mullingitover

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• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  mullingitover @576: If there were, as you assert, no transparency at all, this thread wouldn't exist, the entry that began it wouldn't exist, the Boingers wouldn't have fretted so long and hard about what to say, and you wouldn't know...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Faustus:"you see you and me, we differ on around step two of your grand plan. I don't think they did anything wrong, so there's no need to acknowledge screwups." I have to give credit, it's Teresa's plan, I just agree...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Hagbard:"This whole thing is a minefield. Literally any response from anyone at BB is an opening for an attack. What they get attacked with depends on what they expose." Um, sorry, no. There was an obvious right way to handle...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  "Tubman, Tillwe, Satan, Mullingitover, et al, You keep saying the same things over and over. We get your point. Do you have anything new to say? Reading your comments is like ringing Ferris Bueller's doorbell on the day he plays...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  No comments I made, no matter how tame and good-natured, got through if they contained 'violet' and 'blue'. I had a funny 'roses are red, violets are blue' comment that got trashed, and a comment in the policy post asking...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  "This has zero to do with candor, or with freedom of speech. It has a great deal to do with the Boingers not wanting to trash Violet Blue, who has no such compunctions where they are concerned." I don't think...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  "Is it okay if I mention that I find some of these comments astoundingly stupid?" - Boing Boing moderator, to audience. Oy. "Whereas Mark, Xeni, Cory, and David are getting trashed for not being transparent fast enough." I can't believe...
• Commented on Digg users revolt over AACS key
  This is very poignant criticism of Digg. Spot on....
• Commented on Electro-sensitive people want to ban WiFI
  "I wish someone would run a test on these electro-sensitive people by putting them in a room and then asking them to say when a Wi-Fi access point under a box in the room is on or off." Dude, it's...
• Commented on California may legalize Communist Party membership for state employees
  This is great and all, but until we get rid of winner-take-all voting and switch to instant runoff, it'll always be throwing your vote away to vote anything but (R) or (D). It's just the nature of the beast....
• Commented on Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law"
  Wow, so I'm an outlaw for taking photos in the LA subway? It looks so nice though...it's a shame that you can't legally take pictures of all the nice artwork. I like this outlaw business though, I'll have to do...
• Commented on Oregon continues to insist that its laws are copyrighted and can't be published
  I'm totally ok with making the laws of the state private IP, but that means the state loses the argument that ignorance of the law is no excuse....
• Commented on CauseCaller -- one-click to create a virtual phone-bank
  They should just eliminate the human factor altogether and make an app that robo-calls politicans. That would be beautiful....
• Commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  There might be some merit to the post, but it lost all credibility when it tried to tell me that fructose is 'laboratory-produced.' Might qualify as actionable libel if Pinkberry is using regular old fruit fructose and the NYT article...
• Commented on Cal State University fires Quaker for inserting "nonviolently" into loyalty oath
  What's the big deal? Just cross your fingers when you take the oath, and it's void. That's the classic oath loophole....
• Commented on US Customs <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">TSA</span> confiscating laptops
  1. Get a job working for Customs. 2. Bring a 1TB external drive to work. 3. Demand to search laptops, copy valuable intellectual property from business travelers' laptops, take home, sell to competitors or China. 4. Profit! Seriously, if you...
• Commented on UK farmer built illegal castle behind haybales
  They *think* they're going to knock it down. He hid a few canons under hay bales in the turrets....
• Commented on Haunted Mansion spiel to be scripted
  I heard there were also plans to make it completely simulated, so you just jack in and experience the whole thing straight to your cortex. I heard they were planning the same thing for the Hall of Presidents! They must...
• Commented on Netflix and HD: a DRM disaster that costs you your videos and control of your hardware
  This HD/Blu-Ray business is a sucker's game. Seriously, no one in their right mind is going to drop a penny for this stuff until a hybrid player is out. Of course by then, media-free will be more and more prevalent......
• Commented on Record industry practices revisionism about music recording
  I fully support the torches-and-pitchforks approach to the RIAA, but isn't this quote being taken out of context? I was under the impression that what happened was the copies were made, legally, but they became illegal when they were shared...
• Commented on TSA is as unpopular as the IRS -- UPDATED
  Yeah, the bullshit with liquids is exactly that: bullshit. The Israelis don't give a flying crap about your bottled water and other liquids, and they know something about this stuff. The question we should all be asking: what is the...
• Commented on What waterboarding feels like
  How exactly do we know that it's not doing any permanent damage? The drowning cuts off oxygen to the brain, which will inevitably cause cell death. Are the people who waterboard doing medical studies? Of course not, because it would...
• Commented on Cross in Huckabee's new TV ad?
  Of course it's a cross. There are no accidents in high-stakes advertising like this. Why are Christians so obsessed with this horrible torture device anyway? Do they really think Jesus is going to be happy seeing all these crosses if...
• Commented on US official threatens employees with magic
  You could've cited the next sentence, too. "The Post said Cruz denied making comments of a "sexual nature" and noted that she was cleared of wrongdoing by an internal SIGIR investigation."...
• Commented on Adel Hamad (Guantanamo inmate #940) released
  Guantanamo makes me want to fly a flag around upside down for a while, then burn it. It's fucking shameful and embarassing, like if your football team was Justice and you had to watch your team lose 58-0 to the...
• Commented on Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer's
  Poor guy...I have it too. Oh well. At least I don't have early-onset alzheimers....
• Commented on Facebook's Beacon was illegal as well as dumb
  Oh but by the way, the Netflix RSS feed probably violates this law. It's (I believe) on by default, and if you know someone's RSS feed URI you can totally stalk their movie-watching preferences. They're public, just secure through obscurity....
• Commented on Facebook's Beacon was illegal as well as dumb
  I can't believe the amount of drama about Beacon. Tres yawn. However, this post motivated me to add the Netflix app to my facebook account! Sweet!...
• Commented on ZEN graffito from Tokyo
  How do you know it's spelling 'ZEN'? It could be spelling "NIIIZ"...
• Commented on Slate's Jack Shafer on Rolling Stone drug war article
  Look, if you think the WoD is about making it hard to get drugs, of course it's a failure. We had a perfect example of how prohibition would fail with alcohol, and only the insane do the same thing twice...