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• Commented on Can't Take It With You - A Landmark Muslims in America Photo Exhibit
  Muslim?...or Ninja? You decide....
• Commented on Showdown at the 4chan corral: Doug Rushkoff
  4chan is for hackers? You might better say that 4chan is for pornography enthusiasts, or cosplayers, or photographers. Each of these has a dedicated image board. Personal creative endeavors has a plurality, yet Rushkoff buried mention of those boards....
• Commented on Books as planters
  I officially register my objection to this abuse of books. If you are to do this, please use a blank book instead of murdering an existing book (unless it was a book of exceptionally poor quality, in which case I'm...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  @69 You are still transmitting information. It is possible that two transparencies will combine to fill in one pixel entirely. One pixel of your plan will be absolutely known. The standard way of handling this is to use XOR. You...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Makes me think twice about having copies of Kodomo no Jikan. Or even Princess Maker 2 -- while you have to modify the game to access any nude images, they still exist....
• Commented on Britain's deportee detention system subjects small children to horrific abuse
  I owe nothing to any refugees. If I help one, it is out of compassion, or the hope that someone else would do the same for me were the situations reversed, but not because of some debt. We should help...
• Commented on "The speed of light sucks."
  If your compression algorithm is highly parallelizable and your hardware is designed only to handle one resolution, you could quite possibly get that sort of low-latency decompression. However, on commodity CPUs like on every desktop computer today, you won't get...
• Commented on FDA may regulate e-cigarettes
  I strongly support the use of e-cigarettes. I can't stand it when people smoke around me, due to the health effects, the stench, and the litter; but e-cigarettes take care of most of the issues....
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  When I was ten, I walked six miles home from school. Only once, though, because that took me 2.5 hours. A couple of people tried to give me rides, but I refused. It was a matter of pride....
• Commented on Researchers develop handy phrasebook for people who travel in time to the Stone Age
  I despair of linguistics ever being covered accurately. I don't spot as many inaccuracies with reporting on other sciences, but that's probably because I don't have anything better than a college level of understanding for any science besides linguistics. There...
• Commented on Your word is dead to me
  Most of my writing is in plain text, with minor LaTeX styling. That lets me use Git or Subversion or what have you with it, but doesn't force me to spend more on formatting than I want to....
• Commented on iPod Touch-controlled shooting range
  I hope that wall was bulletproof. Nothing like shooting up your own home -- or better yet, apartment complex. Also, I hope it isn't concrete blocks. Ricochets and concrete shards are not fun. For your enjoyment, it's probably best to...
• Commented on Fidget's sci-fi redefining games list
  Yeah, System Shock 2 is really scary. Forget the enemies; I walked up to a door and saw a ghost trying to go through. It started talking about how its key card wouldn't work. Scared the crap out of me...
• Commented on Bovine Beacon: Glow sticks for 24-hour party pastures
  Gee, back in my day we'd just put wet paint on the bulls....
• Commented on Rube Goldberg Machine animation from Sesame Street
  This doesn't really fit my definition of a Rube Goldberg machine -- for instance, why would bubbles rising from a vat of liquid cause a person to start playing a saxophone? It's a series of unrelated things happening in a...
• Commented on Nvidia confirms discreet GPU switching and Hybrid SLI can be patched into new MacBooks
  discreet: on the sly, inobtrusive discrete: atomic, indivisible...
• Commented on Robot Milk
  Drat it all! I was seriously hoping for "Share and enjoy"....
• Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
  Anything that's a mixture of a liquid and a solid where the solid melts at a higher temperature than the liquid evaporates would qualify. For instance, cane juice, if you boil it long enough, will turn into cane sugar and...
• Commented on Bug-In Bag: What tools for the Outquisition?
  The first concern is survival, of course. But this is a member of the Outquisition we're talking about: they survive already. They're provisioned for a journey, probably with a pack animal or two each. No item short of a cornucopia...
• Commented on "The Helio Store is Closed"
  Typo: It's "whither", not "wither", for the first....
• Commented on Dear Lazyweb: scrape video from IO9?
  Most flash video players end up dumping the .flv in a tempfile (/tmp/FlashXXXXXX, at least for youtube vids; that might be a Firefox or Flash naming convention) and just play that. Once the video's completely downloaded, you can just grab...
• Commented on America's top anti-tech orgs
  For comparison, what's the average cost and speed in NYC? Well, the fastest common connection seems to be with FiOS from Verizon; you can get 30Mbps for $140 a month. I'm not sure how you could get an equivalent residential...