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• Commented on ColorSuckr sucks out colors from online images
  Hm, now that's got my mind ticking. PHP's GD library has an imagecolorat function that gives you the RGB of a pixel on an image, so making a web 2.0 thingy with an eyedropper sampler that returns colors at a...
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: Best analysis yet of ongoing massive DDOS attacks
  4chan's mob attacks are doing you a favor by breaking the internet and showing what a teetering house of cards it is. What else is going to get people off their butts and make them fix things like vulnerabilities to...
• Commented on Time-lapse sim of Earth's land mass movement
  @27 / @28 I think our best chance for long-term survival of the species is to turn the entire planet into a space-ship and head out before the sun goes nova. This means stopping tectonic motion, cooling the planet from...
• Commented on Live feed of images being posted to Twitpic
  yup, the thumbs are now fail and clicking on the links gives you a 403 forbidden. but if you paste the link into a fresh window it works. so twitpic is blocking the site based on the referrer a shame....
• Commented on How to incorporate escrow of your keys and passwords into your estate plan
  A way to deal with this problem is to set up your digital life so that in the event of your sudden death, things that are encrypted can be lost forever and it will still be ok. Any data you...
• Commented on Chinese censorware will expose every PC in the nation of malware, ID theft, botnetting
  Interesting dilemma here. As a security researcher, do you make public these vulnerabilities so that the Chinese government can improve the software and more effectively suppress their people, or do you keep it to yourself in the hopes that the...
• Commented on Preternaturally Verbose Infant Instigates Spontaneous Outbreak of Lulz (video)
  Needs Techno Remix Nao!...
• Commented on Life of Emma Goldman on Tank Riot podcast
  To date my knowledge of Emma Goldman was limited to Maureen Stapleton's portrayal in "Reds". This podcast was interesting stuff, thank you!...
• Commented on Heartbroken cereal litigant loses suit over non-existence of "Crunchberries"
  So, who among you would eat all the crunch first and leave all the berries for last? If you time it right they are just starting to go soft, and you leave just enough milk to keep them afloat. And...
• Commented on Search algorithms are editorial decisions
  Um, no. Take off the Google goggles and try other search engines, and search engine aggregators like Dogpile. Or build your own, as has been suggested. But don't try and herd the search cats, it will annoy them and ultimately...
• Commented on Friday Night Zappa
  Frank had very little tolerance for stupid questions which he seemed to get asked by everyone who interviewed him, and he would task them on it which I always found appealing. The rare interviewer who would ask intelligent questions would...
• Commented on Kim Jong LOL
  "I cannot see who would care." I think the people downwind from the burning NK cities dropping radioactive ash on their farmland will care....
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  @40, bingo! It annoys me no end the hypocracy of having a multi-billion dollar industry devoted to sexualizing children, then throwing the book at this guy for having some scandalous drawings. This stuff can be innovated around tho. The Japanese...
• Commented on Plastics industry releases anti-cloth-bag FUD study
  I stopped using bags wherever possible. It took a little social engineering at the checkout counter: Clerk: Your purchases have to be in a bag, sir. [ 5 minutes and an intelligent conversation with the store manager later ] Clerk:...
• Commented on English schoolkids go on strike until CCTVs are removed from classes
  @38 "well, what would you do to address this 'problem'?" Have trained observers sit in the back of the classroom and evaluate the teacher's performance. This happens all the time right now. Unfortunately, not to the extent that it should...
• Commented on Drew Friedman label for McSorley's beer
  I went to McSorleys on my first adult trip to NYC. It was interesting but I didn't see the need to go again. My bar of choice was the Scrap Bar. I sure do miss it now that it's gone....
• Commented on Jesse Ventura on The View
  @15 sorry, that should have been 13/14. carry on...
• Commented on Jesse Ventura on The View
  @14/15 Typical one dimensional response. If you don't like it, get out. Nice. Maybe Jesse loves his country AND is ashamed of what was done in his name, and would rather use his celebrity to try and right the wrongs...
• Commented on Convention on Modern Liberty: final panel with me, Billy Bragg, Lisa Appignanesi, Feargal Sharkey, Paul Gilroy and Henry Porter
  "The Convention was a whole-day event in which activists, scholars, Parliamentarians, regulators, teachers, cryptographers and others." ...talked about all KINDS of neat things! :)...
• Commented on London cop's Facebook: "Can't wait to bash" G20 protestors
  @54, I wouldn't give into fear, I'd go to the show, behave, mind my own business, have fun, and if some security guy beat me, I'd have him arrested and sue the venue. I'd probably make out very well too...
• Commented on 4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish
  About 10 years ago my cousin had an epiphany, bailed on modern life, and went to live with the Amish out in Lancaster. It was great going to visit him, we'd park the car at the end of the driveway...
• Commented on CIA waterboarded individual suspects up to 183 times
  @29: Because you don't want to believe that Americans raised in freedom and democracy can do such a thing? I think any American who went through the public school system knows just how much delight bullies take in torturing their...
• Commented on Elizabeth Warren is frank and funny about the TARP trainwreck
  Her hands are intimately involved with every word she says. Fascinating....
• Commented on Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of secret government censorship lists
  I work for a company that makes web filtering appliances, and we use lots of open-source site lists for filtering access to websites (and weighted keyword filtering, which works much better). It was great these lists leaked because now we...
• Commented on Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of secret government censorship lists
  Hey Freshy: Would you prefer that Cory be impartial? I don't. He's not working for MSM, he's sounding off in a way that supports his free speech agenda. That's what having your own printing press is for you know. Go...
• Commented on Truck with raised trailer smashed into overpass
  @29 THANK YOU We had this happen to our bridge, exit 74 off the Garden State Parkway. Traffic gridlocked and I never made it home that night. It took half a year to rebuild the bridge and it was totally...
• Commented on Slate's readers submit photos about the recession
  The picture I carry in my head of the recession is the one of me holding $50,000.00 - what I would have gotten had they let the banks fail and split 5 trillion dollars among every family in America instead....
• Commented on Twitter's Silent Star
  [expletive muted]...
• Commented on Tough geometric brain teaser
  More specifically, the slope of the red triangle's hypotenuse is gentler than that of the hunter green triangle. So the top composite triangle's 'hypotenuse' is indented at the join, and the bottom triangle is pushed out at the join. Love...
• Commented on How are you coping with collapse-anxiety?
  I recommend Bucky's "Grunch of Giants" http://www.bfi.org/?q=node/406 "What we have experienced are ever larger sums of other's money being commanded by the money-makers—all at the expense of the individual human beings who do not command such sizable funds, discouraging their...