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• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  To answer my own question, their "FAQ" page is quite straightforward and explains exactly what to do when interacting with an officer. http://www.flexyourrights.com/faq Most important is the point that when you interact with an officer, and you say ANYTHING that...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  Is there a list of these "10 rules" somewhere, in a non-dramatic format? I'm actually not trying to be contentious -- I'm curious what the rules are, but when I watch videos like this, my blood pressure goes up and...
• Commented on Motorola Droid ad gets nasty
  So the Droid is just the phone for the people who hate the iPhone and Apple. Terrific! They've lined themselves up with a vocal market... ...Of literally HUNDREDS of internet whiners who are most often found complaining that nothing is...
• Commented on Arrington ends CrunchPad project
  PCWorld's contrarian article makes a good point: http://www.pcworld.com/article/183360/the_crunchpad_is_dead_who_cares.html Namely, that the project is interesting ONLY IF the price were reasonable, and even assuming that the Arrington Hype is 100% true, the best price you could possibly expect was $350-$400 --...
• Commented on Missing: Phil Agre, internet scholar
  I recall seeing Phil's work at the MIT AI Lab when I was doing similar stuff at the Media Lab, and thinking, "Well, he's done everything I could hope to do, only for-reals." http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-048.pdf Well said, "gmoke" -- Let's send...
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  Rob, I do not agree that eating a live fish is the same as eating a dead one -- but I can understand that to some people, it is. You have played a mean trick on your trusting readers. This...
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  1) Typo in headline. 2) Why? 3) No, seriously: Why Did You Post This? No context at all, just a video of unpleasant things. YAY. I got better things to waste my time doing....
• Commented on Web Zen: group show zen
  Chad Hagen has some stuff available on 20x200.com -- small art prints for $20....
• Commented on Tibetan Tantric Masters: video
  Second, I love how these Mahayana Buddhists see our human existence as a sleepwalker's dream full of disfigured assumptions and distractions. I will tell the next group of people dieing from whatever natural disaster they'll just have to wake up...
• Commented on Tibetan Tantric Masters: video
  Certain kinds of Zen are about sitting around staring at walls trying to clear your mind -- BUT almost all of the other kinds of Buddhism include much more. In the West, we would label these things: - psychology (your...
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  My college buddy Mary Lou Jepsen runs PixelQi, the company that made the screen for the OLPC XO computer, so I gotta plug them. The big news is that they promise there will be products for sale, retail, next year....
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  No, it's "The Crazy Frog" by Axel F. (which is, of course, a complete rip off of the Beverly Hills Cop theme, mixed with the sound effects of "The Annoying Thing" video.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHm8uUuT0o...
• Commented on "Star Ship" Chandelier Boldly Lights Where No Lamp Has Lit Before
  "that is a stunningly poor representation of the big E" Someone hit send before seeing the C7 "candle" bulbs in the warp nacelles. They OBVIOUSLY cry out for being replaced with either blacklight bulbs, or perhaps the flickering neon "candleflame"...
• Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
  Here's a reference on the new AirPorts on Ars Technica....
• Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
  Grant: The MacBook Pro also has more better ports: FireWire 800 and SD card slot, and an optical digital line in port (the regular MacBook "just" has an analog line in -- but both will do optical digital audio out,...
• Commented on BREATHE DEEP AND LET GO OF THINGS -- alternative to "Keep Calm and Carry On"
  I am frankly delighted at this two-verb approach to Buddhism. "For things exist by being merely labeled."...
• Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
  Typical Apple product announcement: APPLE: We've shipped a new mouse that has lasers and multi-touch, just like Microsoft's demo last month, only for reals. BLOGGER 1: It's not the tablet that we've been PROMISED for 800 YEARS!!! WAHH!!! BLOGGER 2:...
• Commented on Sidekick servers "impacted" by outage.
  I knew a few people that worked at Danger. They fled when Microsoft bought them. Interestingly enough, a lot of the same people fled WebTV when Microsoft bought THAT company. All kidding aside, I know that the Sidekick is the...
• Commented on Joey Roth's Ceramic Speakers
  Oh, and if aesthetics are really that much more important than sound to you, pay a local artist to decorate a pair of used, working computer speakers from the local thrift store. Those will match the couch better, anyway....
• Commented on Joey Roth's Ceramic Speakers
  Last year you can get a pair of stunning-sounding used studio monitor speakers for $500, because many studios are "upgrading" to powered monitors that have a built-in amplifier, and the unamplified monitors are starting to get a bit old. Mind...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  IAN70, if you're really good at flouting, in the Olden Days, they'd call you a Scofflaw. These days, they call you a Terrorist. Hope that helps....
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  Do you know what the picture on the Djarum package is? It's a NEEDLE. As in, you might as well just SHOOT THE POISONS DIRECTLY INTO YOUR VEINS. Cigarettes contain far more poison per dose than damn near anything else,...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  Also, one more brief bit of info, and one more acknowledgement: Apple has an allowance so that developers can write "any app at all" and distribute it, in limited quantities, without using the store. If you need a custom app,...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  Coop, Please read up on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act -- a company first has to be proven to have a monopoly, and then, only certain actions are prohibited. Having a monopoly is not illegal. Locking software to hardware is not...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  Dear Monopole, let me make this as clear as I can: There are zillions of phones out there, with all kinds of service plans and software capabilities. Someone above mentioned OpenMOKO, which has 100% FOSS. I can't speak for ALL...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  Also, let's put this on the table: http://gizmodo.com/5370493/apple-genius-bar-iphones-30-call-drop-is-normal-in-new-york So, is Apple lying to customers, or is ATT service really atrocious? I guess we'll find out soon,...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  I'm going to respond to your points one at a time. As you can see, I do acknowledge the problems you complain about, and I don't think Steve Jobs is Jesus or whatever. 1) You can't install just any software...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  iPhone is "anti-consumer"? Could have fooled me. It's a best-selling phone pretty much world wide, and even after people buy the phone, they spend plenty of money, on an ongoing basis, purchasing apps. But of course, this is not good...
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  Shoot, mere decades ago Johnson Smith sold these for like $2....
• Commented on ZuneHD launched, apparently
  And, for those that are watching the Zune HD launch with interest from the sidelines, DaringFireball explains, in one sentence, why the Zune HD is NOT any serious threat to the iPod Touch or iPhone: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/15/zune-translation...