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• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  "even if you're using $100 bills as ballast, i dont see how a yacht can cost $1.2 billion..." The lasers cost $1.1 billion. Yacht was regular price....
• Commented on World's Greatest Internet Freakout Contest (win a microwave)
  @15: Disclaimer: lots of expletives....
• Commented on World's Greatest Internet Freakout Contest (win a microwave)
  @7: I think this World o' Warcraft freakout takes the cake: http://wowseriousbusiness.ytmnd.com/...
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  From the American perspective: "This Kafkaesque scenario is so un-American it's embarrassing." From the perspective of the rest of the world: "This Kafkaesque scenario is so un-American it's pathetic." Time to man up, O-train....
• Commented on Michael Geist explains Canada's screwed-up Internet to the Canadian Senate
  "Fourth, in addition, Canada is one of only four OECD countries where consumers have no alternative but to take a service with bit caps." We have a bit more choice than that... unless we're limiting ourselves to only the largest...
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  #77: Cool, thanks....
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  "The Finance Charge is a one-time transaction charge and is not dependent upon the length of time the advance is outstanding. The Finance Charge is $2.00 for every $20 that is advanced, which equates to an Annual Percentage Rate (APR)...
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  That is, a "one-time transaction charge" does not have an APR....
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  I agree with many of the above: this post makes no sense....
• Commented on Secrets of orange juice
  Q&A link doesn't work......
• Commented on Videos of near misses with trains
  "three near misses with trains" I think that second, invisible train was the scariest....
• Commented on Canadian ISP that appears not to suck
  I hear that Velcom also supports MLPPP. TekSavvy is all around good. My only complaint is that you have to opt-in to the mildly more expensive static IP option in order to access their usenet servers....
• Commented on Senator's bill to ban profanity
  Dear Senator Brainiac: See Cohen v. California. Leave law-making to people who know something about U.S. law. That is all....
• Commented on DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property
  Too bad Cohen v California isn't taught in schools: we can wear jackets saying "fuck the draft" into a courtroom and there's nothing the government can do about it....
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  "Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next?" I see those egg-council creeps have gotten to him, too!...
• Commented on Original unicorn oil paintings $100 each
  Where can I acquire some of this unicorn oil? Is it made from their hooves?...
• Commented on Earliest campaign commercials: Disney for Eisenhower
  Eisenhower was skeptical about using television and his opponent, Stevenson, wouldn’t appear on television because he thought it demeaning to a man ascending to the presidency. Eisenhower won. Affirming the consequent....
• Commented on Man stole buses, drove them on routes, returned them at night
  Seinfeld: "You kept making all the stops?!" Kramer: "Well, people kept ringing the bell!"...
• Commented on Man has blood alcohol level of 0.491
  brunomiguel (also), .05 is the legal limit in Portugal. Now, go sober up....
• Commented on Police warn UK man that taking photos of "hooded teenagers" is illegal
  @53: The "defend to the death" phrasing was a reference to Voltaire, I presume....
• Commented on Police warn UK man that taking photos of "hooded teenagers" is illegal
  Oops. Now he's an ASBO with a million pound flat....
• Commented on Murky Coffee's owner responds to espresso-over-ice kerfuffle
  There are matters that demand an elevated heart rate. This is not one of them. I thought that for most people caffeine does demand an elevated heart rate....
• Commented on Con-artists join the war on photographers
  @ #8: >> Maybe he was doing actual security work, i.e., trying to nab shoplifters. >If he was a real security person, he was doing anything but being productive by trying to scam someone's memory card. I thought it was...
• Commented on Con-artists join the war on photographers
  Maybe he was doing actual security work, i.e., trying to nab shoplifters. I would presume that looking like a shopper (including carrying a bag, a very shopperly thing to do) helps out to a significant degree....
• Commented on Philly cops raids activists who circulated anti-CCTV petititon
  And even if it is a "hate group", hate speech is deemed political speech as far as the first amendment goes. And all political speech is protected by the first amendment. So hate away, you anti-CCTV haters. Of course, the...
• Commented on Firefox 3 is out!
  Maybe they're planning the world record for longest downtime....
• Commented on HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy
  (Of course, it may very well be more secure, especially if your home locale is a repressive regime with monitoring of electronic communications. In this case, the merits of TOR shine.)...
• Commented on HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy
  Note the first comment from the link, though: TOR is only more secure if the exit node it happens to use is more trustworthy than not using TOR at all. This may not be the case....
• Commented on Democratic Senator puts ISPs on notice: "think twice" before screwing up Net Neutrality
  "That's Ron Wyden (D-OR), who I am quite proud to say is my Senator! He does lots of good stuff." Actually, I have reason to believe that Joe Widen is the hybrid clone of Joe Biden and Ron Wyden....
• Commented on Woman goes on YouTube to air divorce grievances
  I'm confused: was it a "scary, new step" or a "scary new step"? How about a "scary new, step"? Or a "scary, new, step"?...