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• Commented on Photos of a furless bear
  Or they will begin walking on their hind legs ......
• Commented on A blog (and book) about nothing
  As D.T. Suzuki once said about Nothing: "It's very hard to understand. Thank You."...
• Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
  Note to Shanghai: Modern, international metropolitan adults recognise that allowing one's citizenry the /freedom/ to wear their pyjamas in public is much more /honourable/ than instituting a fashion police. You only "lose face" for doing this silly, censorious and petty...
• Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
  Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advice. This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between it and any persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. I am not compensated by...
• Commented on Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple
  Unfortunately (for his legal reasoning), marriage licenses are issued to INDIVIDUALS and not to ethnic groups nor ethnicities. C'mon! He's not racist! He's ethnic-groupist! Or black-white-cultural-difference-ist! But totally not racist. The race of the applicants was totally not considered. No,...
• Commented on EFF comes to the rescue of Texas Instruments calculator hackers
  Texas Instruments' likely interest in attempting to remove those keys from the public view is this: Someone with those keys, and a copy of Texas Instruments' OS for their calculators (freely available via TI's website), would be able to counterfeit...
• Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
  As an American, allow me to apologise to all the people who have had bad experiences with our TSA; I might not have the authority to make it official or to do anything about it, but those experiences ought not...
• Commented on American woman marries auto-rickshaw driver
  Awesome!...
• Commented on UK Border Agency's pseudoscientific "race-detection" DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts "horrified"
  This genetic testing is clearly necessary so that they may identify and handle appropriately those who can communicate with midichlorians, those who are able to interface with Ancient technologies and can defend the Earth from the Wraith, those who are...
• Commented on Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers' viewing data
  Explicit laws beat EULAs and policies every time....
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  So, I know this guy. This guy is American. This guy is also an inventor. This guy invented something that, when you look at it, you smack your head and think "Why the hell didn't /I/ think of that?". It's...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  Glenn Beck is a public figure. Defamation is harder to prove for a public figure. No matter if the person is or is not a public figure, making a statement - regardless of context - that is independent (and domain...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  Glenn Beck is a public figure. Defamation is harder to prove for a public figure. No matter if the person is or is not a public figure, making a statement - regardless of context - that is independent (and domain...
• Commented on UK police watchdog finally gets off its butt to investigate terrorism detention-and-search of children, theft of electronics
  Vimes....
• Commented on Meet the Hon. James David Manning, PhD.
  Someone has to say it: Countdown to 4chan exposing him to be an undercover FBI informant / COINTELPRO operative in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ......
• Commented on IT restrictions hurt productivity
  Farhad Manjoo has moved me, emotionally. This is dead-on correct....
• Commented on Neo-nazi hate blogger paid by FBI to incite, says attorney
  There'll be no living with the neo-Nazi anti-establishment revolutionaries after this....
• Commented on TED Talk: Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
  Every human evolved from spending time in the water. The last I checked, each of us spends roughly 39 to 40 weeks of our lives -- contiguously -- surrounded by water. We're just not adapted to living independently in the...
• Commented on Bike seat sports a beard of bees
  Smoke 'em until they swarm elseplace - and take precautions against setting fires and these being Africanised bees....
• Commented on Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate.
  One might also wonder how it was printed using what appears to be Microsoft's commissioned variant of the Times New Roman font....
• Commented on CLIQ and other "unpickable" locks pwned at DefCon
  The electromechanical lockout mechanism on the lock merely prevents the cylinder from turning; It doesn't mechanically lock out the pins from being set, and is in-and-of-itself similar to a pin - this attack vector is in fact "bumping" the lock...
• Commented on Photos of unusual animals
  Lower Right: "Same thing we do every night, Pinky ..."...
• Commented on Amazon refuses to say when it will delete customers' books from Kindles
  It's No Child Left Behind being enacted - Amazon knew that each of those copies of 1984 and Animal Farm were bought by school children, and knew that they had reports to write about them, and knew that they had...
• Commented on New black spot on Jupiter -- from comet, asteroid?
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• Commented on Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
  Some said it would never happen; I get to go beat them with the "I Told You So" stick. It's lonely being right all the time....
• Commented on Soldier won't go to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe Obama is the president of the United States
  Can I be the judge that tries his case? "GWB ordered the deployment of your unit to afghanistan while in office. Case closed. Next!"...
• Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card
  Get the cash advance, and you wouldn't need to run from the police; you'd OWN them. And most of the United States, too. --- It's not in Visa's favour to decline cards on overages: Then they can't confiscate the remaining...
• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  It [Firefox] may be approved for the intelligence community, but the intelligence community is Other People's Secrets. The State Department has OUR secrets. If you put a /tape recorder/ next to a State Department computer, guys in badly-fitting suits show...
• Commented on Rumor: Apple netbook-tablet-thingie in October
  musicalwoods: Designers of cell phones and other "appliance" mobile computers are forgoing the Atom because -- while it is quite good at power consumption as compared to a desktop or server CPU in and of the CPU itself -- the...
• Commented on Cheap facts: what happens to science fiction when knowing something can be done and doing it are nearly the same thing
  There is, indeed, a huge amount of misinformation available. Thus the value of a particular skill: Critical Thinking. The title of the article includes the word "Plausible" -- for people who have been taught for even a fraction of a...