manicbassman

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• Commented on Homebrew Pikachu ski-mask
  just like some people on pron boards get all uppity when the file they've uploaded to rapidshare gets re-upped onto some other host. It wasn't their file in the first place but was already illegally distributed content....
• Commented on "Sixth Sense Technology" Will Be Open Source
  some people have very short sighted imaginations... just read some William Gibson... especially "Virtual Light": "Book overview 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving...
• Commented on Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live
  shouldn't be blocking IP addresses anyway... they should be blocking domain names and do a DNS lookup every day to get the latest IP for the domain... simple really... when you get an active spammer, then reverse DNS to get...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  I actually witnessed a Y2K problem as it hit... at the stroke of midnight, while everyone was outside watching the fireworks, several burglar alarms started sounding from properties on our street...all those alarms had embedded software that fell over when...
• Commented on Gopher protocol reborn
  don't forget VERONICA, JUGHEAD & ARCHIE... and WAIS... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(computer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughead_(computer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server did an awful lot of my degree research searching using those... no newfangled intarweb back then......
• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  they want the internet to be one way... you subscribing to their content......
• Commented on Newspaper columnist quits over paywall
  It's difficult to cite something that's behind a paywall... the other person who's reading your words cannot check it themselves in context without either paying to get behind the paywall, or else, you providing an illegal copy of what you...
• Commented on TV admits it was wrong about PVRs
  (in potentially related news, the latest software upgrade for our DVR lowered its top FF speed)that was an upgrade???...
• Commented on Identical tract houses after 50 years of personalization
  arghhh why on earth did she use Flash for displaying each image? there was nothing special going on... the website was a real pain with flashblock enabled... every click of the next link came up with a completely fresh flash...
• Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
  raising the minimum wage isn't going to help... it'll just mean thousands more people get thrown on the scrap heap as their jobs get outsourced to countries that don't care about their workers health or the environment... The Chinese have...
• Commented on Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
  it's as stupid as Tesco's demanding photo ID as part of a check 25 program when selling spoons!!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217504/Are-old-spoon-Woman-asked-ID-buying-teaspoons-Tesco.html...
• Commented on Inside Antiques Roadshow
  ah yes, the infamous pregnant pause when they announce what it's worth... with some people, you can see the cash symbols in their eyes... a lot of them come on this show just to get a confirmation that what they...
• Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
  the block of flats I live in has five single parent families... out of six flats... I'm the only one in the entire block that actually goes to work... the rest all live at home on benefits... they get family...
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  so when they are sailing, just what do they ship back to China? Their trade is disturbingly one way... and they've successfully murdered the industries of the other countries just by completely undercutting everybody else with ridiculous cheap labour backed...
• Commented on Brutal military dictatorship that backs Fiji Water
  corporations... have far too much power... we need to go to war against them to cut them back downb to size....
• Commented on Profiteering torture teachers modeled US techniques after those of Chinese Communists
  are they still doctors? I was hoping the APA has stripped them of their licences to practice...
• Commented on Eclipse Phase: CC-licensed tabletop singularity RPG
  Reputation based economy would have problems from governments as they would want to tax it based on an equivalent money value... of course you'll have to make the payment with real money as well... can't just waltz down to the...
• Commented on Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets
  "#24 posted by Xenu What are they going to arrest you for? Not putting up with false imprisonment? I don't think that's a crime." "#53 posted by Shaddack People who obey without even a token attempt to fight back...
• Commented on What is the meaning of this unusual tombstone?
  viral hype for a new movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/...
• Commented on How to avoid ads in Gmail (or not)
  adblock? doesn't work... the adverts are in a frame you need to see unless you know better on how to get rid of them noscript? still see them even if googleusercontent is not allowed. They're there as text links anyway,...
• Commented on ATM to guy depositing California state IOU: "Come back without a [registered] warrant."
  well that's it then... says a lot when banks stop taking your scrip and want hard cash......
• Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
  reminds me of a quote from Vietnam... "We had to destroy the village to save it"......
• Commented on US withheld reports on the risks of driving while using mobile devices
  the "issue" here is that the report was suppressed... not the contents of the report... the fact that the results were suppressed. who had them suppressed? why did commercial interests override public safety?...
• Commented on BBC exposes three psychic mediums
  just wonder when the BBC will grow a set and take on the charlatans in the Labour party......
• Commented on Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
  did they get a full refund?...
• Commented on HOWTO bake dashboard cookies while you're working
  nom nom nom..........
• Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
  just get them spending again... so the rest of us can have jobs providing services etc. to them... the BIG problem at the moment is that everyone has pulled their horns in and stopped spending...
• Commented on Ghostbusters Ecto-1 on eBay
  of course it didn't meet the reserve... the reserve was ridiculously high to make sure it didn't sell... this is all part of the hype campaign for the new movie......
• Commented on Anti-paparazzi handbag
  how can he patent this??? it's merely another application of a slave flash trigger in common use by professional photographers... they use a small flash on the camera and the light trips the other flashes so they all go off...
• Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
  I'd love to run one, however, my ISP's terms of service do not permit me to run a server... and I don't want it being used for kiddie/extreme porn either. So just how can one run a TOR node without...