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• Commented on Good News from the Large Hadron Collider
  Well, anonymous, if that is your real name, you'll be surprised to know that much in the way of radiation cancer therapy was developed through experiments using the Bevatron. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Bevalac-nine-lives.html...
• Commented on Robbers wearing markered disguises
  ...blackened men......
• Commented on Gadget Reviews: Akai Miniak, Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ and more
  This should NOT be the case when there exists a standard for this type of interface. http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/midi10.pdf Failure to implement the standard is unacceptable....
• Commented on Trailer for Collapse, a documentary about coming global meltdown
  Your godfather may have predicted "blood on the streets" with a re-election of Bush, but that would be largely baseless and a due to a lack of understanding of people. How would his re-election directly effect the population at large?...
• Commented on Gadget Reviews: Akai Miniak, Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ and more
  Do you use Linux? If not, then you don't know the hell we have to go through to get these things operational. I've got an Ozone and I once was able to use it under Linux, but my most recent...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  I've noticed a trend here. There is a rather attractive woman behind Franken in both this video and another about the Jamie Leigh Jones matter. Is he hiring models or am I studying the wrong things (Robotics)? *sigh* Carry on...
• Commented on DWI in motorized easy chair
  Yeah. I've known people who've received a DUI on a bicycle. :/...
• Commented on Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan
  Wow! They predicted the use of the Fing-Longer!...
• Commented on Gallery of creepily retouched baby photos
  Along with the rest of the comments, why do they need to do up the fake hair like that. What, they really want their baby to have the appearance of an underdeveloped 20-something? Ugh....
• Commented on Brit copyright group says, "No laptops allowed in cinemas"
  Gonna have to go with Darren, here. Good idea, bad reason. Now I'd also like to see a ban on cell phones. I'm so tired of people texting constantly through the movie. I miss the days when people didn't have...
• Commented on DIY: Fiber optic star field on your ceiling
  Because people have always slept where there are no stars or moon, right?...
• Commented on Beauty and Brazil
  The correct response, regardless the reality of the situation, is YES....
• Commented on Miruko: Wearable eyeball robot interface
  @K1P You remind me of all those wastes of space that make such statements as: "Why haven't THEY cured cancer yet?" They? THEY? Why the hell aren't you curing cancer if it is so damned important to you? And K1P,...
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  My college "upgraded" to a GUI based student management system a couple of years back. The woman in charge of operating the system said it takes about twice as long to do anything in it. You see, the old system...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  A thug breaks in to take my property? Yeah, I value property well above that thug's life. Not all life is equally valuable. And Takuan, break in to my house and you, too, will discover that I have no qualms...
• Commented on Hubble's Greatest Hits: Astronomers discuss their favorite images
  Once you see the dog in the Eagle Nebula (the one looking up with his front paws on the big rock) you can't unsee it. Muahahah!...
• Commented on The return of Steve Jobs, and new iPod news on BBG
  Seems Steve Jobs was introducing a new feature that PC fans have mocked Apple fans for for years, upgradeability. With his newer, faster pancreas and liver he will be able to perform at magnitudes above previous capabilities....
• Commented on Laughing, flywheel-driven mechanical bellows robot
  I don't think that comes anywhere near the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when at first you think of something as human only to find you're mistaken. I would find it very hard to think of that machine as...
• Commented on Dutch government tries to stop 13-year-old girl from sailing around world solo
  #94 PHIKUS She has three passports and has been sailing her entire life. I don't imagine that she is restricted to one language....
• Commented on Coital "model" machine used in condom study
  Heard it from a "professional" that condom breakage has never happened to her and is due exclusively due to a lack of lubrication. Given their "discovery" I think she's exactly right....
• Commented on Death by Chocolate (no, really): worker dies in hot cocoa mixing vat
  > I'm not usually one to get judgemental about postings... Get bent. People die. It happens. Instead of getting upset at someone's response to noticing this, you should get upset at the cause and do something. "Tragedy is me cutting...
• Commented on Death by Chocolate (no, really): worker dies in hot cocoa mixing vat
  > With the goatse joke, we are laughing at those who are offended by the image. And with this, I'm laughing at all you who are offended with a statement....
• Commented on Tadpoles falling from the sky in Japan?
  You see, this was all the result of another incident with Godzilla. Due to the graphic nature, all mention of Godzilla and his activities have been forbidden from being publicized about. Instead, we only hear of the "tadpoles" raining from...
• Commented on New Jersey police officer enjoys clubbing man for complying with another officer's request to zip his sweatshirt
  A clear case of standing while black. Poor chap, should've known he shouldn't be doing that....
• Commented on Praying man gets tazed by police and escapes
  "tazers do not kill, that video is all the proof anyone needs" Neat! So if I cite an instance where a bullet doesn't kill, then that means all bullets don't kill, right?...
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  "A 12-year-old boy died when his heart failed after he sprayed on too much deodorant, an inquest has been told." That pretty much sums it up right there. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Boy-12-Died-After-Spraying-Deodorant-Lynx-Aerosol-Triggered-Heart-Condition-In-Daniel-Hurley/Article/200811315156332?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_3&lid=ARTICLE_15156332_Boy%2C_12%2C_Died_After_Spraying_Deod...
• Commented on Using a 1964 modem to dial up to the Internet -- Boing Boing Gadgets
  #10 InsertFingerHere I can't say for sure, but I bet the Ma Bell limitation that required the acoustic devices was part of the reason the datarates stayed so low for so long. #16 Scott Bieser I don't know what the...
• Commented on Milk: The Gateway Drug
  @5 HERURAHA Watch yourself! Smoking milk leads to smoking beer and then smoking bourbon!!...
• Commented on Canadian Tory talking-points leaked
  Thank you for that warm greeting. (haha! Canada being cold joke?) I always enjoy being back in [Community]. I don't know why, but that line makes me laugh. Perhaps it's the feigned sincerity....
• Commented on WiFi gets clobbered by baby-monitors, not other WiFi
  2.4GHz phones are also wonderful DoS tools....