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Commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
@Zadaz Is this the one you are thinking of? http://web.archive.org/web/20070221233757rn_1/e-sheep.com/spiders/...
Commented on Pakistani Ghazals, Aik Alif
oops - I meant to add that if you do get the chance to see the Manganiyar Ensemble, don't pass it up. I was spellbound for the entire performance. Each singer was fantastic and I felt like I was getting...
Commented on Pakistani Ghazals, Aik Alif
I was lucky enough to see 'The Manganiyar Seduction' in Dublin recently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvKsrqCwyGQ Fantastic performance - 42 wonderful musicians/singers....
Commented on Wayfarer: Ben Hemmendinger's dangerously addictive Processing rogue-like
@ANONYMOUS #9 So you're saying don't hate the game, hate the player? ;)...
Commented on Maybe Shoeless Joe was onto something?
why aren't these shoes, and others of their ilk, made for larger feet?!!??...
Commented on Merino wool makes a black T-shirt cost $75
I use merihno wool long sleeve t-shirt as a base layer and then just a decent fleece lined jacket - I don't start to feel feel cold until it starts to dip below -5 Centigrade. It might get wet from...
Commented on Irish ISP will disconnect Internet users after three unsubstantiated copyright claims
Eircom has held back rollout of broadband in this country for years - it effectively has a monopoly. They held back the roll out of broadband in Dublin for years with red tape and nitpicking on regulations resulting in immense...
Commented on Artigo A2000: A home server the size of a bag of sugar
Info page on the A2000 http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/a2000/index.jsp Looks interesting - I'm wondering if MythTV or the like will install and run. The page suggests that Linux and even - sharp intake of breath - Vista will run....
Commented on Carolina Chocolate Drops jug band video
:D Excellent stuff! I highly recommend getting your hands on anything you can find by the Memphis Jug Band, brilliant blues and rag from the 1930's - and it still sounds fresh...
Commented on Neuros open set-top box lets you crowd-subtitle the presidential debate
I think this is a great idea and I wonder why i had to wait so many years to see it put into action :) Space 1999 anyone? I remember one episode where there was a court case of some...
Commented on BBtv: Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare.
A question or two to the people who think that those who trampled Star's civil rights were correct in doing so: Why wasn't the airport employee arrested after it was discovered that she had a) cried wolf, even after having...
Commented on Higgs Boson plush toy
It's filled with gravel - notso suitable for babys crib I would imagine!...
Commented on Boko's wonderful woods
"It's as if a cargo cult never gave up, then found its own magic." :D love that...
Commented on Cops break into wrong house, leave note in magnetic fridge letters
@guruscotty Thanks, I can see what you are saying but for me its quite chilling that the police would think it acceptable not only to reenter someones house illegally but to leave such a message and in such a manner...
Commented on Cops break into wrong house, leave note in magnetic fridge letters
I can't believe the comments left here. The police break into a house. When the owner returns to find police in his garden and the backdoor smashed off its hinges, they police present refuse to explain what happened. He travels...
Commented on Make your new bike theft-proof... through aesthetics!
I'd love to read the article, as I'm considering buying a rock-hopper, but Firefox 3 on Kubuntu Hardy Heron doesn't accept the cookies on the Make site. Apparently....
Commented on Goodbye, George Carlin
shit!...
Commented on Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0
Third vote for Amarok - I'm not sure it works on anything but KDE, any Gnome users using it? Having said that I am not a big user of playlists. I have a few that split my entire music collection...
Commented on Real police upset over TSA's pretend-police costumes
@FRank in Virginia Should have added a smiley to my other post, although I'm not at all sure what War Criminals has to do with the TSA! :) Back in the day we had plenty of security theatre in Ireland...
Commented on Notes on amazing bubble photos
oops - looks like it's been boing!boing!'d out of existence or the moment!...
Commented on Real police upset over TSA's pretend-police costumes
@Frank In Virginia Godwin! Godwin!...
Commented on Steampunk jewelry and sculpture: love the gears
"Unless it actually performs some function (practical or otherwise) the it's not steampunk." My impression was (and this is not the final word you understand...) that Steampunk was a modern artifact, functional or otherwise, rendered using pre-silicon aesthetics/fabrication. That doesn't...
Commented on 1UP says Konami "made it clear we wouldn't be leaving until we signed" NDA (Now with "Escape from Konami" Flash game!)
ROB BESCHIZZA: "Regarding the interactive animation thing: you cannot get past the machine gun. You will never leave Eurasia alive." Dang - I even tried the Konami code, which surprisingly, didn't work. Did those present try the Konami code? I...
Commented on 1UP says Konami "made it clear we wouldn't be leaving until we signed" NDA (Now with "Escape from Konami" Flash game!)
so... has anyone managed to get past the machine gun yet?...
Commented on Steampunk keyboard from Datamancer
"Aether" eh? The Michelson-Morley society will be around shortly to speak with you about heresy ;)...
Commented on What would you do if you ended up in the year 1000?
Invent democracy, unionise the army first otherwise you are buggered! Then introduce algebara, calculus, mechanics, build war machines and let the 'new model army' sweep across Europe deposing the monarchy. Finally, establish polygamy and live in hapiness with your X...
Commented on Dear Lazyweb: scrape video from IO9?
Cory, I know you use Linux, so: Cut and paste the following into a .sh file: wget -O ~/tempfile $1 grep newVideoPlayer$ tempfile | sed 's/newVideoPlayer("\(.*\.flv$".*/http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/video\/\1/' > ~/tempfile wget -i ~/tempfile rm ~/tempfile then save the file, and from the...
Commented on Dear Lazyweb: scrape video from IO9?
I'm thinking some *nix guru with sed and/or awk skills could whip together a script to parse the html from the page, find the EMBED tag (with attributes 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash"' and 'src="/assets/util/videoModule.swf"', the kernel of what we need is then in...
Commented on Dear Lazyweb: scrape video from IO9?
haven't tried this but using Firefox and the 'unplug' add-on/extension may work....
Commented on Band "shoots" video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing
Ireland. Dublin. "The Frames - Revelate" - 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKgopj64BZQ...

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Sork commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
How much exactly is Britain paying these days in royalties to the science fiction writers which dystopian ideas they are using? Or, should I interpret this as if science fiction becomes real, it no longer is fiction, and so the writer must re-label his/her work?...
andygates commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
It's an interesting spin on sousveillance, no? Civlib advocates could watch the cameras and report naughty police. :)...
creativeadstudent commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
So what good will this do ?? People will just use this new form of public surveillance to pull pranks, meaning more phony 911 calls... what about security guards? and the police? Cameras like these are becoming more and more popular.. take Google Street View for example... eventually everyone will know what everyone else is doing around the world....
holtt commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
Oh yea. Major abuse. Like how lots of social websites have peer review and "report this post" options. Facebook is so clueless, the concept is incredibly foolish and never could be tailored to work in real life. Ever....
Bertil commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
The business model should be sound: basically, you pay volunteers to do a minimal wage job; it could barely work like Amazon turk does, but they have a better angle for several reasons: - it's vigilante wanna-bes (and elderly people); - prizes motivate people beyond their actual gain; - the pay & incentivize scheme selects the most skilled people (and gets rid of all the nasty hackers from Boing-Boing); - if you distribute the cash-prize well enough, they'll have friends who got their time-worth soon enough to keep up if they are commited. Provided they use modern motion filters and...

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