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• Commented on Archive of home recordings accidentally released to Napster
  "I understand the concerns about privacy (and in fact I've taken down a file because I got a concerned email), but the people who made them *shared* them. Naivete is not a defense." Yr sns f vrwhlmng sprrty rmnds m...
• Commented on Australia's Great Firewall: just like China, Syria and other "free" countries
  Not much change there then from the time my folks considered emigrating to Australia in the 60s. The key factor in deciding against it was that it seemed it was a criminal offence to own books there....
• Commented on Techspansion drags VisualHub video converter program for Mac behind the killing shed
  I've used VisualHub for a couple of years - thought about getting AudialHub, now it seems I never will. I sent Tyler Loch a "so long and thanks for all the code" email, and he sent back a backup of...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books
  Fun? Evil and irresponsible. For her detractors, Palin's political record provides enough fodder against her. Leave her family life out of it....
• Commented on Klingon knife scares the crap out of dumb British scandal-sheet
  #18, #22, #27: agreed, but the historical asshattery of the Mail should always be kept at the forefront of the informed mind, pace #10. The Mail also excelled itself over the forthcoming Fallout 3 - check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/video_game_terrorist_doomsday/ for details...
• Commented on Gaiman on fair use
  Cory, your quote from Neil is clearly dated as originating from March 1998. You may want to clarify that in your post; it does nobody any favours to suggest, even obliquely, that a 10-year-old story is new. Next thing you...
• Commented on Retro-future space visions - "2063 A.D.," from General Dynamics Astronautics.
  Hello my baby Hello my honey Hello my ragtime girl......
• Commented on Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics
  Maidens of St. Trinian's, gird your armour on Grab the nearest weapon, never mind which one The battle's to the strongest, might is always right Trample on the weakest, glory in their plight St. Trinian's! St. Trinians! our battle cry...
• Commented on FBI to create vast biometrics database
  This will be designed to fail. They won't be keeping finger prints, iris snapshots, etc.: they'll be keeping computer records of the same. Too few "points" on a fingerprint to save time/money, and more people will start sharing the same...