sign the petition if the arguments "against" were a little bit clearer and more specific. Instead the post says, "but...
• Commented on Schoolteacher in Sudan on trial for naming teddy bear Muhammad
  Enoch_Root: I agree w/what you are saying. My only point was that we should be careful to look at ourselves before we (rightfully) condemn what has happened in Sudan. What would happen here? Obviously not lashing. No jail time. But...
• Commented on Schoolteacher in Sudan on trial for naming teddy bear Muhammad
  This might also be of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_Kingdom Although it looks like the last time it was seriously enforced was in the late 1970's when two men were fined, and one was sentenced for publishing a poem, The Love that Dares...
• Commented on Schoolteacher in Sudan on trial for naming teddy bear Muhammad
  Please tell me you are joking? They make sex toys in the shape of the cross here and Andres Serrano does not seem to have been lashed or jailed by anyone for Piss Christ to mention a couple examples. Neither...
• Commented on Schoolteacher in Sudan on trial for naming teddy bear Muhammad
  Unlike Sudan, we in America have no laws against blasphemy. However, I am certain that this woman would face at least as hard of a time in the US if she named a teddy bear Jesus....
• Commented on 2007 New Yorker cartoon similar to 1984 Far Side cartoon
  Some New Yorker cartoonist was on this week and said that one of his cartoons was placed in the caption contest in the back of the issue. The winning caption was the exact same caption that he came up with....
• Commented on Wired Science debuts tonight
  This show seems pretty cool, but I'm a little disconcerted by the blatant corporate sponsorship of a show on PBS. I realize that The News Hour is heavily subsidized by ADM, but it's not as though the show is called...
• Commented on University student tasered at John Kerry Speech (video)
  It is sad that this kid asked good questions (well, two good questions), the most important of which (voting fraud in 2004) is still not being properly addressed....
• Commented on Man attacked by owl
  I'm sorry, but this is not a news story. I have been attacked by birds four times now. Once skateboarding, twice while running, and once while waiting for the bus. They usually just kind of brush up against your head,...
• Commented on TSA: "Sir, this is an improvised electronic device."
  I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think it is a good thing you aren't allowed to bring circuit boards or resistors or whatever it was this guy was trying to bring. Send it in the mail....