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• Commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  Bible: OK. Dictionary: Not OK. see: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1123059911527 This country is FUCKED....
• Commented on Visualizing $1 Trillion as an endless field of bales of C-notes
  This is stupid. I think I recall Jon Stewart making fun of congressmen repeatedly making stupid "if we stacked $100 bills it would reach into space!" type analogies. Analogies are supposed to make things easier to understand, but neither a...
• Commented on How much is a trillion dollars -- two perspectives
  The first guy says, "to get an extra trillion you need to increase everyone's taxes by 100%" The second guy says, "no you don't, you can get the same amount by increasing *some* people's taxes by tiny%" But seriously, don't...
• Commented on Massachusetts Gov. wants to track cars on state roads with GPS units in each car
  I'd like to be the first to commend Massachusetts' wise, forward thinking governor for taxing priuses and hummers equally to pay for the equal wear they cause on roads and bridges. Tracking potential sex offenders[1] everywhere they go is just...
• Commented on Stupid light switch can't be opened
  This is an ungrounded appliance, which means it needs to be double insulated. The plastic case is the second layer of insulation. Having a metal screw penetrate the plastic case would compromise that and make it non-code. Tk ff yr...
• Commented on Michael Chertoff on the TSA and "Security Theater"
  "We had a case where somebody had bomb components in a piece of luggage they were going to take on." If they had ever caught someone with actual explosives, he would have said that. "bomb components" means that some eager...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  The funny thing is, the people arguing the correct position come across almost as dumb as the people arguing the incorrect position. That's the definition of a really good flame war....
• Commented on Gentleman insists he's not a "douchebag," sues book publisher
  The whole "Hot Chicks with Douchebags" meme is retarded. The girls in the photos are just as shallow, moronic, and slave to fashion trends as the boys. Why isn't it "Female Douchebags with Male Douchebags"? It's not like having boobs...
• Commented on So Little Time, So Much Damage
  @Takuan: more likely, Bush Administration officials will never leave the country again. It is highly unlikely that any administration will ever try to prosecute its predecessors for the simple reason that they don't want that precedent set for when *they*...
• Commented on Air Force Aims to 'Re-Write Laws of Cyberspace'
  In other news, the air force is fed up with "drag", and will "re-write laws of aerodynamics". I wish them the best of luck with both efforts....
• Commented on What the TSA's new body scanner images look like
  The solution to this is remarkably simple: 1. Claim to be concerned about terrorists 2. Buy one of these machines 3. Image 10-year-old boys 4. Post images on internet voyeurism porn site 5. Wait for outrage 6. Ask the obvious...
• Commented on Why can't America call its torture *torture*?
  Basically, they call torture 'enhanced interrogation' because their lawyers told them to. Torture is a crime, even in the US. 'Enhanced interrogation' is not. They may turn out to be equivalent, but if anyone hauls Bush into court over this,...
• Commented on Jill Greenberg's Photoshopped McCain out-takes
  @Big Ed, Here are some ways you have a personal stake: 1. Global warming is global. McCain's solution is to drill for more oil. 2. Germany & Canada are both in NATO. If McCain fabricates an attack by Iran on...
• Commented on Make announces American Maker competition
  FTA: The goal of American Maker is to showcase grassroots innovation from Chicago-area makers. Wouldn't that, um, be more like "Chicago Maker"?...
• Commented on TSA destroys the RepRap's first child
  PanAm 103 was destroyed by a bomb disguised inside a tape deck. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec03/panam121903.htm Any competent terrorist will make his bomb look like something screeners see hundreds of every day, not like something strange and unique. Of course, that sort of...
• Commented on St. Louis cops turn forfeiture policy into free car rental service
  "The police department hired a law firm, which concluded that the towing arrangement broke no rules or laws." Aha. The John Yoo defense, where you get your own lawyer to say you are not a criminal. If this is valid,...
• Commented on Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
  anyone who thinks american fascism will arrive one day when they round up 8 million citizens needs to conduct some experiments with frogs and boiling water....
• Commented on HOWTO anonymize your digital photos
  Step 0. Write your own software to do all this, or use open source software and audit every line of code in it. If you're using closed source software you have no way to tell if it is, say, encrypting...
• Commented on Disneyland bans pictures in its parking lots
  I'm having trouble getting outraged about this. Presumably these parking lots are private property and it's perfectly legitimate to make rules about photography on private property. If you don't like that, don't go to Disneyland. I'm saving my outrage for...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  AVRAM, I am familiar with common carrier law, and AT&T is certainly a common carrier in terms of their telephone service. Whether common carrier law applies to internet service is unclear, and many ISPs are actually arguing that they are...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  #!/usr/bin/perl-wusestrict;if(!-e'1-2000.tx t'){system("wgethttp://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~ waring/vocab/wordlists/1-2000.txt");#thisgu ylikes\rinsteadof\n.wtf.system("perl-pi-e's /\r/\n/g'1-2000.txt");}my%dict;open(T,'1-20 00.txt')ordie;while(my$l=){my($w)=split( "\t",$l);my$nv=$w;$nv=~s/[aeiou]//g;$dict{$ nv}=$w;}while(my$l=lc){chomp($l);my@ a=split(/\s+/,$l);map{$_=$dict{$_}if$dict{$ _}}@a;printjoin('',@a),"\n";} --snp--. nw, bvsly, ths dsn't rlly wrk. y'd nd t cmpt 2-grm r 3-grm mdl f bngbng cmmnts nd s tht t rslv mbgty, nd 'd rthr jst g s...
• Commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
  This works one of two ways: the people watching the cameras either (1) didn't care anyway (2) have you arrested for being a terrorist for trying to subvert their security systems. If you're actually trying to get away with something...
• Commented on Jesus hit by lightning
  This was on fark a few days ago... I am actually sort of surprised how much attention it got. A tall isolated pointy grounded object such as that is bound to get struck by lightning frequently, and this is hardly...
• Commented on Homebrew camera-phone se-cam looks like a bomb
  Cory, I see you've been taking bomb detection lessons from the Boston PD. Good work....
• Commented on Law-firm: copyright prohibits "view source" on our page
  At what point do we have to start considering people like this to be trolls and ignoring them? Certainly if somebody were actually being *sued* over something like this it would be newsworthy. However, it is entirely possible that the...
• Commented on Get your FBI file -- and your NSA and CIA files too, while you're at it
  This is all well and good, but supposing you *do* have a file because you contributed to moveon.org, protested the RNC, are Islamic, are a maker of "hoax devices", posted snarky comments on boingboing, etc, what assurance do you have...