Adam Weiss

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• Commented on Gopher protocol reborn
  God damnit, browsing Gopher with a point and click GUI just doesn't sit right with me. Gopher should be browsed in a terminal window, or preferably, in a full screen text mode terminal, ideally with a broken mapping for the...
• Commented on Goofy British "future of phones" video from way back
  wouldn't that be better? (deadpan) yes. marvelous. f'kin kills me. as does the closing scene and accompanying music....
• Commented on Video from 1956 of Eames Lounge chair introduction
  I see a lot of Steve Jobs here....
• Commented on MPAA to teachers: don't rip DVDs, just record your television with a camcorder
  This is really just starting to get absurd. Maybe it already exists and I don't know about it, but it would be really nice to see a tech-saavy group like the EFF extend an olive branch to the industry and...
• Commented on Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
  I think the economic meltdown can be attributed to these three major factors: 1) The United States simultaneously serving the role as global economic superpower, while somehow still managing to run trade deficits for DECADES. 2) Innovation in financial markets...
• Commented on Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"
  Such a brilliant troll. Use your heads, people. Who other than a Linux zealot posing as a "clueless luser" would write lines like these: "I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  In Birmingham, UK in the late '80s, I heard off-license liquor stores called "outdoors" and newsagents called politically incorrect and racially charged "pakishops." In SF, we just called them "cornerstores."...
• Commented on The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg tests airport security
  I imagine that the checkpoints operate on a similar principle to the roadside immigration checkpoints in Southern California. "white. pass through." "white. pass through." "journalist. pass through quickly." "white. pass through." "middle eastern looking and brown. step to the side...
• Commented on Scary British public information films from the 1970s
  "And it's going to happen to a lot of you ladies." HAHAHAHAHA FWAHAHAHAHA... SPLINK!...
• Commented on Paper and pencil better for the brain than software?
  After years of doing software and just recently picking up pencil and paper, I have noticed that it's much harder to do something complicated when you don't have something to check you. When programming, you can tinker away and the...
• Commented on Neuros open set-top box lets you crowd-subtitle the presidential debate
  heh.. Years ago I worked for a company that ported Mozilla over to embedded platforms, specifically with a major emphasis on set-top boxes. One of their major partners was AOL. AOL had managed to completely bungle the interface to the...
• Commented on China's IP shortage, two perspectives
  Agreed. Not looking forward to 128 bit addresses....
• Commented on Neuros OSD gets a free/open web-browser for your TV
  Looks interesting. I'm surprised they haven't implemented ATVEF/SMPTE DDE-1 support....
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  I can understand the city not wanting to make an ad-hoc exception to existing laws. If they bend the rules for the kids, then everyone will want the rules bent, and then there will be an avalanche of unfairness. However,...
• Commented on Photoshop tutorial: drawing a glass of beer
  File -> Print... -> Printers -> RepRap on USB0 -> Print...
• Commented on How the Daily Show's PVRs work
  Betamax vs. VHS is a classic story of inferior technology winning market adoption over superior technology. It's far superior to VHS and is still used to this day in newsgathering. There are new digital formats that are starting to inch...
• Commented on RIP Papa Jack Weil, 1901–2008
  Reminds me of Dave McCoy, the founding patriarch of Mammoth Mountain. Granted, he sold the mountain a few years back (they wanted to do it while he was still kicking around, so it wouldn't be messy), but he was there...
• Commented on How the Daily Show's PVRs work
  I always expected some kind of custom setup built on a bunch of cheap Linux boxes that captures and indexes based on closed captions. Hmm.. Putting that together would be a fun job!...
• Commented on Farting preacher back on YouTube
  So I was curious about this Robert Tilton guy and went looking for original material on Youtube. I didn't quite find it yet, but I found something much, much better. Put "robert tilton success n life" into the Youtube...
• Commented on Air Force suspends controversial "Cyber Command"
  This is probably just some dick's ploy to get some power by reorganizing so he can replace perfectly functional UNIX systems with brand new buggy and unreliable Windows based systems. I think the headline should read: Air Force halts implementation...
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  @NYCPHOTORIGHTS Because it wasn't taken from public property. It was taken from private property. The seemingly public square in the rear of 45 Fremont is actually one of those lame psuedo-public squares that can be found in most, if not...
• Commented on Errol Morris on "Photography as a Weapon"
  What incredible timing! Ever since the incident that I'm not supposed to discuss on here anymore, I've been specifically interested in the psychology of providing photographs with stories. It really is strange how a photograph not only lends credibility to...
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  @Antinous Fair enough. I see you've disemvoweled a few select portions of my comment. However, you have left the meat in, which makes the point I intended to make: (distortion) However I would like to try again and posit this,...
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  @ Andrew Peterson -- To Adam Weiss who says that I got his security guard friend fired at 45 Fremont St. I'm assuming you mean this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/130601011/in/set-72157606500847680/ -- Yep, that's the one. -- Yeah, you know what, when some...
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  @Geektronica Making up stories purely for the sake of Internet fame without regard for whos lives get completely fucked up in the process? I think sociopath is a more apt term....
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  I don't trust anything I read with the name "Thomas Hawk" associated with it. He's the guy who got an immigrant security guard at 45 Fremont fired, after badgering the guy to his breaking point, photographing it and getting it...
• Commented on ResQtec Ram makes mincemeat out of cars
  I'm curious what the required input pressure is and how big of a pump you need in order to drive it at these specs....
• Commented on Logic gates out of dominoes
  Sorta reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3wPBcmSb2U Some dude at Portland State built an electromechanical computer out of relays. (There's actually a bunch of EM/relay computers on youtube/the internet if you look.)...
• Commented on On the absurdity of "maximizing shareholder value"
  Deferred compensation! Deferred compensation! Deferred compensation! Taking a large chunk of executive compensation and making it mandatory that it be deferred on a graduated scale starting at 5 years out solves it all....
• Commented on Analyst: RadioShack to emulate Apple Stores
  I think they're moving in the wrong direction. If they gave up what they were never good at (hocking consumer electronics) and became a full-on hobby store, I think they could do great. Replace the cell phones, TVs and computers...