Nato Welch

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• Commented on iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult
  For the record, I have no idea what the point was that he was trying to get across. Score one for Ignite!...
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  It sounds like dimensions 6 and seven are being described as having the same relation to the universe as dimensions 4 (time) and 5 do to a person. Different people don't merit their own dimensions of time - they use...
• Commented on Naomi Klein on social change
  Did anyone else find the pre-play ad (mine was for Pfizer) and the interstitial happy music creepy in this context? Couching Klein's answers in this manicured, pop-sugar commercial format seems to take all the force out of her critique. Or...
• Commented on Difference between feeling secure and being secure
  It's like birth control; it gives us the feeling of having reproduced, without actually having done so....
• Commented on HOWTO launch-prep the Space Shuttle
  What do you do in your 501's?...
• Commented on Wikihistory: sf story about the revert-wars among time-travellers -- "everybody kills Hitler on their first trip"
  Wouldn't this be fascinating as a serialized "fake" website?...
• Commented on America's new subprime shanty-towns
  SHRUBURBS!...
• Commented on Mother Jones on TV's Solitary
  Sounds like the job market, to me....
• Commented on Rudy Rucker versus the Singularity
  I don't think I've seen so many straw men on one web page in my entire life. Doesn't anyone ask questions instead of making assumptions, anymore?...
• Commented on Complaining about companies is part of the market
  Wait, I get it. It's not that we shouldn't complain because it doesn't help them; but that we shouldn't complain because it DOES. I understand, now. ;p...
• Commented on Jackass sprays graffiti on glacier
  Question: was the art any good? I sense a new business model; sell ads on glaciers. The money can go to climate change research, and remediation. Wouldn't it be neat to be able to create a layered, claymation-style animation that...
• Commented on Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
  Savored Slack. Loved All. Prefer myself....
• Commented on Teenager hacks public train control system
  I'll give you one guess how many people will be held accountable for designing & deploying a system this easy to exploit for a system this easy to cause injuries with....
• Commented on Favorite book roundup
  Any time my laughter prompts someone to say, "Oh, you think I'm kidding?" I always respond "No; I just think it's funny!"...
• Commented on Second Life CTO Cory Ondrejka leaves the company
  This is worrisome; a Free Software license for the server code is the single most important thing for me right now. But, after digging, I did find this bit on Nov 21st by Rosedale: "Second, we need to keep opening...
• Commented on America's top anti-tech orgs
  "The U.S. government has taken a largely deregulatory approach to the broadband ISP market, based on a belief that competition will compel large ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast to sell broadband at the speeds and price points that consumers...
• Commented on ProPublica -- new investigative journalism org.
  "ProPublica will focus exclusively on journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them. We will be non-partisan and non-ideological" Not...
• Commented on New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux
  Because if there's anything a tech mogul hates worse than his own customers, it's his competition...
• Commented on Woman jailed for serving salty burger to police officer
  You know it's coming, so I might as well be the one to ask: Was she charged with a salt? Don't say I didn't warn you....
• Commented on Man fired after employers track his movements on GPS phone
  Wouldn't tracking serve as a better deterrent to bad behavior if the subjects knew about it? I mean, what's more important: firing dishonest employees, or prompting them to be more honest?...