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• Favorited Sarah Connor Chronicles (Terminator) ARG: BBtv exclusive edition. on Boing Boing
• Favorited Western Digital network drives crippled -- no serving any multimedia files on Boing Boing
• Favorited Western Digital network drives crippled -- no serving any multimedia files on Boing Boing
• Favorited Norwegian boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz on Boing Boing
• Favorited Norwegian boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz on Boing Boing
• Commented on Steampunk wallpaper artist wants your ideas
  I thought about it for a minute but I'm afraid everything I come up with would be too laborious to make in one day ... I'm imagining clockwork-based, steam-powered information technology in scenes with people in beautiful period dress illustrating...
• Commented on HOWTO protect your online privacy now that the Senate repealed the Fourth Amendment?
  I agree that being able to do end-to-end encryption for mobile phone calls would be nice[*], but the two approaches I described already are end-to-end; how exactly you do key exchange has nothing to do with that. Scatternets for phones?...
• Commented on HOWTO protect your online privacy now that the Senate repealed the Fourth Amendment?
  SSH tunnel your email all you want but it won't protect it. #3 is right in pointing out the limitations to this, but it's not useless. It's the equivalent to using HTTPS instead of HTTP to access your web-mail. Imagine...
• Commented on Haters of cellular lock-in: Has AT&T seen you coming?
  Where I come from, "no contract" means it's not locked to any specific carrier. Are the "no contract" iPhones mentioned here really locked to AT&T? And what about terminating your contract, will they really not unlock the phone for you,...
• Commented on Wil Wheaton (and his GTA obsession) profiled in GEEK.
  s/Disclaimer/Disclosure/...
• Commented on Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
  A "paid sponsor"? You paid them? So they'd say they're your sponsor and let you show their ads? You're doing it wrong!...
• Commented on My story about the next 150 years of bookselling: The Right Book
  Maybe if I'd have the large screen connected and wouldn't need to use the extremely badly implemented zoom function, that interface would be bearable, but on my small notebook it's so bad it hurts. I hope some time I'll come...
• Commented on Amazon reader reviews of Denon's $500 scam cable are brilliant
  The data stream's rate and the DAC's clock aren't exactly the same. If the digital/analog conversion runs on a fixed clock, the incoming data will either overrun the input buffer (data too fast) or run out and cause dropouts (data...
• Commented on Simpsons map for Quake III Arena
  There are no bad guys in Q3A. Thanks for the link, Adub!...
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider probably won't destroy Earth
  10-17 is very different from 0.00000000000000001, care to correct that? (I'd written that number as in the original article, but turns out you're not allowed to do that in bb comments.)...
• Commented on Bounty offered to anyone who can prove homeopathy outperforms placebos
  If you're afraid this 'mockery' is just a publicity stunt and they won't pay out the prize no matter what, you can always prove that homeopathy works before applying for the prize, and then expose them for breaking their word...
• Commented on Bananas are atheist nightmares!
  BTW, when chimps eat bananas they use the "pull tab" as a handle. As do many humans. It's not terribly intuitive, so it takes some effort (observation, experience, ...) to figure out, but this is actually the best way to...
• Commented on RTFM: 19/20 returned gadgets work just fine
  The severe mistake here is that they're counting devices as gadgets in perfect working order as long as they behave as intended by the manufacturer. But the truth is, a lot of them are defective even fresh from the factory....
• Commented on MSI's 8.9" Wind has a lot of bezel
  OK, and which important markets have a weaker currency than the States? ;-p...
• Commented on Taking hammers to unsold Canon cameras, lenses
  is this pile of Canon cameras really worth half-a-million dollars? You'd need a lot of camera bodies to reach that sum, but only a couple of big lenses ... the white ones are much more expensive than the black ones....
• Commented on Multi-touch everywhere: Albatron shows off touchscreen monitor only 20% more expensive than standard displays
  Is the iPhone's display truely multi-touch? There are a few gestures that require multiple fingers, but they are pretty basic, not much more exciting than two-finger scrolling. Well, OK, maybe my expectation that a multi-touch display lets me use at...
• Commented on Rubbing estrogen on penis-tip prevents HIV transmission?
  I don't see where the article suggests this methods works only for men with an intact foreskin. However, it does present it as an alternative to circumcision, which sets off my bullshit detector. Being circumcised does not prevent HIV infection....
• Commented on Teddy bear car navigation system
  Nothing wrong with wreckless driving. Been doing it for decades, car hasn't got as much as a dent in it. Now, if only the people in the big city could stop parking by feel and use their damn eyes ......
• Commented on Placebo pills made for kids
  And once the kids see through it, they learn another valuable lesson: Lying and deceiving are totally acceptable behaviour, when it makes some pesky relative shut up....
• Commented on Who'd like a portable text game console?
  I'll do it if the pay is right. Which it won't be, because some of the suggestions above look rather good. Poor me ... but one can dream ;-)...
• Commented on Microwaved cell phone summons Nyarlathotep
  This was posted on a couple of popular blogs, but this is the only post I've seen that lacks the clarification that the video is fake....
• Commented on Paramount silencing portions of Indiana Jones in theaters?
  Watermarks are supposed to be imperceptible, so only sophisticated pirates will know what to look for and how to make it unreadable. Audible silences would be unacceptable, but maybe the idea is to only drop a millisecond here and a...
• Commented on Ford dealership uses bigoted radio ads to sell cars
  LOL, I imagine this ad would get me to boycott that firm (if not Ford entirely) for life even if I was a Christian. After all, a good ad is supposed to make me buy stuff. It's only fair that...
• Commented on Colors! turns Nintendo DS into pocket Wacom Cintiq
  I had no idea you could get some amount of pressure sensitivity out of the DS's touch-screen; fascinating!...
• Commented on UK teen faces prosecution for sign calling Scientology a "dangerous cult"
  [OT again, sorry; skip ahead for commentary actually related to Scientology] @Antonius: Since I turned out to be the only one here who's annoyed by the intermittent strings of gibberish that I have to wade through in order to get...