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• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Let's just say I work for an outsourcer who handles this sort of thing. *cough CABLE COMPANY CALLS MOSTLY cough* This is just the sort of thing that happens ROUTINELY. Why? Because in order to save money, the original company...
• Commented on Have botnet prices crashed?
  The amusing part here is that they want you to trust someone is illegally accessing pcs and attacking sites WITH YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION. What's to stop them just taking your money? Nothing....
• Commented on Nontoxic metal alloy that is liquid at room temperature
  I may be wrong, but in the 50s didn't they say playing with mercury was safe too??...
• Commented on MIT's futuristic, networked bus stop design
  'Eyestop' could also be immediately made useless by vandals who attack it with bricks....
• Commented on Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students Surprise Him With Dossier of His Own Data.
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What more need be said?...
• Commented on Reaching for the Apocalypse
  I love your Marvin the Paranoid Android comparison. It was amazing to see last night that the 24 hour rape and kidnap channel, aka Waistline News, aka the Nancy Grace channel, was actually talking about the flu instead of describing...
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  Ah, hahahaha. I can simply turn off display of comments. Then I am free to blindly comment myself on the post itself and have no knowledge of what other commenters might think. Much love to you all!...
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  You know, there are times when I find things of interest in the comments on BoingBoing. There are times when I find grand discussions. There are also times when a few comments just totally make my mind try to dribble...
• Commented on High School Teacher Recounts "Sexting" Ordeal That Ruined His Career
  @19 - Which is right there why I don't support children going to public school. Who on Earth in their right mind would trust their kids, in whole physically and mentally, to these total strangers with a penchant for fascism...
• Commented on Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage
  Until I read below I didn't realize you guys were serious, I thought this was surely a video showing how BIGOTED and RIDICULOUS this kind of thing is. Also, the point made about replacing "gay" with "black" in the video...
• Favorited TSA to punish fliers for facecrime on Boing Boing
• Favorited TSA to punish fliers for facecrime on Boing Boing
• Favorited TSA to punish fliers for facecrime on Boing Boing
• Favorited TSA to punish fliers for facecrime on Boing Boing
• Commented on Anti-capitalists Attack Banker's Home and Mercedes: "This is Just the Beginning."
  "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!"...
• Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: "DIY Funerals and the Quest for Authenticity"
  Just depends on what is real and not for you. When my wife and I got married we had a JP sign off on all the papers and did the ceremony ourselves. We wrote the entire ceremony and had a...
• Commented on Chili pepper science
  Tewksbury says his fieldwork runs on three compounds: coca, caffeine and capsaicin....
• Commented on Chili pepper science
  @4 - See M Night Shyamalan's The Happening. @8 - Yeah that's the first thing I caught too. Not that I'm judging him, he's more than welcome to whatever substances he wants to ingest, I just find it funny they...
• Commented on DIY sex machine injury
  THEHOUNDOFLOVE: You wins 1 Internets....
• Commented on Boing Boing Video's Remix of "RiP: A Remix Manifesto"
  To the commenter above - what about cover bands? Where does this copyright battle end? How long before playing a Led Zep tune on your guitar alone at home is illegal??? I like the use of the Lars Ulrich stuff...
• Commented on Hosted malware allows n00bs to hack along with the leet
  ...and yes I realize that was the idea behind the Seti@Home project, before someone tries to point that out....
• Commented on Hosted malware allows n00bs to hack along with the leet
  Imagine if something like Conficker were used for good. Thousands, nay, millions of cpus using idle time to run calculations for astrophysics or something equally viable. Instead of logging hours on the big time computers at the University someone could...
• Commented on Fingerprinting blank sheets of paper by scanning them
  @7 - You use leak and whistle blowing in the same context there - you realize often times the latter is actually GOOD for people right?...
• Commented on Please take the Boing Boing Survey (It works now!)
  Doesn't load for me at all....
• Commented on Mysterious booms in New York
  @3 - /b is that way ====> @5 - You win....
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  Yes, EXACTLY! I stood in line for Street Fighter 1&2, and MK1,2,&3. I was the local king of GALAGA, held the top 4 slots on the high score list for YEARS. They have the old galaga/ms pacman combo machine at...
• Commented on Free book on Free Range kids
  Too many comments to read them all, but I have one simple thing to say: EMO 'Nuff said. When I was a kid the point of the merry go round was to see how fast we could get it going...
• Commented on Flashmob of ATM crooks scores $9 million in 49 cities
  @14 - Really? Tell us more about how it was planned....
• Commented on The Funeral for Analog TV
  @16 - MAX HEADROOM FTW...
• Commented on Instant corner shop, just add shipping container
  The problem with these structures is when you want climate control. If you don't have anything that is sensitive to heat or cold (such as human employees or residents), no problem - plunk it right down. Otherwise, you're looking at...