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• Commented on Scientists mostly don't know what a "theory" is, but should they?
  JOB007: Did not I suggest the need to confirm by alternate means the shallowness of thy formal logic? Yes, with your reference to "multiple meanings, paradox, and the shallow nature of words and metaphor". This is why the preferred testing...
• Commented on People over 55 dream in black and white?
  I've heard from other computer geeks that dreaming in C++ and other programming languages is a fairly common experience when working too hard on a project....
• Commented on Scientists mostly don't know what a "theory" is, but should they?
  Science consists of: 1) The process of gathering evidence 2) The process (blackest art) of making conjectural models about how pieces of evidence relate; 3) The process (black art) of using a conjecture to represent the data in a hypothesis,...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  Those on both sides of whether rights are inalienable are overlooking they implicitly assume answers to a prior question that I've spent over two years meticulously considering and come up unable to give clearly, simply, and without circularity. (Not to...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  Zuzu: I'm not interested in your society. Leave me the hell alone. I choose with whom I interact with on a person-by-person basis. You're to some degree correct about societies being constructed bottom-up via consent; however, there is also an...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  aeon: Little came across as an evil, bullying, misogynistic psychopath & that film footage should have been enough to see him charged long ago. If I remember correctly, "Max Hardcore" was one of a couple actor/producers who Melissa-Ashley (aka Anne...
• Commented on Economists: selfish bastards
  0xdeadbeef: Everyone knows that our culture indoctrinates us with warm fuzzy bullshit. Studying something lets you find out just how deep that bullshit is. I wonder what the results would be in the pooled money experiment if the participants were...
• Commented on Mark Dery on "evangelical" atheism
  the spacebase:I'm with Dery here because, as he points out towards the end of his post, much of American evangelical Christianity is truly extrabiblical. [...] The thing about 'Evangelical Atheism' is that it blindly relies on some vague idea about...
• Commented on Old comic book depicts US suicide bomber as hero
  WWEBoing: The attacker is in uniform, and the target is military. That you can compare this to the vicious thugs targeting discos, coffee shops, trains, building, and school is evidence of moral blindness. You just compared it as well. The...
• Commented on Flickr photo pool: Atlas comic book monster tribute
  Of course, one of these old monsters had a slightly better upbringing, overcame his humble beginnings, and continues as a hero today: the Hulk....
• Commented on Hackers publish thousands of copies of fingerprint of German Minister who promotes fingerprint biometrics
  Jeff: Hopefully we'll still have an election in 2016....
• Commented on Watchpeanuts: Watchmen as Charles M Schulz drawings
  Just seconding the thought by Samurai Gratz about the mappings; it was my first reaction. But still, seriously cool. A quick Google Image search turns up a Peanuts Justice League pic here....
• Commented on Purple-shaded glasses to spot garden trouble in advance
  They've jacked the price from $50 to $60 since being BoingBoing-ed, and B&H carries at least one of the filters mentioned at Eustace's link for under $10 shipped. Perhaps not pseudoscience, but still possibly a rip-off....
• Commented on Senate votes to immunize telecoms over domestic spying
  So much for the hopes of the people obtaining Justice within the Rule of Law...
• Commented on Cuban taser glove of 1935
  Interesting for fans of Fallout, with its BeatCo. "Big Frigger" Power Fist....
• Commented on Apple cripples debugging tool to keep iTunes DRM safe
  adrian: Perhaps I´m misunderstanding something here (I´ve just pulled an all-nighter so that may very well be the case) but since the iTunes store has already sold a gazillion DRMed tunes, are they not obliged to prevent these tracks from...
• Commented on Why it's good to leave your WiFi open
  I get a craptacular cable modem connection free with my lease; it is sufficiently unreliable that I use my DSL for my home machines. Being a geek, I've a vast amount of minor networking crap about. So, I hooked up...
• Commented on TV star publishes bank details in anti-privacy editorial, gets ripped off
  Skep: It is much funnier if you note that "his details were used to set up a £500 direct debit payable from his account to the British Diabetic Association." So, "Revenge is Sweet"? I believe the word we're looking for...
• Commented on Sacha Baron Cohen to play Abbie Hoffman in Spielberg's Trial of the Chicago 7
  I used to own a 1st edition of STB, but to my complete lack of surprise someone "borrowed" it and never returned it. I think Abbie would have approved of Cohen's playing his role. A new movie to look forward...
• Commented on MPAA censors torture documentary, gleefully approves of fake torture
  While I've had three glasses of wine too many to think this all the way through, I'm reminded of the Zenger trial in the 1700's, the basis for the American principle that Truth is perfect defense against claim of libel....
• Commented on Ether-drift-detecting machine from 1932
  Oink: there was some question about Relativity and the MM experiment for quite some time, especially in pre-WWII Germany where it was dismissed as "Jew Science". The debate on relativity had a very loud period put at the end by...
• Commented on Arnold's Fables: What Koko Wants
  "What a man dislikes in his superiors, let him not display in the treatment of his inferiors; what he dislikes in inferiors, let him not display in the service of his superiors."...
• Commented on Second Life CTO Cory Ondrejka leaves the company
  Hiro Protagonist has left the building.......
• Commented on Disembodied hands to keep infant feeling secure
  elver: This thing has "years of therapy" written all over it. Or, at the very least, a mild case of amputee fetish. No, but I think a hand fetish (like the classic foot fetish) might be plausible. After all, babies...
• Commented on Canada's DMCA won't get any consumer rights added to it for a decade
  Assassination begins to sound more and more appealing....
• Commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  loftwyr: Oh sure, release the book for free months after 've bought it hard cover and read it. Actually, it's been quietly available since at least early June. I've pointed five local university faculty at it on-line; one ignored my...
• Commented on Josh Foer on memory
  The "preview" button for comments seems to be broken (Mac X.2 FF 2.0.0.9); there's no link to post after previewing. I thought I'd mention this in my last post, but... I forgot. Absentmindedness, Blocking, Transience, Bias, Misattribution, Persistence, and Suggestibility....
• Commented on Indie film producer thanks pirates for downloading his movie
  It's actually a hair more complicated. Indie producers work with small budgets; torrents of the trailer and movie act as publicity, leading people who might not otherwise encounter the movie to consider buying it. It's thus good for the little...
• Commented on Florida sheriff spreads BS about fake drug made from human waste
  Sounds similar to Jet from Fallout 2....
• Commented on HOWTO Win at Monopoly
  I'll strongly disagree with one of the suggested strategy points. While the ROI time is best at three houses, there is a major strategic advantage to building four houses (and stopping there). There are only thirty-two houses and twelve hotels;...