The Unusual Suspect

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• Commented on Film news about Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth
  "You may remember a little noir piece called Blade Runner. I'd say that turned out pretty well." One of my all time faves, but also not really PKD....
• Commented on Bob Dylan Hallowe'en costumes
  #1: Yeah, it appears Brian J. Barr and/or Michael Dougan can't tell the difference between Persian and Parisian....
• Commented on Police testing gun camera
  I confidently predict that these cameras will be found to have failed in the vast majority of cases where they would have recorded something the police officers wouldn't have liked. It's like I'm freakin' Kreskin or something....
• Commented on Finnish folk band find a rude airport welcome
  Yeah, I heard about 9-11. It was in all the papers. But what idiot thought that giving security jobs to ten thousand power-tripping clowns would INCREASE Americans' security? Every such incident brings us closer to the day America gets booed...
• Commented on Poll about belief in strange phenomena
  "I would be much more interested in looking at the raw data and seeing if religiosity, education, and income have correlations with supernatural beliefs." Since "religiosity" = a supernatural belief, I'd have to say there is a 1-to-1 correspondence there....
• Commented on Poll about belief in strange phenomena
  How many believe in Creation Science or Global Warming? How many play the lottery?...
• Commented on Skull-watch of Mary Queen of Scots
  Here's your Moment of Morey (Amstersdam): It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And your life is a happy lot, / But the man who's worthwhile / Is the man who can smile / When his...
• Commented on US terrorist watchlist "galloping toward the million mark"
  "Would Timothy McVeigh have been on the list? Doubt it." More importantly, the 19 terrorists who brought down 4 planes on 9-11 would likely not have been on the list. (Unless the list now includes Saudi citizens with no prior...
• Commented on Twirly-faced suspected pedophile arrested
  "Under no circumstances should a law extend beyond the physical borders of a country and into its citizens' bodies. As much as we don't like the idea of what this guy was doing, as long as he didn't run afoul...
• Commented on God's Mechanics: Vatican Astronomer reconciles religion and science
  Science is for discussing what we know. Faith is for discussing what we don't know. The number of things we know is growing exponentially. But that doesn't mean we'll ever run out of things we don't know. So no matter...
• Commented on Robot cannon kills 9, wounds 14 in shooting exercise gone wrong
  A robot shall not harm a human being, nor through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. Unless it suits the military....
• Commented on Twirly-faced suspected pedophile arrested
  It's great that Canada will prosecute this guy who was paying to have sex with underage children. Will Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia also prosecute the parents and guardians of these underage children who pimped them out to this guy?...
• Commented on Man appeals conviction for standing in Times Square
  In denser urban locations, it's a big problem for a lot of pedestrians when a few stand blocking the sidewalk, and don't feel the need to move for anyone. This is usually done out of obliviousness, but occasionally it's done...
• Commented on HOWTO Change the PRINTER READY message on your HP printer
  If all you want to do is change the static message for another static message, can't you just put the appropriate escape sequences into a text file and copy it to the printer?...
• Commented on Woman jailed for 50 days for possessing cat urine
  "Only Hunter has said that it was cat urine." Eric, both AP and UPI are reporting that the police's own lab found that it was, in fact, cat urine....
• Commented on Police revolver muzzle-cam from 1938
  Unfortunately, most police-controlled cameras are found to malfunction when there is a possibility that they may have recorded evidence unfavorable to the police....
• Commented on Woman jailed for 50 days for possessing cat urine
  Let's hope the crooked pigs involved in this tried snorting what they thought was crack....
• Commented on Law-firm: copyright prohibits "view source" on our page
  This law firm has themselves violated copyright law. They are required to publish acknowledgment that the copyright for a certain pop-up script that they use on their site is owned by www.mindpalette.com. They may in fact include the required copyright...
• Commented on Babylon Fields -- clips from CBS’s zombie necrophilia pilot
  "I'd totally dig watching a yearly released anthology of shows that never were." Great idea! On a similar note, PBS ahows a series called "One Hit Wonders" which are basically Britcoms that lasted only one UK season (6 episodes). But...
• Commented on Babylon Fields -- clips from CBS’s zombie necrophilia pilot
  Well, let's not forget this season's "Pushing Daisies" wherein the protagonist, with the aid of his recently-dead childhood sweetheart, solves murders by reviving corpses and asking them what happened to them, all to fairytale-style voiceovers and cinematics....
• Commented on Crazy EULA makes you agree to a bunch of other EULAs
  "Cory, one of these days you ought to blog the text of that anti-EULA you use as your e-mail .sig." Do you mean the ReasonableAgreement EULA?: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/25/reasonableagreemento.html...
• Commented on Crashed drug plane owned by US Government?
  Google the tail number N987SA for loads of info about this plane: http://www.google.ca/search?q=N987SA&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a And if an entry comes up blank, remember: Google CACHE is your friend....
• Commented on Allah Save the Queen
  "Mohammed would demand that the Queen submit and convert to Islam, or be beheaded." Shh! Mr. Rushdie, you're about to blow your cover!...
• Commented on Modern phrenologists "predict" terrorism with biometrics
  If it were possible to objectively measure behaviour, which by definition is a subjective phenomenon, this could be considered science. But a century of research (and the benefit of all the hindsight that brings) says that this idea is as...
• Commented on Boing Boing tv: same old BB, but with talkies.
  Om, Geno Z. Heinlein, regarding bikini remarks, speaking of fail: http://xkcd.com/322...
• Commented on Boing Boing tv: same old BB, but with talkies.
  Fail for the use of Flash. (Thx Xeni for the direct video link!) Win for everything else!...
• Commented on AT&T snowjob: We won't cut you off for criticizing us, but we won't put it in writing
  AFAIK, virtually all ISPs have adopted "unreasonable" TOS, so there's no option to "go elsewhere". And every one I've seen includes a clause which says that they can change the TOS any time, as well as a clause which says...
• Commented on AT&T snowjob: We won't cut you off for criticizing us, but we won't put it in writing
  No, (I think) a TOS is just a contract, and requires all conditions of a contract to be met in order to be valid. My hypothetical customer's legal notice would not likely be binding upon the service provider, but for...
• Commented on AT&T snowjob: We won't cut you off for criticizing us, but we won't put it in writing
  Has anyone ever tested onerous, non-negotiated TOS like these in court? Also, what's to stop a customer from publishing a TOS of his own, in the Legal Notices section of a newspaper classified ads section, claiming his right to nullify...
• Commented on Woman dies in security custody at airport
  "Don't you think we should get the coroner's report before we assume anything about how she died?" Don't be an ass. That would be nice, but they don't tend to publish coroner's reports on Boingboing. I'm responding to the police's...