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• Commented on Phonevision: on-demand movies for $1!
  It sounds like an early broadcast version of pay-per-view. I imagine if it had caught on, someone would have reverse engineered it and started selling pirate versions of the box, the way it later happened with cable boxes, satellite receivers,...
• Commented on Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag-search
  #25: If the girl was taking them for non-contraceptive reasons, the mother probably would have known about it....
• Commented on Dirty ISPs can sabotage the nation's digital future
  There is the flip side to the AOL example. I was an AOL member when they flipped the switch from metered usage to unlimited. I was suddenly spending as much time as I could on the service...the problem was that...
• Commented on Pirate Bay founder proposes to pay his fine with tiny, expensive-to-receive payments
  So, this would be the high-tech equivalent of paying a traffic fine with pennies?...
• Commented on New Zealand's stupid copyright law dies
  Mmmmm. Hats....
• Commented on Miraculous portable computers, ca 1982
  Home computers of that era always seemed to promoted as a place to store recipes. Did they really think at the time, your average housewife would replace her box of 3'x5' cards with a big, clunky box with a screen?...
• Commented on Legend of "pull tabs for dialysis" lives on
  The Ronald McDonald House will accept them, but they really don't get that much for them. Despite that, someone at my work put out a can for collecting them....
• Commented on Glass molecule reproductions from Erowid.org
  I thought it looked like a mutated version of the teething ring my niece used to chew on....
• Commented on Do not discard brain -- war on terror poster
  @17 It's a chemical hazard symbol. Not one I've seen before today either....
• Commented on Photos of a very messy house
  For all those who are asking about if it was legal for the landlord to enter: in my state, if a renter is behind on their rent, are not occupying the premises, and can not be contacted by any means,...
• Commented on Couple gets hitched at a funeral home
  There's a funeral home in St. George, Utah that has a beautiful staircase. My sister had her bridal photos taken there, and apparently they have brides come in to do this several times a week....
• Commented on Bert Praetorius, father of rewind, passes at 90
  He probably won't be able to find a tape of that "I've Got a Secret" episode. I've heard one of the writers of "The Match Game" complain that the tapes were frequently recorded over because they didn't see value in...
• Commented on Rosetta stone for DOT hazardous material placards
  We used to have one of those when my dad was a firefighter. We really got a kick out of the fact that one of the items we came across in the book was "Cosmetics."...
• Commented on Puzzle alarm clock demands more than mere wakefulness
  I can just see my three year old nephew walking off with one of the puzzle pieces, which then leaves me fumbling behind the nightstand to unplug the damn thing at six in the morning....
• Commented on Three-year-old boy has never slept; parents maintain 24-hour vigil
  Inverse Square, every parent whose child has some sort of disability has to make sacrifices to care for the child. My parents certainly did. What I'm asking is if the child is really worse off for not sleeping, (something the...
• Commented on Three-year-old boy has never slept; parents maintain 24-hour vigil
  They mention the disorder that keeps him from sleeping, and the effects it has on the parents, but they don't mention the effect it has on the CHILD. They're taking him in for experimental surgery to correct this "problem," but...