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• Commented on Plaices of Death
  I highly suspect hte fish is actually dead, and it just twitching or whatever. The same way that corpses will sit up in the morgue, or whatever....
• Commented on Money Mules
  I'm not entirely clear how this works. I sign up for a work-at-home scam. They send me money that they then expect me to send to Western Europe? How can that possibly work if I just take the dirty money...
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  I just been reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing for the first time. Thinking about this now gives a whole new angle on the nuke-face storyline....
• Commented on Man finds "missile launcher" in his back-40
  I understand that it's just a stupid tube. I'm just curious, if the tube is solid and stupid, how do you tell the missile inside to launch? Does the tube have a hole in it through which you can push...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: The Gummi Bear Gets It
  Looks like there a lot of energy release in that reaction there. We should make a gummi-bear powered car....
• Commented on Psychologists answer the question "What's the one nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself?"
  Just recently I was pondering the same thing as many of these psychologists. How come even though I know I'm basically being Jedi mind-tricked, I can't overcome it? For example, I'm buying a TV. I know I'm choosing a Samsung...
• Commented on PSPGo reviews nail Sony on pricing
  It's $250! I just bought a 360 ELITE for $300 with a $50 mail-in rebate. You can get an iPhone 3G for $99. A kindle is $299 A DSi is $170. A DS Lite ie $130. You would think that...
• Commented on Report: 30 percent of NYC iPhone calls dropped
  I don't know about calls being dropped. However, the data network sucks ass. I work a few blocks north of Times Square. Even if the phone says it has full bars of 3G, sometimes the data just doesn't work at...
• Commented on Author John Scalzi "On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers"
  I never cease to be amazed at how many complete morons ask famous artists to collaborate with them. Hey Jim Lee, I wrote this story, will you draw it? Hey Steven Speilberg, I wrote this movie, will you direct it?...
• Commented on Swine flu fears from Penny Arcade Expo
  We went and had a blast. Two friends got sick. I got ever so slightly sick with a scratchy throat, but recovered. Friends going to get screened at doctor tomorrow....
• Commented on Robocalls become crime punishable by $16K per call fine
  When I got my iPhone, I got a new number. Apparently someone else had that number before I did, and gave it up. They had a kid in school. I got robocalls from that school almost every day. While the...
• Commented on IT restrictions hurt productivity
  Unlocking the computers works if your users are technically inclined. Got a room full of developers? Definitely leave them open. Got a room full of data entry monkeys? Lock them down to all hell. If one of them gets a...
• Commented on Man spent $7 million in bogus currency made with cheap inkjet printer
  Counterfeit detection markers are a huge scam. All they are is iodine. They react to starch. Real money is made with paper that has no starch. Most paper people get at the store is starchy. Thus. James Randi regularly gets...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  The thing is, I really really like the fact that goods and services have stratified to the ultra-discount and the ultra-luxury. You see, there are certain things in life I really care about. For example, my computers. Being a computer...
• Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy from Derren Brown Blog
  Huh, Mark seems to have changed his tune. A few years ago he believed that Zicam was the real deal. http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/01/cold-cure-zicam-on-t.html Glad to see he's come to his senses as opposed to having lost his sense (of smell)....
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability
  It is absolutely correct that a distributed architecture is the way to go. There is no question about that whatsoever. However, the sad reality is that it is not currently possible. I ran a Laconi.ca server to serve the community...
• Commented on In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor.
  In Baltimore it's the worst. I go their every year for Otakon. We really only visit the touristy part of town where the convention center is. There used to be benches there, but they were mostly occupied by homeless people....
• Commented on Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets
  I'm an RIT alumn, and I flew out of the Rochester airport on multiple occasions. One time I had an early morning flight, but my friend with a car was leaving town the night before. I figured it wouldn't be...
• Commented on Review: Two Weeks W/Spotify [Verdict: It Just Works]
  Go figure. As soon as there is a legal music service I might consider actually using, not available in the US. I do think, however, that a service like this does have two major flaws because it is streaming only....
• Commented on Ask Google to guarantee privacy for the future of reading
  I think some of you misunderstand me. I'm not saying privacy is wrong. I definitely see the benefits of privacy, and I think it would be nice to have some. What I'm saying is that maintaining privacy is impossible. It's...
• Commented on Ask Google to guarantee privacy for the future of reading
  One more thing. Even if privacy were somehow possible, I strongly believe that the immense value generated by sharing information outweighs any potential negatives due to the loss of privacy. Sharing all my photos openly with creative commons licenses on...
• Commented on Ask Google to guarantee privacy for the future of reading
  Give up, privacy is dead. We complain about DRM trying to enforce physical world constraints onto a digital world. We, correctly, say that this is a foolish idea that can not possibly succeed. Yet, when it comes to the issue...
• Commented on Race and book covers: why is there a white girl on the cover of this book about a black girl? -- UPDATED
  Why does an urban fiction section even exist? What's urban fiction anyway? In japan, they categorize manga by target audience, shonen, shoujo, seinen, josei, etc. In the US we categorize books by content. If it's a mystery story, it's a...
• Commented on Canadian gov't: you have no expectation of privacy on the Internet
  He's exactly right. There is no expectation of privacy on the Internet. It's not a matter of law, morals, or policy. It's just a matter of reality. If you type information into a box and send it off to someone...
• Commented on The Devil's Kettle
  Dear surface dwellers, As suggested by the user above, please send iPhones. Also, please stop dying the water. We need to drink that....
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  Everyone wants better health care, more health care, and they want it to cost less. It's just not possible. Sure, the system can be made more efficient in some places, but that doesn't negate the fundamental reality. It costs a...
• Commented on Girl who claimed her face was tattooed while sleeping comes clean
  That is the reason I don't have any tattoos. I do my best to avoid doing anything I can't undo. I'm very much waiting for the day that I can just digitally change my skin as often as I like....
• Commented on New chair from legendary designer Niels Diffrient
  Already got Freedom chair, but this one is looking good....
• Commented on Students who went on strike over CCTVs in classroom speak
  I actually think there SHOULD be cameras in the classroom. However, that footage should be openly available to students, teachers, parents, and administration. In cases where necessary, it should be available to courts and police. Because everyone can see the...
• Commented on Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!
  I don't know much about these elections or the European Parliament. However, I've been hearing a lot of stuff through the webs about Neo-Nazis and other fringe groups winning seats. That leads me to think that either there are so...